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The five (to date) Theme Park resorts owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company. Their best known attractions include spectacular parades, fireworks and other live performances, as well as rides and shows based upon the Disney films.
The resorts include:
- Disneyland: The original and the only park Walt saw in his lifetime. Serves as the template for most of the parks worldwide. Its companion park, California Adventure, opened in 2001 and is currently being Rescued From The Scrappy Heap.
- Walt Disney World: The largest of the resorts, opened in 1971 and became the most popular. Includes four parks: Magic Kingdom, Epcot (opened in 1982), Disney
MGM Hollywood Studios (1989) and Animal Kingdom (1998).
- Tokyo Disneyland: Opened in 1983 and run by the Oriental Land Company rather then Disney itself, some recent additions such as Pooh's Honey Hunt and the Tokyo Disney Sea park have been regarded as some of Disney Imagineering's crowning moments of awesome.
- Disneyland Paris: Opened in 1992, and going for an even more elaborate look (as well as Darker And Edgier for some attractions), it was a flop at first, though eventually gained some legs, only to loose attendance after the opening of Walt Disney Studios park, which has been regarded as So Bad Its Horrible by many.
- Hong Kong Disneyland: The newest of the resorts, opening in 2005, it's very close in design to the original Disneyland, though is much smaller and only has a few of the iconic Disney attractions.
A rich well of Affectionate (or not) Parody Fuel, often in the form of Souvenir Land. Some of the most popular attractions have been adapted into movies, with Pirates Of The Caribbean being the most successful of them.
Tropes used in the parks include:
- Adaptation Distillation: The philosophy behind designing the "dark ride" version of an animated film is that, instead of rehashing the plot of the film, you should try to recreate the dominant visual/emotional impact of the film using a handful of pivotal scenes taking place in immersive environments. Hence (for example), the bulk of the Peter Pan ride consists of two rooms occupied by models of London and Neverland surrounded by fiber-optic stars, over which riders "fly" in vehicles suspended from an overhead track. The film's actual plot is compressed into a few brief scenes toward the end of the ride.
- Artifact Of Doom: The Shiriki Utundu idol in Disney Sea's Tower of Terror. Also a mystic gem in the Indiana Jones sequence of the Great Movie Ride at Disney Hollywood Studios.
- Beware Of Hitchhiking Ghosts: "The Haunted Mansion" ride is the Trope Namer
- Beneath The Earth: Disney Sea's Journey to the Center of the Earth, the portion of Disneyland Paris' Phantom Manor where the Doombuggies are buried alive and you see a bunch of corpses rising from their underground graves.
- Big Boos Haunt: The Haunted Mansion again, with its "999 Happy Haunts"
- The Big Easy: New Orleans Square
- Bigfoot Sasquatch And Yeti: The Matterhorn Bobsleds and Expedition Everest star Yetis
- Cool Old Guy: Dreamfinder and the Sage of Time from Tapestry of Nations
- Crowning Music Of Awesome: Many examples, including the scores to Illuminations, Tapestry of Nations, and the Jeremy Irons version of Spaceship Earth.
- Also, the Fantasmic! shows at both WDW and Disneyland. Especially the finales.
- Death Mountain: Big Thunder Mountain and Expedition Everest's Forbidden Mountain fit the role pretty well.
- Disney Acid Sequence: Some straight from the movies, and some unique to the parks.
- Doing It For The Art
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: General Knowledge from the now gone Cranium Command show.
- The Dumbledore: Dreamfinder was somewhere between here and The Obi Wan to Figment until the attraction was updated to remove him.
- Ear Worm: Most attractions with some sort of musical theme are like this, especially It's a Small World
- Early Bird Cameo: Disney's done this with whole rides. The Sleeping Beauty Castle walkthrough at Disneyland opened several years before the movie, It's Tough to be a Bug opened a few months before A Bugs Life and Countdown to Extinction featured Aladar and the Carnotaurus from Dinosaur about two years before the movie came and the attraction was renamed for the movie.
- Easter Eggs: Entire books have been written about the so-called Hidden Mickeys, inconspicuous images of Mickey Mouse or his silhouette placed in various unexpected locations around the parks. It is also very common, when one attraction is closed and replaced with another, for the Imagineers to include an inobtrusive tribute to the old attraction in the new one.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Figment over at Epcot, the Hitchhiking Ghosts in the Haunted Mansion
- Everythings Better With Dinosaurs: Probably the only reason Epcot's Universe of Energy has a massive Dinosaur sequence, which itself was based on Disneyland's Primeval World diorama that serves as the finale for the Disneyland Railroad.
- Everythings Better With Princesses: They were all over the place, especially shows and parades even before the big marketing push about them started.
- Evil Elevator: The Tower of Terror, of course.
- Fantastic Voyage: Body Wars
- Fluffy The Terrible: The giant cobra on the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland (named, in fact, Fluffy), and Harold the Yeti on the Matterhorn.
- Gangplank Galleon: Pirates of the Caribbean
- With Krem Quay in the form of the Blue Bayou portion in California, Tokyo and Paris.
- Ghost In The Machine: Cranium Command's premise
- Gold Digger: Constance the ghost bride in The Haunted Mansion
- Gone Horribly Wrong: The "plot" of several thrill rides
- Green Aesop: Contained in Epcot's The Land pavilion and almost the entirety of the Animal Kingdom park.
- Hula And Luaus: The Enchanted Tiki Room and Walt Disney World's Polynesian Resort. Also the long gone Tahitian Terrace at Disneyland.
- Hurricane Of Puns: Happens with glorious frequency on the Jungle Cruise.
- I Will Wait For You: The original backstory to the ghost bride in the Haunted Mansion, taken further in the French version.
- It Will Never Catch On: A running gag in the current version of Carousel of Progress, thanks to its Technology Marches On plot.
- Jungle Japes: A major portion of Adventureland and Animal Kingdom
- Mad Scientist: The Timekeeper starred a robotic one voiced by Robin Williams
- Mega Corp: An intergalactic one in the form of X-S Tech in the now gone Alien Encounter attraction at Magic Kingdom.
- Mine Cart Madness: Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
- Narm: Parts of the new Judi Dench narration in Spaceship Earth, especially "The Roman Empire was the first World Wide Web" and "Remember how easy it was to learn your AB Cs? Thank the Phoenicians."
- Nightmare Fuel: At a kids park? Buddy, you better believe it!!
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The Pirate Zombie Robot part, anyway—audio-animatronic pirate skeletons on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
- Oracular Head: Madame Leota at The Haunted Mansion as well as the Shrunken Ned fortune telling machine at Disneyland's Adventureland
- Ominous Pipe Organ: The Haunted Mansion's Ballroom scene. The Disneyland organ is the actual prop from Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie.
- Oven Logic: In the last part of the current version of Carousel of Progress.
- Polly Wants A Microphone: The Enchanted Tiki Room
- Replacement Scrappy: Nigel Channing at Epcot's Imagination pavilion, who replaced Dreamfinder, a tough act to follow even for Eric Idle.
- Rodents Of Unusual Size: Well, what else would you call the costumed versions of Mickey, Minnie, etc?
- Slippy Slidey Ice World: The Matterhorn, Expedition Everest and the Blizzard Beach waterpark
- Souvenir Land: Parodied by Chester and Hester's Dino-Rama, though the area itself would grow to be hated by park fans.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Mostly in shows, and not just fireworks displays.
- Temple Of Doom: The Indiana Jones attractions. At Disney Sea, it's complimented by the Raging Spirits coaster
- The Hub: Disneyland is regarded by some as the Trope Maker and Trope Namer.
- They Changed It Now It Sucks: Disney park fans have this attitude a lot, though it's sometimes justified with stuff such as Journey Into Imagination's disastrous revamp at Epcot (and the ride's creators seem to agree with them!)
- Under The Sea: The Submarine rides, the Finding Nemo attractions and eventually, The Little Mermaid dark ride.
- Values Dissonance: The original Carousel of Progress attraction, in which an American family rhapsodizes about the ability of electric appliances to ease the woman's burden of housework. Since the attraction's script was written in the 1960's, it never occurs to any of them that her burden could have been eased a long time ago if her husband and children had pitched in more.
- The Wild West: Frontierland
- What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome: The backside of water at the Jungle Cruise
- Zeerust: Tommorowland and Epcot settled on this as a result of the problems of Twenty Minutes Into The Future
- Zeppelins From Another World: Dreamfinder's Cool Ship was one of these.
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