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The entrance of Disney California Adventure as it appears today. Oswald's Filling Station. On October 17, 2007, The Walt Disney Company announced a multi-year, $1.1 billion expansion plan for Disney California Adventure. Included in this expansion plan was the re-theming and complete overhaul of Sunshine Plaza into Buena Vista Street.
The present-day site of Disney California Adventure was acquired by Walt Disney in the 1950s and functioned as the parking lot of Disneyland for over 40 years. After succeeding with the multi-park business model at Walt Disney World resort in Florida, the Disney company decided to turn Walt Disney's original theme park into a multi-park resort complex as well.
Buena Vista (Spanish for "good view") [1] is a brand name that has historically been used for divisions, subsidiaries, and assets of The Walt Disney Company, whose primary studios, the Walt Disney Studios, are located on South Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California. [2]
The park's daily parades originally began on the east side of the sun icon. In 2011, the Sunshine Plaza was closed, renovated, and completely remodeled as part of the park's 2007–2012 redesign and renovation. The California Zephyr locomotive was removed and donated to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California. [1]
(The term "attractions" is used by Disney as a catch-all term for rides, shows, and exhibits.) Disney California Adventure currently has 34 attractions in the theme park. Disney California Adventure began a major US$1.2 billion renovation in 2008 that ended in 2012. Virtually every aspect of the park had some type of work done to it.
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About 14,000 performances were held inside the 2,000-seat Hyperion Theater in Hollywood Land at Disney California Adventure from 2003 to 2016, after which the show was replaced by Frozen – Live at the Hyperion, a musical show inspired by Disney's 2013 animated feature film Frozen. [2] [3]
Pixar Pal-A-Round (formerly known as the Sun Wheel and Mickey's Fun Wheel) is a 150-foot-tall (46 m) eccentric wheel at Disney California Adventure, at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The attraction opened to the public on February 8, 2001, at Paradise Pier as the Sun Wheel .