Tokyo DisneySea is without a doubt the pinnacle of theme park design and the fact that it exists at all is a miracle, with us almost getting a lacklustre studio theme park instead of the meticulously designed seven-seas masterpiece.
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So Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disneysea are 2 different parks?
Someday if I visit Japan, one of the first things I'll want to do is visit this amazing park!!
It really is the best Disney Park, I'm so glad I got to experience it and hope to visit again within the next year or two.
Gelatoni at the end made my heart melt!!
Alles sehr schön. Aber zuerst zusammen die Nummern 10 und 1. Eine empr.ONLINE Brünette und eine anderea Blondine. Es wäre unfair, wenn ich 4 wählen würde
Ive been twice, and one was during a typhoon. Even then they made the park experience amazing. The service is the best, and the theming is amazing. Food is a bit meh but its hard to find good theme park food anywhere these days. Cant wait to go back when the new expansion opens.
This is my number one dream park! I can’t wait to visit it one day… 💕
I dont like the idea of fantasy springs tbh
I need to go! I don’t think the government will allow outsiders to go to Disneyland Tokyo yet.
What's worse, Disney Studios Paris or Disney California Adventure?
13:10 "makes Epcot look like Six Flags" LOL, couldn't agree more!
It's sad that Disney could run their own parks this well, but won't
Grew up loving Epcot in Orlando. Fell in love immediately with Tokyo DisneySea first time I came back in ‘04 (fun fact, Orlando, and Shin Urayasu ( the city in which TDL is located) are sister cities).
I told all of my friends how great the park was when I went back to the states.
I would often visit whenever I would come visit Japan as a kid/ teen.
Ironically, I don’t get to go as often as I’d like now that I live at the same station as DisneySea, Maihama.
So glad they didn’t go with the studios theme.
Another thing that adds to the overall experience IMO is also the Japanese tendency towards wearing “actual clothes” to theme parks. Especially Disney.
Japanese culture already has a notion of always trying to present your best out in public, but being around people who you can tell put thought into their outfits whether it’s dressing in similar outfits as their friends, or just dressing in non athleisure wear, the fashion of the guests adds to it. I didn’t notice this until I went back to Disney World in America and saw how Americans dress in comparison.
I thought Sorin was a repplacement, must've been a walk through or something
7:15 Duffy is a cute Disney bear.
What is Aquatopia like? Cause IT'S NOT LIKE AUTOPIA
I am simply blown away by what the Oriental Land Co. is doing with Tokyo DisneySea and the Tokyo Disney Resort as a whole. They give the fans what they want while still introducing new rides, resort, hotels and attractions that feel like a natural and fitting addition to the existing parks. It also truly shows what Disney Imagineering can do without the constraints of a budget and when imagineers are not required to limit their imagination to IP' based rides.
14:15 Some of Mermaid Lagoon is outdoors. Like the coaster
What happened to your upload 3 days ago?
Those clips of Eisner in Japan will never not feel like a surreal look into an alternate universe to me.
If there's one international park I want to go to, it's here. Just fantastic seeing the vids of it and would love to experience it. Also notable on the Imagineering doc series, they talk on how in 2000s, U.S. Imagineers would grouse on how "The Disney Sea guys get all the budget they want." The more things change….
So is Japan the Apple of Theme Park Countries?
Best theme park in the world?
Translation: Chapek can't wait to change everything about it
While what Jim Cora said may have be technically true, it is not possible to refute that Disney Sea borrowed a lot from Port Disney. I mean come on! The imagineers were surely aware of each other’s design concept. So much design and research were done, there is no way that Disney Execs didn’t expressly insist imagineers to at least take some basis or design between the artwork and planning prepared for both the canceled port Orleans and WESTCOT! But whatever! It is a stunning park to visit!
And for shame Long Beach. It would have revised and enhanced a really beautiful , vibrant city that is really undervalued! Disney would have changed all that. The airport would increase. City beautification projects could have been made. Good jobs and increase home values! They really “missed the boat” on that one!
i am SO excited for the frozen land oh my goodness.
Tokyo 2023….please open……..PLEASE!!!!
Great vid as always. 🙌🏼
As a Disney cast member before I love Tokyo DisneySea a lot! I wish I can go back and visit again!
You guys should have used background music from DisneySea for this video instead of Tokyo Disneyland music.
I have travelled to Japan 10 times since 2015. Every time I visit these parks. They are truly amazing.
Yes. I was in Toyko Disney Resort in 2017 and damn DisneySea is on another level. It's truly perfect. I'm looking forward to visit this place again in some years. It's just unbelievable and no Video or Picture can really capture the Scale and Beauty of this Park🥰
Man, you guys kill it every single time. Keep up the great work on your videos about the history of parks.
Such a wonderful park! I live in Tokyo and visit Disney Sea at least once a year. It is absolutely stellar. Even their version of Soaring is MUCH better than the American versions with a wonderful theme and backstory. I am curious about the new expansion that will add Peter Pan, Tangled and Frozen. I hope it's not another Epcot situation where the park eventually loses its vision due to shoehorned movie IPs.
Favourite park!! I wasn’t able to get on too many rides with it being extremely busy, but like you say, it’s nice enough just to walk around all day!
I’d love to see Disneyland Paris Resort expand even more like this
Absolute bucket list item for me
I haven’t been to any other Disney parks except the Disneyland Resort and the Walt Disney World (Of course this one was when I was little), but I would like to see other Disney parks around the world. So, I can know what to expect and what not to expect.
OLC should take over the American parks. They can start with Disneyland Tomorrowland.
Thank you for another great video, Y’all. Tokyo Disney Sea videos are my favorite. I’ve been to the TDR 4 times , twice during the 35th anniversary celebrations, and have loved it more and more every single time.
Thank you so much for this great video. I loved every minute of it!
I have visited the Tokyo Disneyland Resort on three separate vacations so far. I was planning to visit it even more but the blasted covid-19 pandemic delayed my vacation plans unfortunately. I loved Tokyo Disneyland but DisneySea completely blew me away every time that I visited it.
I was watching DisneySea's progress from afar (I'm in California) since it was first announced and I was so afraid that my overhyped expectations would set me up for epic disappointment when I first visited the park in 2016. My lofty expectations not only were met, they were completely blown out of the water! Just when I started to lose faith in The Walt Disney Company being able to create a theme park where high quality for the guests is the most important factor, I found out that that concept is still alive and well at a Disney theme park…I just had to go all the way to Japan to experience it.
My suggestion is that if you are a Disney theme park fan you must, must, absolutely MUST visit DisneySea. There is no other Disney theme park like it. This video does a fantastic job of showing how incredible DisneySea is but to be totally honest, no video can do justice to the quality of DisneySea and the park simply must be experienced in person to be fully appreciated. I will warn you that once you go there, your expectations for any other Disney theme park will set a bit higher and you will notice how the other parks are just not quite up to your new higher standard. (Note that I cannot comment on how this "increased standard" effects Disneyland Paris or Walt Disney Studios because, unfortunately, I have not been to the parks in France yet. Hopefully I will be going to them soon though.)
I just wish that the heads of the US Disney theme parks would go to DisneySea and take notes on how to successfully manage a theme park in a way that does not alienate (or flat-out upset) your most loyal guests. It seems that the US parks go out of their way to purposely not borrow ideas from the Japanese parks and that is a shame. In my opinion a good idea is a good idea, no matter where it originally came from. This is just my 100% pure speculation since I do not work for The Walt Disney Company in any way, thank goodness, but I suspect that the guys in charge at the US parks do not borrow from Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea because they feel that the two Japanese parks are inferior because they are not "The Original" or "The Biggest." That arrogance is a shame for the most important people in the equation…the guests. As I said, that is just my pure speculation though and I really do not have any idea why the US parks continually ignore the Japanese ones.
I did not know that the second gate park for The Tokyo Disneyland Resort was going to be yet another Hollywood movie studio type park like Disney-MGM Studios. Movie studio type theme parks were absolutely revolutionary and changed the theme park landscape…back in 1964 when Universal Studios first opened to the public in Southern California. The concept had become so tiresome and overdone by the time it was suggested to OLC. Thank goodness the guys at OLC turned that old and stale idea down! The Walt Disney Company did not follow OLC's lead when it became their time to develop a second gate park next to Disneyland Paris. (I will save my opinions about Walt Disney Studios for after I visit it for the first time.)
Thank you again for the excellent video. It will have to keep my appetite for DisneySea under control until I can finally visit the park again.
I’ve been blessed enough to visit all 12 global Disney parks, and Disney Sea is my favorite… so I agree with you it was fantastic! Can’t wait to take my kids one day!
I live in Japan so I tend to go to Disney at least a couple times a year (pre pandemic)
Every time I go to TDS I find something I haven’t seen before. It’s astounding. Can’t wait for the expansion!!!
This park is on my bucket list. Just like with Magic Kingdom, I know I'll cry as soon as I step on the property because I'm so happy
That kid in that commercial sounded like hi my name is Spencer and I am dying ( instead of I am 9)
I went a few years ago and I can’t wait to go back. Definitely the best theme park I’ve been to anywhere. We went during the Halloween villain season and spent one of our three days doing a good tour. There’s a lot of great themed food.
After Disneyland in California, Tokyo DisneySEA is my favorite Disney Park in the world! It feels utterly unique but absolutely with the magic of being transported into a new and fantastical world! It’s a beautiful park down to the walkways! Compass of Your Heart for Sinbad is iconic! And I have never been more fascinated by simple walls than in the Mermaid Lagoon! I’ll be making a beeline for the park when Japan reopens to tourists!
DCA 1.0, WDSP, & DisneySea back-to-back-to-back….YEESH. If that ain't widest range of developments from one company you've ever seen 😂😂
Man Disneysea is one of the best parks in in the world but I love USF, USJ, and EPCOT.
My thought on TDS: same as you, best theme park in the world. I have visited it once and all I dream is to come back there and spend several days in it to explore more. I am just waiting for the new fantasy springs extension to go back because japan is far from where I live and expensive. Btw i live in France and when I see videos on TDS and think of what we get as the second gate, I am crying inside ^^. We got the best castle park though, too bad that the European were not ready for it ^^
Tokyo disneyland will do their 20th anniversary grand finale soon.!!! I sure liked that place.!!