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

est ce que l'on sait quand le batiment de l'entré sera fini et opérationnel ?

La fin du placemaking de buena vista street est prévu pour quand?

Sinon, quelqu'un sait si ils vont profité du changement de l'entrée pour installer de nouveaux turnstiles (notamment avec le système d'empreintes digitales comme à WDW)? J'avais cru lire une info (ou une rumeur) il y a un moment là dessus

Flight Delays

Meanwhile, next door to the big Mermaid attraction building, the new Paradise Garden restaurants and Goofy’s Sky School ride have all had their opening date pushed back to July 1st. We’d told you earlier how behind on the schedule they had gotten over the winter, and the resulting delays forced TDA to make a rare change to the construction schedule. Credit should be given at least to be willing to let the timeline slip by a full month, to allow the finishing details to be applied correctly, instead of rushing it with tons of overtime and debuting the new facilities prior to final completion.
Goofy’s Sky School and the adjacent Corn Dog Castle and Seaside Souvenirs stand are really just receiving cosmetic changes, since that entire section of land is slated for future development years down the road. Corn Dog Castle, for instance (shown above), won’t really be rethemed from its original Airstream trailer look, and the castle theme is also remaining. They will be making changes to the color scheme and installing new signage and accessories that give it a more realistic vintage feel however. This area does get the benefit however of a few dozen of the hundreds of new trees that will have been planted in DCA between 2009 and 2012, as well as new paving and themed street furniture. But since the optimists in Imagineering see an entirely new attraction complex on this plot of land ten years down the road, no big money is being spent here on a new theme.
But it’s the two big restaurants and attached patio dining area in Paradise Gardens that are getting the most attention from Imagineering, as the restaurants are slated to remain there for the long term while the mad mouse coaster next door will go away eventually. The larger Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta in the former Pizza Oom Mow Mow space is the main location, obviously (above, left). And there is still a great deal of work to do with that building, as they haven’t even begun to finish the interior. When it’s done, there will be huge glass clerestory windows creating an airy atrium entrance that leads to an ornate open-concept serving area with a massive antique brick oven in the middle.

Even the July 1st date is looking ambitious for the restaurants, and the plan to let Cast Member Preview riders at Little Mermaid also take a spin on Goofy’s Sky School is now out.

http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al051011a.htm

BUENA VISTA STREET:

Aqua-marine paint has been slathered on the Pan pacific entrance as Buena Vista Street progress hits the esplanade again. The guest relations window, lockers and restrooms are behind walls now.

You'll have to hold it.


Noticeable progress.




The guest relations tower is going down and the archway is no more.


The awning over the seating area has been removed


The Carthay Circle Theater.


PARADISE PIER SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS:
Things are coming along by the bay. This area is now scheduled to open July 1st.

The detail on the beer stand is actually quite nice.



Boardwalk Pizza and Pasta

GOOFY'S SKY SCHOOL:
Goofy's Sky School saw vehicle testing and now the graphics and animated billboards are being installed.






http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/in-the-parks/1831-stars-disneyland-knotts-magic-mountain-seaworld-coaster-construction.html

Je suis impressionné par tous ces travaux ! C'est incroyable !

Mise à jour du Blue Sky Cellar: http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/05/new-disney-california-adventure-updates-coming-to-blue-sky-cellar/

BUENA VISTA STREET
Construction continues on the new main entrance turnstiles


The Information kiosk and covered seating area in Sunshine Plaza are now completely gone.




GOOFY'S SKY SCHOOL
& PARADISE GARDEN DINING AREA
Over at Goofy's Sky School, new animated billboards have gone up. The signage illustrates the new story overlay being added here, giving riders Goofy's step-by-step directions on how to fly.






This might not be E-Ticket-worthy work, but it's an improvement over the tacky roadsigns and garish colors of Mullholland Madness.




Work on the re-themed dining area continues...




New palm trees planted along the covered patio.












The new Bayside Brews beer stand is progressing.


Plus de photos sur http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/dateline-disneyland/1830-star-tours-readies-launch-billboards-paradise-marys-world-color-more.html

Do you see anything missing here?


An info booth and covered seating area was here just a couple weeks ago


The Corn Dog Castle sign has also been repainted.


The new dining area near the Corn Dog Castle is going to be a nicely shaded place to chow down on an artery clogging meal.

Et d'autres photos sur http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/in-the-parks/1837-hollywood-vip-star-tours-launch-disneyland-mermaid-dca-knotts-sparkles.html

BUENA VISTA STREET
Work continues on DCA's new main entrance turnstiles:


GOOFY'S SKY SCHOOL
& PARADISE GARDEN DINING AREA
Work on the new Paradise Garden dining area and Goofy's Sky School continues...




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L'ancien DCA, c'était aussi ça: http://www.yesterland.com/reboundo.html

Nouvelle vidéo présentée par WDI: http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/05/behind-the-scenes-at-paradise-pier-with-walt-disney-imagineering/

Je vien de découvrire le topique on voie qu' il y a des parcs qui on les moyens.

romain93 a écrit:

Je vien de découvrire le topique on voie qu' il y a des parcs qui on les moyens.

Et toi, as tu les moyens d'écrire correctement? En français, ça donne: "Je viens de découvrir le sujet, on voit qu'il y a des parcs qui ont les moyens."

GOOFY'S SKY SCHOOL & PARADISE PIER RESTAURANTS:


Adorable picket fence in front of the queue


A sign of things to come.







The area is receiving pathways now.


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D'après Al Lutz, The Mission Tortilla Factory va définitivement fermer demain pour laisser place au célèbre chocolatier de San Francisco, Ghirardelli!

How Sweet it is...

Disney California Adventure is going through a metamorphosis that is unprecedented in the history of Disney theme parks, especially for a park that is barely 10 years old and has already enjoyed healthy expansion and investment over that first decade. Much has been made of the additional 1.2 Billion dollars being poured into the park during an accelerated timeframe, and executives right up to CEO Bob Iger have had to publicly admit it’s all an attempt to fix a park that never met expectations. While that 1.2 Billion dollar mega-project continues, smaller changes unassociated with the makeover itself continue to move through the pipeline for DCA, and the next change arrives on Tuesday, May 31st. That’s when the Mission Tortilla Factory quietly closes and passes into the DCA history books.

The Mission Tortilla Factory was one of DCA’s 2001 opening day offerings that was widely lampooned at first as an example of the cheap and mundane attractions in the park, but slowly gained a loyal following for its free half-tortilla samples and quirky exhibits, not to mention the Annual Passholders who returned year after year on their birthdays to receive a big bag of free tortillas from the CM’s running the tortilla machines. But the run of free tortillas ends on Tuesday, and the doors to the factory will be shut for good.
The excuse that managers are giving DCA Cast Members is that Mission failed to renew their latest sponsorship agreement and the location must now close to allow for construction to continue on the big entranceway into Cars Land that is behind the walls nearby. But that’s not the complete story behind this sudden and quiet closure. The rest of the story is that Disney is wrapping up the details on a new sponsorship deal with an iconic California company they had been chasing back in the late 1990’s for DCA, but who wisely took a pass after deciding they were unimpressed with the original park. But now the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company of San Francisco is planned to become DCA’s newest sponsor, and if the current timeline holds Ghirardelli will debut in 2012 in an expanded and remade building at the old Mission Tortilla Factory location.

Taking direct inspiration from Ghirardelli’s famous waterfront chocolate factory in San Francisco, Imagineering plans to keep the footprint of the current building, but give it an exterior that mimics the charming red brick and stone of Ghirardelli’s Larkin street building and clock tower, complete with a version of the lighted sign that has greeted arriving sailors in San Francisco Bay since 1923. They’ll also expand the current building to the south, taking over the adjoining backstage structure that houses DCA’s first aid and lost children complex, while a replacement facility is created near the front of the park. The remade Ghirardelli complex will offer enough space to provide for a small factory tour experience, as well as an attached chocolate shop and soda fountain.

While the permanent closure of the tortilla factory will happen on Tuesday without much notice during this hectic week of grand openings and media parties, the exact timing of the Ghirardelli announcement to replace Mission in DCA is up in the air. These types of things are notoriously tricky to get signed off by all the various lawyers at both companies, but as of last week Disney was trying to get the deal tidied up by this Friday in order to include the Ghirardelli news in the big “What’s Next?” press event staged at 11:00 a.m. that morning at the western entrance to Cars Land. We’ll have to see if they make it.
For their part, Ghirardelli is thrilled with the plum spot they’ve secured in the increasingly successful new theme park. Ghirardelli’s location near the main entrance to Cars Land, with a clear line of sight from DCA’s busy parade route, should prove to be a very high-traffic location beginning in June, 2012 when the 12 acre Cars Land expansion opens.

Disney chased several chocolate companies in the late 1990’s, notably See’s and Ghirardelli, when they were trying to get DCA’s floundering factory tour concept off the ground (a concept that Eisner loved, and bragged about quite a bit back then). The original spot had the proposed chocolate factory going in to a complex of multiple factory exhibits on the current location of the World of Color viewing amphitheater. How wise of Ghirardelli to pass on that original offer and wait out the first underwhelming decade of DCA’s existence.

There are some that will get sentimental over the closure of the tortilla factory, but the arrival of a fully themed and upscale Ghirardelli shop in its place should take the sting out for all those APs used to the free bag of birthday tortillas.

http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al053011a.htm

Buena Vista Street présentée au Press Event "What's next?" (à noter: George Kalogridis a annoncé un restaurant et un lounge dans la réplique du Carthay Circle Theater):

George introduced a video fly-through of the Buena Vista Street area.

This is when he announced the new restaurant at the Carthay Circle Theater.

http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/weekend-update/1852-disneyland-star-tours-reopens%3B-little-mermaid-surfaces%3B-walt-disney-world-update.html

BUENA VISTA STREET:
Buena Vista Street and the entrance to the park are coming along nicely. The front gates are almost completely exposed and the lights and fixtures should be installed soon.







GOOFY'S SKY SCHOOL:
While Paradise Pier's restaurants grow closer to completion, Goofy's Sky School is being tested on a routine basis and more details from the queue emerge.


MISSION TORTILLA FACTORY:
No Mas! The Mission Tortilla Factory quietly closed its doors on Tuesday morning. Maseca fans resort-wide have gone into mourning. But fear not grizzled theme park fans, a delicious replacement is on the way.

As first reported by Dustysage this past January and confirmed by Al Lutz on Monday of this week, the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company of San Francisco is planned to become DCA’s newest sponsor, and if the current timeline holds, Ghirardelli will debut in 2012 in an expanded and remade building at the old Mission Tortilla Factory location.

http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/in-the-parks/1851-parks-disneyland-press-event-hotel-pool-opens-closes-magic-more.html

GOOFY'S SKY SCHOOL
& PARADISE GARDEN DINING AREA

Walls came down around the new water tower entrance, FASTPASS distribution area and extended queue of Goofy's Sky School over the weekend. The re-themed attraction isn't set to officially open until July 1, but so far the re-theming seems to be moderately more aesthetically pleasing than the former Mullholland Madness, but just as thematically out-of-place as its predecessor. What we're working with now is a cartoon chicken farm-turned aviation school run by Goofy. It's definitely a strange theme for a turn-of-the-20th-century seaside pier, but on the bright side it's only a temporary fix until a proper attraction can move into this space in the future.










The cartoony brown farm fence surrounds planters in the large extended queue area


The new mural at the load area




The new Paradise Garden dining area continues to show progress and looks on-target to meet its July 1 grand opening.




A look at the new Bayside Brews beer stand


Et plein d'autres photos pour voir plus de détails sur http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/dateline-disneyland/1854-grand-openings-under-sea-outer-space-little-mermaid-star-tours-more.html

C'est vraiment joli ! Et il y aura même des FASTPASS ! Difficile de croire que c'était Mulholland Madness qui était là !

Oui Dash, on ne peut que se réjouir de ces travaux

BUENA VISTA STREET

The new Buena Vista Street main entrance turnstiles continue to edge closer to completion. The structure is just about finished and then the installation of the actual turnstiles will get underway.


Inside the park, the new Carthay Circle Theater and plaza area continue to take shape


The new Carthay Circle pump house is starting to take shape behind walls.


Over at the entrance to Hollywood Land, the new Red Car Trolley tracks and newly paved extension of Hollywood Boulevard are out from behind construction walls.


The trolley tracks and asphalt on the Disney Junior-side of the road is not yet complete. This is likely to avoid walls going up too close to the show's queue and stroller parking area, which would result in some crowd control nightmares while work continued into the busy summer season. So, for now, the area has gotten a quick fix until it can be properly finished.






Over on Paradise Pier, new ads have replaced the old and outdated Sun Wheel and Avalon Cove Restaurant ads on the side of the Ariel's Grotto restaurant. New pieces for Mickey's Fun Wheel and the Little Mermaid are now up. They look fine, but noticing these ads on the side of the Ariel's Grotto only calls to attention the need to re-theme this building which is currently hidden behind a series of caricature stations.






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L'entrée à l'air de très joliment prendre forme, mais je trouve toujours dommage qu'elle ressemble aussi fort à celle des Hollywood Studios en Floride.

C'est normal, ils se sont inspirés du même bâtiment de LA (qui n'existe plus d'ailleurs): le Pan Pacific Auditorium, difficile de les faire vraiment différents...

Spoiler:

J'aime beaucoup ce qu'ils ont fait de Mulholland Madness!!! Même si ce n'est pas le top de la beauté, c'est largement mieux qu'au début, les couleurs choisies et le thème sont très jolis!

Oui, je le savais déjà, je trouve juste que c'est dommage de faire (quasiment) la même entrée dans deux parcs américains.

Je suis pressé de voir le résultat pour Buena Vista Street ! C'est vraiment un tres bel hommage à Walt Disney et à ses premieres reves !!!

A partir du 25 juin, Russell et Dug (de Up) remplacent les personnages de Brother Bear au Redwood Creek Challenge Trail: http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/06/new-characters-coming-to-disney-california-adventure-park/