Originally Posted By PetesDraggin The letters that once graced the entrance to DCA are now moving to Sacramento. Their permanent home will now be at Cal Expo, which is where the California State Fair is held each year. <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/30/4524219/disneys-california-letters-to.html" target="_blank">http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/...-to.html</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt This is wonderful to hear. The two best parts of the old entrance - first the train's engine and now the letters - have found a home.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<- first the train's engine and now the letters - have found a home.>> Yeah, both in No. Cal.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt According the the latest Disney Parks Blog post quite a few of DCA's features have been donated. The cab of the California Zephyr train that was formerly the home of Bur-r-r Bank Ice Cream and Bakers Field Bakery was donated to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, Calif. The sun icon that welcomed visitors to Sunshine Plaza was donated to the City of Anaheim for future use. The giant toy train from EnginEARS Toys will be donated to Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children’s) for future use. Postcards and displays from the Greetings From California store at the main entrance of Disney California Adventure park were donated to many Southern California nonprofit organizations and educational facilities, including the Boys & Girls Club of Tustin, the Anaheim Family YMCA, the Child Abuse Services Team office in Orange, the Environmental Nature Center in Newport Beach, and Betsy Ross and Orange Grove elementary schools in Anaheim. Signs and character displays from Greetings From California were donated to Pretend City in Irvine. The Reboundo Beach surfboard basketball game was donated to the Boys & Girls Club of Garden Grove. Benches from throughout Disney California Adventure park were donated to the City of Anaheim for use in public spaces.
Originally Posted By cheesybaby This morning I put some garbage bags out by the curb for the garbage truck. Scratch that - I "donated them to the city for future use." (I did like the California Zephyr)
Originally Posted By mawnck >>The sun icon that welcomed visitors to Sunshine Plaza was donated to the City of Anaheim for future use.<< The glare will be great for stunning the zombies. Since they're apparently starting in Florida, I assume we have a few more weeks before it will be needed. >>Postcards and displays from the Greetings From California store at the main entrance of Disney California Adventure park were donated to many Southern California nonprofit organizations and educational facilities<< In the dead of night, when nobody was looking. ;-)
Originally Posted By 9oldmen What about the Maliboomer, or the stuff from SuperStar Limo? (insert your clever uses for both or either).
Originally Posted By SuperDry I would imagine the Maliboomer could easily be sold to some other amusement park operator, since it was an off-the-shelf ride to start with. As to the old SSL stuff, since the building and the ride system were unchanged, I'm not sure there's much value to what's left: how much is irregular-shaped painted plywood worth on the secondary market?
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes The Sun Icon should have been melted down for scrap metal and then donated to the City of Anaheim. On my first visit to DCA, I saw that hubcap and thought, "Good Lord, this is supposed to be a Disney theme park?" It was far and away the worst impression I had of the park, including Super Star Limo. Maybe Anaheim will be smart enough to face it to the South. I'm glad that the CALIFORNIA letters weren't scrapped. I go to the State Fair every year and I'd enjoy seeing them again.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Yeah, the Sun Icon had to be the worst featured "weenie" of any theme park, Disney or otherwise. As short as DCA was on Disney ingenuity when it opened the Sun Court was easily the most glaring example of budget cutting in the entire place. Still, the metallic sculpture would make a nice feature for a municipal park or plaza.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x >>>>Postcards and displays from the Greetings From California store at the main entrance of Disney California Adventure park were donated to many Southern California nonprofit organizations and educational facilities<< In the dead of night, when nobody was looking. ;-)<< Exactly. Our church is moving to a new building, and we got displays from Compass Books. At 4 in the morning...
Originally Posted By crapshoot <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/08/disneyland-resort-donates-california-zephyr-to-western-pacific-railroad-museum/" target="_blank">http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...-museum/</a> Here's a pretty nice PR piece Disney put up last year regarding the WP locomotive.
Originally Posted By TMICHAEL >>>Yeah, the Sun Icon had to be the worst featured "weenie" of any theme park, Disney or otherwise<<< mmm, I don't know, I still think the worst weenie ever is that ugly BAH that is blocking the original weenie, Grauman's Chinese Theater, over at DHS. I'll take the Sun Icon over that piece of poop any day of the week.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Close call for me. I guess I'd give "worst" to the BAH because 1). It replaced a perfectly good (much better, actually) weenie and now even blocks its view, and 2). If the sun thing was ever supposed to be DCA's main icon, even the Disney folks had decided by the time it opened that it didn't cut it, and you'll notice the main icon on all the DCA promo pieces, merch, etc. is Grizzly Peak (and on the then-new DLR logos, it was SBC plus Grizzly Peak). So I accepted GP as the main DCA icon, and thought of the sun plaza with the wave fountain more like DL's hub - a "neutral" place to sit and relax and then head off to the themed lands. Of course, DL's main icon is right behind the hub and by that time, people were conditioned to thinking the main icon should be right in front of you when you walked in the park, and not off to the side. DHS had a similar situation when the "official" icon was the water tower, but everyone assumed it was Grauman's because it was in the usual "icon spot." Another weird thing about the sun icon was that if Disney ever showed a sun for DCA, it was the Sun Wheel - very strange to have a bigger representation of what your centralized weenie is, in the same park. Anyway, both the sun icon and the BAH were pretty weak, and at least DCA is upgrading theirs. I wouldn't mind seeing the BAH disappear, but I'm not holding my breath.
Originally Posted By xrayvision Dabob, you've stumped me good this time. I can't figure out what "BAH" means. Lol. Can someone help me out here? I'm excited that the letters are being sent to Sacramento! It seems like the perfect city to display them. BTW, I read the comments to the news article linked to the original post. Sacramentans seemed to be worried that the letters might be vandalized if placed outside of Cal Expo's gates because of taggers/gangs that live nearby. Apparently, they already tag or steal the large golden bear statues that sit at the park entrances. I sometimes go Cal Expo for the State Fair, and once for the oniste Raging Waters waterpark, and I noticed that they keep the street and entrances to the park looking nice. But, there's still tagging in the area, including on the smaller Cal Expo street signs (which direct you to which gate to enter for different attractions) and on the pillars/poles of the large electronic "Cal Expo" signs that are featured at the front of parking lot entrances. They do clean off and paint over the tags though. Yet, to avoid vandalism and theft altogether, I will join the chorus in saying that the letters should probably be displayed inside the park gates. They will make a nice "winnie" for the State Fair and other events hosted on the park grounds.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 BAH is the unofficial slang invented for the large sorcerer's hat that now sits in front of Grauman's at DHS. Big for big. A for, um.... posterior. H for hat.
