What happened to the Light Magic floats?

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    Originally Posted By BrianStarr

    I know it's a bit of a random thought, but does anyone know what happened to the Light Magic floats? Are they being stored somewhere or have they been chopped up into a million pieces? As horrid as that thing was, the floats were pretty detailed beautiful.
     
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    Originally Posted By BrianStarr

    I know it's a bit of a random thought, but does anyone know what happened to the Light Magic floats? Are they being stored somewhere or have they been chopped up into a million pieces? As horrid as that thing was, the floats were pretty detailed beautiful.
     
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    Originally Posted By skinnerbox

    The latter.
     
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    Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795

    IF by Light Magic you mean the floats for the Electric Light Parade, they were sent down to Disney World for a couple years; the parade will run down there.
     
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    Originally Posted By FerretAfros

    I heard that after Light Magic ended, they stripped the floats down, and they ended up being the frames used for some of the Eureka floats. I don't know if that's true or not, but from the pictures (since I didn't see either of them in person), they do appear to be about the same size (big!).
     
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    Originally Posted By BrianStarr

    >>IF by Light Magic you mean the floats for the Electric Light Parade, they were sent down to Disney World for a couple years; the parade will run down there.<<

    No I mean Light Magic, the street show that replaced EP years ago.

    And as far as being used for Eureka, I really don't believe that. I saw that parade numerous times (I loved it) and the floats aren't that big.

    It was just a thought that crossed my mind. It's such a shame because of all the timed and money spent.
     
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    Originally Posted By believe

    ^^^^ you mean like the Rocket Rods.
     
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    Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

    Am I the only person who thought Light Magic was OK?
     
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    Originally Posted By LuLu

    Never got a good view of Light Magic. But boy I miss Eureka!
     
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    Originally Posted By Disneydanny

    one of the drive units for LM was rused on the Castle float for Parade Of Dreams
     
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    Originally Posted By Disneydanny

    also some the effects became part of Small World Holiday
     
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    Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance

    b u m p
     
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    Originally Posted By believe

    >>>>Am I the only person who thought Light Magic was OK?<<<<

    Yes, it was "OK". But that's it. MSEP was much better.

    BTW, I don't care much for the parades that stop and do a long show - you might as well have a stage show. And for those unlucky ones who stood in the wrong place, will miss the good parts.
     
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    Originally Posted By FerretAfros

    I heard that one of the original LM projectors was used to create the sword fighting shadows on the fort in the battle scene of POTC. I don't know if it's the same one now, but I believe they wanted it originally because digital projectors were so expensive at the time.

    And for other random things that became parts of iaswh, they took some of the fireworks off the To Honor America float from MSEP for the Asia section.
     
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    Originally Posted By Hista98

    but the shadow projection was there before LM
     
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    Originally Posted By FerretAfros

    I thought they were added in the PC makeover in the late 90's. I'm not sure of the exact year, but I think it was either late 1997 or sometime in 1998. It was at the same time that they switched the chase turntables so the women were chasing the pirates who had stolen things, instead of the pirates just chasing the women (except for the last scene).
     
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    Originally Posted By dl1956

    <Am I the only person who thought Light Magic was OK?>

    +1
     
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    Originally Posted By imadisneygal

    I thought Light Magic was good, except for the stage show stops where many Guests missed out on the show based on where they waited for the streetacular.
     
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    Originally Posted By trekkeruss

    <<I don't care much for the parades that stop and do a long show>>

    For me, the best parade DL has ever done was the Lion King Celebration. That's high praise when you consider that it's nowhere near the top of my favorite animated features.
     
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    Originally Posted By SFH

    But... but... I thought Light Magic was on hiatus, just like Rocket Rods?
     

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