Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey <<Seeing AK at night would be wonderful as I've never quite managed it to date.>> Minnie, make it a priority to do a DAK extra magic hour on your next trip. I did it for the first time in February, and the park is stunningly beautiful at night. We loved it and will definitely return again. I'm thrilled to hear they're developing a nighttime parade for the park.
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror One of the other contributors to LP and some other sites told me tonight that lighting systems are already being ripped out and replaced at DAK to facilitate this show, so apparently it's a priority. Pretty cool.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Maybe they will put the animals to work in this parade? String a bunch of christmas lights on the elephants and zebras and walk them down the parade route!
Originally Posted By Dlmusic While I'm not nearly as big of a Steve Davison fan as others here (his pyro shows tend to be a little too emotionally manipulative and pandering for my tastes) I did like Eureka and his work for the lagoon show at TDS so this should be good. A new nighttime parade? On water? Sounds awesome. But. . .how do you see this exactly? Hopefully this won't be another crowd control problem, as that has been an issue I've had with a few of Steve's projects.
Originally Posted By SpectroWishes321 <<If they can ignore REAL milestones like WDW's 30th and 35th ... and Epcot's 25th, I never understood the need to make a big deal out of DAK's 10th ... other than, of course, the obvious one of rebranding the park as a nighttime destination.>> Milestone's like those can be forgotten. The 40th and 50th Anniversary of WDW can't be thrown out. Though I seriously doubt that WDW would forget to do their own 50th Annivesary.
Originally Posted By Dlmusic The 40th will probably not matter much, but I can't imagine they won't make a big deal for WDW's 50th anniversary.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<While I'm not nearly as big of a Steve Davison fan as others here (his pyro shows tend to be a little too emotionally manipulative and pandering for my tastes) I did like Eureka and his work for the lagoon show at TDS so this should be good.>> I think those criticisms are valid in some cases, definitely. Wishes' soundtrack for some reason really gets on my nerves with all those singing moppets. But the show is still fantastic. Easily one of the best WDW pyro shows of all-time. And Steve has done so many wonderful things ... from Eureka (which disappeared way too quickly) to the Small World and Mansion Holiday redos, to many pyro shows from the groundbreaking Believe to the amazing Remember at DL. ... And a whole lot of other stuff. Even DCA's Luminaria, which he threw together at last minute for TDA and was panned by many, was a very good concept it just was a disaster in the execution due to the location. <<Hopefully this won't be another crowd control problem, as that has been an issue I've had with a few of Steve's projects.>> I don't blame Steve for the crowd control issues. Those go straight to parks ops. They need to do a better job of organizing crowds and cast ... and they don't. You can't blame the creator because folks love his work and want to experience it!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Milestone's like those can be forgotten.>> I, obviously, feel otherwise. DL's 30th and 35th anniversaries were HUGE events. I didn't get to experience the 30th, but the 35th was just amazing. How you can say those aren't significant milestones is beyond me. And Epcot's 25th? That park set a whole new level of excellence in scope and design for Disney parks. To not acknowledge the silver anniversary because it's easier and cheaper to have some ill-conceived Year of a MIllion Free Fastpasses marketing campaign is a prime reason why Jay must go. <<The 40th and 50th Anniversary of WDW can't be thrown out. >> What makes the 40th more significant than the 30th or 35th? <<Though I seriously doubt that WDW would forget to do their own 50th Annivesary.>> Let's just hope the MK hasn't rotted away by the time the 50th (or even 40th) rolls around.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo This begs the questions of me, what is a milestone year and how whould parks celebrate. I suppose my view of the special dates are: 1 year 5 years 10 years 25 years 40 years 50 years 75 years 100 years 150 years 200 years and carry on for every 50.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss That sounds about right to me, except for maybe the 40 years. I know it is a milestone in human life, but not so sure it is for an event.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Disneyland's 40 Years of Adventure was great though, especially with the opening of Indy.
Originally Posted By SpectroWishes321 So is this new nighttime parade part of AK's 10th Anniversary? What else is Disney planning for celebrating AK? Paint the Tree of Life to make it look like a cake? They've already done it with another icon.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss You must not have read the thread. In #8, lee wrote: "Rivers of Light is a "go". At the moment there is no 10th anniversary for DAK so Rivers will launch at some point in '08."
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> Rivers of Light is a parade so the issue of the lake is not relevant. << >> A very misleading title isn't it? << Actually, I find the rivers imagery quite accurate. Traffic (or a parade) flowing in a direction along streets can quite easily be imagined as a flowing river. At nighttime with lighted floats, the image is even easier to accept. You can't see the infrastructure around you as well at night.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> At nighttime with lighted floats, the image is even easier to accept. You can't see the infrastructure around you as well at night. << If Main Street USA was fully dark, you could light up the sides of the buildings from rooftops across the street with images of a tree-lined river shore slowly "flowing by." Run a float that looks like a river boat down the middle of Main Street lined up well with the moving shore images, and you'd have a cool river effect, the length of Main Street. No physical infrastructure needed other than the float itself. All else accomplished by lighting. Couldn't be done in the day.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Actually, I find the rivers imagery quite accurate. Traffic (or a parade) flowing in a direction along streets can quite easily be imagined as a flowing river. At nighttime with lighted floats, the image is even easier to accept. You can't see the infrastructure around you as well at night. << I agree with this concept if it's done that way. If they don't use something to justify the use of river in the title, I stay with the misleading statement.
Originally Posted By tcsnwhite Can Leemac or WDW1974 clear this up, 'cause I'm a bit confused. Is this "Rivers of Light" going to be on the DAK parade route, or out on the lagoon near Everest?
