News Paradise Pier Becoming Pixar Pier

[mickEblu]

It would be a shame to lose it. I'd really hate to lose the Animation Academy. But I can easily see them removing it all.

I somewhat agree. I enjoy walking through the lobby sometimes but have only done animation academy and turtle walk once.

 

[Curious Constance]

I somewhat agree. I enjoy walking through the lobby sometimes but have only done animation academy and turtle walk once.

Do you have any video you can show us of you doing the Turtle Walk?

 

[mickEblu]

Do you have any video you can show us of you doing the Turtle Walk?

Hahah no. Besides, I didn’t ask any questions or say anything. Just had to cross it off the list.

 

[nevol]

Bringing the greatest hits from the animation academy to pixar pier would be really nice. Imagine the entrance to turtle talk being the lobby, or smaller animation exhibits being window shopping opportunties in the boardwalk game retail stalls, or in an immersive dining experience taking over ariel’s grotto. I really want it gone in hollywoodland though because of its placement. That big tall box is why hollywood boulevard is a straight line, and why the tower of terror building was never a wienie from the land’s entrance. Why “sunset blvd” is unthemed and its entrance feels back stage. Until that building is gone, the main promenade toward mb/tot cant be moved and I wont be confident in their area development in any future marvel expansion if they are constraining the architecture and midway design, not to mention show building placement, to conform to the animation pavilion’s warehouse as they have for the past 15 years. I’ll know they mean business when hollywood blvd and animation get the boot.

Not that I am super eager to abandon the dca theme and have half the park dedicated to marvel, but I would rather see quality builds over more cheap shoehorns.

 

[Disney Analyst]

“Looking at the concept art on the construction walls looks like the theatre is not happening. It says “Pixar Promenade” and the arch leads to a wall...”

Not a wall. Looks like 2 doors. It is rumored Turtle Talk will relocate there.

I hope you are right... but I see nothing door about that image. I don’t see why they’d change the arch entry way to a non theatre name and put doors up. Looks like a wall.

 

[Curious Constance]

Bringing the greatest hits from the animation academy to pixar pier would be really nice. Imagine the entrance to turtle talk being the lobby, or smaller animation exhibits being window shopping opportunties in the boardwalk game retail stalls, or in an immersive dining experience taking over ariel’s grotto. I really want it gone in hollywoodland though because of its placement. That big tall box is why hollywood boulevard is a straight line, and why the tower of terror building was never a wienie from the land’s entrance. Why “sunset blvd” is unthemed and its entrance feels back stage. Until that building is gone, the main promenade toward mb/tot cant be moved and I wont be confident in their area development in any future marvel expansion if they are constraining the architecture and midway design, not to mention show building placement, to conform to the animation pavilion’s warehouse as they have for the past 15 years. I’ll know they mean business when hollywood blvd and animation get the boot.

Not that I am super eager to abandon the dca theme and have half the park dedicated to marvel, but I would rather see quality builds over more cheap shoehorns.

I'm hoping the Zeotrope makes it's way back somewhere.

 

[Practical Pig]

I hope you are right... but I see nothing door about that image. I don’t see why they’d change the arch entry way to a non theatre name and put doors up. Looks like a wall.

I definitely see door potential in that revised artwork. The two vertical lines running up the center could well be trim next to a center division between doors. On the other hand, the replacement of presumably happy guests entering the theater (in eager anticipation of the wonders awaiting them in an Automatic One Cent Vaudeville experience} with a barricade of trumpeters blasting guests away doesn't bode well.

Hopefully, the theater thing, whatever it was going to be, is deferred to a Phase B development that remains on the best intentions drawing boards of the current crop at WDI, that will unfortunately never see the light of day because new management will send them all off in a different direction five years from now.

 

[Curious Constance]

How could they be changing things so much with a plan they announced five months ago? Call me crazy but plans that are announced ought to be pretty much set in stone. Not changed and chipped away at after you've already told the world about them.

 

[DanielBB8]

I hope you are right... but I see nothing door about that image. I don’t see why they’d change the arch entry way to a non theatre name and put doors up. Looks like a wall.

In front of the 3 trumpet players, the trim around the red doors can be seen. The trumpet players block the door knobs. Why would the trim go straight down the middle of the wall?

 

[Curious Constance]

Again I gotta point out that some bonehead thought it'd be swell to theme a candy store around one of the saddest, most gut-wrenching scenes in any Disney or Pixar movie. Apparently because he cried candy tears before he died tragically and heroically. Did these people even watch "Inside Out" at all???

Also: "Bing Bong's Sweet Stuff?" EEEEWWWW!!!

I just looked really closely at the original art work released when Pixar Pier was announced, and one of the signs on the Confectionery said, "Tears of joy for good girls and boys!"

 

[Disney Analyst]

In front of the 3 trumpet players, the trim around the red doors can be seen. The trumpet players block the door knobs. Why would the trim go straight down the middle of the wall?

It looks like just some detailing to make a nice backdrop... I assume for character photos.

 

[Curious Constance]

By the time they release the next art work there will only be one trumpet player and you'll see the other two hanging their heads, walking away with pink slips hanging out their back pockets.

How nice of Disney to artisically commemorate their cheapness for us.

 

[DanielBB8]

It looks like just some detailing to make a nice backdrop... I assume for character photos.

Or for a band to play in front.

 

[Rich T]

I just looked really closely at the original art work released when Pixar Pier was announced, and one of the signs on the Confectionery said, "Tears of joy for good girls and boys!"

Please tell me you're kidding. Please. The "Bambi's Mom" Venison Jerky Stand can't be far behind.

 

[Curious Constance]

Please tell me you're kidding. Please. The "Bambi's Mom" Venison Jerky Stand can't be far behind.

I wish I was joking but I'm not that creative. Lol
Go to the first page of this thread. Second or third post. Click on the concept art they had shown at D23 and then zoom really close to the candy store. It's the marquee to the right of the main Bing Bong sign when you're looking at it head on.

 

[Rich T]

I wish I was joking but I'm not that creative. Lol
Go to the first page of this thread. Second or third post. Click on the concept art they had shown at D23 and then zoom really close to the candy store. It's the marquee to the right of the main Bing Bong sign when you're looking at it head on.

This is so depressing. It makes me think that some of these designers have never seen the films at all. And, hey, my previous post was my thousandth. Never thought it would be addressing Disney's plans to SELL THE TEARS OF A DEAD HERO. In colorful bags. Talk about management having zero understanding of the source material....

 

[bluerhythym]

How could they be changing things so much with a plan they announced five months ago? Call me crazy but plans that are announced ought to be pretty much set in stone. Not changed and chipped away at after you've already told the world about them.

I still maintain that Pixar Pier wasn't part of the initial D23 plans, but they had to announce a "consolation prize" when the Eastern Gateway mess derailed the Marvel Land announcement.

At least that's the only way I can explain something so sloppily put together...

 

[Disneylover152]

How could they be changing things so much with a plan they announced five months ago? Call me crazy but plans that are announced ought to be pretty much set in stone. Not changed and chipped away at after you've already told the world about them.

Toy Story Land

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So many things changed from when they first announced it to now...

 

[Deleted member 107043]

How could they be changing things so much with a plan they announced five months ago? Call me crazy but plans that are announced ought to be pretty much set in stone. Not changed and chipped away at after you've already told the world about them.

To be fair though they really didn't reveal much at the initial announcement. I remember we were all kind of like "what??" when they dropped the bomb. Months later, with the project underway, it still isn't clear exactly what they're doing beyond adding character themed decor around the land and putting some Incredibles props in Screamin'. My sense is that the development time for this project was extremely short, and thus very fluid.

 

[Tyler161]

I don't want to be negative, but I hope this overlay can be reversed in the future into something more thematically mature. This is slightly appalling...