They are the Holy Grail of theme park attractions – astounding, breathtaking, spectacular rides both classic and modern. When you imagine the most amazing experiences at Disney and Universal parks, it’s probably E-Ticket attractions you picture: the coveted, beloved, fan-favorite, larger-than-life masterpiece rides that command spectacular crowds and engage generations.
Here at Theme Park Tourist, we took a global tour of Disney and Universal parks in our Ride Count Countdown to explore the number of rides each park – and ultimately, resort – offered (with some major surprises along the way). How would our rankings change if we instead looked only at the so-called “E-Ticket” headliners?
Today, we’ll count down from the parks with the fewest anchor attractions to those with the most to explore how these headlining rides make (or sometimes, break) a park’s reputation and tourism. But first, we need to set a definition for ourselves. So…
What is an E-Ticket?
When Disneyland opened in 1955, admission was $1.00.
But wait – that dollar entry fee was exactly that: admission only. If you cared to experience any of the rides or attractions within, that would cost you. Like many amusement parks of the era, each of Disneyland’s rides carried its own admission fee, albeit paid through the exchange of a “ticket.” For opening year audiences, a “ticket book” would cost an additional $2.25 – about $22 today. Within, guests would receive eight vouchers: a mix of A-, B- and C-tickets, with C-tickets necessary for the most impressive attractions, like Jungle Cruise).
The very next year, the elusive D-Ticket was introduced, with Jungle Cruise promoted to the new, higher-cost, lower-availability designation.
Then, in 1959, it happened. In a massive expansion advertised and televised as a Grand Re-Opening of Disneyland, Walt introduced the world to three attractions so grand, there was simply no way around it: a new ticket was needed. Those three Tomorrowland anchors – Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Monorail, and Submarine Voyage – were the first three “E-Tickets,” requiring the most expensive and elite ride ticket yet (with the Jungle Cruise yet again promoted alongside them to become an E-Ticket itself).
In 1982, individual ride tickets were retired entirely in favor of the pay-one-price admission arrangement we know now. And therein lies the challenge. How do we know if something would require an “E-Ticket” today? For the purposes of deciding how many anchor attractions each park has, we’ll need to set up a definition of what being an E-Ticket today means! While we’ll have to be at least a little subjective in our evaluation, we’ll think of it as an E-Ticket needing to have at least two of these three qualifiers:
- A novel and extraordinary ride system
- An ambitious and spectacular scale
- An exceptionally renowned, historic, or sought-after experience
With those loose qualifications, let the tour begin…
12. Walt Disney Studios Park
- Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy
- The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
Not yet considered: Unnamed Spider-Man attraction, unnamed Frozen attraction, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, Unnamed Iron Man overlay of Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster.
It’s alright to be depressed when looking at the E-Ticket offerings of the smallest Disney Park on Earth. The subject of a full, in-depth Declassified Disaster: Walt Disney Studios write-up, our tour through the pathetic and underbuilt second gate at Disneyland Paris at its 2002 opening revealed just how bad this “backlot”-style studio park really was. Back then, it had only three rides at all: Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster, a pointless Studio Tour, and a Magic Carpets spinner ride. A handful of “Band-Aid” attractions in the two decades since has helped, but the future is riding on a massive expansion set to add lands themed to Star Wars, Frozen, and Marvel, with an unprecedented four upcoming attractions that’ll probably classify as E-Tickets. In the meantime, the park’s in hibernation with barely anything to offer, much less any true stars.
E-TICKET AWARD: The first step in the park’s pivot away from barren backlot, the Modern Marvel: Ratatouille – L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy fused Disney’s renowned trackless ride tech with multimedia screens. The end result is a ride that doesn’t quite live up to the hopes fans had. If it weren’t for its technological trappings, Ratatouille’s ride experience is probably more of a D-Ticket than a true, headlining E-Ticket. But in Walt Disney Studios’ sparse lineup, it’s a welcome, one-of-a-kind ride… at least until Epcot’s version opens this summer.
11. Hong Kong Disneyland
- Big Grizzly Mountain
- Iron Man Experience
- Mystic Manor
- Space Mountain
Not yet considered: Frozen Ever After (2021), Wandering Oaken’s Sliding Sleighs (2021)
Hong Kong Disneyland’s 2005 opening signalled the end of the penny-pinching era overseen by Michael Eisner – the same time period that produced Walt Disney Studios. When it opened, the park was almost laughably small, borrowing from Disneyland in most every area (including a carbon copy of the itty bitty castle) except one: ride count. Hong Kong Disneyland opened with no Pirates. No “small world.” No Peter Pan’s Flight. No Big Thunder Mountain. No Haunted Mansion. A multi-year expansion opened three Hong Kong exclusive mini-lands, and a continuing evolution developed Stark Expo, an expanded castle, and a new Fantasyland expansion centered around Frozen.
E-TICKET AWARD: This one’s easy. It must be the Modern Marvel: Mystic Manor. Set in the expanded “mythology” of Disney’s S.E.A. – The Society of Explorers and Adventurers, this epic dark ride doesn’t just introduce some of the coolest characters created just for Disney Parks; it’s also a astounding “spiritual sequel” to the Haunted Mansion and one of the world’s best trackless dark rides, sending guests on a spectacular adventure through a museum collection brought to life.
THE WEAK LINK: Among its four standout E-Tickets, the weakest link has to be Space Mountain if only because it’s the least ambitious. A carbon copy of Disneyland’s (which was rebuilt the same year, 2005, for the Anaheim park’s 50th anniversary), the ride is spectacular fun… but ultimately, each of the other three E-Tickets at Hong Kong Disneyland is exclusive to the park.
10. Epcot
- Frozen Ever After
- Mission: SPACE
- Soarin’
- Spaceship Earth
- Test Track Presented by Chevrolet
Not yet considered: Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure (2020), Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind (2021)
Since 1982, there doesn’t seem to be a single year that Epcot has been at rest. From its origins as a grand, intellectual, ambitious, permanent World’s Fair showcasing the wonders of human innovation and industry, the park has grown and shrunk in fits and starts to its current form. Today, it’s a mish-mash of brainy concepts, brainless thrills, character invasions, and attempts to downplay its very-’80s origins. The latest round of reimagining at least positions the park to have an identity once again, even if it lacks the cohesion and intentionality of old.
E-TICKET AWARD: A common and clever refrain has it that Epcot is “the best Disney Park with the worst rides.” Looking at the whittled down list of certifiable E-Tickets, that’s probably true. Of the five (soon to be seven!) we can earnestly stand behind, Test Track seems like the best balance of the park’s technological ambitions, futuristic origin, and forward-moving trajectory. Itself a reimagining of the Lost Legend: Test Track, the ride is a TRON-esque experience allowing guests to design then test their own prototype vehicles in an engineering process experiment-turned-thrill ride.
THE WEAK LINK: Replacing the ride that once served as the park’s centering, intelligent thesis (the Lost Legend: Horizons), Mission: SPACE was once imagined as Disney’s next-generation hit: an insanely expensive and outrageously technological simulator capable of realistically replicating the forces of a space launch. In retrospect, it seems obvious that Mission: SPACE is wildly intense, which cancelled plans to export it to Tomorrowlands across the globe and left Epcot with a ride with the technological trappings of an E-Ticket, but a somewhat unenjoyable ride experience that certainly doesn’t feel like a timeless classic or a fan favorite.
9. Disney California Adventure
- Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT!
- Incredicoaster
- Radiator Springs Racers
- Soarin’ Around the World
- Toy Story Midway Mania
Not yet counted: Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure (2020), Unnamed Avengers attraction (2021)
Fittingly, after Epcot, there’s no Disney Park on Earth to have been reimagined as wholly as Disney California Adventure. Opened in 2001 to dismal reviews, the underbuilt and underfunded park was creatively starved, lacked noteworthy attractions, and had practically zero Disney characters. In a special two-part insider feature, we first examined the park’s pitiful premiere, then its $2 billion transformation. Along the way, it gained an identity (and arguably lost it again just as fast en route to becoming Disneyland’s home for Pixar and Marvel). Either way, it’s relatively low number of E-Tickets shows that it’ll take more than the Avengers Campus to keep California Adventure a fitting complement to Disneyland.
E-TICKET AWARD: Back in 2001, the park’s singular standout ride was the Lost Legend: Soarin’ Over California – the literal birthplace of the Soarin’ rides around the world. But part of the park’s 5-year reimagining brought the Modern Marvel: Radiator Springs Racers – a lightning fast, larger-than-life race through the desert buttes of the Cadillac Range.
THE WEAK LINK: In 2018, the park’s Victorian-themed Paradise Pier got an IP wrap of its own, becoming the strange Pixar Pier of mis-matched modern movie references. The land’s classic-looking coaster, formerly California Screamin’, was “reimagined” to include characters from The Incredibles. Unfortunately, they’re mostly static mannequins. The Incredicoaster is really no better than its bare-steel predecessor and, if anything, misses the mark by aspiring to more but failing to achieve it.
8. Disney’s Animal Kingdom
- AVATAR Flight of Passage
- Dinosaur
- Expedition Everest
- Festival of the Lion King
- Kilimanjaro Safaris
- Na’vi River Journey
When Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened in 1998, the park offered just four rides – including two whose primary purpose was transportation in the enormous park. Expansions since have added a handful of rides from large-scale thrills to family flat rides, like Kali River Rapids and the Declassified Disaster: Chester and Hester’s Dino-rama. That makes Animal Kingdom a park of very few actual rides, but with most of its collection made of headliners – including the rare appearance of a show we’d give an E-Ticket designation to.
E-TICKET AWARD: Frankly, three E-Tickets are in the running here. Subject of a standalone feature, the Modern Marvel: Expedition Everest takes a familiar experience (a roller coaster) and transforms it into something next level. Kilimanjaro Safaris is perhaps the park’s thesis ride, getting guests up close to the wonders of nature. But the spectacular AVATAR Flight of Passage serves as a spectacular 21st century simulator fusing some of Disney’s greatest tricks into an emotional, awe-inspiring journey.
THE WEAK LINK: When fans discovered that Pandora – The World of Avatar would offer a tranquil boat-based dark ride through the alien moon’s bioluminescent jungles, it felt like a return to form for Disney Imagineering. And while the plotless, scenic sightseeing tour through the forest is spectacular, it’s about half as long as most guests would like. While we’d call it an E-Ticket, it’s admittedly just barely making the cut.
7. Shanghai Disneyland
- Peter Pan Flight
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Sunken Treasure
- Roaring Rapids
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
- Soaring Over The Horizon
- TRON: Lightcycle Power Run
Not yet counted: Unnamed Zootopia attraction
The opening of Shanghai Disneyland in 2016 was seen as a watershed moment in the legacy of CEO Bob Iger. A long time coming, Disney’s flag planted in mainland China expanded the brand to an untapped – but enormous – market. Majority owned by the Chinese government, the resort was required to feature new rides and not classics, necessitating Imagineers return to the Disneyland formula and make some of the first major tweaks ever. The result is a park where even “copies” are reimagined with new show technologies, and where most E-Tickets are original.
E-TICKET AWARD: In Shanghai, it must be Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Sunken Treasure. Among the short-list pantheon of Disney’s best modern dark rides, this new take on the Pirates formula is more reinvention than evolution. Multi-directional boats float through multimedia scenes that reflect a scale never seen before. The epic attraction is world class in every way.
THE WEAK LINK: It would be easy to list Peter Pan’s Flight or Seven Dwarfs Mine Train here, given that they’re not exclusive to the park. However, we’ll controversially consider Roaring Rapids as the weak link among E-Tickets. Disney’s other two rapids rides (California’s Grizzly River Run and Animal Kingdom’s Kali River Rapids) didn’t even make it to their respective park’s E-Ticket lists, as both as somewhat dull, meandering rides that lack animatronics or stories. But that might be preferable to Roaring Rapids, which promises – but fails to deliver – a compelling and adventurous story. Instead, it floats through barren river channels en route to an ending encounter with a very big Audio-Animatronic beast.
6. Disneyland Paris
- Big Thunder Mountain
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril
- Peter Pan’s Flight
- Phantom Manor
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Star Tours – The Adventures Continue
- Star Wars Hyperspace Mountain: Rebel Mission
Though Disneyland Paris is often derided as the industry-changing park that caused decades of cop-outs, closures, and cancellations, the park itself is among Disney’s most beautiful. Somehow, it successfully merges the charm and intimacy of Disneyland with the scale and magnificence of Magic Kingdom. And while most of its E-Tickets are not from scratch, most are redesigned and reimagined to fit the more detail-oriented European park. Unfortunately, the biggest victim of Disneyland Paris’ downfall might’ve been Disneyland Paris itself, which has been trapped in a state of suspended animation since the mid-’90s with any available resources poured into Walt Disney Studios instead.
E-TICKET AWARD: The one-two punch of the park’s two mountains can’t be beat. First, Big Thunder Mountain (in its world’s-best version) is wrapped into an epic Western story, connected to the Modern Marvel: Phantom Manor. Meanwhile, the park’s reimagined Lost Legend: Space Mountain – De la Terre á la Lune stripped the peak of its white, Space Age styling and instead was a launched, inverting coaster through the plot of a Jules Verne novel… until its unfortunate Star Wars overlay today. That said, it still provides a one-of-a-kind, epic, and sought-after ride experience.
THE WEAK LINK: It’s a real question as to whether or not Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril even counts as an E-Ticket. After all, it was merely a quick-fix solution to the park’s early attendance problems, bringing in a relatively simple, mostly-bare steel roller coaster (with a loop – the first inversion in Disney’s coaster portfolio!) with temple theming around it. Allegedly it was meant to be the prologue to the eventual construction of a full Indiana Jones Adventure dark ride, but 30 years later that’s looking unlikely…
5. Disney’s Hollywood Studios
- Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
- Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
- Star Tours – The Adventures Continue
- Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
- Toy Story Midway Mania
- Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
While Disney’s Hollywood Studios has the fewest rides of any Walt Disney World park, we’ll say this for the movie park: seven of its nine rides are undisputed E-Tickets. Maybe that’s why Imagineering fans comically call Hollywood Studios “the worst park with the best rides.” Perhaps because the park has been subject to criticism since its opening as an intentional “half day” destination, it’s been fully loaded with anchor attractions, one after another, up to the opening of Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway this year.
E-TICKET AWARD: Bar none, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance reigns. In fact, we argue that this brand new trackless dark ride isn’t just an E-Ticket; it’s an Ultra-E-Ticket. Utilizing three ride systems and a scale never before attempted in a theme park, the ride is absolutely among the most astounding things Imagineering has ever created. Period.
THE WEAK LINK: Conversely, fans are largely ambivalent about the other ride in Galaxy’s Edge. Smugglers Run positions guests behind the controls of the Millennium Falcon for a smuggling mission. Because the ride is clearly, intentionally positioned as “second fiddle” to the unmatchable Rise, some folks describe it as a mere “D-Ticket” aside. But whether you love or hate the divisive attraction, you can’t argue that it features a wildly interesting ride system, unprecedented technology, and one-of-a-kind ride experience. In other words, by most any metric, Smugglers Run is an E-Ticket. Whether its a good one or not is the million dollar question that everyone seems to have an opinion on.
4. Tokyo DisneySea
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Nemo & Friends SeaRider
- Raging Spirits
- Soaring: Fantastic Flight
- Tower of Terror
- Toy Story Midway Mania
Not yet considered: Unnamed Tangled attraction, Unnamed Peter Pan attraction, Unnamed Frozen attraction
Tokyo DisneySea is a bucket list destination for thousands of Imagineering fans across the globe. The incredible park opened in 2001 at an estimated cost of over $3 billion – about five times the cost of Disney’s California Adventure the same year. It’s also celebrated as the origin of a new concept: the park as the E-Ticket. Put another way, you could spend the entire day at DisneySea, ride nothing, and still feel you’d had an outstanding experience. But of course, that doesn’t mean the park doesn’t offer incredible, original attractions.
E-TICKET AWARD: Though the park famously offers two incredible dark rides connected as part of the spectacular mythology of S.E.A. – The Society of Explorers and Adventurers, the park’s anchor is easy to identify. Located inside the rumbling, 189-foot-tall Mount Prometheus volcano resides the Modern Marvel: Journey to the Center of the Earth – one of two Jules Verne literary adventure attractions at the park, and offerings one of the most amazing Audio-Animatronics on Earth.
THE WEAK LINK: Technically, probably Raging Spirits (a better-dressed clone of Disneyland Paris’ Temple of Peril.) But in this park’s stellar lineup, the weak link is more of a mis-matched link: Nemo & Friends: SeaRider, an uncharacteristically-cartoon takeover of an opening day simulator called StormRider. It’s not that SeaRider is a bad attraction… far from it! It’s that it’s oddly out-of-place in the otherwise grounded, literary park. Of course, the upcoming debut of a brand new (and enormous, Pandora-scaled) Fantasy Springs land means characters are no longer verboten at the park, so perhaps we’re being too harsh.
Ah, but as expected, we’ve come down to just three parks: the three original “castle” parks in Anaheim, Orlando, and Tokyo – the 2nd, 1st, and 3rd most visited theme parks on Earth, respectively. What order do you expect they’ll be in?
Unsurprisingly, the most E-Tickets belong at the three most-visited theme parks on Earth: Disney’s first three “castle” parks. As for their order?
3. Magic Kingdom
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
- Haunted Mansion
- Jungle Cruise
- Peter Pan’s Flight
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
- Space Mountain
- Splash Mountain
Not yet counted: TRON Lightcycle Run (2021)
Considering that Magic Kingdom has about as many rides at Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom combined, it’s surprising that its E-Ticket count is… well… relatively low. Because the park was imagined as a near-copy of Disneyland (and since its evolution and expansion has been slower than its older sister), Magic Kingdom’s E-Tickets are nearly all shared by Disneyland, except the newer Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and the upcoming TRON Lightcycle Power Run… It’s the latter that should hopefully make Magic Kingdom a must-visit for Disneyland loyalists who, otherwise, don’t see much worth in visiting the Florida park.
E-TICKET AWARD: None of the park’s E-Tickets are truly exclusive to the park, and several are generally understood to exist in better forms either in Anaheim, Tokyo, or Paris. However, we’ll go ahead and give this park’s E-Ticket anchor award to Haunted Mansion. Because Magic Kingdom’s version was essentially in co-development and installation alongside Disneyland’s, the two are very similar… except that the “blessing of size” allowed Magic Kingdom a longer version, which has also been refurbished more regularly… even if it’s missing something big. Look for TRON to take this spot in 2021.
THE WEAK LINK: It’s nearly impossible to pick an E-Ticket off this list that Magic Kingdom could do without! However, we’ll call the Weak Link here the first of Disney’s stellar peaks. We explored the birth of the concept in its own Modern Marvels: Space Mountain feature. The trouble is that every “copy” of the ride outside Florida isn’t a copy of Florida’s at all. While other Space Mountains include updated effects, on-ride audio, seasonal overlays, and smooth layouts, Magic Kingdom’s fairly rudimentary steel coasters skate by on our E-Ticket list thanks to its retro nostalgia and the cleverness of its original concept.
2. Tokyo Disneyland
- Big Thunder Mountain
- Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast
- Haunted Mansion
- Jungle Cruise: Wildlife Expeditions
- Monsters Inc. Ride & Go Seek
- Peter Pan’s Flight
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Pooh’s Hunny Hunt
- Space Mountain
- Splash Mountain
- Star Tours – The Adventures Continue
When Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983, it was exactly what the Japanese Oriental Land Company (who owns and operates the resort) asked for: a pretty direct copy of Disneyland and Magic Kingdom with very few modifications to match the Japanese culture. And even in the decades since, its evolution has closely aligned with its American siblings, albeit with big-budget, blue-sky versions of stateside classics. In other words, Tokyo Disneyland offers every E-Ticket in Magic Kingdom… plus three epic originals and Star Tours.
E-TICKET AWARD: Tokyo Disneyland offers three next generation E-Ticket dark rides that are unique to the resort. Pooh’s Hunny Hunt was the first trackless, LPS-powered dark ride in Disney’s catalogue and remains a standout, while the Tomorrowland set Monsters Inc.: Ride & Go Seek invites guests into a game of flashlight tag that’s easily among the best Pixar attractions on Earth. The resort’s new headliner, though, is the Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast, yet another ambitious trackless dark ride that’s the talk of the Imagineering community.
THE WEAK LINK: Again we’ll need to place Space Mountain here if only because it’s the easiest to compare to its American siblings. Like Hong Kong’s, it’s a direct clone of Disneyland’s. Unlike its two identical sisters, however, Tokyo’s lacks 21st century show elements, projection effects, and on-ride audio. Since Tokyo Disneyland was the first castle-park built with a Space Mountain baked in, it does give the ride a photogenic location at the end of Tomorrowland’s still-’70s-stylized entry corridor, but it’s just not unique enough to be a sought-after experience for Disney Parks fans.
1. Disneyland Park
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
- Fantasmic!
- Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage
- Haunted Mansion
- Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye
- Jungle Cruise
- Matterhorn Bobsleds
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
- Peter Pan’s Flight
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Space Mountain
- Splash Mountain
- Star Tours – The Adventures Continue
- Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
Not yet counted: Minnie and Mickey’s Runaway Railway (2022)
Ah, Disneyland. Just as Walt’s little storybook park somehow manages to squeeze in more than rides any other Disney or Universal park on Earth, this miniscule little theme park – the smallest “castle” park in Disney’s arsenal – somehow packs in more certifiable E-Tickets than any other, as well. Again, that’s partly because of its 16-year head start over its next-closest sibling. But it’s also that Disneyland and Disney California Adventure share between two parks what Walt Disney World’s split between four, meaning that Disneyland offers almost all the E-Tickets of Magic Kingdom, plus most of Hollywood Studios’, and several all its own.
E-TICKET AWARD: It goes without saying that Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance would have to be the single-most ambitious ride at Disneyland, maintaining its “U-Ticket” status. But that aside, two rides really makes Disneyland unlike any other “castle” park on Earth:
- The Modern Marvel: Indiana Jones Adventure – Temple of the Forbidden Eye, a wild, off-roading E-Ticket that not only introduced the EMV technology, but is presented on a scale not seen again until Galaxy’s Edge… a highlight of Disney’s “Ride the Movies” era;
- The definitive and unparalelled original Pirates of the Caribbean, presented in its epic, unabrigded, 16-minute format. It’s no accident that Disneyland’s version is often celebrated as the best classic dark ride on Earth, and known as Walt’s magnum opus.
THE WEAK LINK: Looking across the list, it might be either the historic Matterhorn Bobsleds (one of the three original E-Tickets, but now quite rough to modern audiences) or even Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run if only for its lukewarm reception, made all the worse by being the solo star of Galaxy’s Edge at the time of its opening.
Resort Report
Walt Disney World: 25 E-Tickets – 8 (MK) + 4 (EP) + 7 (DHS) + 6 (DAK) [Average: 6.25]
Disneyland Resort: 19 E-Tickets – 14 (DL) + 5 (DCA) [Average: 9.5]
Tokyo Disneyland: 19 E-Tickets – 11 (TDL) + 8 (TDS) [Average: 9.5]
Disneyland Paris: 9 E-Tickets – 7 (DLP) + 2 (WDS) [Average: 4.5]
Hong Kong Disneyland: 4 E-Tickets
Shanghai Disneyland: 6 E-Tickets
While Disneyland Park tops both our Ride Count Countdown and these per-park E-Ticket Awards, Walt Disney World sneaks away with the most certifiable E-Tickets in one resort – albeit, with one of the lower per-park E-Ticket averages. The loser-by-the-numbers continues to be Disneyland Paris, whose Walt Disney Studios park continues to drag the resort’s finances, ride count, and E-Ticket lineup… at least until it gains three or more from the expansion underway now.
Of course, we know that a park needs more than E-Tickets… a lot more! This list doesn’t account for unmissable, essential shows like Enchanted Tiki Room or Country Bear Jamboree; must-see entertainment; the kinds of meet-and-greets, and dining opportunities, and tucked-away walkthrough that give a park its heart and soul. In fact, by design this omits the “hidden gems” and mid-level family rides we know a park absolutely has to have!
But the numbers here tell an interesting story. Without a double, the sheer quantity of headlining anchor attractions does matter, and the pure numbers displayed here might just reveal the data behind the pride (and sometimes, embarrassment) Disney Parks fans feel about their favorite and least favorite properties.
Did we miss an obvious E-Ticket? Want to argue for or against one that we included? Let us know in the comments below if you find our E-Ticket Awards accurate. The addition or removal of even a few attractions by your request could shift this list entirely!
