Originally Posted By dagobert In 2014 Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom will get a new parade, called Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade. <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2013/04/disney-festival-of-fantasy-parade-coming-to-magic-kingdom-park-in-2014/" target="_blank">http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...in-2014/</a> The concept art looks really nice in my opinion.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Glad to see a new parade coming to the MK. But as a hater of parades, it's definitely not something I'm excited for.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>But as a hater of parades, it's definitely not something I'm excited for.<<< I'm not a parade fa as well. I watch them once and than I use the parade time to do some rides.
Originally Posted By tonyanton Finally! it's been about 13 years since the last truly "new" parade at the MK. The concept art looks nice for this so far.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Well, sometimes I go to the park just FOR the parades and nothing else. So this is exciting news for this cauldron girl!!!
Originally Posted By LindsayC Wow! WDW investing in entertainment - perhaps it’s no longer a dirty word for them.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Looks like a nice parade, and it's certainly well past due. The designs remind me of some of the things they've done in the past in Tokyo, which can only be a good thing It looks like there are going to be some stunt performers incorporated into the parade. It looks like the Tangled float will have people swinging back and forth, similar to the a bug's life float in the Pixar Play Parade in DCA. I assume Captian Hook and Smee are also involved in some sort of stunt, but I really can't figure out what's going on with that float; it's a really interesting structural design!
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Looks way better than the Soundsational Parade at DL. It's hard to tell from drawings, but I didn't think the Soundsational parade was all that great. Aside from the Mary Poppins float. The Peter Pan float in the new parade looks awesome.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Well, I think you should make plans to see it in person, CuriousConstance, duckling. I think we're all going to like it. I'm not as thrilled about Soundsational at Disneyland, either. It looks okay but the music ruins it for me. Everything is too rocky and hip and edgy. They take all the magic and whimsy out of Disney parades that should be made for the young at heart by turning it into a wierd kind of rock concert that turns off the young at heart and usually makes the hip and edgy crowd laugh.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Hallelujah!! It's LONG LONG LONG overdue. As an entertainment fan, this is exactly the type of investment I want to see being done at WDW more often. The artwork looks great and it pleases me. Why should Tokyo and Hong Kong have the best Disney parades (day and night) and we still get decades old processions here in Orlando?? HECK, Go for the gusto.. give us a new electrical parade AND new night time EPCOT lagoon show as well. This is great news.
Originally Posted By TP2000 My God, they actually did it. Magic Kingdom is actually getting a new parade. Can you imagine the huge fleets of pigs flying down in hell this weekend?!? If Flights of Fantasy follows the well established parade pattern for WDW, that means... Flights of Fantasy will run from 2014 to 2027. But at least one big float from Flights of Fantasy will be re-used in the replacement parade for 2028, and will then be lightly redressed and re-used for several more parades through the year 2041. That is, if they follow their established pattern of using the same Castle float that debuted in 1986, and then running the current Celebrate parade with slight marketing changes since 2000. Let's hope Steve Davison designed sturdy floats to make it through 2020's and 2030's.
Originally Posted By disney pete We love the parades especially MK's afternoon one so looking forward to this.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I like Soundsational, but I'm kind of a sucker for this kind of stuff. I especially like the overall design of the parade. The new WDW parade looks OK, and will probably tie-in with the completion of the FLE next year. Disney's parade designers have become masters of packaging the exact same thing a thousand different ways.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "If Flights of Fantasy follows the well established parade pattern for WDW..." You mean Festival of Fantasy. Flights of Fantasy was a parade that ran at DL for the New Fantasyland at that park back in the 80s. Easy mistake to make since hardly anything has changed conceptually since then. Same script, same cast.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Thank you Hans. Festival of Fantasy. Let's hope this new parade is as good as Soundsational, based off the looks of the three pieces of concept art and rather vague overview given on it yesterday. It better be darn good, because it will be running in the Magic Kingdom every afternoon for a decade or more, and that balloon float will be in use in follow-up parades until 2041. ;-)
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>>Let's hope this new parade is as good as Soundsational<<< Let's hope NOT. Soundsational is a dud. Let's hope it's as good at the new TDL "Happiness is here" Parade or HKDL's "Flights of Fantasy" Parade.
Originally Posted By disney pete It will be up and running next time we are there so cant wait as TDLFAN says lets go the whole hog and revamp the nightime spectacular and EPCOTS nightime one.
Originally Posted By tcsnwhite "Soundsational is a dud"...????? The design might not be as extravagant as previous DL parades (like POD)... but it's a solid 'old school' classic Disney parade that, to me, is overall stronger than anything WDW currently offers, or even Paris's 'revamped' parade. Soundsational at least has a much stronger cast, better staging and choreography, and is at least more cohesive than the mess WDW or Paris puts out. Happiness is Here is, of course, perfectly wonderful. Not as extravagant in size and scale as Jubilation! (except that tall finale float), but is perfectly balanced in terms of staging, variation, etc. Flights of Fantasy is beautifully designed, an amazing concept, with beautiful music ... but lacks something to me - not a fan of the un-necessarily long show stop (that not everyone along the route gets to see), and without it, the parade portion is too short.
Originally Posted By tcsnwhite According to the float design (the waves and bubbles)...I have a feeling that maybe Steven is working with the surrealist artist Ilene Meyer (?) again. She was the artistic inspiration/direction for Jubilation! ... which if true, means this is going to be visually spectacular. Press releases for Disney parades always come off a bit vague...but I think that's because Steven and team keep things pretty fluid through the process, and they wait to reveal more solid details until it gets closer to premiering the actual parade for the press. I'm sure we'll get more details on the concept later. And as for over-running this parade like previous...I don't know. Steven says parade floats really only have a shelf like of 3.5 years, of which they then need major refurbishment to keep running...that's why he seems to suggest that daytime parades should run for no longer than 5 years. If this parade is as extravagant and technical as his parades can be, I don't know if WDW management will be able to pull their recycle crap with this.
