Paradise Pier to Become Pixar Pier at DCA 2018!

[Paradox]

New Pixar Pier to Bring Favorite Pixar Stories to Life at Disney California Adventure Park; Limited-Time Pixar Fest Celebration Coming Throughout Disneyland Resort

In addition to the amazing experiences for Disney Parks around the world announced today at D23 Expo by Bob Chapek, Chairman of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, a new immersive experience was just announced for Disney California Adventure park in California! In 2018, more of your favorite Pixar stories will come to Disney California Adventure park with the new Pixar Pier.

Pixar Pier will feature a brand-new look for the area now known as Paradise Pier, as some of your favorite characters come to life on this seaside waterfront. You will discover whimsical neighborhoods filled with your friends from ???The Incredibles,??? ???Inside Out??? and even more of your pals from ???Toy Story.??? Building upon the evolution of Disney California Adventure park that began in 2007, we are building more new worlds for you to step into and enjoy your favorite stories.

This permanent addition to the park will open during a new limited-time celebration taking place throughout the Disneyland Resort in 2018 ??? Pixar Fest! Experience the magical worlds of Pixar in brand new ways as the entire resort comes alive with some of your favorite stories.

At Disneyland park, this incredible celebration will feature a brand-new fireworks spectacular as well as the return of the guest favorite, Pixar Play Parade. That???s right! This popular parade is moving across the Esplanade, which could only mean ???

The popular ???Paint the Night??? parade returns ??? this time, to Disney California Adventure park! And if you???re as excited as I am by that news, then hold onto your jet packs, Space Rangers ??? because we???ve also learned that there may even be a new float joining this already amazing nighttime parade.

We???ll have more details to share on Pixar Pier and Pixar Fest in the months to come, so keep your eye on the Disney Parks Blog!

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[Paradox]

Pixar Pier to Bring New Incredicoaster and More to Disney California Adventure Park Summer 2018

Summer 2018 will bring a transformed land for guests to experience at Disney California Adventure park when Pixar Pier opens along the southern shore of Paradise Bay, with newly themed attractions, foods and merchandise throughout. This new, permanent land in the area that is now Paradise Pier will introduce four new neighborhoods representing beloved Disney??Pixar stories

The first of the four themed neighborhoods guests will find is inspired by ???The Incredibles.??? Here, the new Incredicoaster, permanently transformed from the attraction that is now California Screamin???, will open with Pixar Pier in summer 2018. This new experience will feature a mid-century-modern-style loading area, new character moments and a new look for the ride vehicles. To prepare for this transformation, California Screamin??? will close Jan. 8.
The popular Toy Story Mania! will anchor the ???Toy Story???-inspired neighborhood. A neighborhood inspired by ???Inside Out??? will be found on the western side of the boardwalk and will welcome a new family-friendly attraction, scheduled to open at a later date.
The fourth neighborhood will be a celebration of many of your favorite Pixar stories. In this neighborhood, Mickey???s Fun Wheel will have a new look, with each of the 24 gondolas featuring different Pixar characters and the iconic face of Mickey Mouse remaining on the Paradise Bay side of the wheel. At the Games of the Boardwalk, which already includes the Bullseye Stallion Stampede game, all of the midway games will be inspired by Pixar characters. Mickey???s Fun Wheel, Games of the Boardwalk and Sideshow Shirts will close Jan. 8 to begin this transformation.
Ariel???s Grotto restaurant and the Cove Bar will be transformed into a new lounge and grill offering sparkling views of Paradise Bay and the new Pixar Pier. Both locations will close Jan. 8, with Cove Bar reopening briefly in April before closing again for its permanent transformation. Guests wishing to reserve ???World of Color??? dining packages after Jan. 7 may consider Carthay Circle Restaurant or Wine Country Trattoria.
The remaining areas of the land that is now Paradise Pier, including Paradise Gardens, Silly Symphony Swings, Jumpin??? Jellyfish, Goofy???s Sky School, Golden Zephyr and The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel???s Undersea Adventure, will become a new land called Paradise Park.

Pixar Pier will open during the limited-time Pixar Fest celebration, which begins April 13. The celebration will include the new ???Together Forever ??? A Pixar Nighttime Spectacular??? fireworks as well as the return of Pixar Play Parade and ???Paint the Night??? parade, and much more throughout the entire Disneyland Resort.

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So California Screamin' will be renamed to Incredicoaster and rethemed to the Incredibles.

Personally I feel this looks disgusting and is a disgrace to the original artistic integrity that was Paradise Pier.

The name 'Incredicoaster' sounds like a name Six Flags would have come up with.

Hopefully we'll see new-style trains with better restraints.

[Paradox]

Paradise Pier is now closed for the retheme.

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[Coasterkidmwm]

New station will look awesome.

Here's the ride testing, as well as the current progress as of April 2018:











Also, here are what the ride vehicles will look like after refurbishment:



Finally, in the video, there is more concept art of what to expect from the Incredicoaster:



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https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/ ... ture-park/

https://twitter.com/SoCal360

[Paradox]

Sounds like the launch was replaced with LSM's

Those trains are f*cking disgusting.

[Coasterkidmwm]

It looks like someone got carried away with photoshop lol.

More testing going on:



Also, in this video, at around 8:20, there is view up the first screen tube. If you look closely, you'll be able to see a Dash figure dogging from the laser beams.



...and these images give a clearer look of that figure in particular.









Source: https://twitter.com/SoCal360

New launch audio (Points are 3:15 & 7:12):

POV of the Incredicoaster:



There also this video which shows the rides new audio and effects a bit more clearly:

I don't care how they retheme it, my main issue is that fact that THE TRAINS STILL HAVE OTSR'S! It just seems a tad overkill for a ride that has 1 loop and a shit-ton of block brakes and wooden coaster-like layout.

[Dirk_Ermen]

I miss the old music/soundtrack, that actually did fit with the ride. Now the music seems just random. I'm glad I've bought the cd years ago.

NOT a fan

You know what WOULD have been awesome? If Disney decided to make a legit thrill ride instead and tore California Screamin down in favor of a cool multi-launch Mack or Intamin Blitz. Paint it bright red, give it a kick-butt soundtrack and have it go through some cartoon-like cutouts and maybe even give it a fun dark ride portion at the beginning. Something like that would be my dream for an Incredibles themed coaster (cuz that IP has been neglected in the parks for years). But NOTHING about this ride screams Incredibles to me. California Screamin was a weird concept to begin with, but then you slap out of place Incredibles themeing in there, it feels so messy, not to mention, they couldn't even repaint the freaking track to make it something other than white!?!? Guess their constantly inflating ticket prices weren't enough to give them a legit budget for a decent rethemeing. However, beyond this mess of a coaster the rest of Pixar Pier looks well done, but Disney has given itself lofty expectations for themeing and this fails not only that, but probably any other amusement park's themeing standards. This is the laziest rethemeing I've ever seen. Also... The floating Jack-Jack baby kabobs are absolutely hilarious

It would be cool if one of the block brakes could look like Mr. Incredible stopping the train with his super strength, and if not for that epilepsy warning, maybe also a dark ride portion themed to Elastigirl fighting the Screenslaver.

I'll just leave it here:

[Dirk_Ermen]

Okay... So they're actually mocking themselves too. :') "Slap a new name on an old ride".