Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of: <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2014/05/16/frozen-pre-parade-coming-to-disneyland-park/" target="_blank"><b>5/16/14: Frozen Pre-Parade Coming to Disneyland Park</b></a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros This looks suspiciously like Mickey & Minnie's ice skating float from the Christmas parade. It's a neat effect, so I hope that this overlay doesn't remove it from future parades (though I can't imagine they would kick Anna & Elsa out of the parade for Christmas any time soon...)
Originally Posted By plpeters70 Why are they doing this as a pre-parade? Couldn't they just add the float to the main parade? Or is the theming of the main parade to specific to throw in another character? (I haven't seen Soundsational.)
Originally Posted By FerretAfros They could add another film into Soundsational pretty easily, but the parade has a really stylized look to it, so they would probably need to build the float from scratch so that it would match. They also have it set up so that between each of the main floats, there's a smaller drum float with a character on top of it, so they would probably want to add another one of those to keep the pacing similar; at that point, it would add tons of extra cast to the parade, so it's probably not worth it Then again, they could easily repurpose one of the existing drum floats into a Frozen one. The Tinkerbell/Peter Pan one always seemed like an odd choice to me, so they could conceivably swap it out for one with Elsa on top, and Anna down on the ground, perhaps with some coronation guests as dancers. They'd still need to find a way to make the music work with the parade's theme song, but that can't be too tough, all things considered
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt They used to do pre parades in the 80s. Kind of cool to see this return.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros They used to happen quite recently too. The last one I remember was for Up, but it seemed like they were pretty regular until a couple years ago. I'm not sure why they moved away from them, since it's a great way to get tons of people to see the characters all at once (far more than could pass through a single meet & greet in an entire day)
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Didn't know about the Up parade warm up unit. I need to get to DLR more often. It looks like I may be there for a day next month.
