News Paradise Pier Becoming Pixar Pier

[TP2000]

That fountain looked awful the day it was complete (shoddy workmanship, low detail, etc). It looks to be something right out of a shopping centre. Pixar Pier is such a disappointment to anyone expecting true Disney quality.

A shopping center is too kind, as most shopping centers in Southern California have spectacular water features if they choose to do something with water.

A few miles down the freeway from Disneyland is the Irvine Spectrum, which has fountains like this...

And this...

Other shopping centers in Southern California go even bigger with their water fountains, like this...

Or this...

The thing they have at Pixar Pier, which is just a wall with enough water dribbling down it to create rust, is nothing like the local SoCal shopping centers do with water fountains.

 

[TROR]

Did the Grove and Downtown Disney have the same architect? They look incredibly similar.

 

[Kram Sacul]

Did the Grove and Downtown Disney have the same architect? They look incredibly similar.

Some parts are very similar to Buena Vista Street.

 

[nevol]

I remember visiting dca when it opened and staying at paradise pier hotel. The land looked so exciting from afar, then you'd get there, and it was creepily quiet and awkward. Why imagineering couldn't just merge the boardwalk inn from wdw with a clone of MGM and call it a day with DCA, I'll never understand. Instead, they had to make everything worse and more awkward.

 

[mickEblu]

A shopping center is too kind, as most shopping centers in Southern California have spectacular water features if they choose to do something with water.

A few miles down the freeway from Disneyland is the Irvine Spectrum, which has fountains like this...

And this...

Other shopping centers in Southern California go even bigger with their water fountains, like this...

Or this...

The thing they have at Pixar Pier, which is just a wall with enough water dribbling down it to create rust, is nothing like the local SoCal shopping centers do with water fountains.

Yup. The Americana’s fountain is like a mini Bellagio.

 

[nevol]

Yup. The Americana’s fountain is like a mini Bellagio.

To be fair, DCA has a 150 million dollar fountain show in its lagoon that trumps the bellagio. However, they are really bad at the details around the pier. The close ups. Stop drawing our attention away from nice things with really crummy things that rust within 3 weeks of installation.

 

[DanielBB8]

Disney isn’t supposed to mimic actual fountains. They always do a scale model that a lot smaller than the original. Whatever you think Disney’s quality should be, they always go back to their studio roots. They are quite fake. Facades.

 

[mickEblu]

To be fair, DCA has a 150 million dollar fountain show in its lagoon that trumps the bellagio. However, they are really bad at the details around the pier. The close ups. Stop drawing our attention away from nice things with really crummy things that rust within 3 weeks of installation.

Good point but those ugly jets(?) look terrible during the day. Didn’t they previously lower when not in use? I’m not talking about right now. I’m referring to when WOC was running and they would be up during the day.

 

[Kram Sacul]

Good point but those ugly jets(?) look terrible during the day. Didn’t they previously lower when not in use? I’m not talking about right now. I’m referring to when WOC was running and they would be up during the day.

That was the plan but day after day you would see the ugly rust colored platforms up. Bad show all around.

 

[mickEblu]

To be fair, DCA has a 150 million dollar fountain show in its lagoon that trumps the bellagio. However, they are really bad at the details around the pier. The close ups. Stop drawing our attention away from nice things with really crummy things that rust within 3 weeks of installation.

Forgot to mention that I was referring to fountains more along the lines of ambiance/ atmosphere. The Americanas go off once every 15 minutes (and a bigger show every hour) and is very appealing even when the show is not on. WOC is a nighttime spectacle. Paradise Bay when WOC isn’t running is an ugly field of plumbing.

 

[TROR]

Remember that Goofy day time show with the fountains? That was cute.

 

[mickEblu]

Remember that Goofy day time show with the fountains? That was cute.

In Paradise Bay? If so, no. I took a break (aside from 3-4 random visits) from Disney parks from about 2000- 2010.

 

[TROR]

In Paradise Bay? If so, no. I took a break (aside from 3-4 random visits) from Disney parks from about 2000- 2010.

There were a few different versions. It started in 2012 I want to say. Not sure if it's still going on but I think it's not.

 

[vancee]

Remember that Goofy day time show with the fountains? That was cute.

But... But... That show has a character in it!

 

[lazyboy97o]

Did the Grove and Downtown Disney have the same architect? They look incredibly similar.

Elkus Manfredi Architects worked on The Grove, The Americana, Downtown Disney and even early work on Disney Springs.

 

[Kram Sacul]

There were a few different versions. It started in 2012 I want to say. Not sure if it's still going on but I think it's not.

Most likely not because the damn thing is always broken or being worked on.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Did the Grove and Downtown Disney have the same architect? They look incredibly similar.

The Grove looks nothing like Downtown Disney.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

There were a few different versions. It started in 2012 I want to say. Not sure if it's still going on but I think it's not.

And here's the Cedar Fair equivalent.

 

[Phroobar]

And here's the Cedar Fair equivalent.

I bet it's up and running every day and best of all it has Snoopy! That was much better than the usual Under the Sea/Beauty & the Beast/Whole New World/Let it Go stic we've had to watch for the last thirty years in every single show. It's like Disney only made four movies.

 

[Professortango1]

Which are both inferior to the DHS versions. Even Ratatouille will mostly like be better at Epcot.

Meh. Still enjoy Tower 2.0 more than the original. Original has a nicer facade/queue though.