By design Disneyland was all about optimistic idealism, while DCA tried to emulate the laid back, yet, 'cooler than thou' atmosphere of California, which is more stereotypical than true. Superstar Limo makes more sense from that approach, but Disney doing a sarcastic and cynical anything, at that time, was jarring. Audiences who had years of familiarity with Disneyland couldn't wrap their heads around it and the designers probably should have foreseen that. I'm not saying that it's laudable, though it is worth remembering that the vehicles had screens, which was unique(and surprisingly underused in Monsters Inc.) and a nifty, if questionable, projected tattoo effect. That said, it probably was the attraction that defined original DCA, but not in the positive intended sense. Monsters quality is debatable, but it succeeds due to the subject being more palatable to the Disney crowd.
