Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: According to the MiceChat Discussion Boards, someone over there is claiming with deepest assurance that Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom is going to be receiving--at some future point--Disneyland's Parade of Dreams--which was created for he purpose of celebrating Disneyland's 50th Anniversary. ORWEN: Us Cauldron girls were wondering if any of you ducklings swimming around in the Laughing Place Pond can confirm this, too? ORDDU: My sisters and I have seen Parade of Dreams many times and we must say it's a step up from what the Magic Kingdom in Florida currently has to offer for a day time parade. ORWEN: Of course we can't help wondering how well the Parade of Dreams would fit into Walt Disney World, thematically speaking. I mean, there are a couple of floats toward the end that look an awful lot like Sleeping Beauty Castle. Wouldn't that clash with the Cinderella's Castle? I sure don't wanna' have to deal with Castle Wars while watching a California parade in Florida. ORDDU: Lately it seems Walt Disney World and Disneyland are doing a lot of parade trading. Some may think this is a good thing but I'm not so sure. It seems like the parks should be able to come up with their own original parades instead of giving each other their leftovers. ORGOCH: Got budget cuts?
Originally Posted By Tip Top Club I've also heard the rumor, but nothing to back it up. I also agree that I'm not sure how well it would fit, If they do do it, I hope there's some tweaking done.
Originally Posted By Roger55 Wouldn't surprise me at all. DLR has been giving WDW it's hand me downs since the begining. Besides the obvious whole "Magic Kingdom" idea there have been other notable things that traveled west to east. Electrical Parade, Mulan Parade, Believe -> Wishes, Block Party Bash...I'm sure there have been others. DL is where dreams are made... WDW is where dreams live.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It's a great parade, so I wouldn't mind them recycling it (then again, I'm in CA, so I wouldn't get the hand-me-down either). Given that the MK has been showing the same parade for almost a decade now, it seems like they should definately get something new. If they take POD and basically transfer it the way it is (show stops and all), I think it will be a great fit. There are amazing things to watch as the floats transform for the stops and do pretty neat tricks (bungee jumping, trampoline stunts, aerial stunts) and I think the folks in WDW would love it just as much as I do. The colors of the floats work really well against the foliage neas iasw, but would probably also translate very well to the similar areas in Frontierland. The floats are on the big side for DL, so I don't think the scale would be an issue. They would probaby want to redo the first float (the train station) so it is more generic or WDW-centered, and they can replace Sleeping Beauty Castle at the end with the mirror castle float they love so much. I think it would be a fine transition (and I would also love a new parade for DL).
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Also, for what it's worth (which is probably not much), when I was at DL on Dec 28 and I was backstage, I saw the Little Mermaid float getting worked on, and the shell that Ariel sits on was extended all the way up. I know they stopped extending it during the show stops near the end of the 50th, but it looks like that may be coming back. As simple of a thing to visualize as it was, adding the extra 5 feet to the height of that float was really impressive. I can't imagine what the view from up there was like!
Originally Posted By SpectroWishes321 ^^Please don't ask them to bring back the mirror castle float. That thing is dated, dull and dead. I don't think it would kill MK to spend some money to make a new Cinderella Castle float similar to the Sleeping Beauty Castle float in POD. If POD does come to MK, it'll probably come in 2010, DL's 55th Anniversary, which they will probably make a new parade for the anniversary.
Originally Posted By cmash95 WDW has had several DL recycled parades and I have enjoyed most of them.I really don't have a problem with changing out existing parades with other parks, they will still be new to WDW and frankly this parade outwore it's welcome a couple of years back. the only change they made was taking the globes off the floats and changing the music. I remember when parades lasted no more than two years, MGM's and MK's have been around going on 7 I think, way past maturity date.
Originally Posted By bean The last float could easily be change by doing some cosmetic alterations. The same with the first float. New color scheme a few letters and plaques and its done. The rest of the floats are basically character floats. orginally the first concept for disneylands anniversary was to design floats that matched certain Disneyland attractions. That concept did not go to far because it dated the parade for only the celebration. The parade with its character appeal could easily be moved around. a few alteration in its audio and the parade could easily be moved to WDW. If not Hong Kong would also work since the castle is basically the same.
Originally Posted By tcsnwhite Bean, what about a parade that celebrated the different lands, as universally as possible...something like Tokyo Disneyland's Dreams on Parade/Moving On. While not attraction specific, it could work going around to different magic kingdoms because of them have the general lands that Disneyland was based off of? just wondering if DCE would ever do a concept like that again...rather than the generic animated films on parade concept that has always been done?
Originally Posted By leemac <<just wondering if DCE would ever do a concept like that again...rather than the generic animated films on parade concept that has always been done?>> The new parade for TDL - Jubilation! (formerly Disney's Treasures on Parade) is more like Parade of Dreams/Dreams on Parade where specific ideas are showcased on each float - so you get a myriad of related characters together rather than just one-film floats. Jubilation! is going to be an amazing parade - huge number of performers and the floats are spectacular.
Originally Posted By tcsnwhite ^Lee, stop torturing me...I can't take it. You know I can't wait...I'm salivating...hahaha Don't get me wrong, I like the animated film unit concept, especially with Parade of Dreams - but Disney has always done that...so I'm curious as to what other crazy and unique, but still "Disney" concepts that they can come up with for the future. Legend of Mythica is a prime example of that...and that show leaves me speechless.
Originally Posted By Mr X Never seen Mythica...is it worth a 10 minute walk to DisneySea to check out? I could go tomorrow. That new parade MUST be great, if it gets Lee's endorsement!
Originally Posted By wahooskipper The parade at MK is just awful. It is like someone said...ok...let's showcase the characters, add a few bikes and call it a day. Even my wife, bad taste and all, thought it was far beneath the Disney standard. What happened there?
Originally Posted By leemac <<Never seen Mythica...is it worth a 10 minute walk to DisneySea to check out? I could go tomorrow. That new parade MUST be great, if it gets Lee's endorsement! >> X - I honestly believe that Mythica is the best daytime production ever mounted in a Disney park. It has a great story, incredible floats and amazing music. It is flawless IMHO. A wonderful work of art. I honestly never thought anything could top The Lion King Celebration for me but Mythica did it. Jubilation is stunning. The float design is like nothing I have ever seen for a landbourne parade before. It will be pretty special for TDL's 25th. I'm going to put some brief descriptions of the floats on LP soon - the bulk of it will appear in Tales from the Laughing Place magazine soon.
Originally Posted By ghosthost2001 Disneyland's Parade of Dreams would come to Walt Disney World because of thes size of the floats. I would love to have that parade come to Florida as much as anyone else to replace the current parade. I would rather have the Share a Dream Come True Parade than what we have now. But if Parade of Dreams would come here I hope you all realize the parade would not be as good as we do not have show stops in parades here in Florida anymore. I wish we could go back to having them but we have never had show stops since the Pluto accident.
Originally Posted By ghosthost2001 <<Disneyland's Parade of Dreams would NOT come to Walt Disney World because of thes size of the floats. Sorry miss typed
Originally Posted By FerretAfros The floats for POD (with the exception of the train station for the first float) are all huge. There is no reason that it couldn't work in WDW. Sure, they would look smaller, but they still wouldn't look out of scale. Last Christmas, they couldn't put up the garlands across Main Street, because they were running POD through the holidays, and the floats were too tall to fit under them. Yes, they will look smaller, but they will still look fine (and maybe we will finally get a chance to see the Little Mermaid unit connected!) And just because they cut the show stops on the current parade, who says they can't bring back show stops? I think it would definately be worth it with POD to bring them back.
Originally Posted By plpeters70 "But if Parade of Dreams would come here I hope you all realize the parade would not be as good as we do not have show stops in parades here in Florida anymore." Personally, I've always hated the show stops -- they just seem like a cheap way to cut-down the size of the parade. You can get by with less floats and still have a 20 minute parade if the show stops every few minutes. And I've always found these stops to be very, very boring with nothing new to watch. I'd prefer they just design all future parades without these silly show stops, and just make them longer to fill the time.
