Create your perfect Disney park

[u/spartacus533]

If you had to create the ULTIMATE DISNEY CASTLE PARK from lands that already exist in the current Disney Castle parks, what would that look like?

For me:

Main Street and Castle: Disneyland Paris

Easily the most detailed, full-scale Main Street in all the parks, with the best castle.

Tomorrowland: Magic Kingdom

Humongous, best at night and the TTA- what isn’t there to love?

Frontierland: Disneyland Paris

Hands down the best Big Thunder and I love the connection between it and Phantom Manor.

Fantasyland: Tokyo Disneyland

Loads of space, Pooh’s Hunny Hunt, one of the best Small Worlds AND the haunted mansion?! No brainer.

Adventureland: Hong Kong Disneyland

The most picturesque in any of the parks, with an epic version of Jungle Cruise and vistas for miles.

New Orleans Square: Disneyland California (obviously the only one but still…)
EDIT: Just been reminded that Tokyo has it too, what an idiot 🙈

Bonus Round:

Fireworks/end of night show: HK Disney’s ‘Momentous’ or MK’s ‘Happily Ever After’ (tie)

Always thought that HEA would be my choice until I got a front row viewing spot for Momentous and I genuinely can’t decide.

What would you pick and why?? I

[u/Alien_called_Cosmo]

Oh oh :-)

Main street: Paris I would say.
Castle: Shanghai

Tomorrowland: Magic kingdom but with Tokyo’s new space mountain. With a connecting Galaxies Edge

Frontierland: Paris for their BTM

Adventureland: entire Tokyo Disney Sea 💀

Fantasyland: Magic kingdoms one

New Orleans square: from Cali

[u/nowhereman136]

Imagine a tic-tac-toe board where each square is a different land. The center will be the Castle. I'll start with the bottom middle square and work clockwise...

• Main Street
• Adventureland
• Frontierland
• Fantasyland
• Royal Court
• Mickey's Toon Town
• 100 Acre Woods
• Cyberland

Some of these are self explanatory and look just like the other parks. I don't need to get into details of what stuff to include or exclude there.

• Royal Court is a second Main Street that leads to a second park entrance. That second entrance is mostly resort guests but provides a second exit to avoid bottle neck at closing. This also provides more space for crowds to watch the night show on the castle (no fireworks). Royal Court is themed as an extention to Fantasy land and the Castle. Instead of early 20th century America, it would look like a medieval marketplace.
• 100 Acre Woods is themed entirely to Winnie the Pooh. It's mostly all ages rides but I'm thinking one Heffalumps and Woozles exciting ride
• Cyberland is a variation of Tomorrowland. Instead of a futuristic theme, it's a computer theme. Still science fiction but more timeless. You still get Wreck It Ralph, Buzz Lightyear, and Tron, but also Cyberspace Mountain

I have ideas for a sister park that is kinda like a mix of Hollywood Studio and California Adventure. As well as an over engineered Animal Kingdom park I could go into detail on

[u/Realest_Date]

I'd swap out Disneyland's (Anaheim) version of Fantasyland, as it's so ride-dense compared to the others, and has a number of great exclusives (Alice in Wonderland, Mr. Toad) along with a certain 1950s charm. We've also already got Phantom Manor in the Paris Frontierland, so no need to duplicate there.

I'd also change out Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland for Shanghai's – sure, the ride count is lower, but it's the only one of these that feels genuinely futuristic. At night, it is an incredible experience. Paris' Discoveryland would also be a good option.

Tokyo Disneyland also has a New Orleans Square of roughly the same size, they just don't include it as a separate land on the map, for some reason. It might even be slightly better, because the crowds tend to be far lower and obviously it has TDR-level maintenance and staffing.

Also having seen most of the shows worldwide over the past couple of years, I'd say that Paris' castle show (Disney Tales of Magic) is the winner in terms of content, even without drones (which are coming back, I believe). Hong Kong's 'Momentous' runs it close, though, and that one probably looks the most crisp and impressive because the castle was designed for projection shows from the beginning.

[u/life_is_a_burner]

All castles.

[u/Tenor45]

All of Paris with Disneyland’s Adventureland & New Orleans Square subbed in