Best Attention to Detail?

[El Tel]

One of the things that impressed me about Disney parks is the thought and attention to detail that goes into them.
What detail in one of the parks has impressed you the most?

My vote goes for the Tree of Life in AK. Fantastic craftsmanship.

But I was even impressed at how the imagineers put cracks into the bridges and brickwork in AK to artificially age them. Brilliant!!!

 

[OKW Lover]

I've got to agree that the imagineers really out-did themselves at AK. Just walk around and look at all the "old" buildings. Also, there are lots of little "scenes" that are just there to look like the place has been "lived in".

Try looking in some of the out-of-the-way places in AK and you'll see the same attention to detail. Any other theme park operator wouldn't have bothered putting stuff where most people wouldn't ever look. But Disney does.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Expedition Everest is pretty phenomenal.

 

[bicker]

Animal Kingdom has many many examples of this, and it is definitely the cream of the crop in that regard. For me, the best are Harambe and Anandapur. These places are very richly themed, and eerily realistic.

 

[carol-lamb]

I have always thought that Animal Kingdom has the most attention to detail. It's such a visual park. Everywhere you look there is something interesting. The only area I don't care for is that amusement park area - Chester and Hester I think it's called. I'm sure it's a big hit with the little kids, but it just doesn't seem to go with the rest of the park.

 

[Simba22]

I agree with AK as a whole has a LOT of detail but I also think that the Haunted Mansion is incredible...They built an entire mansion just to house that ride! The outside is what really amazes me! That and Tower of Terror

 

[bicker]

Yup, Chester's and Hester's was a big hit with our DN6 and even DN1.5 too, in January. And I love the attention to detail there as well. Lots of it reminds my wife and I of a (very clean) version of the amusments of our childhood.

 

[Michelina]

I think the different pavements in AK are amazing! There are so many little details embedded into the cement and the changes from one area to another really help in the transition from one "land" to another.

My other favorite detailed filled atraction has to be TOT. I love the music, the plants outside, the table set up with an unfinished mah-jongg game, everything!

 

[Pixiedust34]

Hidden Mickeys......I love them!

 

[jenrose66]

I love the detail in tower of terror at MGM. The queue line is one of my favorites and I never mind having a wait cause there is so much to look at.

 

[MissMagnolia]

This always stands out for me at Tower of Terror. You really feel like you are entering an old hotel. The boiler room where you get on the elevators is amazingly real.

 

[BlindTyldak]

Spaceship Earth is still my favorite for detail. I know its aging, but it still astounds me.

 

[dbenlee]

I would also have to agree with the amount of detail in AK overall. I am also impressed with the detail put into the lands of MK. The ability to meld them together so that you move from one to the other without the 2 lands mixing even to the point of the Imagineers putting trees or buildings in stratigic places so that you can't see something from one land while touring a different land.

 

[Moonpie]

My vote goes for AK, TOT, and for the lobby at AKL.

 

[sticker231]

Disney in general pays so much attention to detail. AK is the best example as a park. You really feel like you are in a certain area, being encompassed with that area and not being able to see other parts of the park. A normal theme park is just a bunch of rides plopped in a park. Who else but Disney would send a team to research the Yeti and the local stories about it before they made a ride? And then bring in artifacts from the area they researched. Other parks--here is your ride, stand in this boring waiting area for the ride. With Disney it is all about the detail.

 

[kaabost]

As previous posters have mentioned, detail all over the Disney parks is terriffic! One thing that I really think is cool is that you can see the Contemporary resort only from Future World in the MK and you can see the Polynesian Resort only from Adventureland in the MK. I just think that it's neat that they thought of external projects while planning the scenery for these MK lands.

 

[MissMagnolia]

kaabost...never knew this. Very cool!

 

[El Tel]

Just bumping to see if there are any more views

 

[dbenlee]

Attention to detail is something I have always liked to look for while visiting Disney. I just remembered a picture I took while we were dining at The Garden Grill in the Land pavillion. As the restaurant rotates around past the Living with the Land ride there is a house that you see the back of and there is a window that has a lamp buring in it. I was wondering what you could see in the window so I zoomed in on it and took a picture. I was rather impressed with what could be seen through the window.

 

[Mandalou]

I LOVE Disney's attention to detail and am constantly siting examples of those details to my students. (I teach Public Relations at a private college in Wisconsin. . . believe me, my students have learned more about Disney than I'm sure they thought they would. )

Here's one I didn't realize until Nancy from DVC Sales pointed it out to me. . . at Wilderness Lodge there are NO palm trees -- only pines and other appropriate "northern" vegetation. Whenever we go there, we feel like we're back in the north woods of Wisconsin.