[Disney California Adventure] Placemaking et futur du Parc

Heu... Silly Symphonies n'est pas un dessin animé mais une collection de 70 court-métrages d'animation.
De plus, Dumbo est bien un chef-d'oeuvre d'animation et un des manèges les plus populaires des Parcs Disney en a été inspiré !

Je sais bien que les Silly Symphonie sont une série de courts métrages, j'en ai même certains sur vhs qui date de mon enfance.
Après, c'est un avis perso, je pense qu'une attraction avec le thème des Silly Symphonie aurait pu être mieux..Je suis déçue c'est tout.
Quant au fait que Dumbo soit une attraction populaire d'accord, mais ça ne veut pas dire que c'est la mieux thématisée à mon sens.

C'est juste le nom d'une attraction péché dans l'historique de Disney ... et l'attraction est une rethématisation de Orange Stinger ...

DISNEY'S WORLD OF COLOR & PARADISE PARK
The new Paradise Park lighthouse landmark and walkway has been opened up.








New lampposts in the area


















MiceChat's Dustysage put together a short video of recent World of Color fountain testing:













THE LITTLE MERMAID & CARS LAND
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure







Cars Land





SILLY SYMPHONY SWINGS










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J'adore ce Resort .... Deja que Los Angeles me fait rever mais ce resort est tellement magique et tellement d'experiences a vivre ! je veux trop y aller !!!

THE LITTLE MERMAID AND CARS LAND

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure





Cars Land / Radiator Springs Racers





SILLY SYMPHONY SWINGS
The new red-and-white circus tent canopy for the Silly Symphony Swings was installed late last week.











RED CAR TROLLEY
Over in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot, work continues on the track work for the upcoming Red Car Trolley line that will run from California Adventure's main entrance all the way back to the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The entire width of Hollywood Blvd. has been walled off now as the street is torn out to lay new trolley track. Sidewalks down Hollywood Blvd. are still open, but if the sidewalks get too congested, guests can go through the Hollywood Studios area to go around some of the construction.




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SILLY SYMPHONY SWINGS
Last week saw quite a bit of progress at the Silly Symphony Swings project as decorative new panels were installed as well as the new maestro Mickey topper. The swings have also been re-installed and reports of testing have made the rounds on the MiceChat boards.












The new Swings are looking quite nice, a definite improvement over the Orange Stinger. It is, however, disappointing that the lighting package and decorative panels are nothing more than off-the-shelf decorations for an off-the-shelf ride that Disney failed to include in the design the first time around.



RED CAR TROLLEY
Work continues on the Red Car Trolley tracks in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot.






THIS AND THAT
Work on a new private Disney's Vacation Club entrance to California Adventure is under construction.

Bonjour, les tests de World of Color ont déjà commençaient et je pense que ce show sera merveilleux, bien sûr on ne voit pas tout.
D'ailleurs j'ai l'impression que la plupart des tests on lieu lorsque le parc est ouvert ! Il y a aussi des tests la journée, bon ça donne un avant-goût au guests et peut être les incitera à revenir.

Voilà une vidéo qui montre l'écran géant :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyBN_-NlZBA&translated=1
Une autre vidéo de l'écran géant :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbXHc2Ho0FE&feature=related
Une vidéo qui montre quelques lumières et fontaines sur une belle musique :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Qlj0BbaRo&translated=1
Les tests des flammes :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9mCkB-6IQM&feature=related
Les fontaines :
De jour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D-xsvkpmIo&feature=related
Ou de nuit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YdK8L69c6M&feature=related

Voilà, en tout cas il y a énormément de vidéos sur Youtube, aller jeter un coup d'oeil

Nouvelle vidéo de tests d'il y a deux jours avec je suppose la quasi totalité des fontaines en action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIJpMi9Uv-c&feature=player_embedded#

Impressionnant vu de haut, quand sera t'il depuis les berges du lac ??

The resort is a maze of walls throughout California Adventure and around the Rivers of America at Disneyland. Sadly, the river refurb was cut back and the major retheme and new storyline was cut (for now). But let's take a look at some photos of the progress in the parks and a few areas which have recently reopened.

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DISNEY'S WORLD OF COLOR & PARADISE PARK
Work on Disney's huge new "World of Color" show continues around the clock as the team behind the show try to meet their spring debut date.








It isn't uncommon to see late-night testing for the show. MiceChatter Hot Sauce 1 got this fantastic shot of testing from the Paradise Pier Hotel. This show will truly be something special.




Meanwhile, work continues on the new 9,000-person Paradise Park viewing area. Stonework is now being added to the multi-leveled seaside park.






New trellises have been installed throughout Paradise Park.






The new wooden boardwalk is being installed












Area speakers and lighting fixtures are being reinstalled and have been given simple but nice thematic touches.




THE LITTLE MERMAID & CARS LAND
Construction at the new Little Mermaid ride is progressing...






And the first stretch of track for the new Radiator Springs Racers E-Ticket ride in Cars Land is installed (you can see it coming over the bunny hill).






SILLY SYMPHONY SWINGS & RED CAR TROLLEY
Silly Symphony Swings continues its transformation.















And over in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot, more progress can be seen on the beginnings of the track work for the upcoming Red Car Trolleys.


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Le parcours de l'attraction Cars prend forme !
Bon sang, qu'est-ce que j'ai envie d'être dans deux ans...

c'est bizarre, j'ai l'impression qu'il n'y a qu'un circuit et non deux pistes parallèles... A moins que les pistes ce sépare de temps en temps ?

Bin pour le moment, ils n'ont posé que l'une des 2 pistes.

On voit très bien sur la photo qu'il y a encore la largeur pour la deuxième piste.

oui en effet on voit bien qu'il reste de la place à droite du premier circuit pour y poser le second

En tout cas, cette bosse promet un bel effet d'air time !

Oui vous avez raison. Je n'ai pas fait attention...
Pour l'air time tout dépendra de la vitesse mais j'espère ne pas être dessus !

Impressionnant! Y'a pas à dire, ça a quand même plus de gueule que la construction d'un RC Racer!

MagicEmotion (pfh56) a écrit:

Oui vous avez raison. Je n'ai pas fait attention...
Pour l'air time tout dépendra de la vitesse mais j'espère ne pas être dessus !

moi je ne demande que ça, d'être dessus

Pardon my Sawhorse...

Across the way from Disneyland, the aggressive construction schedule at DCA is testing the limits of how much you can get done in an operating theme park. The testing for World of Color happens nightly now, which is why DCA has changed its opening time to 9:00 AM most of the week which lets them get away with closing the park earlier in the evening so that testing can begin. Not surprisingly, there are countless rumors out there about the show being hopelessly behind schedule and with a debut date being pushed back from the late April timeline we'd originally told you about to anything from May to July.

The thing to remember here is that in any big Disney project there are always reports of massive delays and setbacks, but tenured Imagineers leading such projects calmly continue with their work while sub-contractors and theme park technicians fret about the tiny details and needlessly fuel the rumor mill.

As of now, the testing for World of Color is just about on schedule and all the major elements of the show are coming together as planned. The rainy weather this winter has caused some delays to the construction of the viewing area, but those delays are minor and the construction walls surrounding the landscaped Paradise Park viewing area will be coming down next month.

However, if there are additional delays ahead that could push the World of Color debut back by several weeks, DCA Vice President Mary Niven and her management team won't complain. They are becoming increasingly panicked over how to manage the crowds (remember those million Annual Passholders) expected to descend on DCA once the show opens.

We've told you about the plan to move the Showpass ticket distribution to the Grizzly River Run Fastpass area at first, with a thousand tickets or so per day pulled out in advance to be given to tourists staying in Anaheim's new Disney Vacation Club units and Concierge level rooms at the three hotels. The DCA Food & Beverage group is also now requesting space for a thousand people per night to be carved out of the existing viewing area so that they can sell a reserved spot to stand for the show as part of a premium priced Disneyland Resort dinner package.
But it's the potentially tens of thousands of Annual Passholders stampeding on the park each night, as well as thousands of innocent tourists caught up in the World of Color frenzy, that are causing DCA's management team to really worry. Disneyland's Cast Members have plenty of experience dealing with gridlocked walkways and slowly coaxing massive crowds from one side of the park to the other, and from one major nighttime spectacular to another. But the DCA CM's have had the luxury of a far less crowded and laid back atmosphere for years, and there's no telling how they will react to Disneyland style crowds and maxed out viewing areas. Mary Niven and her team would gladly wait for Fantasmic! to return to Disneyland on May 28th before they try and host their own big water show.

While DCA's managers are understandably nervous awaiting World of Color's debut, it would be better to just rip the band-aid off as soon as possible and work through their learning curve while they still have a working main entrance and wide open parade route. In October the massive makeover to DCA's main entrance will get underway, and Buena Vista Street construction will begin from the existing California letters all the way past the Sun Plaza.

We've been telling you the evolving plans to rip out and replace the main entrance of an existing theme park, a project that is unprecedented in the history of Disney theme parks and perhaps all theme parks in general. It looks like the plan they've finally landed on is to tackle one side of DCA's main entrance at a time, and only allow people to enter the park through the half of the facility not under construction. A temporary exit for DCA would then be built on the west end of the Soarin' Over California attraction, dumping exiting park guests out into Downtown Disney.
It's not going to be pretty for the 18 months it will exist, and it promises plenty of logistical problems with rented strollers and general confusion, but it's really the best option for TDA to finally replace DCA's cheap and basic (as well as cryptic - its supposed to represent a 3-D pop-up postcard) entrance complex from 2001 with the far more lavish and luxurious (ie Disney quality and detail) Buena Vista Street experience.


Parading: Lasseter Vetoes...

The route DCA's current and future parades take through the revamped park is also causing plenty of planning headaches for TDA, and it's a factor that weighed heavily into the sudden decision to send the Electrical Parade out to WDW this summer. DCA already had one of the longest parade routes in a Disney park, and since the Carthay Circle Theater facility was going to close off the access road that DCA parades currently use to enter the park, Anaheim's entertainment team wanted the new DCA parade route to cut through Cars Land and use a new access point at that back of that new expansion to get parades in and out of the park. That plan would effectively keep the new route about the same distance as the current route.

The route through a part of Cars Land was the plan kicking around for some time, until John Lasseter saw the proposals to add curbside streetlights to the town of Radiator Springs with the hanging light racks and speakers that modern Disney parades require. The dusty desert town of Radiator Springs in the Pixar film Cars didn't have streetlights, and John Lasseter wants the big budget Cars Land expansion to be a very literal recreation of Radiator Springs, so that people feel they are literally stepping into the world of the movie. With Cars Land and its signature Mega-E Ticket attraction Radiator Springs Racers taking up half of the Billion dollar DCA makeover budget, John Lasseter's insistence that the environment remain pure to the look of the film outweighed any operational need to run a parade route through that part of the park.
The result is that the DCA parade route will now be avoiding Cars Land entirely and heading along the periphery of the Buena Vista Street entrance, and then into the Hollywoodland section of the park and back towards Tower of Terror to get backstage. That makes for an extremely long parade route, and a future challenge to any parade designer who will need to keep dancers high stepping, costumed characters perky, and float batteries sufficiently charged for an extra 10 or 15 minutes of performance time.

It was from a series of discussions springing from that decree from John Lasseter that the plan to mothball the Electrical Parade until after the World of Color crowds die down and the Buena Vista Street construction is finished in 2012 recently came about. The newly lengthened DCA parade route in 2012 will require some modifications to not only the existing floats themselves, but possibly to the dance routines and staffing of any current parade.

So earlier this winter the WDW executives in Orlando made a pitch to borrow the Electrical Parade for a bargain price during that period and use it to try and duplicate the success Disneyland had last summer with the Nightastic! promotion. The Anaheim executives are insisting that Orlando only gets the parade for just under two years, and the current agreement has the parade being shipped back to Disneyland just after Easter vacation of 2012.

Apparently Walt Disney World is rather infamous amongst Anaheim Cast Members for not maintaining their attractions, equipment and facilities to Disneyland standards, and the Anaheim entertainment team is rather nervous about sending their newly refurbished floats out to Florida. But at least the plan frees up some storage space for them as the DCA float warehouse get reworked during the Cars Land construction.

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Les premiers rails des Red Cars!!

RED CAR TROLLEY
Lots of progress has been made on the installation of the Hollywood Pictures Backlot's stretch of Red Car Trolley tracks.




The Red Car route will travel from California Adventure's remodeled Buena Vista Street entrance down through the Hollywood Pictures Backlot, ending at the Hollywood Tower Hotel courtyard and is expected to open May 2012.



DISNEY'S WORLD OF COLOR & PARADISE PARK


















THE LITTLE MERMAID & CARS LAND
Construction continues on the new Little Mermaid E-Ticket ride that is scheduled to open spring of next year.











And more track continues to go in at the upcoming Radiator Springs Racers mega E-Ticket opening in 2012 as part of Cars Land.









SILLY SYMPHONY SWINGS
& GOLDEN ZEPHYR REFURBISHMENT
Construction continues on the new wooden boardwalk beneath the Silly Symphony Swings...







And the Golden Zephyr is all wrapped up during its refurbishment.






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