Originally Posted By Anatole69 I am wondering what the daytime lagoon shows were before Mythica's debut. Seems like nothing of note took place in the first 5 years of the parks existance. - Anatole
Originally Posted By Mr X The park had a lagoon show from day one. It was called the Porto Paradiso Water Carnival, I think.
Originally Posted By leemac Porto Paradiso has also hosted some water-borne special events like Aladdin's Whole New World and Ariel's Seaside Treasures. Water Carnival closed in the spring before Mythica's launch. It was presented in an alternative format for its final season called Eterno.
Originally Posted By Mr X What the heck is up with these grandiose names? Eterno? Sounds like an X-Men character. There have also been some small shows utilizing the harbor, such as the Mickey meet and greet show in the morning (don't know if they still do that), and the summer "Cool Service" show where they drench the audience. The harbor gets plenty of use, that's for sure.
Originally Posted By Anatole69 Yes I am watching the Eterno version on Youtube right now. I like it, though I prefer Mythica... I will have to watch Mythica today to refresh my memory of it, since it has been a year since I was in the park, but so far my memory of it is more impressive than the Water Carnival.
Originally Posted By Anatole69 Thanks for the heads up on those other shows. I will have to take a looksie on youtube for them.
Originally Posted By Anatole69 I just finished watching The Water Carnival. The amount of cast members in the parade is astounding, and I like the music... though I still prefer Mythica because of the floats. I also think Braviseamo is a better night show for the lagoon, because it uses pyrotechnics better... the fireworks are nice at the end of Carnival though. I've always wondered where the keep the boats during the offtime. I assumed it was inside the volcano, but some of them appear to be too big to fit, plus Mythica uses an awful lot of them.
Originally Posted By Mr X Not inside the volcano..did you ever wonder why you have to walk up and down hills so much at DisneySea?
Originally Posted By Anatole69 I meant under the volcano, not inside. The Journey ride is inside the volcano. Ok. There must be a lot of room down there then. Pretty amazing.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros The barges for the the water shows are kept in a harbor behind the Roman ruins area. After going up the hill, you cross over a bridge before turning left toward the volcano. On the right side, just past the very cleverly themed wall is the harbor where they store the show barges during the day, and the steamer boats during the shows.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I meant under the volcano, not inside.*** Sorry, didn't mean to confuse ya. Nope, not under, inside or anywhere near the volcano. There are LOTS of areas in DisneySea where you are actually walking a good bit above ground level, and in most cases there is stuff hidden in the lower areas (like all of Mermaid Lagoon, the harbor for all the boats, the 20,000 Leagues show building, and lots of logistical stuff). It's almost like Florida's magic kingdom in terms of cleverly hiding all the back of house stuff so you would NEVER notice it even exists.
Originally Posted By Anatole69 Haha... now I get you. Makes me even more upset about DCA since they have no back area, yet at TDS they invested enough into the park and were creative in how they got their storage area. I still wish they had more room for expansion though than what they have now. lol.
Originally Posted By Mr X If you take a quick look when a CM opens a backstage door in some places (parts of LRD, ML, MI) you might notice that the door leads to staircases. Kinda neat, I thought. (yeah, I'm a geek) One really mindblowing infrastructure thing is; ever wondered how they get all their supplies (food, beverage etc...) to the back half of the park? Hint...it isn't underground and it isn't around the outside of the park either.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Which back half? I know that the center part (Cape Cod, Pord Discovery, parts of Lost River Delta and volcano) is fed by a road. The road actually crosses over the walkway between JTTCOTE and Mermaid Lagoon. On the volcano side, it's themed to large rocks and bolders with a small waterfall on part of it, and on the Mermaid side, it's smaller rocks in a decorative formation. I would assume that the back side of the park from the entrance (Lost River Delta and Arabian Coast) is just fed by roads behind the park, but maybe that's just too obvious.
