The Insane (Official) Names of the Disney Parks

[@OffhandDisney]

It seems I was a week too early with the sweater choice.

[@Kermie-the-frog-born-1955]

I’m homeless now

[@ConnorCampbell-ch5mk]

@@OffhandDisney Oh look how happy he was before he knew

[@kendragramley]

Oh my god, the jingle you used is the same one that plays for me when KZbin gives me a poll instead of an ad, that freaked me out 😭😭😭

[@Cthethc]

Bro needs to change that NOW. It’s annoying as hell.

[@cinnamonbuckholz5688]

I noticed that 😂 It's also the theme song of a podcast I sometimes listen to lol

[@KYLO_JEN]

It’s meant to be a joke!

[@engagexkujo]

I thought my KZbin bugged out and was playing an ad with the video too 😂

[@Alex-vm3wk]

And the immediately follows up with the jingle that’s always being used in SML videos when JR is on screen with his friends

[@RobertFerre]

The way you started this video You totally made me think “Oh no he’s trying to become a cheesy Disney Parks tip guide, this is so inauthentic”. Thank goodness it was all a dream.

[@BackstageKingdom]

That was a hilarious parody intro 😂

[@TheProxTransmissions]

family vlog style intro but it's just one guy 😭

[@jennycraigadventures3314]

I’m laughing imagining someone landing on their first Offhand Disney video and watching that opening. A few might be disappointed to learn that’s not what he’s like all the time. 😁

[@oldmanloki]

Disney is very serious about their cast members getting the names right. Oh, you’re heading to grab a drink at Trader Sam’s at the Poly? No, no, no-you’re not. You’re going to Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort. You’ve got to say the whole thing, like it’s a legal document. Sometimes it’s so precise, it sounds completely insane!

[@ronclark4212]

I refuse to call downtown disney disney springs and dhs is still mgm and cm always correct me but a few whisper ye you got it right the 1st time after the correction. Fist bump

[@MattMcIrvin]

@@ronclark4212 What, you mean Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village?

[@ravewulf]

I kept using the MGM name for YEARS after the change but I've mostly adapted to Hollywood Studios now

[@bcb_2024]

Not the Kermit sweater before he knew 💀

[@kdusel1991]

😂😂

[@Waffle519]

They call it Animal Kingdom Theme Park because its Nahtazu

[@twoblacklabs904]

OMG, I hated that slogan in 1998 and I hate it to this day. The park is fine, but that slogan is a huge turn off! Tell us what you ARE, not what you’re not!

[@michaelsullivan3581]

O-watazu-iam!

[@BrooksHolt]

The fact that the intro is parody and still managed to make it so cringey and awkward is amazing 😂 👏🏼

[@JackDaloots]

As an Anaheim Resident: * Disneyland * DCA * MK * Animal Kingdom * EPCOT Center * MGM Studios * Euro Disneyland * Shanghai Disneyland * Tokyo Disneyland * Disney SEA

[@FleshGolem420]

Park naming is almost as weird as official ride naming.

[@samuelblank4046]

How many rides have the word adventure in the title

[@anth636]

Smuggler’s Run? That sounds pretty dangerous. You should stay sitting when flying.

[@ConnorCampbell-ch5mk]

@@samuelblank4046you mean that The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel's Undersea Adventure isn’t a concise enough title? 😂

[@FleshGolem420]

@@ConnorCampbell-ch5mk Just trips off the tongue.

[@happiestplace3754]

Well blame WDI because since day one they insisted Disneyland doesn't have "rides", it has attractions and adventures. Now the current lack of imagination idiots that run the place just take that literally and just add the word "adventure" to everything.

[@rgfisher21]

Someone may have mentioned it but Disney's Animal Kingdom Park makes sense when you take into account that there is an Animal Kingdom resort. It used to confuse me when people talked about Animal Kingdom.

[@disney.daze.55]

It’s Disney World, Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and EPCOT. And Disneyland Resort: Disneyland and DCA. I do sometimes day California Adventure but usually DCA. When typing I like MK/HS/AK/EPCOT/DL/DCA

[@OffhandDisney]

It's funny that we can't abbreviate EPCOT because it already is

[@fcochandia]

Its Walt* Disney World

[@DisneyWorldofMusic835]

It’s Disney’s* Hollywood Studios too.

[@gkellogg]

When people say “going to Disney”, to me, that means Walt Disney World. For me, there’s only one Disneyland, and I “go to Disneyland”. (Except in February, when I’ll make my first trip to “Disney”).

[@jamesgeorgi6627]

When it comes to Disney’s Hollywood Studios, it’s crazy that it’s still has the word “studio” in its name despite not being about the making of movies anymore

[@LizzyLoves91]

I’m a former cast member, so park acronyms have become engrained in my head: WDW, MK, DHS, DAK, etc. Those are mostly relevant when I write about the parks, but when I talk about the parks, I definitely use MK and DAK the most. My friends and I usually refer to Hollywood Studios, as simply “Studios”, and sometimes refer to Magic Kingdom as just “Magic”. Animal Kingdom is almost always “DAK”. Even places like Disney Springs, Typhoon Lagoon and the Polynesian Resort get shortened to “Springs”, “Typhoon” and “Poly” respectively. Cast Members definitely have their own way of speaking about the parks and it is VERY hard to stop, even years after my job with them ended. I’m sure the abbreviations aren’t exclusive to CMs, of course, but they use them all the time.

[@HeroMKW]

I wonder if Hollywood Studios is approaching a name change as its identity appears to be changing once again

[@happyhaunt6659]

I don’t know, “spillover magic kingdom” doesn’t have the same ring to it

[@HenshinHead]

You know, sorta related, but Universal recently updated all the names of their parks and resorts to address this same issue with inconsistent naming. It was very subtle, mostly a minor change and updated logos that better match each other and the new branding for Epic Universe, but for Islands of Adventure and Volcano Bay, they altered the logo from saying "Universal's" to just "Universal", dropping the apostrophe S like Disney did with California Adventure. They even did the same with all their on-property resorts, so everything is just "Universal [Resort/Theme Park Name here]". It was a simple change, but it works

[@MattMcIrvin]

Though when Six Flags removed the apostrophe-S from a bunch of their DC-themed rides to turn, say, "Catwoman's Whip" into "Catwoman (TM) Whip", it just sounded insane.

[@HenshinHead]

@@MattMcIrvin Okay yeah, that definitely wasn't thought through. Makes the DC rides sound like stuff you'd find on the toy aisle...

[@KLGChaos]

I don't bother with the "official names". It's just Animal Kingdom, EPCOT, Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. Don't need the extraneous fluff. Only time I add a qualifier is if its for a hotel, like Animal Kingdom Lodge.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Right, I agree, and I used to work there several times.

[@RemainSeatedPlease13]

THANK YOU!!! 😆 So I'm pretty O.C.D. or it could just be something that people from Colorado notice! But I was planning a future trip just a few days ago and I was looking at the official names and thinking ... there is clearly no rhyme or reason to these names! So glad I'm not alone!

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

You forgot about Tokyo DisneySea (next to Tokyo Disneyland) and Walt Disney Studios Park (next to Disneyland Paris).

[@experiment626eventing]

I was so into the tips n tricks with offhand disney i forgot the video was gonna be about the names of the parks and i was like dang why is he going on about what the names are who cares

[@mariawrites2941]

Ooooh the music from Living with the land in the background. Nice touch! 🫶

[@adriannec4188]

16:11 I’m in California - I use “DCA” for Disney California Adventure, “Disneyland” for Disneyland Park, “DTD” for Downtown Disney, and “DLR” for The Disneyland Resort (when referring to the parks, the hotels, and the shopping district as a whole).

[@josephbrown9685]

I personally believe attractions and parks should use concise names because people will inevitably shorten them anyway. Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney Studios, Animal Kingdom. Nice and simple.

[@badbiker666]

You said, at 10:08, "when World's Fairs do pop up." I thought that was a weird thing to say. Has there been a World's Fair since 1964? I looked it up, and I'll be damned, they still organize them occasionally. The last one was in 2017, and I thought it was strange that I never heard of it. Well, that's probably because it was held in Kazakhstan. There have been several already in the 21st Century. I had no idea! Before 2017, there was also: • Japan in 2005 • Spain in 2008 • China in 2010 • South Korea in 2012, and • Italy in 2015 I also wanted to know when was the last one held in the USA. It turns out that was New Orleans in 1984. I remember 1984 well. I was in the Army. But, I have absolutely no memory of hearing about a World's Fair in Louisiana that year. How could I miss that? They actually don't call them "World's Fairs" any more; they call them "Expos." But, still, you would have thought I would remember such a thing. But I don't. And another thing. Disney has a lot of "shows" in their theme parks, but there's only one that my entire family enjoys. That show is the Festival of the Lion King at Animal Kingdom. It's the one must see show, anywhere, on which we all agree. As a result, Animal Kingdom is one of our favorite places to visit, which puts us outside the norm for regular Disney fans. We don't care. We missed the show like I can't even describe during, and after, the COVID shut down. We were literally dancing with joy when it re-opened, although it isn't the same since corporate decided to still the live performers. It's just not the same show in its truncated form since it came back. In fact, we are going again this January. I can't wait!!

[@MattMcIrvin]

The only World's Fair I actually went to was the Knoxville one in 1982, but I remembered the New Orleans '84 one just because the Space Shuttle test orbiter Enterprise was exhibited there. I just visited Osaka and I knew there had been a World's Fair there in the past (1970), but I was surprised to discover that there's going to be another one there next year. Festival of the Lion King is pretty great!

[@brentparker7359]

The Haunted Mansion's full name, according to Walt Disney, is "The Haunted Mansion and...uh...uh...Supernatural!"

[@bearriderwm4523]

It's so funny that people over a certain age still call EPCOT, EPCOT Center. Lol

[@SJMcK]

What’s funny about it? It was EPCOT Center for a long time before it was just Epcot. It was EPCOT Center when it was good.

[@RariettyC]

My boyfriend just went to Disney World for the first time ever and it genuinely confused him why the first two parks he visited were Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom, but then he went to Epcot and Studios and noticed that they don't have kingdom in their names. As someone with no nostalgia to WDW whatsoever, he remains convinced that they should be named Epkot (Experimental Prototype Kingdom of Tomorrow) and Hollywood Kingdom.

[@Ryurockswu2u]

I still say MGM Studios occasionally out of pure habit 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Swordfry]

Careful, you might have created another alternate Dallin. Offhand Tips Dallin. Hes so wholesome, he must be protected

[@ThemeSnark]

I call the parks by their true name: "Expensive"

[@gregchupp9143]

For all the parks at Walt Disney World put Disney's in front of the name and that's it. That will help all of the people do not realize Epcot is part of the resort. Everybody in the know will call it Epcot as well as dropping Disney's from all the others like you said. My confusion is the word Resort is it applies to each hotel as well as the entire complex.

[@josephbrown9685]

Yes, I think they should drop the world “resort” from Walt Disney World and leave it only for the hotels because “World” already implies that it’s an entire complex of related attractions.

[@ronclark4212]

So this channel is the only disney vlog that i have watched EVERY EPISODE AND given a thumbs up. I watch others but disnt take the time to go back and watch previous episodes. This could easily be a dianey plus weekly show and the tone and delivery reminds me of early epcot actors on attractions esp dinasaur, honey i shrunk. You grew up during the eisner era and it shows...the land is the best ride and we need peoplemover back at dl. #FixDaYetti. Very well done

[@MattMcIrvin]

Flash photography? I wouldn't. It alters the homing signal and that's not good.

[@crablobster958]

RIP Offhand Tips We Hardly Knew Ye!

[@alechettinger6931]

Thanks again for an awesome video, Offhand. The family and I always use the normal domestic names like Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom but when it comes to both Studios and Disney Springs we still use the older names; MGM and Downtown Disney lol

[@aledandrian]

Bro I really thought this was an obscure old series of yours that you were reviving lmao

[@ZebraLens]

😅 Makes me think about - Bee Movie: *_"Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco, and a part of the Hexagon Group."_* 😅😅

[@The_Farwall]

Hair is so shiny. You're a princess :s

[@LightbulbSunStudios]

I'm still out here calling it the Florida Project. Mostly because I haven't been there. Disneyland/DCA and collectively DLR is generally how I refer to the Anaheim parks.

[@ArynWellspring]

Wasn’t expecting cutting satire in an Offhand Disney video, DFB catching strays 😂

[@Luckywitz]

Animal Kingdom Theme Park because its Nahtazu

[@williamwhite3111]

DCA is the superior nomenclature for Disney’s California Adventure

[@shaniaduchene8063]

I’m so jealous of your curls 😭

[@theconceptualist8626]

Dude I was so confused with the tips skit at the beginning that the sudden pivots was way too funny to me.

[@Vader47000]

Growing up in SoCal we just had Disneyland, our home park, and Disney World, which was some far-off bigger version of Disneyland. EPCOT opened when I was a kid and so did Tokyo Disneyland, so for most of the ‘80s those were the parks we could talk about. The ones in Florida everyone just said Disney World when referring to what is now officially called Magic Kingdom, and EPCOT Center, even though we also knew EPCOT was part of Disney World too

[@LCF_85]

Wonderful jumper 💚

[@michaelsullivan3581]

~ Disneyland ~ DCA ~ Magic Kingdom ~ Hollywood Studios ~ Animal Kingdom ~ Dallin's EPCOT ~ Simple, Stately, Elegant! And, Disneyland will always be the Original Magic Kingdom! We called it that 10 years before Disney World was even considered... No matter how hard folks try to wipe that aside, it shall ever be so! (At a slight distance, we can hear Mickey, hands akimbo, slightly yelling, "Oh Well!")

[@Bloby_tnt]

That intro freaked me out

[@marsZpants]

Me/my family & friends usually: "Epcot Center" (but also, "The Living Seas", if that gives away my demographic ) "MGM-no wait it's Hollywood Studios" And If I talk generically "Disney World", I'm probably talking about the Magic Kingdom

[@brentparker7359]

When I was recently posting my ridiculous amount of photos from my first trip to Walt Disney World, I specifically referred to "Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park," because I was afraid my less Disney-obsessed social media friends would think I had visited Disney's actual movie studio in "Hollywood." (Burbank.)

[@HunneyBair]

Dallin’s hair is so prominent at this point that it is basically another character in the Offhand Disney Cinematic Universe (ODCU). There’s Dallin, Kermit, Jeen LaFeet, The Hair, and Offhand Disney.

[@HunneyBair]

Fo real, Dallin look like he’s trying out to play D’Artagnan in the new Three Musketeers remake.

[@Melikkaland]

That Kermit shirt is iconic

[@Deanomite17703]

As a lifelong Californian, always just "Disneyland." When DCA came along, "California Adventure" for quite some time, but the past few years, consistently just "DCA."

[@ANMAnation]

Perhaps the true park is all the parks we parked along the EPCOT

[@Emperor_Oshron]

truthfully, probably the reason the Magic Kingdom is the only one officially called that is to distinguish it from the other parks within Disney World--might be considered redundant to have Disney _Land_ within Disney _World,_ also getting across that it's the "classic" park within that collection, where you go for the distinctly Disneyland experience, while the others have their own theming

[@SUBKOLOR]

Thank you Offhand Disney sir. So many tips, with you!

[@CC-qx7hk]

its been a minute since you appeared in my feed, wow your hair is so pretty now!

[@nucleargarden]

love the tips! will be trying the tips and secrets next time

[@kiwikiwi2483]

The youtube poll jingle perfectly transitioned into your video i thought i was tripping out for a second 😭

[@DestinyStellaNox]

I am interchangeable when it comes to MGM Studios as that is what it was called when I first went, so nostalgia and association. But it was Hollywood Studios on my other visits.

[@MattMcIrvin]

As a kid who grew up in greater Washington, DC, when I hear "DCA" I think of National Airport, which nobody calls Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. There's some inconsistent lumpiness even in Tokyo, where you have Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea: a nice symmetry except that in the English names one has internal capitalization and the other doesn't, because in English "-land" is a place-name ending, but "-sea" isn't really; it's usually a separate word.

[@BobothePirate24]

What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs at your front door?

[@mrshiny1]

Even more confusing, the original maps for Disney-MGM Studios were divided into “Backstage Studio Tour” and “Theme Park”

[@Hmetal813]

I may have worked with Disney as a contractor, I have family who works there to this day, and it may be well over a decade. But it will always be MGM and Downtown Disney for me, my nostalgia refuses to let me call them Hollywood Studios or Disney Springs, lol.

[@bmr1591]

The real tips and tricks were the names we changed along the way.

[@alextaylorstan]

We refer to the Orlando parks as Space Mountain, Guardians, Star Wars land, and Everest

[@kdusel1991]

Dallin putting out peak content!

[@cristianpuerta618]

Is the intro twice on purpose? love it jajajaja

[@kyusshead]

Magic Kingdom, Epcot center (cuz I'm old), animal kingdom, and Hollywood studios.

[@swamppig666]

for me it’s magic kingdom, studios (just plain studios lol), epcot & dak, disneyland, california adventure :)

[@johngalvano5895]

I usually still refer to Hollywood Studios as MGM. For going to Disney World I usually just say "going to Disney" instead of Disney World or Walt Disney World.

[@garymeowzers]

I literally had a KZbin survey before this and when I skipped it and still heard the jingle I thought my video broke

[@hbshined]

you ate with the music

[@markwolfking258]

Florida family here... The studio's naming scheme got dizzying for us. Now we just call it Disney Studios or Studios. It simply got annoying to keep up with the formal name.

[@CH-xr8km]

'(...) Disney Studios. That does not have a nice ring to it' - Let's add something before and after and call it Walt Disney Studios Park, will work for Europe!

[@cactus450]

Fun fact: When my dad worked for Disney World, setting up reservations for guests, around the time Animal Kingdom opened, he kept getting written up for calling it Animal Kingdom and not DISNEY'S Animal Kingdom. Didn't want to confuse the customers i guess???

[@trenttrail]

I just came here to applaud the “Tips” theme music. 😂😂👏👏👏

[@TalysAlankil]

okay but if you want an extra dash of confusion, there are two parks called Disneyland Park-that's also the official name of the one in Paris. Disneyland Paris is the name of the resort

[@copperkiddo]

I’ve often wondered with all the changes DCA goes through, past and present, why don’t they just drop the California name entirely, just call it something like “Disney Adventures Park” or something? Most of the California theme is gone anyway.

[@stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii]

I figured they added theme park to Animal Kingdom to avoid confusion with Animal Kingdom Lodge.

[@theamazingDrBob]

Sometimes my mom will casually refer to magic Kingdom as Disney World. Even though Magic Kingdom is not all of Disney World, she just calls it Disney World, and it drives me up the wall.

[@freekeefox]

I still think of it as "MGM Studios." That's what they called it when I first went.

[@StorybookAmusement]

I clicked expecting some yapping about Disney (sans 's) California Adventure and heard the best explanation of it possible

[@S0undCr3w]

Disney's version of Ghirardelli Square was larger and more interesting than the actual Ghirardelli Square

[@stephenfreitas8546]

The most important park naming: studios park Paris and Orlando, and California Adventure should all be called The Wonderful Worlds of Disney. Second most important naming: all castle parks should be called Magic Kingdom.

[@kedwards4377]

I’ve always called Hollywood Studios simply “Studios”. Though I do keep hearing of the possibility of both Studios and DCA getting new names, especially since Studios in Paris is getting a new name. Considering both Studios and DCA seem to be moving to a similar theme, I wonder if they would get the same name. I know I’ve heard Hollywood Adventure suggested for both parks

[@WanaBeKenobi]

I can't believe I didn't know that the name of Disneyworld ... is not Disneyworld. Magic Kingdom? I thought that was just a "nickname" or something like that. I grew up, and still live near Disneyland... park.

[@Flac_the_Wave]

Mickey Park, Golf Ball Park, Jungle Park, Los Angeles Park, Disney's Los Angeles Park There ez no confusion

[@the1-upclub98]

What I call them: Disneyland Park California Adventure or DCA, can change at any time Magic Kingdom Epcot Hollywood Studios Animal Kingdom

[@adampaulsen1266]

So as a Northern Californian, I can say that everyone here STILL calls DCA California Adventures.

[@amesstarline5482]

All these proper place names remind me of the Galactic Starcruiser and Galaxy's Edge, how it's easier to call them "Star Wars Hotel" and "Star Wars Land" [or maybe now, "The Jenny Nicholson 4 hour long video"]. Full titles may be neat, but they can feel clunky.

[@Wrecker3D]

I thought you would go 'project peanut farm' or something... you know, as the parks weren't yet announced but in planning stage... But yeah naming things is hard, sticking to a scheme is even harder even more when mergers or breakups occur... However, while Staff should use official names for rides/parks (first impression), they also should have the flexibility to address it differently (knowing the terms the guests use)

[@BackyardStudios25]

Hey I remember lowercase Epcot! That place was cool!

[@ChristmasPir8]

We keep them short and sweet Magic, AK, Hollywood and Epcot (nothing really to shorten there)

[@weirsgarage]

I call the studios...."studios". My wife still calls it MGM. She also calls the MK "Disney World"

[@MattMcIrvin]

It's actually quite common on the East Coast today to just refer to Walt Disney World as "Disney", but I find that too ambiguous--you could be talking about any of the resorts or about the company, or even about the cruise line. When I'm writing, I actually use "Walt Disney World" or "WDW" for the resort name sometimes to make it clearer that I'm not talking about Disneyland. But when I'm talking, I call it Disney World. Also, I find it kind of fascinating that Disney was always very careful to separately refer to "Walt Disney World" and "The Magic Kingdom" even when WDW only had one theme park. Because, even then, there was more to Disney World than the Magic Kingdom. But I don't recall anyone other than Disney really using the name "Magic Kingdom" until there was more than one theme park there; they'd just say they were going to Disney World.

[@TheWesinatorvids]

When I worked as a CP at Disney World, there was a girl I worked with who called Animal Kingdom, “D.A.K.” And I remember thinking it was the stupidest sounding thing I ever heard.

[@ChandlerWithaZ]

lol the theme playing twice xD