It is a California (and high growth) state of mind.
A park photographer, Kristin Wagner, photographs visitors while entering California adventure in Disney, just below a recreation of the Golden Gate bridge.
(Don Kelsen/Los Angeles Times)
In a period of great expansion, Disneyland would begin to become an adequate complex, a metamorphosis that, although it did not work immediately, would correct and establish Disneyland for a new generation of growth. This era added Disney California Adventure, turning destiny into one that Walt Disney Co. hoped he begins the rooms of several days.
What was new?
An old parking lot in front of Disneyland was redone in Disney California Adventure, which would open in February 2001. The long development project was designed to honor California culture, but was initially launched as a response from the west coast to the Walt Disney World Epcot. The Times was kind in its opening coverage, praising the change of rhythm of the park from Disneyland and admiring how its architecture blurred fiction and reality.
The colllation dolle simulation that rose on California was an instant success, and “Eureka! A California parade” was Disney's theatricality in its strangest form, with floats that represented the old town San Diego, the watts and more. But the prevalence of California Adventure's attraction park walkers failed to order the crowds of his neighbor next door. Disney's own documentary “The Imagineering Story” adopted a hard love approach with the first days of the park, comparing some of its initial designs with those of a local shopping center. However, over time, with multiple image and addition changes, the California adventure would become a beloved world -class theme park, although it would deviate from its initial presumption focused on California.
During this time, Disneyland also added the Grand Californian Hotel and its Disney center district. A luxurious version of the California Crafts Movement, the Californian Grand remains the characteristic hotel and home of its best gastronomic establishment, Napa Rose, under renovations at the time of writing. Disney would also add a second haunted attraction with the terror tower of the Twilight zone in 2004. In Disneyland, Tomorrowland in 1998 would receive a transformation, one from which it has not yet recovered completely. The beloved People Move would no longer be, an art style inspired by Jules Verne would come and gradually go, and Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters would arrive in 2005.
The many adventures of Winnie The Pooh would evict in 2003 the bears of the country of his Music Hall.
Did you know?
This era is home to two of the main shortest Disneyland attractions. The superstar of the limousine in California Adventure was conceived as a trip in which the paparazzi would persecute the celebrities, a concept considered of bad taste following the death of Princess Diana. It was remodeling as a kind of journey by Hollywood with very caricaturized figures of people such as Whoopi Goldberg, Regis Philbin, Drew Carey, Cher and more, but would close within a year. In Disneyland, People Move replacement rocket rods could never constantly operate, and the trip would last only about two years. The clues remain.
