| # | Author | Message |
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| DlandDug
Sat 5/10/2008 3:51p | >>I can see power lines in these pics - how awful!<<
Yes. Walt would NEVER have allowed that! |
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| Mickeyfan1
Sat 5/10/2008 4:25p | Wow, great pictures everyone. Yes, I too miss the Parking Lot. It was so exciting to first see the Matterhorn or even before the Matterhorn was built the TWA Rocket from the freeway and you knew you had finally arrived.
Then you pull into the Parking Lot and pay your 25 cents to park. You were directed to an area, and then you got out of the car and looked....there it was the Train Station. Sometimes I didn't want to wait for the tram, let's just run and get there....sort of like the Emerald City in Wizard of Oz.
It's that way at WDW when you arrive at the TTC for the Magic Kingdom...there it is across the lagoon. How can you get there quickly....the anticipation is so much a part of the experience, and now that is gone at Disneyland. Again, change always happens, and sometimes it may not be for the better. |
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| cmpaley
Sat 5/10/2008 10:52p | Hate the old parking lot and love the old Tomorrowland. I don't care what anyone says, but a sea of sun-baked cars is not attractive at all.
Not to say that I like the new parking structure...especially when I get a low number and high letter for a parking spot. ARgh! |
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| ArchtMig
Sun 5/11/2008 2:27p | >>>...the anticipation is so much a part of the experience, and now that is gone at Disneyland. Again, change always happens, and sometimes it may not be for the better.<<<
I understand and agree, but there is a bit of coolness to gliding down the giant escalators and seeing the folks lined up for the trams, then riding past the backstage areas and the backside of Downtown Disney, then walking into the Esplanade and looking left and seeing - Disneyland! Might not be as fun as the memories of the parking lot for those of us that experienced coming to Disneyland that way, but given the constraints of the relative shortage of land at the DLR, I think they did a good job with the new way of getting folks from their cars to the gates. Young people who know no other way of arriving at Disneyland will look back at the trip on the trams from Mickey and Friends to Downtown Disney with the same fondness as we oldsters have for the old parking lot. |
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| Dabob2
Mon 5/12/2008 9:01a | <It's that way at WDW when you arrive at the TTC for the Magic Kingdom...there it is across the lagoon. How can you get there quickly....the anticipation is so much a part of the experience,>
I always think that's cool the FIRST time I'm going to the MK on any given trip to WDW. Subsequent times during the same trip it just seems like a pain in the butt to have to spend a half hour out of your day (it always seems to take about 15 minutes each way either waiting for monorails or taking the larger but slower ferries) just to get to and from the TTC. It makes park-hopping to and from the MK more trouble than it should be, IMO. |
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| Hans Reinhardt
Mon 5/12/2008 2:25p | Why was this topic moved? |
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| haiderodes
Fri 5/16/2008 4:04p | ^^ Just to add onto what you said....
As cool as it seems, the whole TTC being 1.5 miles from the entrance wasn't only done for anticipation sake. It was also done to stagger the amount of folks entering and leaving the park at any one time. By having that "buffer" only so many people could be at the turnstyles at any given time. On the reverse, it helped control how many folks could leave the parking lot, preventing back ups. |
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| Dabob2
Sat 5/17/2008 4:28p | Makes sense if you're arriving early or leaving late... but if you want to park hop from MK to EPCOT at 2 in the afternoon it's just a pain in the patoot. |
