Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom is, by attendance, the preferred theme park on the earth, a title it has held for a really very long time. Having mentioned that, whereas it’s a vacation spot that everyone who loves theme parks ought to go to, it’s not often on the high of anyone’s record of finest theme parks on the earth and even finest Disney theme parks on the earth.
Tokyo DisneySea, the second gate of the Tokyo Disney Resort, is on the high of my theme park bucket record, as it’s incessantly ranked among the many high, if not seen as the very best, theme park on Earth. This status is one thing that has clearly gotten out, as an Instagram submit has gone viral displaying that attraction wait occasions at Tokyo DisneySea are fairly tough in comparison with home parks.
The reel from Contained in the Mouse reveals all the foremost sights at Tokyo DisneySea, with nothing operating beneath 100 minutes, and Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Journey operating a completely brutal 180 minutes. The journey is a part of the most recent addition to Tokyo DisneySea, Fantasy Springs, which explains the lengthy wait, however does not make it any extra palatable.
Whereas rides just like the Frozen attraction and Rapunzel’s Lantern Pageant are unique to Tokyo, others can be found to expertise at Disneyland or Walt Disney World. For instance, Toy Story Halfway Mania is the same journey at DisneySea in Tokyo, Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando and Disney California Journey in Anaheim. As I write this, the attraction has a 90-minute wait in Florida and a 45-minute wait in California. Each are nonetheless important, however far beneath Japan.
Different sights, like Soarin and Tower of Terror, are among the many Disney Parks sights which might be accomplished in a different way in different international locations, however are related experiences. As of this writing, Soarin’s 160-minute wait in Japan is matched by 40 minutes in California and 35 in Florida. The Tower of Terror in Florida, the one that almost all intently resembles the Japanese model, solely has a 40-minute wait as I write this.
Whereas two-hour wait occasions actually aren’t exceptional at Walt Disney World or Disneyland, there have been some epic Disney World wait occasions over time, I don’t bear in mind a time I noticed them occur on each attraction directly like this. It’s a transparent indication that Tokyo DisneySea is wildly standard. It takes lots of people to make that many sights have waits like that all of sudden.
There’s a cause for that, as a result of it’s broadly believed that Tokyo Disney Resort will get the perfect sights from Walt Disney Imagineering. The resort is run by the Oriental Land Firm, not Disney, and as such, the corporate’s consideration, and extra importantly, its funds, aren’t cut up between a number of leisure ventures.
It does put the 45-minute or hour-long waits that I are inclined to keep away from in perspective. Perhaps they’re not so dangerous in any case. Whereas I hope at some point to go to Tokyo DisneySea, and can wait in no matter strains I must so as to expertise the sights, possibly this implies I must plan to spend extra time at Tokyo Disney Resort. That’s not a nasty factor.