Planning a trip to Disneyland Resort? Here are 10 Things You Have to Know About Disneyland’s Pixar Fest.
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10 Things You Have to Know About Disneyland’s Pixar Fest
This week we got to visit Disneyland and experience Pixar Fest for ourselves. Pixar Fest is the newest addition to Disneyland and Disney California Adventures parks happening now through September 3, 2018. Pixar Fest celebrates Disney-Pixar timeless films and beloved characters! If you are thinking of making your way to Disneyland this summer, we have put together 10 things you have to know about Disneyland’s Pixar Fest.
Pixar Play Parade
So, let’s get things started with Pixar Play Parade. If you have been to Disney California Adventure park, you might be familiar with this daytime parade. However, Pixar Play Parade is now at Disneyland Park and it is lead by Pixar Lamp and Ball from Pixar’s original short, “Luxo Jr.”
Pixar Play Parade Fun Fact #1: The Pixar Lamp is 14 feet tall and the Pixar Ball is nearly four feet wide.
If you cannot wait for June 15’s Incredibles 2 release, you can catch a glimpse of Mr. Incredible, ElasticGirl, Violet, Frozoneand, and even baby Jack-Jack. Speaking of baby Jack-Jack, be on the lookout for him as he sits in one of the claws of the Omnidroid. Yes, like the one on The Incredibles film.
Another new element to the Pixar Play Parade is the addition of “Inside Out” which features Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong in Riley’s “Rocket” Wagon.
Pixar Play Parade Fun Fact #2: Nearly 280 memory orbs of all different emotions appear at the base of Riley’Rocket Wagon.
We just love Nemo, Marlin, and Dory, but who doesn’t love Squirt? So, keep your eyes peeled for the Finding Nemo and Friends float this float features baby turtles, jellyfish, and a lot of sea life. You will be totally immersed in this aquatic underwater world.
Hey, don’t blink and keep an eye out the UP float which features Kevin, Russell, Carl Fredricksen, Dug and even Carl’s house and the balloons!
Pixar Play Parade Fun Fact #3: Kevin stands nearly 12 feet tall from her toes to the top of her feathers.
Be sure to stay alert for the tiny biggest starts out there! The Bugs Life Float is ahead of the Toy Story float and it is one of the biggest floats in the parade. Speaking of Toy Story, no ending will be completed without Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Rex and the Toy Story gang, right?
The Toy Story float has the complete gang plus a group of flipping, flying, downright gravity-defying acrobats who’ll take your breath away! The entire parade features over 120-plus performers, which will entertain you and dance along to two original songs.
Pixar Fest Themed Eats!
If riding the rides, experiencing the parades and spending time with family is only half the fun and the other is the delicious eats. Pixar Fest doesn’t disappoint, right now you can satisfy any size Monsters appetite with fun themed food and beverages inspired by popular Pixar hits. Below you can see some of the treats we got to try at Alien Pizza during our recent visit to Disneyland park.
As shown above by the chefs at Alien Pizza Planet, here you can find a delicious Cheeseburger Pizza, which is a Pizza topped with ketchup, yellow mustard and pizza sauce on a sesame-seed crust with American and cheddar cheeses, caramelized onions, diced tomatoes and a slider patty, finished with a house-made burger sauce and pickle. In my opinion, the perfect treat for the entire family.
For those of us that are all about the desserts, Pixar Fest has got you covered. During this fest, you can enjoy some delicious treats from frozen treats, parfaits, cold drinks in character cups, cake tops, cake, to a fast fest of amazingly delicious churros!
While you are at Alien Pizza Planet, you can enjoy Toy Story themed eats like alien macarons and alien parfait. After you are done with those treats, head on over to the Candy Place and get your hands on some yummy alien candy apples. These guys are not only adorable looking, they are super delicious also!
I don’t think that I can find the exact words to describe the Pixar Fest Celebration Cake. This cake is in one word, fantastic! Seriously, three different layer, each distinct in flavor yet all complimentary to one another. You can find the Pixar Fest Celebration Cake at Plaza Inn in Disneyland, Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta, Paradise Garden Grill, and Pacific Wharf Cafe in Disney California Adventure.
Enough about cakes and sweet alien-themed threats, we all know that going to the parks deserves a frozen delicious treat. That’s why you have to make way to adorable snowman frozen treats and try the Pixar Pier Frosty Parfait. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this treat is a must-have while at Disneyland park. It is refreshing and perfectly delicious.
As I mentioned above, during Pixar Fest you can enjoy a Churro or two! We got to try the lemon and classic churros, you can find this churro fest a cart near you and where are the carts? Check out the list below:
- Churros near Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
- Churros near Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters
- Churros near Casey Jr. Circus Train
- Churros near Haunted Mansion
- Churros near Sleeping Beauty Castle
- Churros near Splash Mountain
- Churros at small world Promenade
- Churros near Town Square
- Churros at “a bug’s land”
- Churros near Goofy’s Sky School
- Churros near Redwood Creek Challenge Trail
- Churros near Toy Story Midway Mania!
- Willie’s Churros at Buena Vista Street
Pixar Fest Fun Fact #4: Did you know that over 2.8 million churros are sold at Disneyland every year? That’s right, over 2.8 million churros are sold at Disneyland park each and every year and trust, in my opinion, this year they will top that mark!
Together Forever — A Pixar Nighttime Spectacular
If you love fireworks and some of your favorite movies comes from Pixar studios, then grab all your friends and family and enjoy Disneyland’s Together Forever – A Pixar Nighttime Spectacular show filled with dazzling projections, pyrotechnics, and music from the Disney•Pixar movies, including Incredibles!
Pixar Fest Together Forever Fun fact #5: Together Forever celebrates the everlasting bonds of friendship between guests, as well as the friendships of beloved Pixar characters from all 19 Disney•Pixar films.
My family and I love fireworks shows and if your family is anything like mine, they will love Together Forever. This nighttime show opens with Buzz Lightyear, who flies 100 feet in the air above Sleeping Beauty Castle on a flight path that is 350 feet long. As Buzz Lightyear takes flight, you will hear him open the show with the line: “To friendship and beyond!”
Pixar Fest Together Forever Fun fact #6: The fireworks for “Together Forever” were specifically developed and designed to enhance the projected images within the show and to match Pixar Animations Studios’ color palette.
If you are wondering which is the best viewing area to fully experience this nighttime specular? The answer is easy. Each of the four viewing areas in the park: Main Street, U.S.A., Sleeping Beauty Castle, Rivers of America, and “it’s a small world,” feature custom effects that create a unique experience for you at each location.
Pixar Fest Together Forever Fun fact #7: With the use of projection mapping, more than 300 Space Aliens from “Toy Story” appear on the façade of the buildings on Main Street, U.S.A., “it’s a small world” attraction, and Sleeping Beauty Castle during their moment in “Together Forever.”
Do you love Disney•Pixar Coco? My family loves that film so much! One bit of snip bit, during Together Forever, you can hear the voice of Anthony Gonzalez, who played the lead role of Miguel in Coco, singing “The World Es Mi Familia.”
Pixar Fest Together Forever Fun fact #8: If you are viewing Together Forever from Main Street, U.S.A, keep your eyes peeled for the 10 townspeople from Coco’s Land of the Dead appearing on the rooftops of Main Street, U.S.A. Each of these characters stretches more than 10 feet tall.
Now, enough of me trying to describe this beautiful nighttime spectacular and enjoy the video we made while we enjoy Together Forever. And by the way, if you are wondering what has been the largest objects ever flown above Sleeping Beauty Castle in past or present nighttime spectaculars? The answer is the largest object ever flown is in “Together Forever” and it is Carl Fredricksen’s House from Disney•Pixar’s film, “Up.”
The Opening of Pixar Pier
The opening of the brand new Pixar Pier land at Disneyland will be happening this upcoming June 23rd. This new land will be made up of four new neighborhoods, which will represent distinctive Pixar stories: Incredibles Park, Toy Story Boardwalk, Inside Out Headquarters, and Pixar Promenade. The latter will bring a new look to Mickey’s Fun Wheel, transforming it into the Pixar Pal-A-Round.
Pixar Fest Fun fact #9: The highlight of Incredibles Park will be the new Incredicoaster.
Paint the Night
Paint the Night is now at Disney Califonia Adventure and it features popular Disney pals and a brand-new float featuring The Incredibles. That right, The Incredibles makes their debut in this after-dark sensation that ignites the night with electrifying enchantment.
Pixar Fest Fun fact #10: Cheer as Mr. Incredible, Mrs. Incredible, and Frozone take on their latest adversary—“The Underminer.” While Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack reveal surprising new powers via innovative visual technology.
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