Silly Q: How would you color code the parks?

[Imagineer1981]

I can't tell if you are being serious....a lot of us put our Disney Vacation on a spreadsheet. Includes park hours, dining reservations, dining times and confirmation #'s, which parks are open for EMH, parties, flight info....phone numbers. It is truly a critical element of the planning....

And I highly recommend it....

Oh no, I am serious. That's a lot of planning. I also have had the luxury of going multiple times and working there, so for us to quote Crush "we just go with the flow". We'll make some ADRs and such but its vacation so I try not to plan anything and just RELAX. I do way too much planning in my day job

[Giggy]

Erm....strange question but oddly enough one i have an answer for. Not a very exciting answer but an answer non-the-less.

Magic Kingdom - RED - an exciting and bright colour. Magic Kingdom is the main park people tend to think, by coincidence they say if you ask people to name a colour 60% will say red.

Epcot - BLUE - another popular colour, though considered to be calmer, more elegant, perhaps even intellectual.

Disney Hollywood Studios - YELLOW - not sure if this is simply because out of red, blue, yellow and green this is the one left over. In which case conveniently I always have the colours in my mind in that order, possibly as that was the order for players in Micro Machines 2 on the Sega Genesis (I'm weird) and the other parks fit into this order chronologically with the colours i gave them. An answer that makes me look more sane would be the association of gold with showbiz, awards, ect.

Animal Kingdom - GREEN - because green is considered the colour of nature, this is the park associated with nature and wildlife.


I am suddenly aware i have been using the British spelling of color. To my credit though I did remember to use the American name for the Sega Genesis, over here it's called the Sega Megadrive.

[DisneyFr33k]

Magic Kingdom - Blue
Animal Kingdom - Brown (bark of the tree)
Epcot - White (for futuristic white suits)
Hollywood Studios - I don't have a color associated with that one - strange!

[MississippiDisneyFreak]

AK-Green
Epcot-Red
MK-Pink
Hollywood Studios-Blue

[Tigerinvestigator]

This is without a doubt the strangest post I have ever seen on Intercot (and thats saying something). Therefore I must answer the question.

MK- Blue
Epcot-Yellow
MGM-Red
AK-Green

Don't ask me to explain myself because I have no idea why I color coded them that color.....actually I have no idea why we are color coding them at all!

[beksy]

MK: Teal (favorite park so favorite color)
Epcot: Blue (I like all of the fountains so think of water)
AK: Green (obvious reasons)
DHS: red (red carpet)

[Lakin]

MK: Blue
EPCOT: Yellow
DHS: Red
AK: Green
DT: Purple
BB: White
TL: Grey

[cer]

Oh no, I am serious. That's a lot of planning. I also have had the luxury of going multiple times and working there, so for us to quote Crush "we just go with the flow". We'll make some ADRs and such but its vacation so I try not to plan anything and just RELAX. I do way too much planning in my day job

Well, yeah if you are going multiple times and work there, there would be no need. And don't get me wrong, I am not a park commando traveller (not that there's anything wrong with being a park commando traveller), BUT there is some planning to be done.

For us, which park are we going to on what day? You don't want to waste a whole lot of time travelling to destinations, so you think about things like, "better to eat at a monorail resort on the day we go to MK..." or "Let's eat in Epcot on the Epcot day...." or " Do we want to see Fantasmic this time, if so let's try to go on a day that it will be performed...." Then Disney throws in EMH and that changes daily....just a lot to think about and it is easier to see it all on one piece of paper....

We are just attempting (in vain) to see as much as we can, picking up things we missed before....we've been going annually since 2006 and STILL have never seen Devine or walked the trails at AK or the Woman who does the candy art in Japan, I am also looking forward to seeing the Pixar light do its little dance at DHS, or do the sketches with the artist at DHS, would love to get a pic with the Singing in the Rain umbrella on the Streets of America....maybe next time...

[g8rgirl29]

I too do a color coded spreadsheet for our Disney Vacation every year. And yes, I laminate it, punch a hole in it and hang it from the stroller with a carbiner!!! They are working on a support group for us. At the will call window this year they passed mine around making many comments about how great it was!! It was pretty funny!! But to your original question:
MK
EPCOT
DHS
AK
BB
TL

[It'sWDW4me]

P.S. question for you purple lovers -- has purple always been your fave color? My 12yo has always loved purple -- I sometimes think she was born loving purple.

Yeah, purple's been my absolute favorite since forever. I remember (many, many moons ago ) having a purple star-shaped pillow thing with metallic streamers shooting off of the 4 lower points and a hook for hanging it from the upper point. I LOVED that thing! LOL