DisneyLand
Travelling is a wonderful experience where you get to embrace other people’s culture, explore cuisines and make more memories solo or in a group.It is an amazing and magical experience finding out so much about new cities and countries and enjoying a break from stress and work, leaving it all behind and going on a plane to the destination you have chosen.This time it’s going to be Disneyland.
Traveling to attractions and parks has been a dream of many!
So why are Disney attractions so famous?
Disneyland is famous for all its unique and famous attractions with rides,villages,buildings and food. Each Disneyland has its own unique characteristics and features. Here are some examples of all the different Disney attractions that are special and popular and the iconic rides in each one.
In Disneyland California, the original and first Disneyland ever to be built, the most iconic attractions are:
Indiana Jones’s adventure,a thrilling ride through the ancient temple of the forbidden forest.
Another ride is Galaxy’s Edge:This ride is based on the popular movie Star Wars.
In Disneyland Florida, there are a range of other rides like Space mountain: this is a thrilling indoor roller coaster that takes you through the darkness of space!
This track is in complete darkness, perfect to test how fearless you are with sudden dips, shocking drops and sharp turns.
Another unique ride belonging here is Avatar : Flight of Passage: This ride is based on the popular T.V. Series Avatar. As you enter this ride you board a Banshee which is basically a dragon in the avatar world, and fly though the magical land of Pandora. It is truly a breathtaking experience as well as a unique one!It is a 3D ride so you can see everything and it feels like your actually riding a banshee due to its restraints.This is a multi-sensory experience that you won’t find anywhere else.
Though you may not think it, the rides get better.Take a look at Disneyland Paris.It is one of the most popular vacation spots in Europe attracting visitors from all over the continent. It also has the most iconic, artistic and favoured castle with a dragon laying in the dungeon with stained glass and the most visionary building you will ever see.
Some classic rides you will find in this fairytale of a land include:
Phantom manor: It greatly differs from haunted mansion due to many things like the manor haunted backstory.The story is about a Melanie who lived in a lavish manner called Ravenswood Manor built by her father Henry Ravenswood. As Melanie brought up the topic of manager Herety refused warning that a horrific curse would be brought on the family but Melanie didn’t listen and Prise died to marry but her husband disappeared and their wedding day leaving her alone betrayed. Meanwhile a dark figure known as phantom tries to conceal the house filled with ghosts…
This isn’t the perfect ride for thrill seekers, Story lovers and gothic horror fans.
Another classic is Avengers Assemble:Flight force. It’s a mind-bending experience in the form of a roller coaster where you team up with Iron Man as well as Captain marvel and help them save the world from a life threatening intergalactic threat.Three interceptions, two loops and a crook screw!
Next we have Disneyland Tokyo! Sitting on the east of Asia we have some of the most fascinating and mind blowing rides.Though far it is still as magical as can be!
Some exclusive rides you will only find here are listed in the following:
Pooh’s honey hunt:This is a truly Whimsical and captivating ride-you board a honey pot and explore Winnie the Pooh’s magical world meeting friends and helping him find honey! The story unfolds in several distinct scenes bringing the story to life!
In the famous ride Monsters Inc. rile and go seek you have an interactive and chill experience good for kids or to cool down for the day. In this ride you help Sully and Mike find hidden monsters as well as recovering a lost item! Using a flashlight to point out all the monsters to them. As you enter different rooms on a cart you shine the light and trigger reactions from the monsters you shall get different ones which makes it far more exciting! This is perfect for kids who still want a bit of excitement and pizazz.
In Hong Kong Disneyland is also home to many fascinating rides like the following few:
Mystic manor: Unlike The Haunted mansion, this ride scares people with living artwork that causes humour and chaos throughout the whole ride creating a vast amount of excitement. As this is a trackless ride it’s a bit different every time which makes it completely unpredictable making it a stimulating and eerie experience every time!
Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars is the most exciting ride you will ever ride no matter what theme park you go to even if it’s any other Disney land.This ride is irreplaceable! The roller coaster is one of a kind in Hong Kong. It is a nerve racking ride,it is scary, daunting and blood curling which makes it all the more exciting! You get into a mining cart and get started on the track.The track offers loops, sharp turns,backward motions twist and drops.
Tron Lightcycle Power Run in Shanghai is the coolest Disney land.It is a sci-fi themed roller coaster which stretches to almost eighty feet! You sit on motorcycles with lit up wheels and then zoom off! This amazing ride can reach up to 95 km/hr as well as having twists and turns and the most extreme and unsuspecting drops anyone could imagine! It has incredible visual effects and intense speed that make it futuristic and my favourite!
Travelling is a wonderful experience and I believe the absolute best one would be at Disneyland!
By: Sophia Hadi
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