News Paradise Pier Becoming Pixar Pier

[Deleted member 107043]

I'd ask my friends but all my friends are theme park fans. Even a friend I didn't know was a theme park fan is a theme park fan.

I'm pretty sure most people living in the western US would recognize this as Diseyland Resort if not specifically DCA.

 

[Disneylover152]

I'm pretty sure most people living in the western US would recognize this as Diseyland Resort if not specifically DCA.

I think most people would recognize it as the Disneyland Resort because of Mickey. If you took Mickey off or showed them the original Paradise Pier, people would just think of it as a normal boardwalk in America.

 

[Disney Irish]

Aight but those people would also call Sleeping Beauty Castle "Cinderella's Castle" so really nothing at the DLR is iconic. Only Cinderella Castle, the Tree of Life, Epcot golfball, and the Mickey hat are all at all WDW

Point is that unless they have some exposure or interest they aren't going to find something specifically iconic about the parks.

Its the fandom that gets into the specific iconography of Disney as they created the emotional connection to a specific icon of the parks. For you it was the CALIFORNIA letter and ToT.

 

[TROR]

For anyone who visited the Disneyland Resort between 2001 and 2010/2016 it was the CALIFORNIA letter and ToT.

Fixed it for ya

 

[Disney Irish]

Fixed it for ya

I know you are 19 so think you know better than everyone else and think you are always right. But I stated exactly what I meant.

You have an emotional connection to those things, others don't. I can tell you I visited during those times and neither the CALIFORNIA letters nor ToT were iconic for me. And obviously they weren't very iconic to Disney either because both are gone.

 

[Model3 McQueen]

Meanwhile everything is taking a backseat to IP advertisement and billboard garbage, just in time for the latest movie release with more to come! But some people find it acceptable.

 

[Deleted member 107043]

If you took Mickey off or showed them the original Paradise Pier, people would just think of it as a normal boardwalk in America.

That's like saying if you removed the castle from the end of Main Street people would just think it was a normal American street somewhere in the Midwest.

 

[TROR]

That's like saying if you removed the castle from the end of Main Street people would just think it was a normal American street somewhere in the Midwest.

Sleeping Beauty Castle isn't iconic. Neither is the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty or the Taj Mahal.

 

[Deleted member 107043]

Sleeping Beauty Castle isn't iconic. Neither is the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty or the Taj Mahal.

Wutchu talkin' 'bout Willis?

 

[Californian Elitist]

I know you are 19 so think you know better than everyone else and think you are always right. But I stated exactly what I meant.

You have an emotional connection to those things, others don't. I can tell you I visited during those times and neither the CALIFORNIA letters nor ToT were iconic for me. And obviously they weren't very iconic to Disney either because both are gone.

There is always a general sense of iconography. The CALIFORNIA lettters may not have been iconic for you, but they were still iconic in general.

 

[Disneylover152]

That's like saying if you removed the castle from the end of Main Street people would just think it was a normal American street somewhere in the Midwest.

If you show these this picture to a non-Disney fan, some one who has never been to Disneyland before, I doubt they would think this is in a Disney Park.

 

[Disney Irish]

There is always a general sense of iconography. The CALIFORNIA lettters may not have been iconic for you, but they were still iconic in general.

Again iconic only for those that know they were associated with a Disney Park.

 

[vancee]

They've been installed at the State Fairgrounds in Sacramento. I keep telling myself I need to check them out the next time I'm up there.

It’s not the same as it being right in front of Disney.. trust me .

 

[Californian Elitist]

Again iconic only for those that know they were associated with a Disney Park.

Iconic is iconic. The audience doesn’t matter.

 

[Model3 McQueen]

Here's the definition of Icon, according to Dictionary: a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something

The Mustang / Camaro rivalry has long been considered iconic, as the American pony car wars.
Just because someone doesn't have a respect for it, or is ignorant to what a Camaro / Mustang is, doesn't mean it's not iconic.

But icons isn't what motivates this current regime now, huh.

 

[Disneylover152]

If we ever get the letters back, can they please have some fun Pixar IP Overlay to them?

Like this...

I'm joking.

 

[Deleted member 107043]

If you show these this picture to a non-Disney fan, some one who has never been to Disneyland before, I doubt they would think this is in a Disney Park.

You really aren't going to let this go, are you?

OK you're right, I'm wrong.

Now let's move on.

 

[Rich T]

Hey, look! Six Flags! Sorry, couldn't resist. I actually would say anyone with any interest in theme parks at all--and most people in CA--could identify Paradise/Pixar/Whatever Pier as a Disney property at this point. The scream tubes on the coaster are unique and very recognizable.

 

[Model3 McQueen]

Hey look, Mission Breakout. That's Disney right?

 

[mlayton144]

Having a Feris wheel with a giant mickey face on it being an icon for a Disney park is just pathetic and flimsy , wow what creativity went into that one.