Blame Barney Among theme parks, imitation is the sincerest form of competition.
Parks regularly copy each other.
Universal Studios - Hollywood, since it markets to the same customers, intensely studies what works at Disneyland. Universal matches every admission price hike. It engages in similar promotions. It even hires former Imagineers to design many of its heavily themed, high- tech attractions. But one thing Universal doesn't copy is Disney's parades.