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Which is all well and good for a Japanese fad, but if the guy in the Mickey Mouse suit in Anaheim started parapara-ing, barely anyone would recognize he was dancing. The Twist may not have been much of an improvement on the Waltz, and nothing has surpassed the Tango?and don't even get us started on the Macarena?but parapara is an entirely different language altogether?a Japanese dance phenomenon that is far more Japan than it is dance...
Outside lies Downtown Disney, an admission-free, quarter-mile-long shopping and dining esplanade for the adults. The mall, which has already proved popular in Florida's Disney World, was designed to attract not only theme-park guests but also local residents and conventiongoers from the newly renovated Anaheim Convention Center nearby. It will offer such grownup attractions as live entertainment at the House of Blues and the world's most elaborate sports bar at ESPN Zone. You will be able to get an adult beverage, both there and in one of the gourmet restaurants in the new park. (What...
...will visit the park in its first year--despite a weakening economy. That's on top of the 14 million that Disneyland already gets. The goal is to make these visitors, many from overseas, feel like they've hit all the tourist high points of California without ever leaving Anaheim...
...learned that the hard way in France, where the overly ambitious Disneyland Paris forced the company to take a write-down in 1993. "We probably built too many hotel rooms and sized the park a little larger than we needed to," admits Pressler. When it came to expanding in Anaheim, he says, "we wanted to make sure we were building smaller than we feel the demand is." Disney left nearly 30 acres vacant for expansion...
...coasters in the world. And over at Universal Studios Hollywood, which is planning new attractions around a live Rug Rats entertainment show and the Animal Planet TV show, officials lined up a deal to provide free round-trip transportation for Disneyland guests to Universal, less than an hour from Anaheim. "We can offer the real Hollywood experience," says Larry Kurzweil, president and COO of Universal Studios Hollywood...