Disneyland Resort Update: Fly-By Mini-Update Edition

Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, CA

Hey, guys! I know we just had a Resort update from the World of Didney on Friday, but we caught a few developments on our trip this past weekend for the Food & Wine Festival (which we’ll get to later this week), and we wanted to zoom through them for your viewing pleasure.

Ready? Set? Blast off!!!

Or something.

Pixar’s Pinocchio Pal-A-Round and Fox and Friends and Friends and Associates Parking Structure featuring Marvel Motorpool and Star Wars Shuttle Stops and Other Acquired Licenses aka the Cleo Structure that Will Probably Still Be Part of Mickey and Friends Anyway

They’ve started getting architectural at the parking structure, throwing up massive steel columns to support that big canopy cover at the escalator promenade and also starting to install supports for the planter boxes that will line the east side of the structure (similar to the current structure). Another stair has gone up, and this complex is really starting to round into shape. Next up, the canopy over the tram drive aisle (and I assume loading area) per the rendering. And that pesky bridge over Magic Way.

Hey, kids! Here’s a photo of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge beyond the current Mickey & Friends Parking Structure. But today’s update won’t be looking at “Star Wars” Land.

Instead, we’re looking at new progress the past week at the parking structure expansion!

The giant, circular canopy still remains on the ground, but they’ve thrown up some steel beams and columns up the sides and top of the escalator promenade to support it.

Ooooo… fancy… angled columns!

They’ve also thrown up another stairwell for those who wish to use stairs by moving their feet.

In addition, they’ve started installing framing members for planter boxes.

These will hold hanging planters on the east side of the parking structure.

It’ll look like these guys on the existing structure.

They’ll be onto painting soon.

Here’s the escalator promenade from ground level.

And different angles of the steel that’s gone up. The giant circular canopy will sit atop all of this.

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Looking cool!

Captain Marvel and Air Force Fly-By’s

A Captain Marvel photo op is coming to the back of Hollywood Land, and work walls have been up in preparation for that. We will hopefully see that by the middle of the week, ahead of Captain Marvel’s opening on Friday. In the meantime, yesterday, Disney did a photo op that involved members of the Air Force National Guard doing an F-15 fly-by over Paradise Park/Pixar Pier, with members of the air force posed for the dramatic shot. It was a tie-in for Captain Marvel, since Carol Danvers is an air force pilot and skilled flier.

By the end of this week, we should have a really cool Captain Marvel meet-and-greet and photo op over here by Stage 12 / Hollywood Backlot Stage.

Yesterday, as part of Captain Marvel promotion, Disney staged an Air Force photo op.

They had various Air Force members in the park.

I wonder if military people thank each other for their service…

At 3:10, there was an F-15 fly-by!

Here they come!!

WOOOOOSH!!!

*fast plane sounds*

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That’s some tight flying!

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There they go!

And, comedically, in what seemed to be unintentional, a lone jet plane came in noticeably late behind the first three. It was as through the slow plane was like “GUUUYYYYSSS! C’MON, I TOLD YOU NOT TO START WITHOUT MEEEEE!!”

Pixar Pier

Jessie’s Critter Carousel is coming along, with a canopy in place and a creepy, giant Jessie figure peering over the work walls, looking to ingest the souls of any unfortunate victims she deems to be sustenance.

What’s that poking over the wall?

It’s Jessie!

A towering Jessie…

She is with us… always… to steal our souls…

Also, the carousel has gotten rain protection.

The roofs elsewhere in the Toy Story part of Pixar Pier are turquoise. So what do they paint the top of Jessie’s Critter Carousel? Yellow, of course.

Well, it does go better with the red.

Wilderness Themed California Things

Grizzly River Rapids is still down, but we noticed that the big Grizzly Bear figure’s vest has been repainted an obnoxiously photo-luminescent orange whose artificiality is not unlike the hair of a certain commander in chief. Or, unrelatedly, a prison jumpsuit.

Grizzly River Run is still down for this apparently more extensive refurb.

Grizzly River Run is due to reopen at the end of this month, on Friday, March 29.

Meanwhile, the bear got a nifty, oranger life vest.

Finally, here are the photos inside the redone White Water Snacks that should have gone in last week’s update. The serving side has been spiffied up with a cleaner, contemporary aesthetic common to a lot of the other food service spots in Downtown Disney. There doesn’t seem to have been a ton of notable work that would have warranted a several-month shutdown, so I assume that most of the improvements went into the kitchen and/or other less seen parts of the establishment. There is a new menu, though, with more artisan culinary creations. So that’s pretty cool.

White Water Snacks got refurbished.

The serving area has a cleaner look to it.

Much more quick serve pick-up deli options now.

The “grocery store” fridge section is still here.

They have deli sandwiches that can be warmed up.

There are new items on the menu now.

Don’t worry, the nachos are still here. They’re more expensive, but the serving size seems to be a bit larger.

The menu items do look tasty!

The dining side looks pretty much the same, but with new furniture.

They look more fitting.

Nothing ground-breaking, but a little touch-up now and then is nice.

That’s it for a quick run-through today! We’ll be back with a more in-depth post from the Disneyland Resort, featuring this year’s Food & Wine Festival at Disney California Adventure. So food and boozehounds, rejoice! Your time is coming back to the DLR now! Well, in our next update. But now at the parks.

Anyway… er… food bah!!