Which Disney Park Hosts the Most Attractions?
When you plan your vacation, your likely destinations are Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World.
These are The Happiest and Most Magical Places on Earth. So, you’ll have a marvelous time at either Disney haven.
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However, you probably want to maximize your vacation by doing as much as you can.
So, which American Disney theme parks host the most attractions? Here’s a ranked list.
6. Disney’s Hollywood Studios – 19 Attractions
Before we start, let’s discuss methodology. While we’re only just counting here, everyone’s tally will vary a bit.
What’s an attraction to you? Is it just rides or would you also count shows?
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Would you add nighttime presentations and parades to the list? How do character interactions factor into the conversation?
As you can see, there’s substantial variance depending on personal qualifications of determining what’s an attraction.
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I studied multiple resources including Disney’s official site and Wikipedia before compiling this list.
Then, I asked for a different count from someone else to compare.
Just to underscore how much debate exists here, our answer varied by seven (!) at one of the parks.
For the most part, we aligned and actually came up with the same total at half the parks, starting with this one.
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Let’s go inside!
Hollywood Studios hosts 19 different attractions, which is a large amount for any theme park.
Alas, at Disney, that’s the bare minimum, with most other parks offering more.
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Of course, fans of Hollywood Studios – and I’m one – will be quick to defend the park’s quality.
After all, Disney spent hundreds of billions of dollars reinventing Hollywood Studios on the fly.
Now, you’ll find numerous E-ticket attractions like Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, Slinky Dog Dash, and Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway.
None of these options existed just seven years ago, proving a simple point.
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Hollywood Studios may not win the battle in terms of quantity, but it rivals the best of the best in terms of quality.
People will wait in line for an hour or more for a third of these attractions. That speaks volumes about their underlying quality.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom – 23 Attractions
Here’s another park that’s challenging to evaluate in that it’s really a Disney zoo…with roller coasters and dark rides.
That’s a challenging idea to conceptualize anyway. Then, we must evaluate various animal encounters and roaming characters as well.
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For instance, Kevin from Up makes appearances now, but it’s a random thing. So, it probably shouldn’t count.
Similarly, Disney’s official site lists many different kinds of animals, but they’re not attractions per see.
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Instead, they fall into the blanket category of creatures you can visit during actual attractions like the Gorilla Falls Trail and Kilimanjaro Safaris.
When I describe Animal Kingdom to friends, I stress the park’s dichotomy. Yes, it’s technically a theme park.
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However, when you visit here, you should expand your mind to appreciate that you’re really there for the animals.
So, counting attractions at Animal Kingdom somewhat misses the point. It’s a park to be experienced due to its novelty.
EPCOT – 28 Attractions
Along those lines, I think of EPCOT as more of a vibe than the other Disney parks. You’re coming here to relax and hang out.
During the 1964 New York World’s Fair, Walt Disney fell in love with this sort of working vacation.
Disney dominated the World’s Fair with its pavilions, but after years of intense preparation, Uncle Walt needed a break.
He used the World’s Fair as a way to learn about other world cultures and cuisines.
Once Disney fell in love with the idea, he wanted to give the premise a kind of permanence with his Florida Project.
Of course, Disney was also in love with the idea of infotainment at the time as well.
So, EPCOT unfolded in a similar manner to Animal Kingdom.
There’s also a dichotomy here, with half the park consisting of architectural marvels hosting impeccable rides.
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The other half of the park embraces international culture and cuisine.
Technically, you’ll find 28 attractions here, but that’s probably underselling the experience.
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I’m not including many of the World Showcase pavilion entertainment options like the Stave Church gallery at Norway.
Similarly, I excluded any live shows that lack scheduled hours on the official site.
Also, I ignored any temporary entertainment such as the various EPCOT festival offerings.
Since those are available more than half the year, you could argue they belong, at least in some format.
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Overall, reducing EPCOT to a list of attractions feels like the Animal Kingdom dilemma.
You’re somewhat missing the point of the park when you do that.
This is a place where Disney hopes that you’ll hang out and relax.
Disney California Adventure – 31 Attractions
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This is perhaps the most challenging park to evaluate in terms of what should count as an attraction.
You might have guessed that it’s where we had the biggest disparity over what should count.
Another person and I literally went down the list and debated the qualifications of the attractions before settling on 31 as a fair number.
Many of these “attractions” come closer to being experiences, but they’re also Pixar and Marvel-related things that fans want to do.
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Also, to DCA’s credit, it has introduced several new attractions recently and improved some others like The Incredicoaster.
Sadly, DCA just announced the closure of Doctor Strange: Mysteries of the Magic Arts.
Realistically, due to the perception of DCA as playing second fiddle to Disneyland, this park cannot afford to lose attractions.
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So, Disney hopefully has something else up its sleeve.
Magic Kingdom – 40 Attractions
That’s right, folks. While Magic Kingdom is unquestionably the most popular theme park on the planet, it doesn’t host the most attractions.
That honor belongs to the original theme park, Disneyland Park, which easily bests Magic Kingdom in terms of attractions.
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That’s a feature, not a bug, though. When Uncle Walt purchased the land for the Florida Project, this was a goal.
He wanted more space to spread out a Disney campus, offering a full city with many entertainment offerings.
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After Disney tragically died, his older brother, Roy, and the Imagineers were left to carry on the torch.
Over time, they shifted the vision for Walt Disney World into a theme park with ambitious plans for more.
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Those plans didn’t work out as intended, but we still got Magic Kingdom and EPCOT.
Later, Disney added Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom, bringing Walt Disney World to its current form.
In total, based on today’s calculations, these four parks host 110 attractions, with the 111th, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, opening soon.
At that point, Magic Kingdom will host 41 different attractions, which still isn’t enough to bring it within ten of Disneyland!
Disneyland Park – 52 Attractions
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Yes, when you want to maximize your entertainment options, the best place to go is Disneyland Park.
Since 1955, park officials have steadily introduced exciting new attractions here to honor Uncle Walt’s vision.
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Never forgot his telling quote: “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
Thankfully, imagination still remains, as demonstrated by the recent addition of Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway.
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Before that, Disneyland added Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, with its two new E-ticket attractions.
Later this year, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will debut, and Imagineers are working on an improved version of Haunted Mansion as we speak.
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Even though Disneyland turns 70 next year, it will never grow outdated.
In fact, the conclusion of the DisneylandForward negotiations guarantees that $1.9-$2.5 billion in expansion is coming.
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Disney California Adventure will share that, and it’ll help shrink the gap with Walt Disney World.
Currently, while Disneyland Park hosts the largest number of attractions, Disneyland Resort lists 83 of them.
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That’s far short of Walt Disney World’s 110. However, since Disneyland Resort covers less territory, it comes with a side benefit.
You can do more while walking less here, which is a positive to many tourists, especially the locals who adore Disneyland.
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So, there you have it. That’s the total number of attractions at each Disney resort.
Do any of these numbers surprise you? If so, please explain why or why not.
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