Disney announces plans to open real-life version of Toy Story’s Pizza Planet
Disney is planning on turning an outdated pizza restaurant at one of its theme parks into a real-life version of Toy Story’s Pizza Planet.
Fans of the 1995 movie will recognize Pizza Planet as the space-themed arcade restaurant where Buzz Lightyear and Woody meet the aliens (aka Little Green Men) who worship ‘The Claw’ machine game.
In the movie’s scene, both Buzz and Woody are ‘chosen’ by the claw, but instead end up in the hands of the evil neighborhood kid, Sid.
Officially named Alien’s Pizza Planet – A Better Place, the new restaurant will replace an existing restaurant, Redd Rockett’s Pizza Port.
Scheduled to open on April 13, just in time for Pixar Fest, it will be themed to the Pizza Planet restaurants from the Toy Story film series.
But the ‘A Better Place’ tagline is based on where the Little Green Men think they are going after they are chosen by The Claw in the original Toy Story film.
And although Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida is opening Toy Story Land in June 2018, the new restaurant will be located at Disneyland’s Tomorrowland located in Anaheim, California.
While Disney hasn’t officially announced the new restaurant will be a permanent fixture, Walt Disney World News Today is reporting that is most likely will be a long-term project.
Big playground: Toy Story Land is scheduled to open in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida in June 2018
The Red Rose Taverne based on Beauty and the Beast was meant to be a temporary replacement for Pinocchio Village Haus but is still in existence over a year later.
‘As we all know, Red Rose Taverne is still standing well over a year later and there are no plans to restore the Pinocchio restaurant,’ it writes.
However, Disney hasn’t had the best luck with pizza restaurants in the past.
Buzz Lightyear’s Pizza Planet Restaurant in Disneyland Paris closed in late 2016 after being deemed ‘Disney unworthy’ by the resort’s COO, Daniel Delcourt.
And Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida also shut down their Toy Story Pizza Planet restaurant in 2016, and replaced it with a Muppets-themed PizzeRizzo restaurant.