Originally Posted By Mr F I've heard from fellow parades CM's that the Parade of Dreams is going to have some major for next year. They said these changes were suddenly anounced to them one ramdom day. POD is supposed to go down for two weeks in the spring so that Main Street can be repaved. When it re-opens, it's going to be a lot different: - The Opening Unit Float will Be Replaced with a completely new float. Since the plan is to eventually ship this Parade to Florida, the opening float must be replaced since the Magic Kingdom's Train Station does not match the current Opening float, which was modeled after Disneyland's Train Station. - The show stop music will be completely changed along with the choreography. - Tinkerbell will be relocated to the castle balcony on the finale float where Mickey & Minnie currently stand, And the mice will be moved down to either the lower part of the float, or onto the ground. - A new "Celebrate Today" cavalcade will be performed in the park. These changes are to coinside with the new "Celebrate Today" Promotion which Disney Parks are doing for next year. Since this Parade was originally Designed and themed to Disneyland's 50th Aniversary, the changes are being made so the parade will be more relevant to the new iniesitive &2 pre-package the Parade and get it ready for it's eventual move to Florida. Does anyone else know anything about this.
Originally Posted By submarine-maniac I've come to the point where I don't believe a lot of rumors us CMs spread around. haha. I have heard a lot of ridiculous rumors form CMs such as, Fantasmic will have the Columbia changed to Jack Sparrow instead of Peter Pan (Even though I'm sure some people on LP would love to see that, we know it isn't happening). I'm not saying that the rumors of POD are not true, but it does sound kind of strange that they were told some random day. Also, what sense does it make to change the parade to fit Florida before it leaves Anaheim? And why would Mickey and Minnie move to the lower part of the float, or even stranger, the ground? They are the "stars" of the parade and it just makes no sense to me. Anyways, once again, I'm not saying your information is wrong, it just seems strange to me. I look forward to hearing what others have to say. Maybe someone out there has more information than I do.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice I heard the same rumor, but with the full name of the promotion: "Celebrate Today - Armageddon Tomorrow!" Featuring a special "At World's End" segment in honor of the next dunderhead elected to the White House. ;-)
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: My sisters and I had heard similar rumor about Parade of Dreams going to Florida. More recently we heard ANOTHER rumor which claims the Parade of Dreams will NOT be going to Florida, after all, due to budget cuts, etc. So it remains to be seen what will actually happen.
Originally Posted By Hista98 i herd there adding charecters to it to make it more relevent to todays guests lol
Originally Posted By Hista98 no but in all seriousness, they won't probably be redoing pod. the parade is pretty much falling apart already and i don't see them wanting to spend money to make changes to a parade thats falling apart. The plan right now is to let it play out through christmas, then retire it forever, after christmas they were supposed to debut a new parade called world of wonder, but that has been pushed back to 2010, due to the complexity of the floats ( there being built by the same people who made pixar play parade and have lots of moving parts) so for 2009, it's either going to be no parade or just same old POD as it is today!! btw the world of wonder is supposed to be really cool, and will feature one float for each land at disneyland I.E the adventureland float will have a rolling boulder. granted this is just what i've hered on websites and should not be thought of as official.
Originally Posted By zekeayala wow...i heard they were trying to do this as part of next years promotion...but i didnt think they were actually going to go through with it... i think that the "celebrate today" theme is kind of cool...but i think DLR should just lay low on the celebrations right now...the park hasnt been able to breath for almost 4 years now...they should just let it be same old Disneyland....
Originally Posted By dresswhites if the pod doesn't go to disneyworld does that mean they will still be stuck with share a wish parade or whatever it is called. that seems to been going on forever. i saw it when i was at the park in early 04, and i think it was already a couple years old. i saw youtube of the slightly revamped parade, and the music is absolutely dreadful. it very grating. poor Magic Kingdom. wasn't the last big attraction when splash mountain opened? and they can't even get a new parade.
Originally Posted By Mr F YUP, it was confirmed today in a Meeting for Entertainment cast members. POD will be getting a new Show stop with new music, The new show stop song is called "Celebrate you", and the opening float is getting some cosmetic changes as well, including the addition of colorful balloons to the back side, and new signage on the front. Well have to wait and see what other changes come. Nobody believed me when I first announced these changes but I was right!
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne This might be a little off topic but when I was in the park and watched POD I couldn't help but notice Sleeping Beauty was wearing a dress with purple on it! It was the same style as her usual outfits and I know in the film she wearis both blue and pink (in fact I think she wore blue in the park until they started the big disney princess franchising and realised Cinderella was wearing blue and they should look different?) but in the parade her dress was pale pink and purple. I was shocked, does anybody know why this is? especially when all other princesses were in their exact usual outfits?
Originally Posted By Nobody From Post # 10: Nobody believed me when I first announced these changes but I was right!" Actually, I didn't go on record one way or the other, but thanks for the mention anyway.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub But the award for announcing the future goes to wondering Alice in post 4 for the Celebrate Today Armageddon Tomorrow (8/21/08). Future Happy New Year to us all.
Originally Posted By Mr F NONE the princesses in POD wear their exact usual outfits. Belle wears a WHITE dress with LOTS of yellow embroidery and trim, Snow White wears hot pink, yellow, and black, Cinderella wears blue with silver trim, and Aurora wears lavender, Not purple.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Interesting that the princesses don't wear their usual outfits (especially Ariel who now only appears in her wedding dress for meet & greets), since I noticed last week that Tinkerbell's outfit was changed to look like the one that she wears in her meet & greet. It's the same general idea, but her dress is patterned to look like it's made out of giant leaves (well, pretty small leaves if you consider her in scale). It seemed kind of strange, since she was there with Peter, but at the same time, she was there with the other faries, so it kind of worked. I wonder if the other new faries (Silvermist, Fawn, Rosetta, and Iridessa) will show up at the beginning of the parade in the spring. If they do, I really hope they are an addition, and not a replacement of the amazingly timeless older faries (Flora, Fauna, Merryweather, Blue Fairy, Fairy Godmother). I really like the three fairies from Sleeping Beauty, but all of their costumes are amazing (even if the Blue Fairy always looks like a guy in drag...leave off the eye liner a little and it would do wonders!).
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne I guess I didn't notice Belle and Cinderella as much because they often appear like that in Disney on Ice..just like fancy variations of their dresses..Don't know why I didn't notice Snow White but even still Aurora's dress is the most different..and I don't know why they would be? I think Tinkerbell's new dress ties in well with her new move and all the Pixie Hollow stuff.. I guess it's hard to figure out when she would wear which.. can't wait to see photos of it. And I, like FerretAfros, hope her newe fairy friends don't replace the older fairies.. I love seeing them
Originally Posted By SBSBelle22 "This might be a little off topic but when I was in the park and watched POD I couldn't help but notice Sleeping Beauty was wearing a dress with purple on it! It was the same style as her usual outfits and I know in the film she wearis both blue and pink (in fact I think she wore blue in the park until they started the big disney princess franchising and realised Cinderella was wearing blue and they should look different?) but in the parade her dress was pale pink and purple. I was shocked, does anybody know why this is? especially when all other princesses were in their exact usual outfits?" I think the thought with that is it's supposed to look like her dress is changing colors from pink AND blue like at the end of the movie when the fairies keep changing it? If you watch her swirl and twirl sometimes it looks more blue sometimes more pink and sometimes a little mixture of both... At least, that's how I took it. Thinking of it that way I thought it was cool... But, if that's not the reason... then I don't get it.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Here's a link to a picture of Tink's new dress. It's a little blurry, so it pretty much looks like the old one, but you get the general idea. (The link should work even if you don't have Facebook). <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=39925169&l=ee1fe&id=3432828" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/photo....=3432828</a>
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne ^ Ohh thank you so much! It is a little hard to see the new dress with her sitting and all but enough to give you an idea. Also the parade looks very pretty at night.
Originally Posted By Mr F OK, It was official announced a couple of days ago that POD will not be returning to DL ever again. 2008 Was the last year for POD. Looks like the new ideas for parade changes they invested in, and the new show stop music they spend $$$ on are all a waist. And now many Parade Cast Members who don't do other shows for Disney are now jobless. Looks like budget cuts and disney's penny pinching mentality strike again. Way to go Disney. Why don't we just return to the Cynthia Harris and Paul Pressler era again.
