Kristina4109
Rocking my Disney side since 1976
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I just read that The Legends of Frontierland has been extended. If you haven't checked it out, I seriously suggest that you do.
When I heard about the Legends of Frontierland, I thought that our family would pop in to play for an hour or so and then head to the rest of the park for a traditional Disneyland day. Boy, was I wrong.
My 8 year old daughter simply wouldn't leave. We spent the time from 11:30am until the final "ceremony" in the Golden Horseshoe getting jobs at the telegraph office, buying plots of land for Rainbow Ridge, arresting varmints and depositing them safely in jail, looking for information in the Golden Horseshoe, and interacting with the colorful characters.
By far my favorite job was causing a stampede in the middle of Frontierland. Holding up hand drawn pictures of cows, drawn with widely varying degrees of artistry, while mooing at the top of our lungs, and 15 of our new friends in Western garb, alternately delighting and confusing fellow park guests, while other Frontierland folks yelled, "Oh, no! It's a stampede!" will probably go down in my book as the most unusual experience I've ever had in a Disney park.
This is an area of the park I usually never spent any time. It was a pathway to get to Big Thunder or a less congested way to get a Dole Whip after getting off Pirates. But we spent nearly all day here and didn't want to leave.
And the best part? After chugging shots of "river water" (not going to lie - that stuff was nasty) in the Golden Horseshoe, having my daughter's "name" read out loud and seeing her gleefully run forward to get her Heroes coin. That's right, my kid is now a Hero of Frontierland. She was beaming from ear to ear.
The Legends of Frontierland is immersive storytelling at its very best. Walt would be very proud.
Ich bin ein Disneylander
When I heard about the Legends of Frontierland, I thought that our family would pop in to play for an hour or so and then head to the rest of the park for a traditional Disneyland day. Boy, was I wrong.
My 8 year old daughter simply wouldn't leave. We spent the time from 11:30am until the final "ceremony" in the Golden Horseshoe getting jobs at the telegraph office, buying plots of land for Rainbow Ridge, arresting varmints and depositing them safely in jail, looking for information in the Golden Horseshoe, and interacting with the colorful characters.
By far my favorite job was causing a stampede in the middle of Frontierland. Holding up hand drawn pictures of cows, drawn with widely varying degrees of artistry, while mooing at the top of our lungs, and 15 of our new friends in Western garb, alternately delighting and confusing fellow park guests, while other Frontierland folks yelled, "Oh, no! It's a stampede!" will probably go down in my book as the most unusual experience I've ever had in a Disney park.
This is an area of the park I usually never spent any time. It was a pathway to get to Big Thunder or a less congested way to get a Dole Whip after getting off Pirates. But we spent nearly all day here and didn't want to leave.
And the best part? After chugging shots of "river water" (not going to lie - that stuff was nasty) in the Golden Horseshoe, having my daughter's "name" read out loud and seeing her gleefully run forward to get her Heroes coin. That's right, my kid is now a Hero of Frontierland. She was beaming from ear to ear.
The Legends of Frontierland is immersive storytelling at its very best. Walt would be very proud.
Ich bin ein Disneylander
