Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=74364" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Glow Fest Joins the Disneyland Resort Summer Nightastic! Line-Up</b></a> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://laughingplace.com/files/latest/20100601-7.jpg" height="270" width="349" /><br />{big|</p> <p>The Official Disney Parks Blog is reporting a new Glow Fest will be added to Disney California Adventure park as a part of Summer Nightastic! As it's described ... Glow Fest begins with the sound of drums and powerful rhythms that will draw you to Sunshine Plaza. An electric energy fills the evening air. As the sun goes down, colors burst to life and music starts to play from a brightly-lit stage that seems to glow. Dancers and world music performers create a fun vibe that you will only find at Disney California Adventure park.</p>
Originally Posted By ni_teach Looks like a good location for people to be waiting for the second WOC show. ;-)
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance All this stuff is really making it depressing knowing I won't be there this summer!
Originally Posted By cheesybaby I sure hope this attracts a lot of people to HPB... so I can walk onto Soarin' and TSMM.
Originally Posted By LuLu Ooh, let's have a rave! LOL That sounds pretty neat. Looking forward to it!
Originally Posted By tashajilek "All this stuff is really making it depressing knowing I won't be there this summer!" Dont worry CC im sure next summer you will be able to go. Well DCA sure looks like the new place to be. Cant wait to see it soon i hope.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<this remind me of that neon/dayglow retro 80's stuff!!>> If you check out the LP Lotion Pictorials, you'll see that Disney used this same day-glo-on-black scheme in its illustration of the very beginning of each day's GlowFest. The beginning of GlowFest is at 6pm in the Sun Plaza. It seems unlikely that they can pull off a black-light, Day-Glo presentation in the Plaza while the sun is beating down at 6. The fact that they used that visual style to promote the Sun Plaza portion of the event makes me less likely to think that the rest of the evening will actually have a Neon/Day-Glo presence. I think they've just hyper-colored their promotional images.
Originally Posted By LPFan22 I imagine Glow Fest will be a lot of fun after dark but in Hollywood Backlot's current state during the daytime... the Glow Fest decor is an eyesore.
Originally Posted By gadzuux It doesn't get dark in DLR until almost 9pm in the summer. And DCA is closing at 10pm. So this sounds like a pretty short party to me.
Originally Posted By gadzuux ... except of course what we've read that they may intend on using HPB as a kind of holding pen for guests waiting on the later showings of WOC - after the rest of the park has closed. In which case, Al was right again. What all this "glowfest" marketing pizzazz boils down to is a DJ and some colored lights in an attempt to make HPB seem less like auschwitz after lights out. But this doesn't seem to offer much for people who aren't waiting around for WOC. Apparently all the pier attractions will be closing early to help clear the pier of guests before the big show anyway, which will be long before nightfall. The irony is that after all this investment to beef up the park's attractions roster, DCA may still end up being a "half-day" park because people will start clearing outta there in the afternoon just to avoid the whole WOC impact. West side will essentially be closed, the restaurants will be jammed with people dining on show packages, and HPB and the front plaza will have this weird dance party goin' on, mostly populated by people just waiting around for a late showing of the WOC. Let's just go to disneyland instead.
Originally Posted By LuLu >>people will start clearing outta there in the afternoon just to avoid the whole WOC impact<< DCA, yeah, nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "The irony is that after all this investment to beef up the park's attractions roster, DCA may still end up being a "half-day" park because people will start clearing outta there in the afternoon just to avoid the whole WOC impact." The shuttering of PP so early boggles my mind. Will Mermaid be closing early for WOC too? Silly doesn't even begin to describe this decision. I suppose that things will improve once Carsland opens since RR will probably be a huge draw.
