Tokyo Disneysea - CoasterBuzz

Did you guys see the show on Travel Channel show on TDS>? I cought the end of it what do you guys think? It looks better themed than IOA!

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It looks like it is awesomly themed, just missing many great rides. Did you see them waiting two hours to buy a sausage? And they call that fun.

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I did see that line for the food. The only thing it seemed to be missing was many rides. I also thought it was different how they all dress up to goto a amusement park

That place is just amazing. There were many atractions that they didnt show (the hurricane tracker). The show really tried to show off there shows instead of the amazing rides there. Other than that the park looks incredible. If only something like that was in florida.

Or California.....

I noticed that the Travel Channel did keep refering to the park as Disney Sea-Toyko...so maybe there's hope that a similar park will be built somewhere else too. It's a great concept and certainly better then DCA, AK or the REALLY awful Disney Studio-Paris park (really more of a land to the existing Disneyland Paris. There's not enough there to call it a park!).

I missed it. Does anybody have any good pictures of DisneySea?

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I saw DisneySea from the outside :( Also from the top of their Splash mountain. Unfortunately, I was there 1 month before it opened. But, Tokyo Disney is probably the nicest park I have ever been to. It puts the American Disney parks to SHAME.

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- Peabody

Go to www.laughingplace.com for some great pictures of Disney Sea

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I also saw Tokyo Disney and (I think?) DisneySea from the outside. Drove right past it on the way to our hotel from the airport. For some reason, I thought it looked really small.
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Overall the show lefta feeling that the show didn't cover everything there. The show didn't really make me want to go to Disney-Sea or DLT. The japanese seem worse than the french. Waiting 2 hours for sausage. Thats just stupid. The food didn't look that good. They didn't really show the rides there. But the main reason i wouldnt go is crowds. The place just looked packed. Didn't one of the workers say they expect 50,000 people a day.

The program, sadly, did not focus on some of the great attractions they have there. Laughingplace would be a great source of info.

Are we really supposed to buy that bit about the sausage? Waiting in the long line makes the sausage BETTER??? They ENJOY waiting in the line???

Does the same go for rides? Why boost capacity if they enjoy the long lines?

Maybe I'm missing some cultural difference here, but that seems a little far fetched.

You want videos to? Goto: www.barrybedford.com/ He's go some terrific fotoage of Disney Sea. Some of them are of a larger size so 56k or higher is recommended.

Coasterman Mike

I too saw the show and was not impressed. The show seemed like a long commercial for the place. I would have liked a tad bit more detail on the rides, of course, but they barely showed any of them.

One of the rides they showed was 20,000 Leagues Under teh Sea and that looked like the same thing as the two US parks used to have.

I think the park looked great though. I would love to go.

The volcano looked really cool. Overall, I think it is amazing how Disney can build thigns like that.

I also caught the show "Disney's Imagineers" or something like that. They really have some great ideas.

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Wasn't Disney going to build Disney Seas in Long Beach, Ca until all the envioromentalists went psycho on them? I'm sure he budget would be 1/3 as much.

CobraRoller said:

The volcano looked really cool. Overall, I think it is amazing how Disney can build thigns like that.

Hate to say it, but Disney didn't build it. :( The Tokyo Disney Resort isn't owned by the Disney corp. A very nice, RICH Japanese company owns and operates the resort in kind of a franchise arangement.

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- Peabody

Disney Imagineers designed the resort, but The Oriental Land Company is actually the main owner of Tokyo Disney. Disney only gets a very small amount of the profit made by the resort.

This looks like the best landscaped and themed park in the world. Disney really is an awesome company. As far as lacking rides, how could you tell? They didn't show many. Still, I am definately going to visit that park one day. The lights at night alone look amazing and the amount of money they spent really shows.

I know this doesn't have anything to do with this topic, but on the Disney Imagineer Show did anyone see that Cinderella Castle model in the background of one of the speakers? The lighting sequence it was going through looked new, and very cool! The last time I was there in June they had lighting on during the E-Ride Nights and it just faded out from color to color.

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Does this thing go faaaaaast!

I've been reading all the stories, ride reports and downloaded all the movies from the mentioned sites... one word:

WOW!

I don't pay that much attention on what goes on in Japanese Amusement-industry (shame on me) so i never heard of this park and i'm seeing this for the first time. I just can't believe it's real. If a doctor ever tells me i've just got six months to live, this parks gonna be on my "last things to do" list

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*** This post was edited by Helios on 8/20/2002. ***