[Disney California Adventure] Placemaking et futur du Parc

ça rappelle la péeiode d'agrandissements de nos WDS, mais encore à une autre échelle. Cela dit, ce que j'ai le plus impatience de voir, c'est le début du chantier de Cars. Là, ça s'annonce gigantesque

En même temps, ce chantier sera plus "normal", c'est à dire peu gênant d'un point de vue esthétique pour les visiteurs.

Moi c'est le boulevard qui me préoccupe, il devra y avoir des palissades de partout!

A mon avis, les travaux les plus invasifs seront ceux du tramouway, qui traversera le parc...
Pour Cars, je sais que ce sera un chantier qui ne gênera pas. Mais bon, c'est le chantier qui s'annonce le plus spectaculaire...

Mr.Freddy a écrit:

Pour Cars, je sais que ce sera un chantier qui ne gênera pas. Mais bon, c'est le chantier qui s'annonce le plus spectaculaire...

Après celui de Blue Fire quand même

DIGGING UP SOME CONSTRUCTION
Over in Disney's California Adventure (DCA), construction for the World of Color show has kicked into high gear.


Paradise Bay is now sporting a bunch of holes (covered by the black tarps) as construction for the upcoming World of Color water show gets serious.



The Golden State Amphitheater is still not show much progress after going behind construction walls last week.





The Mickey's Fun Wheel project is pressing onward; the sunbursts continue getting layers of yellow paint.


Mickey's red and black color scheme continues to take over the Sun Wheel's golden yellow and teal.




The budget for for the Mickey's Fun Wheel queue has reportedly been cut back and funds redirected towards bigger projects, so the elaborate, covered wooden queue building is no longer happening. It remains unclear if the queue will still be the uninspiring cement grave that was built in 2001, or if it will get a nicer, friendlier makeover to match the rest of Paradise Pier, but right now it looks like the handrails in the queue are getting some green paint.



The Games of the Boardwalk re-theme project continues to move along.


The shops next door will go under the knife after the Games of the Boardwalk open on April 24.



Over on Pacific Wharf, the Lucky Fortune Cookery is behind construction walls. The location will be converted into a larger version of the nearby Cocina Cucamonga Mexican restaurant with a wider selection of Mexican dishes. Cocina Cucamonga's current location will reportedly serve up Asian cuisine in the future.


Lucky Fortune Cookery's big paper dragons are still in place for now.



BEHIND THE SCENES
A large portion of the Timon parking lot is the big staging area for the upcoming World of Color show that's currently being built in DCA's Paradise Bay.


A look behind the construction wall gives a glimpse of what goes into constructing such a major project like World of Color.




Trailers house Walt Disney Imagineering's on-site offices for the big DCA makeover project.


World of Color logo art work can be seen on the side of a trailer.




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DISNEY'S CONSTRUCTION ADVENTURE
Upon entering Disney's California Adventure, most guests would probably be unaware that the park is in the middle of a multi-year remodel and expansion project. But once guests head back to queue up for California Screamin' or Midway Mania, it becomes incredibly clear that there is some major work being done in the park.

Golden State Park is currently almost completely behind construction walls as the area that features DCA's Christmas tree every winter is now being bulldozed.


The project has caused the Pacific Wharf bridge to be walled off for a while, the Wharf entrance at the Mission Tortilla Factory the only in and out of the area.











Meanwhile, the former Lucky Fortune Cookery continues to be converted into a larger Cocina Cucamonga Mexican restaurant. Construction walls now tell guests that new food options are coming.




A look at visible work going on at the dining facility from the Paradise Pier bridge.





Guests must now walk through a narrow path between the Golden State Park and Golden State Amphitheater construction walls to access the main Paradise Pier entrance bridge.


Looking back towards the construction from the Paradise Pier bridge --


The side handrails on the Pier bridge are being stripped and wrapped in plastic.



Looking out across the bay, work on the upcoming Disney's World of Color show is progressing daily.


Looking back, the former Amphitheater is now a pile of rubble.









Mickey's Fun Wheel is almost done being painted.





The Games of the Boardwalk are now getting their wood siding applied, along with other Victorian-style theming.



Work around the Orange Stinger continues, including a new wall going up nearby, blocking water to the S.S. rustworthy.




Heading back towards the Golden State Amphitheater and Golden Dreams area, lights have been added to the construction walls, as all of the normal lighting on the south side of the walkway has been removed due to construction.



Over at the San Francisco Street restroom project, the construction walls have been decorated with directional signs pointing the way to Paradise Pier, the Blue Sky Cellar, and Grizzly Peak.











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Wouah , il y a des palissades partouts, tous est en chantier (c'est impressionant) mais j'aimerais pas être à la place des guests.
Vivement le résultat finale !!!!

Louis59 a écrit:

Wouah , il y a des palissades partouts, tous est en chantier (c'est impressionant) mais j'aimerais pas être à la place des guests.
Vivement le résultat finale !!!!

Oui c'est impressionnant mais moi ce que j'attends le plus ce sont les travaux de la refonte totale (avec les tramways) de l'entrée du parc!!

Merci Thaddeus pour ces photos !
On compte sur toi pour nous tenir informé de la suite

C'est vrai que cela ne doit pas être très agréable de visiter un parc dans cet état, mais bon, nous on est passé par là aussi avec la TOT et Toon studio en même temps.

Capt Jack a écrit:

C'est vrai que cela ne doit pas être très agréable de visiter un parc dans cet état, mais bon, nous on est passé par là aussi avec la TOT et Toon studio en même temps.

exactement!
et les travaux de carsland, ils commenceront quand (si ce n'est pas déjà commencé)?

Désolé si ça a déjà été demandé mais les travaux du placemaking finissent quand ?

ayant projeter un trip en Californie fin septembre 2009, ça ne m'enchante guère que ce parc soit dans un tel état ...

La tête de Mickey en train d'être démontée:



http://www.disneytheque.com/index.php?/archives/20-Projet-Placemaking-DCA.html

Les futurs gradins pour voir le show Disney's World of Color:

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Je repose ma question :

Quelqu'un sait quand les travaux du placemaking s'achèveront ??????

Merci !

Mr Toad a écrit:

Je repose ma question :

Quelqu'un sait quand les travaux du placemaking s'achèveront ??????

Merci !

En 2012 avec l'ouverture de Cars Land pour la 1ière phase du Placemaking. Si cette 1ière phase est un succès (en terme de fréquentation et de dépenses des visiteurs) ET que l'économie américaine va mieux, alors il y aura la 2e phase (2012-2014) avec la refonte de Hollywood Pictures Backlot en Hollywood des années 30 et l'absorption de Condor Flats par la Grizzly Peak Recreation Area. Sinon, cette 2e phase sera repoussée au-delà de 2014...

A propos de Buena Vista Street, voici un très intéressant article (même si "pas magique" du tout): http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2009/01/27/forget-about-attention-to-detail-it-s-attention-to-retail-that-s-really-driving-dca-s-buena-vista-street-project.aspx

What an Improvement, even though the Games of the Boardwalk isn't finished yet!







Note the new supports being built near the retaining wall. Looks like they are planning to build a deck above the wall to allow for more viewing.

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Everything new is old again...

Over in DCA, those nervous TDA folks could be put to use helping direct park visitors around the maze of construction walls that grow by the week and are taking over the Paradise Pier area.

When the economy took a sudden turn for the worse in '08, it did put a hold on some future plans for California and Florida that hadn't yet been formally budgeted. But DCA's 1.2 Billion dollar expansion is not one of them. Much like the two huge new Disney Cruise Line ships that were budgeted for and announced back in '07, and are about to get under construction this spring in Germany for delivery in 2011 and 2012, the huge DCA makeover that was budgeted for and announced in '07 will be underway all over the park this spring for completion in 2011 and 2012.

We'd laid out a basic timeline for you on all of the major pieces of the DCA makeover last year, but over the past six months there have been a few tweaks to the timeline and some additional details fleshed out, so it might help put some of the bad rumors to rest if we ran through the schedule again for you, including some of the new dates and latest information.
Paradise Pier and World of Color: Work continues on re-themeing and re-energizing the existing attractions and facilities all around this large area of the park, turning the 2001 cheap stucco version of this land into the lushly themed Victorian version of 2010. The Sun Wheel's transformation into Mickey's Fun Wheel has only been slightly delayed by the winter rains, and it should be ready to open in late April. The Games of the Boardwalk aren't far behind, and should be fully opened by May. While the lagoon will remain drained through the summer, and major construction continues behind the walls to build the new World of Color amphitheater designed for 9,000 spectators, the next big phase for Paradise Pier construction will wait to begin until the end of summer. In late August, the Orange Stinger will close to become Silly Symphony Swings by early 2010. Later in the fall is when the makeover for Mulholland Madness and the new beer garden work also gets underway.

The goal is to have most of the Paradise Pier makeover complete by the time World of Color debuts for the summer of 2010. And what a show that promises to be! Steve Davison and his talented team have been reveling in the tens of millions of dollars he was given for this show, a budget that dwarfs the paltry sum given to him by Cynthia Harriss to create the ill-fated Luminaria that was shoved into the lagoon in a frenzied panic back in '01 to try and create some positive buzz for the failing park. Where Luminaria's lasting impression for DCA visitors was simply to take a shower to get rid of the smoke smell, World of Color is shaping up to leave audiences in shock and awe. Thankfully, World of Color won't be using traditional pyrotechnics, although there is a number of stunning, and relatively smokeless, fire effects planned.

World of Color is clocking in at just under 25 minutes in length, and promises to tug at every emotion Disney has ever written in to an animated film. This will be the first Disney water show where the water and fire effects not only play out on the lagoon up to 100 feet high, but also rush toward you and then sweep through the audience using hidden fountains and infrastructure built into the new amphitheater itself. Disney suits that have seen Steve Davison's hyper presentations on this new show in Glendale and Anaheim have left the conference room with their mouths dropped open, and it promises to do the same for theme park visitors next summer as well.
The Little Mermaid; Ariel's Adventure: Anyone who has seen the latest mockups and plans for this big budget E Ticket family attraction would understandably question whether or not it was going forward in this tough economic climate. But the truth is that it is all still right on track and on schedule for 2011.

The version of this new E-Ticket proposed for Walt Disney World's tired Fantasyland was originally postponed back in the fall, and then put further into the deep freeze just after Christmas by Orlando executives. The Orlando team's aversion to adding the expensive Little Mermaid any time soon might be where some of the rumors of its delay in Anaheim have been coming from. But the DCA version of Little Mermaid, which might end up being the only version available anywhere for the next decade, will begin its construction in April. (Yes, more walls!)

The budget on this one was allowed to swell to over 100 Million, and it's held there, as John Lasseter and everyone involved in the DCA makeover is adamant that the park needs a big, musical, animatronic family attraction of the type that Disneyland made famous back in the 1960's. While the creation of the set pieces and animatronics will be underway up in Imagineering's facilities in Tujunga and Glendale, the construction of the facility itself will be going full steam at DCA this summer. The current timeline has this mega-attraction with its attached water playground and lavishly themed building opening in June, 2011. This will be the same time that the current Ariel's Grotto restaurant across the boardwalk reopens as a Victorian themed "Princess Palace" character dining restaurant.

Buena Vista Street, Red Car Trolley: If you think the current rat's maze of construction walls is a pain, it's going to be nothing compared to this piece of the DCA makeover that has caused the most headaches for TDA planners. We've been telling you for over a year about the changing plans to try and work around the complete rebuilding of DCA's main entrance, the first time this has ever been attempted or needed at a Disney theme park, and a perfect example of just how much of an artistic failure the original DCA was when it opened in '01.

The original plan TDA's industrial engineers had worked up in '07 was to create a temporary park entrance on the eastern flanks of the main entrance, bringing in visitors to a turnstile facility in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area. Then, later in '08 the plan changed and the concept was shifted to the west, to a temporary turnstile complex to be built adjacent to the Soarin' Over California hangar. But since then TDA planners have become increasingly nervous that moving the main entrance to the park will only disorient visitors and destroy the small gains in yearly attendance that DCA has been eeking out in recent years.
So now, the plan is to rebuild the DCA main entrance and turn it into the 1920's hyper-themed Buena Vista Street one side at a time, while keeping the main entrance and exit gates for the park in the same place during the construction. To do that, TDA and WDI needs to shift the timeline for the construction back from an 8 month period that originally wrapped up in the fall of 2011 to a nearly 11 month period that now stretches from September of 2011 to May of 2012.

The thought of not having the DCA main entrance open and ready for the debut summer of The Little Mermaid was already giving TDA nightmares, in addition to the headaches behind the temporary park entrance concept itself, and so the entire Buena Vista Street project was moved back and lengthened. Work on the Red Car Trolley at the back of the park will begin before then, but that new attraction won't open until the entire entrance area is ready in May of 2012.

Cars Land: Here's the granddaddy of them all, and the biggest part of DCA's 1.2 Billion makeover budget. Currently slated for over 400 Million dollars, this sprawling new section of the park is purposely being saved for last. While grading and foundation work will be getting underway later this year once the World of Color construction prep-site is no longer needed, the heavy construction won't begin until late '09. We'd previously told you that some original elements won't make the cut for 2012, like the proposed Dine-In Theater restaurant that was cut in early '08.

But the guiding principal behind this new land that is being personally directed by John Lasseter is also the guiding principal behind all of DCA's makeover, and that is "Do it right the first time, or don't do it at all." Both the E-Ticket thrill ride and the two smaller C-Ticket rides in Cars Land, in addition to planning for the shops and restaurants in the new land, continue to get everything they require to put on the best show possible. We'll have more info on Cars Land, particularly the groundbreaking new Radiator Springs Racers E-Ticket, once our sources become a bit more comfortable with the details. But for now, rest assured that this one is going to raise the bar to a level previously seen only in Tokyo.

And with those four major projects above, the 1.2 Billion budget has now been fully accounted for through fiscal year 2012. Again the current WDI mantra is "Do it right the first time, or don't do it at all," and so plans to remake the MuppetVision theater, flesh out the theme on Hollywood Blvd., and not only clad the Hyperion Theater building in period architecture but also add a much needed lobby and restrooms, have all been shelved for Phase Two of the DCA makeover.

Phase Two would also encompass a remake of the Condor Flats and Grizzly Peak areas into a Teddy Roosevelt era National Park, with the addition of several new attractions in that section. And that's where the weak economy finally does begin to impact DCA's future. If by early 2012 the economy hasn't turned around and people don't start spending big in the parks like they had earlier in this decade, then DCA's Phase Two could be put on hold. But, if the improvements to DCA generate increasing attendance in 2010 through 2012, and the economy improves enough that people start splurging on their vacations, then the big plans currently being dreamed up for DCA will start seeing the light of day by 2014.

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Je trouve vraiment idiot de ne pas faire une entrée temporaire comme c'était prévu, à l'est ou à l'ouest de l'actuelle!
La solution qui semble être retenue va créer un beau bordel à l'entrée du parc et repousser de plusieurs mois l'ouverture complète de Buena Vista Street...

Oui, c'est assez étrange. Au départ, il était prévu que la nouvelle rue soit ouverte en 2011 pour les 10 ans du parc et en même temps que La petite sirène.

Mr.Freddy a écrit:

Oui, c'est assez étrange. Au départ, il était prévu que la nouvelle rue soit ouverte en 2011 pour les 10 ans du parc et en même temps que La petite sirène.

C'est clair que ça serait plus logique de faire coincider ces évènements!!
Tout ça pour ne pas désorienter les visiteurs... quelle excuse!! Franchement, ils ne sont pas si débiles que ça, surtout si l'entrée temporaire est bien indiquée! C'est à Disney de bien indiquer l'entrée temporaire (flèchage, Cast Members, ...): en clair, de faire son boulot!!

Le probleme c'est pas de bien l'indiquée c'est juste qu'elle ne sera plus aussi proche que de l'entrée du premier parc et ils ont peur de perdre des guests (ceux qui ont la flemme de se deplacer un peu plus pour DCA surtout plein de palissade) et donc de l'argent...

Visable work on Bathroom Row.



The ears have been trimmed, and now it is a true circle, just waiting for a neon sign in storage....





About six more weeks prior to the Games of the Boardwalk reopening.






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D'autres photos là:
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NEW PARADISE PIER SIGN
While construction at DCA continues to chug along, the big news this week was the installation of the new Paradise Pier marquee on the California Screamin' rollercoaster where the Mickey Mouse ears used to be.








The new sign matches the Paradise Pier remodel elevation rendering. Hopefully we'll be seeing the new sunburst icon in the loop soon.


At night, the sign glows red. Unfortunately, the red neon looks more orange in photos, but the deep red glow of the marquee looks great at night, although would it have been more appropriate for the new sign to match the lightbulb style of the other signs on the Pier including the recent Toy Story Midway Mania marquee?






et plein d'autres photos ici: http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/dateline-disneyland/1025-lighting-up-pier-big-thunder-ranch-bye-bye-50th-anniversary-d23-more.html

http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/dateline-disneyland/1037-rounding-up-ranch-signs-boardwalk-world-construction-fun-wheel-more.html

sur ce lien vous verez que les nacelles sont revenues sur la grande roue, et l'avancement des façades de paradise pier.