Exccept it isn't. Pixar is not a theme. It's an animation studio in Emmeryville.
No Pixar film is alike nor do they have a shared universe. - and none take place on a pier. I mean even the Pixar theory has no basis on all those characters existing in some random turn of the century seaside attraction.
On top of that, Disney doesn't even know the source material. How is Anger, a personified emotion from a young girl, able to manifest physically from her and interact with our perceptive reality by serving hot dogs when all he ever talked about in the film was pizza?
Insular ideas are fun and have a charm to them somewhat... Then one realizes these are for a Disney park, right next to each other and it's just taking it back to the original California Adventure of mishmash ideas but now with characters.
It is still a Pier though with a collection of characters which in this case are all Pixar characters.
Would it make difference then if they had just dropped the name of Pixar Pier and kept the more generic name of Paradise Pier?
Or how about we change it to character pier or let’s just go a further step and call it Fantasy Pier.
Any way we put it it’s still a Pier. A pier which in reality never had a unifying theme whenever and wherever they were built around the world. They were filled with fantasy, horror, true life characters wether they were created from fables or studio entities.
A Pier has such a generic theme behind it in reality that anything can fit and therefore even Pixar creations can as well
Are we not over thinking this? we accept a land that was originally built with a mediviel theme but populated with characters that had nothing to do with it just because it had the name fantasy in it.
We accepted the Fantasy as a theme yet in theory Fantasy is a genre.
This is similar to the same original argument that Little Mermaid ride didn’t fit the theme of California or Paradise Pier. It was another argument that really made no sense.
The attraction didn’t have to fit the California theme because at that point the attraction was within a Pier setting/ land which represented an era where California became a pleasure trove filled with amusement parks at many of its beaches.
So in theory it never broke away from the theme of California.
The the little mermaid break away from the theme of the Pier? No it didn’t
The structure that it was built in was in perfect theme to the Pier setting and the overall idea of a mermaid ride also fit the theme of the pier. Why because almost every pier had some kind of ride based on the stories of mermaid at sea. Could Disney have built a generic mermaid ride sure but why do that if you have a hot property based on it
