Originally Posted By FerretAfros Last night at Disneyland, the fireworks show started a couple minutes late, and was then canceled in the middle of the Haunted Mansion segment. To my knowledge, there were no announcements that wind might be an issue, but I was only waiting for about 15 min. It had been very windy earlier in the day, so I was sort of expecting it, but it was still fairly surprising. While it was definately not very fun for all of us trying to watch the show (there were a ton of people around me who had never seen it before who were really wowed by it, as well as a lot of people dancing in various segments-which I've never seen before), it did let me catch an earlier bus than I had planned on, which was very nice. However, 6 minutes after the show was canceled (I checked the time to see if I could get to the bus), I managed to get from the north side of the hub to the east security gates, and there were huge fireworks going off over what appeared to be near Angel Stadium. While I have no problem with the DL fireworks being cancelled due to wind, I am curious why the Angels ones weren't as well. And if they didn't know that the DL fireworks were cancelled, were they going to set of giant shells (they looked much larger than anything used in Remember) while the show was going on in DL? I know they aren't exactly owned by the same people, but they should definately talk to eachother, so people don't get really confused with what's going on.
Originally Posted By Roger55 The area around Angel Stadium is different than around DL. More commercial property, the freeway and the riverbed. Much less dense usage compared to the area north of DL where the fireworks are launched. I would think it probably is safer to launch fireworks at the stadium than at the resort so they might have different safety policies in place. <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&t=k&om=1&ll=33.804684" target="_blank">http://maps.google.com/maps?ie =UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&t=k&om=1&ll=33.804684</a>,-117.899523&spn=0.034162,0.057077&z=14
Originally Posted By AaronInCal Yes, that's true. Around Disneyland is many buildings. The fireworks have a very limited fallout area. Where at Angel Stadium, they shoot the fireworks from the parking lot and have a much bigger fallout area. The wind would have be blowing right towards the stadium or pretty strongly in any other direction for them to cancel that show.
Originally Posted By BrnardM I was there last night it was interesting to see them cancel mid show. What I don't get is this big light on the front of the castle. I never noticed it when I saw the fireworks during the 50th but it flashes very brightly after the opening of the show (just after tinkerbell flys by). When it was canceled, the light flashed several times, does anyone know what it's for?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I noticed it as well, but at first I thought it was a strange new pyro thing, but when it did it several times, it really confused me. I hadn't seen the show since probably the end of September, so it is possible that I forgot about it, but it was very (almost blindingly) bright, so I assume I would have remembered it.
Originally Posted By cmpaley Hey Ferret, ! was there for that. I don't buy the winds story as the winds weren't THAT strong. I think there was a malfunction in the computer somewhere because the wrong shells were being launched at the wrong time (geek alert!). That's why they shouldn't use Windows. ;-)
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I did notice that the shells seemed off, but that could have also been just the time since I last saw the show. Were they launching at the right time, but the wrong shells, or completely wrong? If it was at the right time, they may have just been testing a different routine. Although it wasn't very windy right around the show, it had been quite breezy earlier, so it really didn't surprise me much (in fact I was a little surprised that they went at all).
Originally Posted By disneymamaof3 We were there also - claimed our spot at 8:00. They did make a couple of announcements that the show "may be cancelled due to high winds". That strobe light thing - it must be something new. It is part of the show because we were there lastnight and at the same HM part it went off again. There were several fireworks that were new and different. The've definately changed some things.
