The backstory for Blizzard Beach imagines that a freak snowstorm descended on Central Florida and deposited such an amazing amount of snow, it was seemingly logical that an entrepreneur would quickly cobble together a snow skiing operation. Inevitably, however, the Florida sun came out again, and all that snow started to melt.
Melting snow + gentle hillside = amazing water slides!
It's a brilliant theme for the park, easily the equal of Typhoon Lagoon's for imagination. And it gives the Imagineers the chances to leave a bunch of snow-oriented equipment (ski lifts, Sno-cats, snowshoes, snow-making misters, etc) lying around. But somehow, the overall effect is a bit more sterile than Typhoon Lagoon.
While Typhoon Lagoon (TL) is full of lush (organic) vegetation, Blizzard Beach (BB) is populated mostly by artificial snow made of plaster and cement. Even apart from the organic/inorganic contrast, the simple fact that so much of BB is white means that the sun's rays and heat are reflected, rather than absorbed, by the materials on the ground... rendering the park hotter than TL.
Still, for all that, BB has much better thrill rides, and is heavily favored by older kids. So this is very much a Pick Your Poison kind of decision.
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