The Disastrous History of Disney’s California Adventure - Part 1

Let’s bring back the Golden Gate Bridge and the world California at the front of California adventure!!

westcot would’ve been the BEST Disney park hands down

California native here and I’ve been going to Disneyland since I was a kid. I now go with my own family at least once a year. I remember going to the old California Adventure at least a few times before the update. It was…underwhelming, to the say the least. It was a pleasant experience but there was not much to do and it did feel cheap compared to Disneyland. We usually only spent half a day there and then went back to Disneyland. It’s gotten a lot better now though. Just there thanksgiving 2023 and it’s really fun. Also, they have beer there, so that’s a big plus.

Why does your voice sound like an AI in this video?

We make fun of the premise but a TEXAS themed park in Texas would have been a huge hit.

EMINENT DOMAIN TO BUILD DISNEY? YOUR KIDDING RIGHT

DISNEYLAND WAS THE FIRST.
I only go and only will go to the first of anything. Why rebuild or screw up a good thing.

Ridiculous or not, California Adventure's a part of my childhood.

Am I crazy, or did the music in the California Adventure commercial sound a bit like the Back to the Future theme?
It's not just me, right?

As defunctland put it let’s build a theme park themed after California in the already California themed California

Instead of cost-cutting AND expanding, Disney should have concentrated on improving the parks it already had.

It blew away the tractors and now we have nothing to look at!
-Weird Al

This thumbnail is perfect

it’s always Michael. 😭😭😭😭

what drugs were they on when they thought to make a california themed theme park in the already california themed california

First visited 8/25/01

Eisner speaking broken French will never be not funny

Am i the only person who preferred OG California Adventure?

The tv show where a plaid is taking you around the park that you show clips of, what is that called and where can I find it??

Now Disney are groomers and employ kid touchers.

Is nobody gonna mention that Disney ripped off the Back to the Future theme for the California Adventure commercial

I want a Disney park in Burbank :((((

Every single Disney park expansion starts out as a fantastic idea which then gets its budget slashed by 75% and then turns out to be cheap crap that people hate and then requires even more money than originally budgeted only to make it somewhat acceptable.

Dam this guy has some facts

Now disney is destoying itself.

I remember visiting Disneyland in 2001. I was very aware of the brand new park next door, but when I looked at what it was, there was no way I’d waste a potential Disney day there. I could not see the point.

I still can't wrap my head around why a California themed amusement park in California is an attractive prospect in any way whatsoever.

Like... why would I go there? I can drive to the real Muscle Beach, Hollywood, etc. from Anaheim in 40 minutes.

The sarcasm about the tractors attraction! Ouch - I felt that! Haha

@7.20 My ears are bleeding.

Get woke go broke. Fuk Disney forever.

NOT THE TRACTOR YARD!

California Adventure was doomed from the start

They ruined Disneyland

The fact that they hired my old boyfriend, who was an extremely selfish and narcissistic person who I kept trying to get away from, to help a little in the opening of California Adventure, was bad luck enough, for the park!! 😂

It's looks like Walt Disney company class starts in Disney City and Disneyland Disney company would be there by side effects from under using universal studios hollywood new wicked musical music made by Joey King she was Chrisne she was saved by James wan knows all about being back before

The California adventure commercial and footage is something I completely remember! I went the first year the park opened and remember it being pretty exciting for me. However, It only took us about half a day to finish up our day. Not enough going on.

Life isn't fair.. but maybe it was better off. Maybe the reason it went down hill for this project, is because we were never deserving of the perfection that would of been, "the tractor yard"
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I went here as a kid when it opened. My family lived in the Bay Area. The whole experience was not intended for us and we immediately noticed.

Not gonna lie inhave a lot of nostalgia for the park in its original form. The california theming was great imo (especially since i'm from near there) and i was so sad when they started changing stuff especially when soaring over california became over the world

Bean counters usually ruin everything they touch. Short-term cost cutting results in long-term failure.

I was part of the Original WDI opening team for DCA...what happened was the fail of Disney All America theme park in Verginia and Westcot .. we were in full gear with the East Coast plans so Eisner said ..use the plans from All America and bring it to Anaheim

It’s pretty much a Hollywood studios of the west coast

Its wild how prevalent roger rabbit was in the parks in the 90s

Can we acknowledge the facts that the California adventure ad had the back to the future theme

It’s kinda funny that Anaheim locals were complaining about traffic, or “save our neighborhoods” when before Disneyland, Anaheim was an orange grove. Literally none of them would be living there without it