Mobile Theme Park Newscase

Very sorry for all the various hiatuses that have been going on with this site including the one this past week.  I have had work needed to be done for school and other things I’ve had to do for my parents.  Yes, but fortunately I just got accepted to all five of my colleges I applied to (Champlain, U of Hartford, Juniata, RIT, and Columbia College Chicago) so I will be out of the house by August.

Besides my life, here is our first update to our new “Golden Progress” for the $1 billion dollar construction project for Disney’s California Adventure.  Unfortunately, I haven’t gone to DCA recently so I don’t have any good pictures to show you.  However, many sites, including DisneyGeek have shown pictures of significant progress to the construction.  Here are the updates:

Golden Progress Logo- Copyright MTPN

Paradise Pier:

• World of Color- Construction was completed last month and now they are testing it nightly for its late April opening.  If you are there at night, you may see huge fountain screens rising out of the lagoon, although they usually test it after the park’s closing.  Yep, that’s the World of Color testing.  They have also played around to test the colored lights, other water jets, and fire effects that will be open to the public next month.
• Paradise Park- This is where a 9,000 person standing area for World of Color viewing will be.  In the center will be fountains where people, especially younger ones, can run through and play in them.  For the last two months, it still looked like a messy construction site with trucks and cement just being spread out.  It was supposed to open in February and then got delayed.  Now, the cement spreading is complete and the dirt areas are filled with greenery including hedges, flowers, and small trees, like an old Victorian standing area.
• Mickey’s Silly Swings- This is the replacement for the former Orange Stinger.  This is a re-theme to it with a new theme based on the 1935 Disney short, “Mickey and the Band.”  It is now covered with murals on the body, on the top, it is decorated to look like an old zoetrope of Mickey from those cartoons with a statue of Mickey on top of the ride.  This will open next month, around the same time as the World of Color show.
• The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Adventure- This is the upcoming and premier Little Mermaid Dark ride that will take place in the former “Golden Dreams” building, with the Palace of Fine Arts structure to become part of the ride’s queue, and some of the former car themed Paradise Pier shops by Mulholland Madness.  Construction is progressing a little more slowly for this attraction than others, but it is surely making progress.  They are laying cement, digging holes in the ground to incorporate basement ride scenes, and the framework of the ride’s building is starting to come up.
• Goofy’s Sky School- This will be the new retheme for the wild mouse coaster, “Mulholland Madness.”  Construction has not started yet like it was supposed to in around January or February, in preparation for its September opening date, but I guess opening will be pushed back to December or so.

Carsland

• Radiator Springs Racers- The biggest part of this new expansion, Carsland and its main thrill ride, Radiator Springs Racers, that will open behind the Tower of Terror and a Bug’s Land.  Here is the moment you have all been waiting for- the track for the first bunny hill and sharp turn of the ride has been layed out!  There is also visible progress of the ride’s canyon structure, just like the Radiator Springs from the 2006 Pixar movie, “Cars,” that this new land will be based on.

Hollywood Pictures Backlot/Buena Vista Street

• Red Car Trolleys- The red car trolleys will take people through the Hollywood Pictures backlot from the rethemed park’s entrance (to become Buena Vista Street, a 1920’s LA when Walt Disney first arrived) all the way to the Tower of Terror attraction.  Since the beginning of the year, the “street” of Hollywood Boulevard has been closed off from the land’s entrance to the Tower of Terror plaza.  Because of that, they have opened up a path that connects the Tower of Terror Plaza to a Bug’s Land, so that guests would not crowd the sidewalk as easily if they wanted to get to Tower of Terror from the land’s entrance.