It's
very rare that I manage to see new developments at the Disneyland
Resort within the first week or two of launch. The San Fernando
Valley isn't quite
close enough to Anaheim for a casual hop over, and I don't actually
own a car. So my trips need a bit of advance planning, and the timing
doesn't often seem to work out for experiencing something while it's
brand-new. This was an exception—I had some time off of work, and
my sister had a day off, and so we managed to hit the place up on a
Wednesday.
The
weather was perfect, the crowds were as light as they are ever likely
to be anymore, and...Pixar Fest had just started up the previous
weekend.
Man,
they don't make summer events like they used to, do they?
Like
I've said before, I've got nothing against Pixar. They produce
quality movies.* Coco
was one of the best things I've seen in years. But as I've also said
before, Pixar is not a theme.
There is not much uniting the Pixar movies apart from them all being
made by the same studio; objectively speaking, a summer celebration
dedicated to Pixar is no more coherent than if they tossed all of the
films in the Disney Animated Canon into a hat and drew fifteen at
random.
But
it is what it is. So what is it? How is it? Is it tolerable?
Eh,
I guess.
