Weathering a Crowded Summer Day at DCA: Lessons Learned from Pixar Pier Premiere

Pixar Pier Incredicoaster

Disneyland is crowded. This has become a universal reality.  It is unfortunate, virtually unavoidable, and has become sadly consistent. When a new or newly refurbished land, attraction, or rose-gold gift dispensary opens over an already impacted summer weekend, the resort can reach capacity. As can guest frustration. The recent Disney California Adventure Pixar Pier premiere on … Read more

REVIEW: Table Service and Almost Every Drink from Lamplight Lounge in Pixar Pier at Disney California Adventure

If you’ve been following our adventures this past weekend, you’ll know that we spent the better portion of our visit at the premiere of Pixar Pier at Disney California Adventure. The retheme of the land transformed the previous Ariel’s Grotto restaurant into Lamplight Lounge, a place where Pixar animators would (according to story) often hang … Read more

REVIEW: Senor Buzz Churros Offers Galactic and Caliente Flavors on Pixar Pier at Disney California Adventure

Senor Buzz Churros is a brand new outdoor food location at Disney California Adventure Park. This location was opened with the Pixar Pier expansion/refurbishment/retheme of Paradise Pier. Previously this stand sold boring, plain churros. Not that churros are boring, or plain, but now they’re being kicked-up a notch with a special flare from the spiciest … Read more

REVIEW: Angry Dogs Spices Up Pixar Pier at Disney California Adventure

Angry Dogs is a brand new outdoor food location at Disney California Adventure Park. This location was opened with the Pixar Pier expansion/refurbishment/retheme of Paradise Pier. Previously this stand sold boring, plain hot dogs and chips. Apparently someone spit in their bean curd and made the hot dogs furious. Angry Dogs was born.   Slightly … Read more

REVIEW: Jack-Jack Cookie Num Nums is the Best Attraction In Pixar Pier at Disney California Adventure

Jack-Jack Cookie Num Nums is a brand new outdoor food location at Disney California Adventure Park. This location was opened with the Pixar Pier expansion/refurbishment/retheme of Paradise Pier, albeit without its sign. Previously this stand sold boring, plain photos of you and your family riding California Screamin’. Now it sells cookies and milk, Santa’s dream come … Read more

REVIEW: Poultry Palace Fails to Take Off in Pixar Pier at Disney California Adventure

Poultry Palace is a brand new outdoor food location at Disney California Adventure Park. This location was opened with the Pixar Pier expansion/refurbishment/retheme of Paradise Pier. The name Poultry Palace comes from the Toy Story Toons short ‘Small Fry’. If you’ve never watched it, or want to check out the hilarious short you can watch … Read more