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News Paradise Pier Becoming Pixar Pier
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TROR
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Tom Staggs was once in line to be the next CEO. And save for the few mommy bloggers and tween girls, Pixar doesn't have a great track record as of late. Like I said early, if this was done in 2010 when Pixar was hot, then this would make sense, but they're not hot. They're coming off flops like Cars 3 and The Good Dinosaur. And while Finding Dory was a financial hit, it went away as fast as Jurassic World because it was so forgettable.
They were right though. Mission Breakout is garbage just like everyone expected.
The_Mesh_Hatter
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Kind of a sloppy illustration. Apparently the mirrored rim around the Fun Wheel will now be 3 storeys tall.
I invented a little story about that:
Brother Jenkins, one of the more senior members of imagineering, painted this art. However, he had an agenda. His son, Little Jenkins, worked on DCAII and designed a beautiful queue structure/boardwalk that would wrap around the base.
However, John Lasseter was also working on a project under the same budget. See, Carsland was John Lasseter's love child and it had to be perfect. He ran the numbers, and his personal budget wouldn't cover it all. He needed funding to do "immersive research" much like Joe Rohde's expeditions to Nepal to design Expedition Everest. He asked his good ole friend Bobby for some more dough, whom gladly obliged by shifting funds from Little Jenkins project.
So, the wrap-around pier was cut, and John was sent to some obscure town in Nevada in a private jet to find old license plates in the dump.
Years later, Brother Jenkins is assigned to work on a project under Bobby. As a tribute to his (now tragically deceased) son, he purposely adds the boardwalk pavilion to the plans he has given, and includes it in the art.
But Erin at the Disney Parks Blog saw what he did. She was the only one to notice, once the finished concept art was sent to her so she could blog about it. So, 10 minutes before she was scheduled to post the Pixar Pier details, she opened photoshop and put her graphic design minor to work. You gotta admit, it's a pretty good photoshop job, all things considered! So that is why there's that weird box around the base of the ferris wheel.
Californian Elitist
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Guests will come to anything Disney builds, whether it’s attached to an IP or not. Iger doesn’t understand that though.
VJ
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Pixar Pier has just... made me lose all hope that Disney will return to actually making sense. And the fact that this is permanent... Pixar Pier. In the middle of Disney CALIFORNIA Adventure. Seriously. They don't even care anymore so why should I?
DLR92
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And people who are suckers to this Pixar change. I feel bad for them.
Disney had every opportunity to offer WAY better this. But nope.
VJ
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Can I say with 100% complete seriousness that I actually liked Tom Staggs? He didn't seem all that fake to me. Maybe that's why he got canned, though.
TROR
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Honestly, has anyone else just given up on DCA? I mean, it's never been a great park, but it was really nice and had potential between 2012 and 2016. After Mission Breakout, though, and now this, I have no desire to visit the park and really I don't expect it'll ever be as good as it was in 2015 after Grizzly Airfield had just opened and Aladdin was still playing. It's really just been downhill ever since. I mean, even at least Disney's California Adventure back in 2001 had this weird charm to it, mostly being nostalgia for me.
Agreed. Wasn't perfect, make no mistake, but I truly believe we would have gotten a Hollywood Land remodel to give it a 1940's theme, Hyperion would've gotten a new exterior, Tower of Terror would still be here, and Pixar Pier wouldn't be happening.
DLR92
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+1
Even members on Micechat are just sad to think it okay for DCA to receive mediocre additions because they don't care for it because they only grew up with Disneyland.
SSG
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When you leave them.
mickEblu
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And yet when we re at the parks our experience will change minimally. It will still be extremely pleasant to be there during dusk or when the breeze bounces off the water. It ll still be nice and relaxing at Paradise Gardens. California Screamin will still provide the same thrills (although I'll miss the music). TSMM is still there. It'll still be awesome at night. The Carousel will be better. The Screamin Q will be pleasant. Mickeys face will still be there and most everything will be aesthetically more pleasing.
The more I think about this change, I'm not so much upset about the result as much as the process and direction of the parks in general. Pixar Pier won't change our experience at the park. It was already just a generic seaside amusement park (with no waves /sand) with no real unifying theme (other than cement, terrible queues and flat rides) with Disney IP and Pixar IP scattered throughout the land. To me the only loss is losing the Original Screamin and music. The good part is they re a soundtrack away from giving us the classic experience from time to time.
I hate the name though and how Corporate and non imaginative this whole thing is.
The more I think about this change, I'm not so much upset about the result as much as the process and direction of the parks in general. Pixar Pier won't change our experience at the park. It was already just a generic seaside amusement park (with no waves /sand) with no real unifying theme (other than cement, terrible queues and flat rides) with Disney IP and Pixar IP scattered throughout the land. To me the only loss is losing the Original Screamin and music. The good part is they re a soundtrack away from giving us the classic experience from time to time.
I hate the name though and how Corporate and non imaginative this whole thing is.
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EvilChameleon
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As long as they don't touch World Of Color, they can do whatever they want.
dweezil78
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Well said.
DarkMetroid567
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It's just so boooooooring. For all we talk about this beautiful Victorian theme boardwalk, the only thing that really stands out is Midway Mania. The Screamin' queue and station is a disaster, the restroom area next door behind the carousel looks bad, and the rest of the south side of Paradise Pier is just barren. I'd rather have a mediocre theme then no real theme at all.
Pack it up boys, we've found a winner.
Travel Junkie
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Reading through the comments under the announcement on the FB AP page. People worried about the Cove Bar (it's being re-themed), people saying calling it California Adventure is now basically false advertisement, and people are tired of Pixar.
DarkMetroid567
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So nothing too important!