Mackenzie Click-Mickelson
Chugging along the path of life
- Joined
- Oct 23, 2015
It's probably easier to say what we liked better at DLRWhat experiences do you think are different? I like to go over an extended weekend. For me it’s all about the attractions. And my SO prefers Cars to Test Track. And she likes the Haunted Mansion for Halloween.
I now only go to FL for Universal, which I can also do over an extended weekend. We really don’t like FL. I don’t care for the CA park either.
I really was blown away by the Halloween overlay on HM. That said I enjoy the longer ride at WDW. My husband however prefers the DLR version and likes the exterior more at DLR than WDW.
Pirates at DLR puts the one at WDW to shame both in length and theming though the theming in WDW is a lot in the queue whereas in DLR there's not too much theming going on with most of it being outdoors.
Test Track vs RSR well I kinda prefer the Test Track 1.0 theming with the test crash dummies but I do like the build your own car (when it was working correctly). I like that you feel more racing in the cars for longer at RSR but you get more overall speed with Test Track just a shorter time frame. I think we found with our luck that RSR loads horribly for SB line vs FP line and that really impacted our experiences.
I do like the dynamite addition to BTMRR at DLR-maybe eventually WDW will get that. Also the way that Space Mountain (was Hyperspace Mountain when we were there in 2019) seats side by side actually meant I could go on that and it didn't trigger my motion sickness like Space Mountain does with the front to back seating at WDW.
As a whole the attractions were so so at DLR and DCA in our comparisons with WDW though my husband enjoyed a more adult feel of a rollercoaster with Incredicoaster. But a lot is to be said for nostalgia. Lots of people go to DL because it's "walt's park" that means honestly nothing to us but I went to WDW growing up and only went to DLR when I was a few years old so my stronger emotional connections and ride enjoyability is stronger there.
I think we'll eventually make it back over to DLR but for our time and money Orlando with both WDW and USO will typically win out. Like I said though we have much longer spacing in trips than folks on average here on the DIS probably do and that may impact our viewpoint. We vacation elsewhere too.
WDW also has the People Mover