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The quality of these videos is insane for a channel this small!

You were right on the money re: Radiator Springs at night. They did a remarkable job with the detail and theming. It's transformative.

I wish DCA still had the Aladdin show but at least Broadway has an Aladdin musical. I'm a few months younger than DCA, it's nice that they're making the park better than it was on opening day

Oh my god I love your idea for a mystic manor style ride. That would be amazing

DCA 1.0 is a masterpiece, it’s not confusing

Always like the grizzly rapids when i went there back then. Hope to return. :)

Excellent. I live near Anaheim and visit both parks when I can. Your are spot on with your review. You know your stuff.

You have such a nice "tv" voice haha

What my family of 5 did was buy a 3-day pass, went to both parks. Only used 2 days, went back for a day later. Used a hotel away from the park, made our own food and stored everything in those huge lockers by the bathrooms near the entrances. Went to younger kid's rides so they were happy before heading out to DCA with the teens, so everyone could gave fun...and parked in the Toy Story parking lot to avoid the cluster f%^& of Disney on site parking... BOOM

California advenure is still amazing, disneyland is also amazing, there both amazing (for some reason i called ca a ride)

Am i the only one that loves current dca? Like I think of it as disney IP living in California environments which keeps its feel of it being in California with piers and Hollywood land and redwoods while also having the touch of disney. Examples being what if the pixar characters lived on a california pier. My biggest gripe is the amount of similar ride systems with 3 spinning rides in the exact same corner of the park.

78/100 Too much Water

This is an amazing channel and another amazing video.

When I did my DCP earlier this year I worked in DCA and grew to love it, also spent a majority of my off days there. DCA handles the crowd better and having a nice drink on the water is pretty fun or some wine in the vineyard.

Another really solid review, enjoyable to watch, thank you for sharing

When you said the price of a one day ticket you almost gave me a heart attack I’ve been in japan for awhile.

I miss the Paradise Pier (2nd version) with that old fashioned boardwalk feeling. Pixar Píer is a theming nightmare!!!!

Another great review! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

As many videos as I've seen of California Adventure, none of them create an "I HAVE to go there" attitude, though that light/fountain show looks impressive.

Just discovered your channel. I will be watching it grow with great interest :)

Great video as always guys!!

I love and hate the way you say California. Californyer. XD

These videos are so dang quality

Wish they get rid of the little mermaid ride and replace it with a coco themed ride

Which would you say is a better park, Hong Kong Disneyland or DCA?

Grew up in SoCal. DCA of course was the original parking lot. So much better. Faster and easier to access Disneyland. You got a real sense of excitement walking towards the gate, instead of a ride that takes you right to it. I don't know, it just doesn't feel right. But I digress... DCA never felt right to me, never felt completed. Sure there were some great new attractions, Tower of Terror, , etc. But slowly these have been changed to fit the greater Disney merchandising machine, and things just don't feel right. It doesn't feel like a Disney park to me.

Thank you all you have to do is shanghai and Paris Disney parks next

Just stumbled upon your channel! Great work! I miss DCA from yesteryear. It was representative of California and unique like EPCOT. Now, IP seems to be taking over which takes away from the magic it once had.

Amazing quality vid clips and commentary. Wonder if you could add in comments on food too??

Love your quality of video what kind of camera do you use to vlog?

Niel PH voiced the launch on Screamin? WOW All this time I had no idea.

DCA peaked post Cars Land and pre-Mission Breakout. Nice mix of quality rides and land cohesion.

I've wondered for years, if eventually DCA will get a name change.

When I first visited this park in 2014, I actually preferred this park over Disneyland. Perhaps the ride collection they had could be the reason for that considering that it has some of my favorite rides that Disney has ever built. For example, Grizzly River Run is my second favorite raft ride out there, Toy Story Mania is my favorite shooting dark ride out there, Radiator Springs Racers is an underrated dark ride, Soarin' never gets old no matter whether you're talking about the original California version or the new Around the World style, Incredicoaster, back when it was California Screamin', was the best roller coaster I had ever ridden and World of Color is my favorite nighttime Disney show.

I stopped viewing California Adventure as a theme park dedicated to the state of California, I see as a Disneyland annex

The last time I went to Disneyland/DCA was just after Cars Land opened up.....it was an awesome experience, just like walking through the movie as you said, haven't been to either park in a long time (which is a bummer because I live 10 minutes away from the park), so I cant say much about Pixar Pier but even if its a bit of a mess/cluster of ideas, as long as you feel immersed in all things Disney I think its fine

As a local that went most weekends since it opened, DCA has only improved and we love it. It's a whole different feeling but still a great park.

Hello Luke from 2019, it's Phil from spring 2020, wondering if the parks will ever open up again... And YES! Phantom Manor would fit in beautifully, and as the exterior is loosely based on the Winchester Mystery House, a quirky roadside attraction in San Jose, it fits right in. Or an indoor water adventure. They already have the rapids ride, so this would be The Jungle Cruise meets a desert people's abandoned temple...If the Colorado river ran through temples. But I have no problem with them cloning rides- either same ride system but different stories and scenery, or duplicates like Ratatouille coming to Epcot. If both US parks didn't have original Pirates, I'd love to have a Shanghai version of that one in Florida or California! I bet DCA could support a modified Pirates. And a western themed log flume.. Kids would love to beg Dad for parkhoppers to be able to ride both Pirates or log flumes. I sure would.

First!! Guardians is better then tower of terror... TOT was good.. but guardians is better. and it will be relevant theming when marvel land opens ;)

I personally love DCA even as 1.0, although I was a kid so it feels nostalgic to me, people somewhat exaggerate how bad it was, I do agree that DCA 2.0 from 2008-2015 is way better but at this point it's a mishmash of ideas and it all just feels so convoluted. They never should've made tower of terror guardians of the galaxy themed or soaring over California lose its entire identity or even cheaply redo paradise pier into Pixar pier. They had a great thing young for a while where a land just had to be based off California, but didn't have to be its whole identity. Personally I think paradise pier, grizzly peak, cars land, and buena vista street were perfect, but work did need to be down in Hollywood land but they could've done it tastefully, well RIP DCA 2.0

Drinking Game: Take a shot every time he says "whilst".

I feel like Disneyland would do best to stick with nostalgic (pre-2000s) properties and let California Adventure differentiate itself with newer IPs and a more modern feel

I enjoyed it more when it was a parking lot.

I have never been- wouldn't mind going! 😬

Guardians of a galaxy mission breakout is a fantastic ride no joke but Tower of Terror is and always will be better

DCA IMO has only gotten better over the years; although, I think the park should be renamed. I would also like to see an expansion to the park. I agree that a Mystic Manor type ride would be good but I would go with more of a Ripley's Believe It or Not type theme/vibe which could also make use of the the leftover ideas for the Museum of the Weird that was originally going to be a side attraction to the Haunted Mansion.

Do you have a review for avengers campus ?

8:51 i called the stanley statue “the creepy statue” when i visited this land last year because i know while lightning mcqueen was tearing up radiator springs he got the stuff wrapped around him wound around the statue so he pulled hard and the statue flew into the air and when it landed it jumpscared mcqueen causing him to drive away with the statue ripping the road in half until the power lines stopped lightning’s escape and when he gave up the statue flew away and he was left hanging there when the sheriff came to arrest him

keep it noted the reason it’s probably hard to find California themed merchandise and why the park is not really enhancing the California theme is because it didn’t work the first few years to have a Cali themed park in Cali... so now they’re focused more on the “adventure” part of “California Adventures” instead of the “California” part.

My concern is what Disney is going to do with Hollywoodland once Avengers Campus opens? Because Mission Breakout will be reassigned to the new land leaving the old one without a headliner attraction

Great video! For tips on Buzz Lightyear Astroblasters high scoring, check out Kyle Pallo’s vlog. 😎 #Pallomars RULE! 🤪

4:27 Why did you use that clip?

Interesting note about the cast friendliness. Obviously 99.9% of the time the staff are literally perfect, because that's what Disney does, but I will say the only times I have had negative interactions with unfriendly or rude CMs, it has almost Always been at DCA.

Ok, now that Avengers Campus is open do you think Guardians is still as out of place? Personally I think from Avengers Campus Mission Breakout looks fantastic! The colors are really complimented by the Avengers building and I personally really like the land as a whole

*I'm sure DCA is worth a Visit* *I'll be sure to do so on my Trip*

One of the biggest complaints about DCA is that they don't have just one cohesive theme. What are they trying to be? California in California? Disney's IP Landfill? Or something else? Some places like Pixar Pier and Avengers Campus seem to take the 'Disney's IP landfill' route, while places like Grizzly Peak and Buena Vista Street seem to take the 'California in California' route.

I LOVE THE PARK RIGHT NOW

Never been so this video totally helps

The Tower of Terror was at Disney California Adventure, but it was GOTG

Pixar is a welcome thing

DCA, Disney's attempt to build a Six Flags. At least they are trying to fix it.

I love the intro because it completely encompasses my feelings about DCA. When it opened, it was just awful and did not feel like a Disney park. DCA 2.0 was a beautiful way of justifying the California theme, in California, by making it the classic CA from the 1920’s with the entrance and boardwalk, but once they started putting in IP like Pixar Pier and Avengers Campus, it just took away the beauty that they built in 2.0. The gaudiness of Pixar Pier is at least thematically better than when it opened, but is still a bit jarring.

I actually prefer World of Color over Fantasmic.

78 out of 100 sounds like a failure for something that costs as much as Disney does. I feel like some scores were a bit too generous, affordability should have been way lower, and theming should have been lower too. My last trip was a 4 day, 1 park per day, trip with my little one, and we spent 1 day at DCA, because at his height there didn't feel like there was as much to do in the park as across the way at Disneyland.

I can live with Pixar Pier however I will never forgive retheming Tower of Terror it destroys the parks sightlines, and removed one of Disney's most iconic attractions

The way Tony Baxter described WestCOT would have been amazing, as a former cast member at DCA during the 50th celebration, I feel it’s the worst Disney park. I blame it on Disneyland Paris and Sid Bass.

Oddly enough this park still has a special place in my heart... Even as messed up as it may be overall theming wise, it's still very well done if you break it down by land... Where Hollywood Studios is just a park without an identity at all which I hope is fixed once the park is back up to 100%

it's no longer "California" adventure, just a hodgepodge park with odd themes and the ferris wheel is not fun. it starts and stops to let riders on and off and the rolling cars are frightening to say the least. When the park first opened it seemed to be a cheap carnival designed by Mickey's trailer park cousin.

I really enjoy DCA, but the theming really doesn’t deserve a higher score than 6/10.

To me, California adventure remains pretty underwhelming. Cars Land is incredible and the Frozen show is surprisingly competent. Other than that, most rides have better versions elsewhere. Even the complete lack of theming for Soarin' is disappointing. The Tokyo Disney Sea versions of Tower of Terror and Soarin' are better in every way.

I still firmly believe tower of terror should have stayed

i remember when DCA was a parking lot.

0:32 the hell is going on here? anyway, DCA is basically a pixar themed strip mall with county fair level rides where you have to pay car payment to get inside. and with $12 churros. what you could do for the same price: drive about an hour to santa monica pier for the same shit AND you get to relax on the bech. hell, if you want rides, go west for 20 minutes from disney and visit Knotts Berry Farm and it'd STILL be much cheaper - almost half of whatever you spend at disney parks. and the churros were 8 bucks iirc.

Last time I went to Disneyland back in 1999.............. xD

DCA had always been my favorite, really only cause its a lot more scenic but also because of the thrill rides, I do wish they would stop with all this mish mash they keep doing every few years.

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Disney land can't hold a candle to disney world resort in florida

pixar pier is 100 persent better than paradise pier

wait what -- California Screamin is no more?! Incredicoaster?!!? What?? nooOooOoOo

5:35 flying foxes? You mean the actual animals?

Sorry mate. The simple fact is if DCA had been Disney's first theme park, Disney would have not survived. It's a boring theme park I wouldn't even spend half a day at except for Radiator Springs.

but go dca!

Only because the kids of today (at least those of the greater Los Angeles variety) generally don't relate to old-school amusement parks (though created in the 1990's, Pacific Park is a throwback to the old Santa Monica/Venice boardwalks of yesteryear) as they were all demolished by the late 1970's (also to a lesser extent in Florida). Only old-timers (not to mention those from the rest of the country/world--who still have respect for history) have any idea of an era before Disneyland, let alone California Adventure.

2:01 There is a video game

Did the Mission Breakout Tower hurt someone you love?

Wow.. I think RS Racers finale is boring and should go faster.. I wasn’t thrilled

Pixarland

Californier? Hahahaha

I think they need to just crush paradise pier and put something there with amazing scenery that blocks the view of outside the park. Maybe that’s why they did a cheap Pixar pier, it’s just temporary until they get rid of it for good. I can only dream haha

Max pass is 15 bucks now? Last time i went it was only 5 bucks!

You're much too nice on California Adventure park. Unlike Disneyland, it has no real themed "lands" as much as Disneyland anyways. It seems like it's randomly filled with rides that don't fit into any areas that've been dumped wherever -- somewhat like Universal Studios. The Ariels Undersea Adventure "Littlest Mermaid" ride is basically a rip off of The Haunted Mansion transport system from Disneyland. It just seems very unimaginative to use the same transport system of another ride, then scoop out the contents with a movie you want to cash in on. Walt Disney was about innovation. And I see innovation clearly lacking in these attractions or "rides". Switching the "tower of terror" which featured the Twilight Zone into the "Guardians of the Galaxy" IP is another good example. It's like they just take these rides, scoop out the replaceable contents, and voila. It's just highly unimaginative and it just reeks of a cashgrab. Could you imagine Disney scooping out "It's a Small World" ride with some popular movie of the moment and getting rid of the dolls? That's how ridiculous I see this. And they are just pushing their movies and whatever franchises happen to be making them alot of money at the time. Maybe I should be holding my tongue, because when I visited in 2012, Radiator Springs "Cars land" ride was still under construction. But I don't think that would change alot of the feeling I had. I have no problem with random rides side-by-side, but what I see is laziness to innovate.

Never been to anything named Disney I’m 12 To be honest I’m scared and don’t like stuffed suit people Because I don’t like the fact that I can’t see they’re face, and they’re dead inside when I look at them 🤢🥵🙄😮

I think DCA is just working to get rid of the dumb California theme