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ME: Even though Disney uses the large Mickey faced ferris wheel to represent the entire park. Carthay Circle Theatre is the “castle” of Disney California Adventure and deserves to be the icon. (If this was Hollywood Studios it might be GotG:MB, but that’s another story)
ME: Even though Disney uses the large Mickey faced ferris wheel to represent the entire park. Carthay Circle Theatre is the “castle” of Disney California Adventure and deserves to be the icon. (If this was Hollywood Studios it might be GotG:MB, but that’s another story)
Not just because of the beautiful building itself, but the moment it represents and the make-or-break gamble of a man that the biggest entertainment company in the world is named after, who put everything he had into the next big thing, the first full length animated movie.
Carthay should always feel as if we were there for that world premiere, Dec 21,1937, when audiences first had the chance to go on an adventure with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I just wish they had some spot lights and vintage limos parked there in BVS.
Side note: when Fantasyland gets its makeover, imagine if they moved the ride there somehow. I also love the idea of adding the small subtle statues of the seven dwarfs around the plaza fountain in BVS. I realize I may have lost you, so let’s keep going.
Buena Vista Street, I always have to mention it really is a “Walt” themed land. That alone should be some solid street credit to fans. If that one night at the film’s premiere didn’t go well, none of this would exist.
Fast forward to Walt’s next industry game changing make-or-break gamble in 1955, At the doorstep to Walt’s original Disneyland sits a theme park that pays tributes to the man himself and the milestones throughout the company’s history and growth, all the way up to current day.
If Main Street USA is Walt’s childhood, and he later took the train (Main Street Train Station) to Los Angeles in the 1920s. It’s poetic storytelling and a thematic bridge connecting both parks. Explaining why this is all sitting in the former DL parking lot.
The almost 20 year old park itself named for the State, part California “welcome center”, part tribute to nearly 100 years of the company, and its future growth acquisitions, primarily Marvel and Pixar, the later also created with some California dreamin itself.
And with Avengers Campus, although Marvel was not founded in CA, MCU’s most significant character Tony Stark resides in Malibu, CA. But there are also some great Marvel stories relating to CA with Ant-Man in San Francisco and Agent Carter and Howard Stark in 1940’s Los Angeles
With the rest of the park featuring Disney-fied lands that feature iconic landscape backgrounds of the state with Hollywood, the mountains, Route 66 and the classic seaside piers on the coast to drop in company IP.
Speaking of Grizzly, the only area really hungry for something more than just it’s True Life Adventures/CA theming would be Grizzly Peak. A further fleshed out Humphrey & Ranger Woodlore can fix that. But I digress.
So when you hear someone say something snarky about “why is DCA in CA”, or that the park is jumbled mess, it’s easy. DCA celebrates the company’s history, with the backdrop being the state where it all was rooted, all starting with man himself on his biggest night.
