The new Pixar Place Hotel next door to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure is designed to look like you’ve walked onto the Pixar Animation Studios campus in Emeryville with concept drawings, character maquettes and final designs sprinkled throughout the hotel.
“For those of you who are into the creative process, I think you’ll be really happy. This hotel really celebrates that,” Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter said during the opening ceremony for the hotel. “You get to see rough drawings, color studies and animation sketches as the animators were working. It really feels like you’re walking into Pixar in a way when you step in here.”
The multimillion-dollar transformation of the former Paradise Pier Hotel into the new Pixar Place Hotel debuted on Tuesday, Jan. 30 after three years in the making at the Disneyland resort in Anaheim.
From the outside, the hotel exterior suggests a vast white canvas trimmed with black pinstripes and accented with red, blue and yellow pops of color.
The front lobby of the hotel is intended to feel like a gallery of curated artwork and custom creations inspired by Pixar’s famed studio in Northern California. The rear lobby takes visitors through the animated filmmaking process from hand-drawn sketches to wire-frame character designs.
Red, yellow and blue bursts of primary colors serve as bold accents at the front desk in contrast to the muted colors of modern hotel designs.
The Luxo Jr. lamp balancing atop the red-starred blue and yellow Luxo ball serves as the centerpiece of the hotel beneath an atrium mobile featuring colorful stick figure characters from “Finding Nemo,” “Monsters Inc.,” “Wall-E,” “The Incredibles,” “Toy Story,” “Soul” and “Coco.”
“We really wanted to create a new wonderful location at the Disneyland Resort that celebrated the incredible creativity and imagination that goes into our Pixar films and really embrace all the joy, whimsy, optimism and…
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