Originally Posted By jodiefra OK so I know the people in Florida probably deserve to see the Main Street Electrical Parade too, but I can't help but feel a little like they're stealing it from DLR. I know it hasn't really been on Main Street for years, but in the twelve-year-old version of my brain that's where it belongs. I hope World of Color is as good as it looks and will ease my pain! {At least when they took Fantasmic they only tried to copy it and left the better version behind!)
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer jodiefra, I feel just like you've read my mind. I feel *exactly* the same way. Unfortunately, that 12 year old part of me also hoped that WOC would be the catalyst to bring the DEP back to Main Street...where it belongs!
Originally Posted By TP2000 Eh, I was kind of thinking that DEP had overstayed its welcome. I've said farewell to it once 15 years ago, it glowed back suddenly as a "California Classic" per Cynthia Harriss in a failed attempt to salvage a failing theme park in July '01, and even last summers updates just sort of reminded me how old and dated this parade truly is. Let it go. It's time. I would love a new night parade at Disneyland, and you could use the DEP as an inspiration for some base music tracks and a few icon floats, but get something new and 21st century instead. It's time to just let it go. I loved it in the 20th century, but I won't miss it. I don't even have plans to seek it out at DCA over Easter vacation to say goodbye. Been there, done that, bought the lightbulb. I've let it go.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Let it go. It's time. I would love a new night parade at Disneyland, and you could use the DEP as an inspiration for some base music tracks and a few icon floats, but get something new and 21st century instead. >>> Gee, maybe like Dreamlights? The design is already in the can, and is a proven crowd-pleaser. And it doesn't seem at all dated.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Isn't that funny...I kind of felt that DLR was stealing it from WDW. I remember seeing it back a few years ago right down our Main Street. To be honest, I don't know if it started there or possibly started at Disneyland, but all of a sudden it disappeared and was replaced with Spectro, only to surface again in California. I like the Electric Light Parade much better than Spectro, so I always felt a little cheated.
Originally Posted By Manfried We aren't stealing your parade. We are taking it. We're going to keep it forever. You're on your own Disneyland!
Originally Posted By Pollyana Letting go is always a hard thing to do. I have fond memories of DEP marching down Main Street. I also have 2 souvenier light bulbs when it glowed away. I would always welcome the parade back to Main Street USA where it belongs!
Originally Posted By Manfried It will be on Main Street U.S.A. just a different one. One that has more rain and lightning.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Goofyernmost - the Electrical Water Pageant was a key part of WDW and inspired the creation of MSEP. It was several years after the debut of MSEP in Anaheim that it went away the first time to WDW (and I hated WDW for it as a young child). It then came back in the early 80's with some great Tron upgrades. WDW developed Spectromagic (and there was a view that the parade might make it to DL one day, though I remember reading the floats were too big). A version of MSEP opened at Disneyland Paris in 1992. Then in Japan, they developed Fantillusion, designed by imagineers from around the globe with the view it would travel the resorts (and it did, moving from Tokyo, to PAris where it performs now). Then MSEP went to WDW again for the turn of the Millenium, with the view that Light Magic would replace it(we all knew how that worked out). It meant we were able to see my fav night parade in WDW for our Honeymoon in 2000. MSEP left Paris for an unknown destination, though at the time it was rumoured to be Hong KOng. I really miss it, Fantillusion is terrible in comparison, heck, I even prefer Spectro to Fanti. Of course in the meantime, MSEP then of course returned to California to DCA. And we loved that. Now I do not know as much about Tokyo's night parade history (I am sure others can fill the gap), but I do know that Dreamlights looks impressive and could be the contender for the best light parade. I am pleased for WDW as MSEP is my fav light parade I have seen, having enjoyed it for many years in Cal, Paris and on my honeymoon in WDW, it is up there with PotC and HM for my fav attractions. I hope the WDW audience enjoy. But there is the DL fan in me that makes me sad that it is glowing away again.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Any particular reason why it can't be in more then one park at a time? Just recreate it. As much as I like MSEP I am not going to travel cross country just to see it. Would anyone really? I'd go to Anaheim to see Disneyland, but not because of whatever parade it had. Parades are just bonus's offered not the main attraction.
Originally Posted By PARADE OF DREAMS 2 There is a rumor that DEP will return to DCA in 2012 after the contruction finishes and WOC's popularity dies down a little.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt The irony is that the music from the MSEP originated with the WDW's Electrical Water Pageant a year before the MSEP debuted at DL back in the 70s. WDW had its own MSEP that began in 1977, so it's hardly anything new to WDW.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Any particular reason why it can't be in more then one park at a time? Just recreate it." They did that with MSEP for at least a decade...
Originally Posted By danyoung I enjoy Spectromagic in WDW, but I never quite got used to seeing the DEP (or the MSEP as it's more properly called!) in DCA. I think it'll be kinda cool to see it traveling down a Main Street again, even if it is the Florida version.
