A conga line of Pluto and pals dances through the restaurant, gathering up kids and making parental curmudgeons smile. Kids will also like Superstar Limo, in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area. Here you play the star, riding in your purple limo past a few audio-animatronic Hollywood celebrities. Adults will notice, however, that other painted plywood characters and sets are about on a par with college theater constructions. Disney's California Adventure replaced the old Disneyland parking lot.
Cars now park in multistory garages.
The team narrowed to seven Imagineers brainstorming in Disney's Glendale offices. Barry Braverman, executive producer for the Imagineers, said by the third day of idea-hatching, with ideas taped up all over the walls, the group pitched the California theme to Disney CEO Michael Eisner. He liked it. From there the creative team fanned out all over California. They also returned intent on telling California history.