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News Coco Boat Ride Coming to Disney California Adventure

Disney Irish

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I didn’t say it was impossible. Just voiced a concern. “Let’s not kid ourselves” is an aggressive n interesting choice of words.

I’m assuming they would use the road for more than just the parade but could be wrong.
It wasn't meant to be aggressive, sorry, its just a turn of phrase. Anyways the point is that the rooms already can see into backstage, its not like they are completely blocking that out as there is already a road that runs behind Goofy's that the rooms on the upper floors can see, so having a few more vehicles and some parade floats aren't a big negative into the views.
 

BrianLo

Well-Known Member
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Not sure impact on hotel guests compared to now, and which area could be reconfigured to allow parades out from.

Just a theory.

I’ve long thought it’s this. If those parade buildings survive. There’s nothing wrong with a longer staging section. Not that I anticipate behind paradise grill / boardwalk is also realigning, but you more or less have the point.

Fortunately, the blue route doesn’t involve as strong as a lawsuit. Or so I’m told. 😉
 

Disney Irish

Premium Member
I’ve long thought it’s this. If those parade buildings survive. There’s nothing wrong with a longer staging section. Not that I anticipate behind paradise grill / boardwalk is also realigning, but you more or less have the point.

Fortunately, the blue route doesn’t involve as strong as a lawsuit. Or so I’m told. 😉
I think the consensus at this point that I've seen online is that any future DLForward bridge to Simba goes behind (or replaces) Paradise Grill/Boardwalk Pizza. So I suspect any service road that remains behind them will be realigned at some point if not part of this project.
 

AJFireman

Well-Known Member
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Not sure impact on hotel guests compared to now, and which area could be reconfigured to allow parades out from.

Just a theory.
Just my thoughts. I am not sure if it was you that proposed this before but i didnt comment then. I watched some walk thrus when that was a walkkng path for Pixar Pier Hotel on youtube. For me it just doesnt seem like enough room for width. You would also have to cut many trees and vegetation to make it happen. This is the DVC wing and there are BBQs on this pathway for their use so you would be removing their pathway with trees and BBQ use if done. Probably also considered their emergency exit for emergencies so you couldn't just close it off. Also if you turned onto on stage there are major obstacles one being a large planter. Yes that could be removed buy just more that needs to be done to make it happen.
 

britain

Well-Known Member

So what's new here... A hill of earth? or a trench?
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AJFireman

Well-Known Member
Looks like it might be mostly dirt from the trench next to it. Here is a view from the other direction. (credit Freshbaked). Interesting instead of piling it they made it a ramp. Looks like there was a need since heavy equipment is utilizing it/

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Disney Irish

Premium Member
Yeah but they will have working equipment and construction visible. I always wonder why they don't at least build the walls taller for a little bit more discretion.
I doubt the “ramp” is tall enough to have equipment on it being seen from inside the Parks if that is what you mean. As it’s still far enough back so most things are not visible.
 

AJFireman

Well-Known Member
I doubt the “ramp” is tall enough to have equipment on it being seen from inside the Parks if that is what you mean. As it’s still far enough back so most things are not visible.
Just going with history as so much was visible with Avengers. There has been visible equipment in the past so its not like they try to hide it. Just adding 4 or 5 feet would at least hide most equipment until the big cranes come out
 

Disney Irish

Premium Member
Just going with history as so much was visible with Avengers. There has been visible equipment in the past so its not like they try to hide it. Just adding 4 or 5 feet would at least hide most equipment until the big cranes come out

Excavators and cranes are a bit hard to conceal in my opinion, a 12 foot wall isn't going to block those views when they are cutting down 20-30 foot trees like what you're showing.
 

MistaDee

Well-Known Member
Discussion of the little mermaid ride in another thread made me curious - does anyone remember if Disney made any comparisons to classic dark rides in the lead up to that ride’s opening? Given the PotC/HM name drops for Coco I was wondering if Disney invoked any specific callouts when introducing the first major, Omnimover dark ride for DCA into perhaps an even more constrained physical space than Coco.

If so, based on the lackluster final product, that could inform how skeptical we should be of their claims for Coco.

I remember a lot of talk about how musical it would be, and how advanced the Ariel animatronics with fancy hair would be, but can’t recall if they ever made a direct comparison to the classics
 

D.Silentu

Well-Known Member
Discussion of the little mermaid ride in another thread made me curious - does anyone remember if Disney made any comparisons to classic dark rides in the lead up to that ride’s opening? Given the PotC/HM name drops for Coco I was wondering if Disney invoked any specific callouts when introducing the first major, Omnimover dark ride for DCA into perhaps an even more constrained physical space than Coco.
For what it's worth, the Other Site claimed that insiders were comparing it to Pirates and Mansion during construction. It's a bit hazy in my memory, I can't recall if Disney made those claims openly.
 

britain

Well-Known Member
Discussion of the little mermaid ride in another thread made me curious - does anyone remember if Disney made any comparisons to classic dark rides in the lead up to that ride’s opening? Given the PotC/HM name drops for Coco I was wondering if Disney invoked any specific callouts when introducing the first major, Omnimover dark ride for DCA into perhaps an even more constrained physical space than Coco.

If so, based on the lackluster final product, that could inform how skeptical we should be of their claims for Coco.

I remember a lot of talk about how musical it would be, and how advanced the Ariel animatronics with fancy hair would be, but can’t recall if they ever made a direct comparison to the classics
If I recall correctly, when Little Mermaid ride was announced it had comparisons to Mansion and Pirates, but there was more along the lines of “DCA is lacking in classic dark rides with great music like HM & Pirates - here’s a shot of Jay Rasulo and John Lasseter looking at the model for the Under the Sea sequence.”
 
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