Originally Posted By SuperDry There was a story in the SCMP today that said that a new parade called Mickey's WaterWorks will debut "around July" along with Animation Academy. It didn't give any further details. I wonder if this is a seasonal replacement for the current parade, or a permanent one, or will be run in addition to the current one?
Originally Posted By Loomis Hate to break it to you, but this was announced late last year: <a href="http://www.hkdlsource.com/news/viewstory?story=73" target="_blank">http://www.hkdlsource.com/news /viewstory?story=73</a> However, to answer your question, it appears to be a seasonal thing, with the whole 'water' and 'summer' thing tying together nicely. Thanks for the article reference. We suspected 'July' would be the drop date.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN There are some cool Waterworks Parade concept art photos in the current Disney Fan magazine on sale in Japan.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: I just don't understand how this parade is going to work. I mean, if you shoot guests with water from the floats that go by, it's gonna' be sure to upset guests who get wet when they may not WANT to get wet. Worse yet, it might get their souvenirs or cameras wet and end up ruining both. Just think of the complaints at City Hall. Some cameras just don't work after they get wet, you know.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I would assume most guests will be somewhat advised of what to expect before hand during pre parade announcements. At least that is the way things have been done at TDL during the Rainy day parade, very watery events such as "Cool the heat" show, or Buzz's Big Mission show.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: Most likely won't be seein' many witches watchin' this thing, though. Otherwise ya'd have too many melt downs goin' on, if'n ya knows what I mean.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I bet they have a fair ammount of control over the water pressure, so they could adjust it to make wet and dry zones. I'm not entirely sure how that would work from a crowd control stand point, but it would be fairly simple to modify the floats to work that way. They could even have a dry side of the route and a wet side. Either way, I doubt they will be dumping buckets of water on guests, so they won't get that wet. My concern is about the popularity of the headliner attractions like the Liki Tikis and UFO Zone after the parade opens. I can only assume that it won't help them out much.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN If this is something similar to teh Rainy day parade, I don't anticipate drenching conditions but some squirting and water spraying in a controlled manner to avoid getting guests very wet.
