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A lot of people know the Magic Kingdom as one of the four theme parks in Walt Disney World in Florida.

But Disneyland in California, is the original Magic Kingdom. From 1957 until the early 90s

Disneyland used to be heavily referred to as "The Magic Kingdom".

They stopped using it as much to make a clearer distinction between Disneyland in California, and the Magic Kingdom theme park in Florida.

But that's not to say that this nickname for Disneyland is no longer used. While walking around Disneyland's Main Street

you still hear the conductor refer to the park as Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom.

All the disneyland style parks around the world follow Walt's Magic Kingdom's hub-and-spoke

design, and when creating the Magic Kingdom theme park in Walt Disney World

Disneyland was the model. Many of the rides and attractions from Disneyland were found at Magic Kingdom on opening day in

1971. Any time I visit Magic Kingdom

I always head to Adventureland and frontier land first.

Those two lands have some of my favorite rides and a lot of these rides can also be found at Disneyland

so I thought it would be fun to look at these rides history while

Analyzing and comparing the rides on both coasts to see which park does that ride the best.

Although I talk a lot about Walt Disney World on this channel. You'll probably be surprised with some of my opinions in the video

So sit back and get ready to count down the top Disney World verse Disneyland rides the Adventureland in Frontierland Edition

Number five the first ride. We'll start with is the world-famous Jungle Cruise

The ride was an opening day Adventureland attraction at both Disney Land and Magic Kingdom

The Jungle Cruise is known for its humor and puns and each ride shares similar scenes like the elephant bathing pool

Headhunter territory and the hippo pool just in a different order for example at Disneyland

The Indian elephant pool is the second scene whereas at Magic Kingdom

It happens way after you pass behind Switzer Falls and through the Cambodian temple

One major difference between the two rides is that Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise? Has that indoor?

Cambodian temple scene with the Bengal tiger

It really makes this version of the ride stand out and acts as a nice contrast between the outdoor elements

At Disneyland they have the Cambodian ruins at the beginning of the ride

And that's where their Bengal tiger can be found

the current version of the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland isn't even the original incarnation of the ride that opened in 1955 from

1957 until

1976 the rights saw many major additions that added more humor to the ride

some of the additions included the Indian elephant pool and the Cambodian ruins and 1962 the trap safari scene in

1964 and the gorilla camp the Bengal tiger and the Python in

1976 a lot of the later editions were influenced by mark Davis's designs and ideas from Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise

Which opened in 1971?

Your ride experience really depends on who your skipper is and both Disneyland and Magic Kingdom have some really great skippers

This one's a close call. But the indoor Cambodian temple scene really brings the ride to the next level

So in the case of the Jungle Cruise Magic Kingdom, does it the best?

Number for

another classic Disney attraction that's become a Disney park staple is Pirates of the Caribbean the right at Disneyland opened in

1967 and can be found in New Orleans square whereas Magic Kingdom's didn't open until

1973 and can be found in Adventureland now right away. I'm just going to come out and say that

Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean is far superior to Magic Kingdom's

the ride at Magic Kingdom feels rushed and in a sense

It actually was rushed since it wasn't intended to be part of the park. We've mentioned this briefly in a past video

but when Magic ingdom opened in 1971

Guests were outraged that the iconic Pirates of the Caribbean attraction from Disneyland didn't have a home in Walt Disney World

So in order to please the guests and increase park capacity Disney rush to get Pirates of the Caribbean open in Florida now

California's ride is almost twice as long has two sizeable drops and many scenes that Florida doesn't have at

Magic Kingdom the ride uses mainly the core of the show scenes from Disneyland

But the parts that were left out in Florida are what make Disneyland ride far superior

Nothing beats starting your journey in this beautiful indoor, Louisiana bayou

Then after the two drops that were initially designed to pass under the Disneyland train tracks you find yourself in the underground

grotto of dead man's Cove

Disneyland's dead, man

Kove has multiple scenes that were left out in Florida like the treasure room both parks now have the new auction scene

but once you pass the small jail cell in Florida the right pretty much ends right away with Jack Sparrow as your light into the

Unload station after the jail scene at Disneyland. There's an additional scene through the storage room

Then you see Jack Sparrow as your boat climbs up the lift hill

There's also this mini scene just before you return to the unload platform

Disneyland has a complete beginning with a nice intro to the story that builds to the climax of the action followed by a

Full-fledged ending that brings you back into the environment you first started in Magic Kingdom's ride just feels like it starts and ends way

Too quickly, which is why Disneyland does Pirates of the Caribbean the best?

number three Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room opened at Disneyland in

1963 then eight years later. It was one of the opening day attractions at Magic Kingdom in

1971 the Enchanted Tiki Room was the first attraction at Disneyland

To ever feature audio animatronics and when it opened at Magic Kingdom, it was actually called the tropical serenade

It was pretty much the exact same show

That was at Disneyland, but the pre-show areas are different in their respective parks today

Neither of the attractions are the exact same show that originally opened in 1963

Disneyland's was condensed by a couple minutes in the mid-90s and

Magic Kingdom cut about six minutes off the original show when it officially became the Enchanted Tiki Room in

2011

from 1998 until

2011 the original tropical serenade became the Enchanted Tiki Room under new management featuring Iago and Zazu and

January of 2011 there was a small fire in the building and when the sprinklers went off it caused damage to the animatronics

Including Iago's animatronic the attraction had to close and since audiences were less than thrilled with a new management show

Disney decided to head back to the attractions roots, and now it's the show we all know today

Overall the attraction is very very similar in both parks

But there's just something about Disneyland's Tiki room that has this charm and is actually pretty enchanting

I mean these were some of the first animatronics that Walt Disney himself was able to oversee

Although the animatronics were replaced in the mid-2000s

They still kept the integrity of the figures and there's still so much history in this attraction

you don't get this same feeling when you're in Florida not to mention that the Florida attraction is a

Shorter show also the waiting area in California has a dole up stand right there and who doesn't love a good Dole Whip, right?

Not to mention Disneyland also has Maynard

He's a very well-known Disneyland cast member who spends a lot of time working this attraction and he puts on a show himself

Although it's a close call. I'm gonna say that Disneyland does the Enchanted Tiki Room the best

Number to

Splash Mountain is one of the popular thrill rides at both Disneyland and Magic Kingdom and are perfect for cooling off on that hot day

Disneyland Splash Mountain was the first to open in July of

1989 and can be found in critter country whereas at Magic Kingdom Splash Mountain

Opened in 1992 and can be found in Frontierland

the ride at Disneyland was the results of

Imagineers being

tasked with building a new ride to get people over to what was then bear country while trying to find a way to cut some

costs and reuse the old

animatronics from the old America sings attraction

The ride was such a hit that Michael Eisner decided that the Magic Kingdom also needed its very own Splash Mountain

Magic Kingdom's version is about a minute and a half longer than Disneyland

Coming in with a ride time of 10 minutes and 40 seconds

Both rides feature the iconic fifty two and a half foot plunge down chickaphant hill in addition to other smaller drops

Magic Kingdom has a total of five drops as opposed to Disneyland's three drops

One major difference you'll notice just by looking at the ride is the seating arrangement of the ride vehicles

Disneyland has a single-seater log whereas Florida uses a larger double cedar logs

Splash Mountain is filled with animatronics

And I think it's fascinating that the old animatronics from America sings were repurposed into the ride at Disneyland

But the animatronics at Magic Kingdom are much better figures in my opinion just as an example

This is Brer Fox in Florida, and this is Brer Fox in

California the story at Magic Kingdom is also easier to follow and makes more sense

Compared to the way the animatronics tell the story at Disneyland in many scenes

It's apparent that it was an attempt to use as many old animatronics as possible and don't get me wrong

I love animatronics obviously, but for the sake of this comparison

This is where it loses some points

also

If you've ever listened closely to both soundtracks

Splash Mountain that Disneyland follows more of a big-band jazz feel to match New Orleans Square

At Magic Kingdom Splash Mountain score has more of a country bluegrass feel with banjos and

harmonicas that match the Old West vibe of frontier land

I

Personally think the soundtrack at Magic Kingdom matches the Brer characters and atmosphere a lot better now

I'm not saying that Disneyland Splash Mountain is a bad ride by any means

But this is one of those cases where Disney's first attempt at a ride wasn't the best version they've constructed

Using what they learned at Disneyland they were better able to refine the ride for Florida

So the Magic Kingdom in Florida does Splash Mountain the best?

Number one at both parks frontier land is home to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

the coaster at Disneyland opened in September of

1979 and Magic Kingdom's opened shortly after in November of 1980

They're both the wildest ride in the wilderness and the track layout of Magic Kingdom is pretty much a mirror image of the layout in

Disneyland the ride in Florida does take up 25% more space with its theming and cue

But both have three lift hills and reach top speeds of about 35 miles per hour

The queue at Magic Kingdom does offer some pretty spectacular

Views of the Monument Valley and the entire landscape of the ride compared to what you see at Disneyland up until 2013

I'd say both rides were pretty equal, but would probably declare Magic Kingdom as the winner since it has a superior queue

January 7th 2013

marked the day that Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyland closed for the most

Extensive refurb the ride had ever seen it was closed for over a year

And once it reopened on March 17 2014 it became the superior version of the two in my opinion

Thunder Mountain at Disneyland is now much smoother since Disney replaced about two-thirds of the track during that refurb and

there is new trains added the third lift Hill also saw some new effects which included projection mapping for the ignition of the dynamite as

Well as blasts of smoke for the explosion

The third lift Hill in Florida currently has no effects

But when the ride first opened at both Magic Kingdom and Disneyland, this lift Hill used to have a falling rock effect

You can see it here where many of the rocks had the ability to move and shake after an incident in

2011 at Disneyland Paris, the effect was shut off at all parks

but the difference between

Disneyland and Disney World is that Disneyland actually replace the effect and Magic Kingdom has not and that's with many

multi-month refurbs since 2011

I'll still give Magic Kingdom a point for the queue but in terms of the ride experience

Which is what I'm primarily focusing on Disneyland thus Thunder Mountain the best

So do you agree with these choices and if you don't which versions of the rides would you choose?

I'd love to know so leave a comment down below to start a conversation

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