Disney California Adventure visitors crossing over the Shinto shrine-inspired Golden Gate Bridge into San Fransokyo Square will join an ongoing celebration of the “Big Hero 6” super heroes who saved the fictional wharf-side district from a villain’s evil wrath.
“What you’re seeing the day you visit San Fransokyo Square is Big Hero 6 Day. It’s a big show of appreciation,” Walt Disney Imagineering Art Director Michael Dobrzycki said. “Of course, every day you visit is Big Hero 6 Day, so it doesn’t matter which day you go. If you come this time next year, it will still be Big Hero 6 Day.”
San Fransokyo Square officially opened on Thursday, Aug. 31 with the full transformation of the former Pacific Wharf food court finally complete.
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San Fransokyo served as the central location in the 2014 Disney animated superhero movie drawing upon inspirations from both cities to create the fictional metropolis. Imagineering has spent the summer slowly but steadily turning the Monterey Bay-themed Pacific Wharf land into an architectural cross between the San Francisco Bay and Tokyo Bay areas.
Imagineering created San Fransokyo Square as a small wharfside district within the larger San Fransokyo urban downtown area seen in the movie. The challenge for Imagineering was to overlay the existing 1920s Cannery Row-inspired Pacific Wharf food court with a distinctly San Fransokyo theme from “Big Hero 6.”
The backstory of San Fransokyo Square finds the wharf fishing community revitalized after the fisheries, canneries and tanneries in an old waterfront village fell on hard times during a big tech boom in the fictional city.
The touristy wharfside district is now home to boutique shops, restaurants and leisure-related businesses.
A travel agency has moved into the district. The San Fransokyo Tribune newspaper has offices above one of the restaurants. A local DJ hosts…
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