#disney paradise pier

[samsdisneydiary]

Opening Date Revealed for Pixar Place Hotel at Disneyland Resort, Plus Sneak Peek of Great Maple Menu, Pixar-Themed Hotel Rooms and More

Playful Pixar elements have been coming to life over the past few months at Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel at Disneyland Resort, and we’re excited to share that the property will officially transform into Pixar Place Hotel on Jan. 30, 2024, becoming the first fully Pixar-themed hotel in the United States. Today, we’re giving you a glimpse of rooms inspired by Pixar stories, menu items to look…

[laurenovercalifornia]

[disneyparksattractionstournament]

Extinct Disney Parks and Attractions tournament round 2: Group A

Reminder, you don't have had to experience any of the attractions/experiences to vote! Just read in the info and/or watch the vid,then vote for which you wish you would have experienced more/which sounds cooler!

Videos and propaganda/info dumping under cut

Mission Tortilla Factory: California Adventure (2001-2011)

Orange Stinger: California Adventure (2001-2009)

Propaganda:

"It was the best!!!"

[magicaltrash]

Spotted just outside the "re-theme in-progress" Pixar Place Hotel is this pair of upscale trash/recycling cans, very similar in design to those implemented at The Villas at Disneyland Hotel. Maybe they got a 2-for-1 deal? // Disneyland Resort, Paradise Pier Hotel / Pixar Place Hotel, 2023 [Source: Chris Glass. Used by Permission.]

[disneyremnants]

Halfway down Sunset Boulevard at Disney's Hollywood Studios you can find this billboard advertising Paradise Pier! Paradise Pier was once a land featured at Disney's California Adventure, until it was converted into Pixar Pier in June 2018!

[epcotarchivist]

Paradise Pier

[randomsliceofdisney]

Disneyland

Mickey's Fun Wheel/Pixar Pal-a-Round

[tropicalwindowglass]

[luxebeat]

Pixar Place Hotel Opens Soon at Disneyland

Guests staying a Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel this summer and fall, will get a glimpse of the hotel’s transformation into the first fully-themed Pixar Place Hotel. It’s scheduled to open this winter, 2023 at Disneyland, California. The 15-story Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel overlooking Disney California Adventure Park, is changing its California beach theme to an exciting and colorful Pixar…

[tropicalwindowglass]

It smells like Parmesan cheese in there

California Adventure-Pizza and Pasta on Flickr.

[hopefulkidshark]

Pixar Pal-A-Round – Swinging, Anaheim, California: Pixar Pal-A-Round is a 150-foot-tall eccentric wheel at Disney California Adventure, at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The attraction opened to the public on February 8, 2001, at Paradise Pier as the Sun Wheel.

[laurenovercalifornia]

[disneyparksattractionstournament]

Extinct Disney Parks and Attractions tournament round 1: Group A2

Reminder, you don't have had to experience any of the attractions/experiences to vote! Just read in the info and/or watch the vid,then vote for which you wish you would have experienced more/which sounds cooler!

Videos and propaganda/info dumping under cut

Superstar Limo: California Adventure (2001-2002)

Propaganda:

"I’m obsessed with this ride. The actual concept for a dark ride where you’re outrunning the paparazzi got canned when Princess Diana died (seriously), so they panicked and slapped together the worlds worst, cheapest looking ride full of inside jokes that you’ll only get if you live in LA. There’s a commercial for California Adventure where some actors go on it, and have to pretend it was a good ride. What a snapshot in time."

Here is that promo the person in the propaganda was talking about:

Orange Stinger: California Adventure (2001-2009)

Propaganda:

"It was the best!!!"

[magicaltrash]

It's 2004 and you can spot many trash can designs from the DCA 1.0 era, stockpiled behind Disneyland in an area that would eventually become Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. Can you identify all the lands represented? And who owns that bike?

// Disneyland Resort, Disneyland, Backstage, 2004

[Source: Darkbeer via Jason Schultz. Used by Permission.]

[thesandsofelsweyr]

Snippet Sunday Tuesday

Still focused on finishing Hollowed Out (ao3) and The Sus Boy Next Door (ao3), but here's a sneak peak at a request fill in progress 👀

“You know babe,” you say as you turn the page of your paperback. “More people are staring at you now than they would have if you’d worn appropriate beach attire.” 

You push your sunglasses down your nose to peek out at your miserable boyfriend, who’s pouting beneath the umbrella in the beach chair beside you. He’s dressed in his usual attire: jeans, baseball cap, hoodie pulled up over his cap. Except, he isn’t in Gotham City. He’s on a beach, in a tropical paradise, surrounded by beachgoers in their swimsuits. It’s upwards of 100 degrees out. You have no idea how he hasn’t passed out from the heat.

“I still don’t know why we had to come here. Ocean’s ocean,” he grumbles, slouching lower into his chair, hat sliding forward to cover more of his face, bare feet sinking deeper into the sand. Somehow you’d managed to convince him to take his sneakers off at least.

“No, this is supposed to be the most beautiful beach in Turks and Caicos. And we don’t have a beach, dear. We have a pier.”

“And a pool. And I’m pretty sure I saw some sand.”

You sigh, turning back to your book. “I did suggest we go skiing instead, but you insisted on somewhere warm.” You don’t have to look up to know that he’s grimacing like he does when you’re right.

“When I rented an entire house overlooking the ocean for just the two of us I assumed we’d stay at our own private ocean.”

You glance over at him again, and can’t help but smile at how pitiful he looks, with his hands stuffed into the pocket of his hoodie, big beads of sweat dripping down the side of his petulant face. He must’ve finished the paperback you’d slipped out of the back pocket of his jeans and placed in his hands to keep him occupied—a trick you’d learned from babysitting your four year old cousin.

You furtively fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in your book. The man haaaaaates when you do that, like you're desecrating an ancient, sacred text, and not his beat-up, second-hand copy of Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

“What are you doing?” he asks, his pout melting away to a hopeful expression.

“Packing up,” you reply as you slide the book into your beach bag and begin to fold up your towel.

“We’re leaving?” he says, his pale blue eyes pleading, like a kid who’s waiting to find out if he gets to go to Disney World.

“I suppose there are some activities that we can only do in our private ocean.”

sea dividers by @cafekitsune

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Disneyland Resort as seen from above