[Disney California Adventure] Placemaking: Pixar Pier, Buena Vista Street, Hollywood Land, Condor Flats

GOOFY'S SKY SCHOOL & PARADISE GARDEN DINING AREA
La façade du futur restaurant Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta se dessine!






BUENA VISTA STREET
Est-ce par là que les visiteurs entreront (temporairement) dans la parc une fois que les travaux de Buena Vista Street auront commencé?




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Plywood Pathways

Just down the parade route from Mermaid, a route blocked for most of this year by all the construction, is the expanding park's corner of the Paradise Garden and Goofy’s Sky School projects. On January 10th the construction walls will grow and be pushed out further, effectively cutting off that entire corner of the park and creating dead-ends on each side about where the Maliboomer once stood. With the expanded walls up, it will become impossible to walk around the entire Paradise Pier lagoon until March. The Silly Symphony Swings, Jumpin’ Jellyfish and Golden Zephyr will all remain open and continue to operate on a narrow sliver of land left open along the water, as will the Fun Wheel while its queue butts up against the new walls moving in from the north end of the boardwalk.

More walls will go up this week as well around the Playhouse Disney building, which will operate behind the walls until closing down entirely for two months when the walls push out even further from late January to late March. The work here is to prepare that attraction for the change-out to the new Disney Junior format, as well as replacing the garish decorations and signage the sleek Streamline Moderne building received in haste when Playhouse Disney was shoehorned into the Soap Opera Bistro restaurant back in ’03.



While the full re-theme of the Hollywood Pictures Backlot will have to wait for phase two of DCA’s makeover, the Imagineers are taking advantage of this change-out to make the streetscape look as period-specific as possible so as not to clash with the adjacent hyper-themed environment about to be built along Buena Vista Street and in front of the new Carthay Circle Theater. Construction walls also get pushed out even further all around the former Sun Hub as they remove the parade infrastructure there and rip up the last of the 2001 pavement and cementscape.

DCA’s main entrance area will be in a constant state of flux due to the ever-expanding scale of the overhaul throughout 2011. This winter and spring DCA visitors will need to run through a rat’s maze of walls to get into the park, and on busy days they will be setting up an elaborate queue of switchbacks in front of them to help pulse people into the temporary entry lanes. It promises to be ugly and confusing for most of this year, especially for the casual tourists. By next October the new turnstile complex will be complete, and a semblance of normality will return to the DCA entrance. But through the remainder of 2011 and in to 2012 arriving DCA visitors will enter under the Pan Pacific turnstile structures and then take a hard right turn and be shuffled down a corridor behind Soarin’ to be dumped into the park there.

While the 12 acre Cars Land expansion is physically a bigger project, and financially a bigger investment (as any E Ticket ride with a budget cresting towards the 300 Million dollar mark would demand), it’s the DCA main entrance project that is going to provide the biggest operational and logistical headaches for the park. I've said it before and it bears repeating again: Never in the history of Disney theme parks has something like this been attempted; the complete rebuilding and big budget re-themeing of an operating park’s entry complex and opening area. Be sure to take pictures this year in front of all of this main entrance mess folks, as your grandkids will never believe it actually happened.

You Will Get Wet...

Across the way at DCA, despite the endless miles of construction walls, seasonal rehabs are also taking place. Grizzly River Run will close for several weeks, primarily for decorative enhancements and upgrades to many of its watery effects. Sharp eyed regulars began noticing last spring that the trendy XGames style props in the ride and along the queue that seemed so hip over a decade ago were being yanked out and replaced with charming and period-specific camping props themed to the late 1940’s and early 50’s.

While a much more thorough remake of this raft ride using some of the same wildlife animatronics being added to Hong Kong Disneyland’s new runaway mine train coaster is still at the top of the list for phase two projects later this decade, Bob Weiss’s current DCA team carved out a small chunk of the 1.2 Billion dollar budget to tackle glaring design clashes like the already dated extreme sports theme of Grizzly River Run.

The overall look here when this light re-theme of Grizzly River Run is done will be part of an homage to the True-Life Adventure films Walt produced in the American west beginning in 1948. New period-specific costumes for the ride operators are also being cooked up. This much more rustic yet sophisticated vibe gives you a good idea of where WDI wants to take that entire area and the Condor Flats section as part of a phase two project in a few years.

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BUENA VISTA STREET:
Le 4 janvier vers 2h, des palissades ont été installé autour des lettres CALIFORNIA en vue de leur enlevement. Au même moment, les tourniquets d'entrée du parc ont été divisés en deux groupes de 6: 6 pour entrer et 6 pour sortir.






La file d'attente (si besoin) du côté pour entrer.


Les 6 tourniquets pour entrer...


Photo prise depuis l'intérieur du parc: la sortie est à gauche, l'entrée est à droite.

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Heureusement que je ne visiterai pas le Resort en 2011, c'est pas beau à voir (mais bon, nécessaire!!)

Depuis les photos de Fishbulb pour MiceAge, les palissades ont été décorées!!
Ma préférée: http://mintcrocodile.smugmug.com/photos/1148958358_ZJWpr-X3.jpg

http://mintcrocodile.smugmug.com/photos/1148957777_zCRYs-X3.jpg
http://mintcrocodile.smugmug.com/photos/1148955256_pYurj-X3.jpg
http://mintcrocodile.smugmug.com/photos/1148955574_uhg9V-X3.jpg


Et plein d'autres à voir ici: http://mintcrocodile.blogspot.com/2011/01/ring-in-new-year-theres-more-here-to.html

Y'a rien à dire...sont trop forts ces ricains...
La déco des palissades est une excellente idée!!

Et nous on pourrait avoir une déco avec des concepts arts pour nos palissades pour le futur Ratatouille?
Ah mais j'avais oublié, on n'est au courant de rien pour l'instant.

Je viens de tomber de ma chaise en voyant toutes ces photos.

Si on avez les mêmes moyens ici...

Construction walls popped up around the entrance of California Adventure early last week and by the end of the week the iconic CALIFORNIA letters were gone, several entrance turnstiles had been demolished, and pavement in front of the park was torn out.

Mouetto a écrit:

Je viens de tomber de ma chaise en voyant toutes ces photos.

Si on avez les mêmes moyens ici...

Et ce n'est pas fini!! Mouetto, accroche toi à ta chaise!


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ils sont trop beaux ^^

En ce moment à Disneyland, Main Street USA est aussi envahie de palissades: http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/dateline-disneyland/1725-repaving-main-street-setting-sail-goofys-blue-sky-dry-mountain-country-fun-more.html
Quand à Critter Country, il sera carrément fermé à partir du mercredi 26 et ce pour 6 semaines!!

Les affiches des palissades sont excellentes et bourrées de clin d'œil (Oswald, les Trois Petits Cochons, Elias Disney, etc.) !

c'est vrai qu'elles sont bourrés de détails. J'adore.

Nouvel intérieur du Blue Sky Cellar: http://micechat.com/forums/disneyland-resort/149472-live-disneyland-resort-press-event-blue-sky-cellar-magic-memories-you.html

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/01/new-blue-sky-cellar-show-previews-little-mermaid-and-unveils-an-animated-map/

Also on display are re-theming plans for the Playhouse Disney theater. The garish signage and decorations at the theater will be replaced with new period-appropriate thematic touches, inspired by the ABC Studios, and eventually, the rest of Hollywood Boulevard will get extra thematic re-workings to match its 1930s-era theme.


BUENA VISTA STREET
A new panel of Buena Vista Street concept art explains the work going on in the front of the park...




GOOFY'S SKY SCHOOL & PARADISE GARDEN DINING AREA
Work continues on the new paint job for Goofy's Sky School


Framework for the new water tower queue entrance.


FASTPASS machines will be re-themed with chickens...


The plans for the Paradise Garden area re-theme is great, but the backstory seems a bit forced.


Encore PLUS de photos de l'intérieur du Blue Sky Cellar et des travaux sur http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/dateline-disneyland/1731-magic-water-californias-blue-sky-sea-character-days-memories-more.html

Ce parc va vraiment devenir une merveille ! j'adore le projet cars land et les placemaking sont vraiment poussés et très bien amenés !

Petit voyage dans le temps: une visite du du Preview Center de DCA (situé dans l'Opera House de Main Street), alors en construction: http://www.yesterland.com/dcapreview.html

GOOFY'S SKY SCHOOL & PARADISE GARDEN DINING AREA
Goofy's Sky School has almost entirely been repainted at this point






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Il prévoit pas de le supprimer le Corn Dog Castle, d'ailleurs le panneau au dessus de la boutique n'existait pas avant non?

Mjinspace a écrit:

Il prévoit pas de le supprimer le Corn Dog Castle, d'ailleurs le panneau au dessus de la boutique n'existait pas avant non?

Ta phrase n'est pas très clair...
Corn Dog Castle n'est pas une boutique mais un point de restauration et le panneau au-dessus est là depuis l'ouverture du parc (http://www.yesterland.com/corndog.html).
Je ne sais pas si il réouvrira (et avec quel thème) mais sur un plan du Paradise Pier "rénové" il apparait toujours (par contre sans code alors que les autres éléments ont chacun un code: 526 pour Seaside Souvenirs, 520 pour Paradise Garden Grill, etc ...).

SUNSHINE PLAZA
Across the esplanade, California Adventure has begun vertical construction on its new entry turnstiles based on Los Angeles' Pan Pacific Auditorium.




Concept art shows what the finished product will look like:






GOOFY'S SKY SCHOOL
& PARADISE GARDEN DINING AREA
The new Paradise Garden dining area is coming along nicely. Work is now underway on the new dining patio awnings. This area will look very nice when completed.




The work in the bottom portion of this photo is for a new beer stand








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Ca avance super vite! C'est magnifique à voir.