The (Many) Problems With Pixar Pier

My theory is that the entire point of this change to the land was to just promote Incredibles 2

Never forget before the ride opened when they claimed “we have a 40 foot animatronic Mrs. Incredible” only for it to be a fiberglass prop.

To be fair the designers of pixar pier had the impossible task of implementing a horrible idea cooked up by a marketing executive

I know I'm getting old, but it still shocks me when I hear a grown man's voice say he was born in the 2000s. 💀

One of the biggest problems I have with modern Disney execs irt the theme park direction is that they don't understand making something 'more Disney' has very little to do with Disney IPs. Disney parks' magic was in attention to detail, high quality construction, depth of theming, free included Plus at every park. Now we have cheap rides, plastic statues passing as immersion and that Plus experience is now behind giant paywalls. As a Disney Parks fan, I would give SO MUCH to have a creative back in the CEO seat.

To add on to your point about the re-theme being rushed, Jessie’s Critter Carousel and the Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind didn’t open until a year after the land officially turned into Pixar Pier. You’d think those would have been there from the start if this re-theme was truly a passion project.

California Screamin music was so good 🙁

I really miss the big CALIFORNIA stone letters in front of the entrance :(

You didn't even mention my least favorite part about the transition from Screamin' to Incredicoaster, and it's that the launch spiels are all the same now. The old ones were so charming. "Second thoughts? Too late! Head back, face forward, and hold on like you mean it!"

It’s easy to fix. 1. Upgrade the show elements in Incredicoaster (make everything screen based inside the tunnels and remove the Jack-Jacks on a stick). 2. Move Mosters, Inc. to the pier. 3. Rename the other Paradise Pier attractions with Pixar IPs.

You articulated exactly how I felt about this change ESPECIALLY Screamin' to Incredicoaster. It was my first real coaster as a kid and got me into it, not it feels like a soulless cash grab. I feel similarly about Tower of Terror.

A couple ride ideas that are Pixar that I would like for Disney to create: -Incredibles ride with a Kuka arm so it makes it feel like your flying around -A Toy Story Mystic Manor style ride that is themed to Andy and Sids homes

I want to live in a world where the movie's name is actually 'It's tough to be a bug', incredible

RIP Orange Stinger. It was the most alluring building in all the park to 2007 me. 🍊

They really should've continued adding to the california theme rather than completely destroy it all with IP's, they should've added more to paradise pier such as retheme tritons carousel to a Victorian carousel with a toy story IP that isn't directly in your face like midway mania did, they could've also done something like that to the paradise pier boardwalk games, and they could've added a classic parachute ride where the maliboomer used to be, which they originally where going to add but didn't add for some reason, but there's still a lot of ways they could've completely fixed the california theme of the land and have a disney take of california itself to guests rather than just a complete slap of things you can see in califronia or a slap of poorly executed IP's

When I started going to California Adventure as an older kid I was really into the Edwardian era and I loved the fact that Paradise Pier was modeled after that kind of old-timey amusement park. The whole old-fashioned California vibes of the park back then were really great and it's sad that they had to swap out a cool, pretty unique theme with blatant Disney properties to make it marketable.

I don't know it it's just because I was a kid when I went on the California Screamin', but I feel that the open tubes added to the ride experience. You could see all the way out to Disneyland. Most notably, the openness and the ability to see how high you were added to the suspense of the drop, I would actully get air time on the drop, and now, with the closed tubes, it feels shorter and I get no feeling. It's all quite unfortunate.

A big problem of Pixar pier is it stops before it gets to symphony swings. Leaving that, goofy’s sky school, the zepler and jelly fish all feel out of place

you earned a fan here! i’m so excited to see what you make

I will always prefer classic DCA to modern DCA. It was supposed to be a celebration and experience of all things california when it opened in 2001. But now, with GOTG, Avengers Campus, and now Screaming (I absolutely refuse to say it's current name) It now feels like instead of CALIFORNIA adventure, it's now SUPERHERO adventure, with some pixar thrown in here and there and the absolute tiniest shred of california left off in the corner alone and forgotten. I remember the days of muppet vision 3D, the aladdin show, Paradise Pier of course, Bug's land, soaring over california, and tower of terror. I ride I really liked. Hell, I remember forcing my mother to go on that all the time and even the fun wheel one time even though she was scared of heights. And I remember when I took my friend on screaming for the first time, as soon as we launched, I heard him screaming with a high pitched voice next to me. Hell, I even remember attending the opening of cars land back in 2012 for pete's sake. Now the whole land is nothing more than a hollow shell of what it once was to me. I know realistically it'll never happen, but I hope that disney brings DCA back to it's former glory someday. Maybe then I'd actually stop and visit the area