Originally Posted By Malin The Disney Parks Blog is reporting that Mickey’s Soundsational Parade will debut at Disneyland in 2011. *** •The parade is an explosive music festival with thrilling rhythms and bold percussion that will bring to life some of the most beloved melodies from Disney films. •Live musicians will amplify the fun. Mickey Mouse and some of your favorite Disney characters will play live and will encourage members of the crowd to join a giant jam session. •Lively dancers will stomp out rhythms as a syncopated drum line, twinkling cymbals, steel drums and more entertain guests with sensational sounds! *** <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/07/first-look-artwork-for-mickey%E2%80%99s-soundsational-parade-coming-to-disneyland-park-in-2011/" target="_blank">http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...in-2011/</a>
Originally Posted By Malin This is amazing news. With a new parade, Little Mermaid attraction and Star Tours 2 all opening in 2011. I am so going to Disneyland now What I'm liking from the concept art shown is that it has no Pixar Characters. Finally we have something new at Disneyland that does not feature any Pixar. The concept art looks very much like that for Tokyo's Jubilation Parade. Really interested in what the finished product will look like and really pleased to see a Princess and the Frog float. Thanks goes to the Disney Parks blog for sharing and re confirming this fantastic news.
Originally Posted By utahjosh I love the giant Mary Poppins float! Good to see The Three Caballeros, Lion King, Little Mermaid, and Princess and the Frog on there. Of course you've got the Fab 5, tinkerbell and a princess float. I would like to see an Enchanted float integrated into this parade.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Reading the description posted above I thought that this reads just like any other recent parade at DLR. Then I looked and the concept art - and wow - it looks exciting. There doesn't appear to be many new things in it content-wise, but it certainly does look to be an extravagant production.
Originally Posted By Sparrow <<that will bring to life some of the most beloved melodies from Disney films.>> Woo hoo! No more Ricky Martin!
Originally Posted By hbquikcomjamesl Could be as good as The MSEP, or Spectro. Or it could be bad enough to make me long for "Donald Duck's Party Gras."
Originally Posted By Roger55 I won't get overly excited until I see the finished projects. All too often, the Imagineers and creative forces have come up with spectacular looking concepts, just to have the finance and executive management get their two cents in and alter the original concept down to a diluted so-so version. At least this is starting out from a higher point and not at mediocrity, either of which would still be "dumbed down" by the money people.
Originally Posted By leemac <<The concept art looks very much like that for Tokyo's Jubilation Parade.>> Same graphic artist, Malin. However the two parades don't have the same art director. Jody Daily is one of the creative team assisting on this new parade. Although most folks may know Jody from his merchandise for Disneyana he did actually get his start in the art department for Disneyland Entertainment (c.1990 if I recall). It is an audio-visual treat - personally it is my favorite DL daytime parade for a long time. The original plan was to have a Pixar-equivalent Soundsational parade in DCA once Pixar Play Parade moves to Florida.
Originally Posted By Manfried I'm so tired of parades at the Disney parks, Call them what you will, but they're all starting to look the same.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros My first thought was also Jubillation when I saw the picture. If these floats are even remotely like those, I think I'll be happy. It's interesting that only about half of the floats are big, while there are smaller ones (giant drums?) that look like they'll fill out the parade. The general style of the shapes of the floats reminds me a lot of the late 80's/early 90's, when they would recycle floats over and over, but keep the same basic structure. It looks like these would be relatively easy to convert into another parade after this one finishes its run. Here's hoping! And did anybody else notice the giant tower for Rapunzel on the princess float? That looks pretty neat!
Originally Posted By tcsnwhite Leemac, Can you give us any info on the rumor that these are "modular" parade floats - as it has been talked about that they want to be able to change things out every so often. Does this "modular" plan affect what they can do in terms of the size, scale and/or design of the parade floats? Also, do you know how big the overall cast is to be? Thanks!
Originally Posted By Malin *** It is an audio-visual treat - personally it is my favorite DL daytime parade for a long time. *** All sounds very promissing Lee. Do you have any idea when this will likely debut at the park?
Originally Posted By leemac <<Can you give us any info on the rumor that these are "modular" parade floats - as it has been talked about that they want to be able to change things out every so often. Does this "modular" plan affect what they can do in terms of the size, scale and/or design of the parade floats? Also, do you know how big the overall cast is to be? >> Yes - the plan is to make the show modular - floats can be switched in and out. The score also allows for this possibility. Now that doesn't mean that the final product will end up like that as there has been talk of building parades in this way for a long time. Ultimately it will be down to DLR management to determine when budgets are available to switch out floats. It doesn't really effect anything. The problem with DL parades period is that you have to account for ceiling clearances and the width of the performance corridor - it is the narrowest of the five existing MK-style parks. It just means that DL cannot support a parade on the scale and size of Jubilation.
Originally Posted By Malin *** 2011. *** Was hoping you could be a bit more specific than that Lee ;-)
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Hi, Malin, duckling!! Thank you for starting this topic. By the way, could someone tell me if it's Giselle that's on the Princess Float just below Princess Aurora? If so it'll be so nice to have her out and about for something, finally. I know some people were saying the reason Giselle isn't out is because of a contract Disney signed that supposedly gave Giselle a limited run for appearances in the park. But that's a misunderstanding. The contract had to do with MERCHANDISE--meaning that Disney couldn't continue selling DOLLS that looked like Amy Adams. But the character, Giselle, should be just as free to roam the parks as is Mary Poppins or Bert the Chimney sweep, who are also live action characters. I'm really hoping to see more of Giselle, in any case.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm hoping that it's Giselle, but it looks like it's probably Rapunzel. From the looks of it, the tower in the back will be too small to have a performer at the top, so it makes sense that they would put her front and center (though I'm not sure the hair hanging down makes sense that way). The dress does look similar to one of Giselle's, but it's also similar to what Rapunzel has worn in a lot of the promo pieces. Given how long her hair is (it appears to be at least waist-length), and the sassy pose she's in, it just doesn't look quite like Giselle. It looks more like this picture of Rapunzel: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28566830@N03/4286931412/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/2...6931412/</a>
