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Disney's Year of the Meme (known formally as the Year of a Million Memes) was a year-long marketing campaign in Disney's California Adventure, beginning in Summer 2021 to celebrate the parks reopening following the 2020 Coronavirus Lockdowns, during which the park was rethemed to "celebrate the unique internet culture of California" (memes), on the misguided whims of CEO Bob Chapek.
On It’s Endless Voyage Nyan Cat Has Flown Into California Adventure (Even Though No One Told It About The Event) & Has Taken Over The Incredicoaster: With It Now Sporting A Rainbow Paint Job, Nyan Cat Ride Vehicles, A Space Themed Tunnel That Showcases Nyan Cat & His Arch Enemy Tac Nayn & Is Filled With The Smell Of The Lolcat Cafe’s Nyan Cat Poptarts, Of Course A New Name, & To Top It All Off, Speakers On The Ride Blasting The Iconic Nyan Cat Theme (Which You Can Hear Below).
The LOLCat Cafe
This temporary overlay of the Pacific Wharf Cafe is themed entirely to LOLCats, with photos of the cats plastered on the walls and such items on the menu as "Invisible Cheezburgers" (literally just an empty plate), Nyan Cat Pop Tarts, and Taco Cat Tacos.
Muscle Beach Mickey Meet-n-Greet
Mickey's been getting some gains lately, and he's decided to show them off over by Pixar Pier to all of you in this special, limited time Meet-n-Greet, which will no doubt leave you wanting to fu[The rest of this entry has been omitted per the request of the DOGT (Department of Good Taste)]
Obi-Wan Kenobi Meet & Greet
Obi-Wan says his iconic greeting and if guests don't respond correctly they are thrown from the park.
Meme Midway
Step right up for this exciting new retheme of Toy Story Midway Mania that features carnival games hosted by classic meme characters like Socially Awkward Penguin and Philosoraptor, while Grumpy Cat replaces Mr. Potato Head as the resident boardwalk barker!
The Black Knight
"NONE SHALL PASS": The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail stands guard over the bridge connecting Pixar Pier to the rest of the park, challenging anyone who tries to pass to a duel, which goes horribly for him as he progressively "loses" (hides behind his back) all his limbs.
Pinocchio's Superstar Limo to the Rescue
Hop aboard a superstar limo and join Pinocchio's daring quest for a conscience that takes us through such places as Monstropolis, Hell, and Inner Space, as this YTP-inspired retheme of Mike and Sulley to the Rescue mixes together bits and pieces of your favorite (and not-so-favorite) Disney attractions.
Princess Pajama Party!
Meet the princesses in their casual wear near Ariel's Undersea Adventure and have a dance party with plenty of dabbing and flossing.
Meme Hyper-Mix Party
The Disney Junior Dance Party takes a break as it transforms into a dance hall devoted to memes, giving guests a chance to show off their best Numa Numa Dance or Gangnam Style to classic meme music (with a sampling of the sound roster to the left) like We Are Number One and What Does the Fox Say?... one word of warning, though: you never know when a Rickroll might happen!
Translator Sing Along
Sing along to your favorite Disney songs over at the Hollywood Backlot Stage, but with a twist: all the songs have been put through multiple layers of online translation, creating new, completely nonsensical lyrics for every show.
The Running of the Weebs
At 4:20 PM everyday, guests can delight in the spectacle of Disney California Adventure's very own Naruto Run... watch in awe as a group of teenagers run up and down the length of Buena Vista Street, their arms outstretched behind them to give them the aerodynamics required to run faster than any ordinary man.
The Great Meme Parade
Every night at Disney's California Ohio Adventure is a special one with the Great Meme Parade, the signature balloon float parade of the event. Here is a short rundown of the parade (watch the video for a visual representation): first, a doggo stands beside a whiteboard revealing the name of the parade, leading to the first main float, a massive Doge Balloon, followed by a similarly large-scaled Pingu, a small float of a single cast member sitting alone at his desk with a new controversial statement each day, a parade float for "the boys" (classic Spider-Man villains), a flex tape salesman theatrically running around fixing holes in a water tube, a dog drinking coffee in a burning building, shocked Pikachu giant balloon, a series of acted setpieces -- starring a woman attacking a cat, a man looking away towards another woman, and a series of increasingly-many duplicate Spider-Men arriving on stage to point at each other -- a giant Pepe the Frog balloon, a stonks float of many dressed actors shouting "stonks", Bernie sitting alone, before finally a gigantic Globe Balloon, revealing to the world it was all Ohio the entire time.
Weeping Woods
Hope you're ready to get off the battle bus, because the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail has been rethemed as the Weeping Woods from Fortnite (thanks to an exclusive Disney and Epic Games partnership), giving guests a chance to explore a Fort and meet some Fortnite heroes like Jonesy and Ramirez (who are always ready to demonstrate a proper flossing technique).
UFO-Burg: Cars Land Retheme
They can't stop all of us when Cars Land is transformed into UFOburg, a tourist trap town out in the desert where the military is selling their surplus goods and training new recruits with their Jerky Jeeps (a retheme of Mater's Junkyard Jamboree), the "out-of-towners" are selling food that's out of this world along with offering a tourist attraction courtesy of their Silly Saucers (a retheme of Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters), and guests can discover some incredible alien secrets when they ride the Area 51 Raid Racers (a retheme of Radiator Springs Racers).
The Beyond Belief Experience
The Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction Jonathan Frakes Experience Is A Temporary Attraction That Takes The Place Of The Empty Space That Previously Hosted Bugs Land & Is Going To Occupy Marvel Land, (& While This Attraction Is Temporary It Will Have The Same Budget As All Of Galaxy’s Edge) The Show Building Is Based Off Of The Set That The Jonathan Frakes Part Takes Place In, With The Queue Showcasing Different Rooms That Contain Illusions & Props From Some Of The Shows Sketches Such As The Probably Possessed Milk Bucket (Seen In S2 E9); The Pre-Show Shows A Video Of ”Elderly” Jonathan Frakes Explaining The Premise Of The Show & Introducing The First “Segment”, With There Being 5 Of Them During The Ride Like In The Show; Such As: The Haunted Painting, The Story Of A Plant & Also A Milk Bucket, The Reckoning, The Fish, & Another Beyond Belief Joke; The Ride Ends With You Having To Use The My Disney Experience App To Guess If Each Story Is Fact Or Fiction (With The Different Segments Having Alternating Scenes To Change Things Up In Re-Rides), With A Jonathan Frakes Triple A Animatronic Telling You If Your Wrong Or Right.
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
It's back permanently, not just for the festival...this is a joke round, so you can't tell me otherwise.
Impact
Disney's Year of the Meme was a massive failure for the once-thriving company, tanking its stock value so low GameStop would purchase the Walt Disney Company and all remaining assets for a meager $220 billion; GameStop then announced on the newly-rebranded GameStop+ that Disney's California Adventure would be rebranded as WestCOT (though the Tower of Terror would still be there), and in that one sensational moment, world peace was at long last achieved.