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    Pixar Pier tells a whole new story

    by Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times Jul 09, 2018 5 minutes

    The early days of Disney's California Adventure theme park next door to Disneyland boasted a number of peculiar design choices: a paparazzi-themed family ride, a coaster alluding to reckless drivers on Mulholland Drive and an extreme sports story line to its rafting ride.

    Most of the above has been removed or fixed over the park's 17 years. Additions such as the cartoonish take on Route 66 that is Cars Land - arguably the most conceptually realized area in the entire Disneyland Resort - as well as gradual enhancements to Grizzly Peak, a land that conjures the majesty of national parks, have over the years turned the once-maligned California Adventure into an honorable theme park.

    But one oddity has remained: Paradise Pier.

    Paradise Pier's conceit was always surreal - a place within a theme park that evokes the kind of theme park Disneyland was built to

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