In 2001, Disney California Adventure opened adjacent to Disneyland. It has since had new attractions and lands added, some removed and many rethemed as the park has evolved. #DCA #CaliforniAdventure #Distory #Maps #Disneyland
California screaming being replaced in my opinion was the worst decision. I am a huge fan of nostalgia and so I miss California screaming. No hate to incredicoster, I like the idea that they went for on it, I just think that California screaming fit the area better and the music was awesome!!!
Same here dude. To me the sounds of laser shooting past you when your looking at a hotel just doesn’t fit in. It was a cheap overhaul same with guardians
Guardians fits better with the area because of marvel land. Sure I was so upset when it closed but I have more memories of guardians than I do with Tower of terror because I only went on it once.
@@ExtifyArts You can't just shoehorn a random story and theme into a park with an already existing theme. I always get the replies that Walt wanted change but at the same time, what about sightlines? Imagine riding the Red Car down Buena Vista St. and looking up and seeing what looks like massive pile of scrap metal soaring above Carthay Circle. Where does that fit in? Do we even care about continuity at this point. That's not to say the Guardians could have found a home elsewhere in DCA. With some time and careful planning, the park could have had another E-Ticket while preserving a good ride.
2013 was the peak. Had tower of terror, bugs land, paradise pier, and cars land and buena vista street were nice additions.This version of the park felt like a good balance between California theming and Disney theming.
watching this again a second time , would be cool to see condor flats receive its retheme to better fit grizzly peak in 2015 , still so strange disney had such a steady streak of redeeming this park just to turn around and go back to the cheap and tacky level of theming they began the park with
Despite Disney having magical well made theming, due to Disney Paris they ended up having to go cheap throughout the 90s and 2000s which is why this park had an unfortunate start
Wow.. i havent been hear since 2006... and seeing them take off the mickey mouse loop on california screamin was completely mind-blowing... i know DCA was bad when it open but i have memories of it being fun... times have changed big time...
i miss when the park was centered around the historical side of california, they invested all this money to rebrand the park in 2012 just to start slapping popular movie characters faces on pre existing attractions they painted a different color so depressing
Haha today the SJW’s would figure out a way to call DCA a celebration of manifest destiny, which they also refer to as mass colonial genocide so I feel like DCA was going to have a major retheming sooner or later. I mean they’re remodeling splash mountain because the movie the cartoon is connected to is about freed black slaves post civil war. Even tho the cartoon has nothing to do with slaves and it’s most offensive part is the exaggerated southern accents, they still want to remodel it; so yea Disney goes pretty far to please the PC pushers so it remodeling DCA was happening sooner or later
@@XavierElSavior no dca wasnt bound to change drastically the way it has i really dont even know what kinda take this is.. no other disney park has changed as much as DCA every disney park w vintage and historical references are still there tower of terror has not been rethemed in any other park and that storyline is a complete glamorization of old white hollywood, the whole opening entrance to hollywood studios and sunset blvd is a depiction of old hollywood , animal kingdom and disneysea also have massive lands based in the early 1900's the historical references and themes and lands have not changed they recently opened a new soarin ride in tokyo and it has a beautiful new original storyline about a pilot for whatever reason they just decided to take a giant dump on DCA
@@1TSS0FLVFFY you can’t compare the other parks to DCA because the other parks are in areas with completely different ideologies/cultures than California. This state has deliberately gone out of its way to promote tolerance with instances like the governor of CA calling for Florida Disney Employees to come to California during the “Don’t say gay” fiasco because of how ‘tolerant’ this state is. I’m not saying DCA changed because of the current political climate in California, but people would’ve definitely been crying about how California history has a lot more sadness than tales of glory had the majority of the classic theming stayed up. I’m also not saying I didn’t enjoy the classic themes…hell it’s what I grew up with and I miss it, but the SJW’s have a very strong influence on Disneyland and DCA which I believe has a lot to do with the fact of their location in California.
@@XavierElSavior you're insane its seriously not that deep its theme parks.. walt disney imagineering just sucks now and bob chapek is 100% the person to be thanking
No one liked a park themed after California that’s why it was dead for decade there was no magic there was barely any Disney in DCA that’s why they switched the California theme to more Disney/Pixar themed it was better
I'd say the peak time was when Carsland was built. Kinda wish they would have kept bugs land and TOT. I loved sitting by TOT with the old Hollywood music. Who knows what they will do with the old Hollywood area now. It just seems like an odd mish mash of everything again.
agreed 2012-2016 was perfect for DCA mission breakout is kinda just there for me they dont even open all the elevator doors and you only look outside once so the element of watching the elevators drop isnt really there anymore , it was just cool watch at the attraction function and it looked spooky from all points of the park mission breakout is just some randomly glowing building
As always, the visuals are amazing to watch! The only critique I have is that the Beautiful Bounty Farms buildings and fountains for-sure existed alongside A Bug's Land for quite some time, at least right until they put up the fence for Cars Land. I vividly remember the little food places there having some of the best chicken nuggets in the park lmao. I'm also not certain if they replaced Screamin's loop alongside Toy Story, my memory is kinda foggy on that. But it was for-sure changed once the Sun Wheel bit the dust so I guess it's not all much of a difference, especially if it's year by year changes lol
To correct you on something, World of Color didn't exist during the opening days. It was in 2009 when World of Color was added as part of the big transformation the park went through.
It was nice too see this park evolve from disliked and rather mediocre in 2001 to another recognizeable and popular park in 2016. Any change after that date seems counter to the millions Iger put into the facelift. Now the park is in an absolute nosedive back to mediocrity unfortunately.
Agreed. During the 2012 season the park definitely had great theming that screamed CALI! Now the tower of terror is guardians of the galaxy, paradise pier is pixar pier, a new land to the park called Avengers Campus.. Besides the main street and the golden state area, everything about the park is not California.
Us locals mostly just call it DCA now since it’s not really themed to California that much anymore other then Grizzly Peak and the occasional limited time change of Soarin’ Over World to Soarin’ Over California
I wish the Walt Disney World Resort also had a fifth park that's like Disney's California Adventure with similar themed areas that it has nowadays as well as the nighttime water and light spectacular "World of Color". The Walt Disney World Resort definitely deserves to have a park like that.
Literally everything you just described can be found in Epcot. DCA even based its concept and idea entirely on Epcot alone during both planning stages after all (to become WestCot).
@@ScottDLR It wasn’t a roller coaster, it was a dark ride that I guess people hated. The Wikipedia page for it is kind of interesting. I also never got to ride it.
How can you not like World of Color? It's the most beautiful nighttime spectacular that I've ever seen when I had first visited the Disneyland Resort in 2013.
@@JoshuaModerwell Oh, no, I mean the accuracy of the map. World of color is printed on the map even though it only opened in 2010. The years before 2010 have the world of color logo on the map and it was bothering me.
To think this park went from a theme park that really hammers the whole modern California theme hard to a park that looks at the historical part of the state with some of the most impressive themes with properties based on franchises from studios that are located in California, so, they do match the park's theme of "California Adventure".
marvel was founded in new york its still extremely misplaced and tower of terrors replacement plan was the start to the end of the rich storytelling and theming DCA had to offer
@@1TSS0FLVFFY Well, Marvel Studios is in California. They're the ones who created the MCU and all the Avengers Campus attractions are directly connected with the MCU.
@@spydersoup8447 Marvels history is not rooted in california the characters of mcu are still original marvel characters , just cause mcu was created at a marvel studio location based in california doesnt make it californian and it definitely isnt reason enough to place a whole dedicated section in DCA ill always despise the Disney x Marvel crossover something that shouldve never happened
