It wouldn't bother me if they hook DCA and Disneyland together, I just don't see any real purpose in it. I still think they should turn DCA into a Disney Studio park but I doubt they'll ever do that. However, lumping the two into one park is interesting to speculate about. Mousecrazy said there would be one entrance. How would that work?
Downtown Disney merges with the Esplanade from the West. And the walkway exiting the resort heads to the East. If you guess they won't block the East walkway, which would impede traffic to and from the Harbor Boulevard hotels, how could one entrance allow access to DCA?
You could consider that both entrances might remain in place. Perhaps they would build a monorail station above the DCA toy shop allowing cross-park transportation. But this rumor is suggesting that both parks would actually merge. One can safely assume the Disneyland entrance is the one that would remain and the DCA entrance is the one that would be eliminated.
But where would the two parks connect together? The only possiblity would be to dig a tunnel beneath the Tomorrowland train station that goes to DCA's Hollywood Backlot. It would be similar to the way you get into Toon Town but the walkway would actually have to go underground.
The only real solution is of course to improve DCA so it draws more people on its own. But if they actually merge the parks, it would be interesting to see how they do it.
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