Originally Posted By believe >>>I find so many things that are funny/ironic about this. DCA is using Disneyland elements and characters albeit the many statements that the two parks would compliment each other but there would be no Disney characters in DCA.<<< FYI, there are the Fab 5 characters in DCA.
Originally Posted By islandgrace43 I'd heard months ago that they were bringing it back, but always assumed it would be to Disneyland. I personally think that there is no room for a parade that size ! the parade right now is so tiny and squeezed into the little streets!It seems physically impossible...
Originally Posted By StarToursMike Little Streets?? those streets are just as wide (after the ropes are put up) if not wider then DL`s parade route...
Originally Posted By cstephens woody wrote: > They should do a Fantasmic Farewell next year. Sell Tons of Tickets & Merchandise. Then bring it back to DCA in five years. There's nowhere in DCA where they could run Fantasmic. believe wrote: >>I find so many things that are funny/ironic about this. DCA is using Disneyland elements and characters albeit the many statements that the two parks would compliment each other but there would be no Disney characters in DCA.<<< > FYI, there are the Fab 5 characters in DCA. There's more than just the Fab 5. There are a number of other Disney characters around as well. /cs
Originally Posted By woody >There's nowhere in DCA where they could run Fantasmic. What's Paradise Pier Lagoon? Scrooge McDuck.
Originally Posted By jonvn I think the control room for Fantasmic is about five stories underground. It was a several month construction project to build the thing.
Originally Posted By cstephens woody wrote: >>There's nowhere in DCA where they could run Fantasmic. > What's Paradise Pier Lagoon? A big body of water surrounded on almost every side (if a big body of water can be said to have sides) by publicly-accessible parts of the park. I don't think the lagoon is big enough to handle Fantasmic, even a watered-down version of Fantasmic. /cs
Originally Posted By 999-4000 I believe the MSEP should return to DL after a short "run" at DCA. After all, this is where we're used to seeing it, and it was designed for DL's unique scale and parade route. On the other hand - have you seen the DL parade route lateley? Some of the new surfaces aren't holding up too well. I'd hate to think what would happen to those poor old floats if they tried to negotiate some of the potholes. Maybe it's a better thing to show the parade in DCA - at least there aren't any hills and the route is nice and smooth.
Originally Posted By woody It could have the water screens facing all sides of the lagoon. It will be a very hugh show. The difference is the stage which will be smaller and there won't be a Mark Twain or Columbia. They could import the Keel Boats and the stage boats to go around the lagoon. Logistics will be a problem like where will these things go. It will cost a ton to change the infrastructure. No one said it will be easy.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Everyone seems to have a strong point for and against the Electrical parade being at DCA.. My opinion is that all of you in Calif. got shortchanged again. First with DCA and now by getting recycled entertainment. I agree the MSEP is a classic and will always be in our hearts, however, this only shows the lack of confidence and the lack of (wanting to put the) money for bigger and better things. Does this mean that now i have to go buy yet another re-release of the MSEP music with a new intro on it?? "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, DCA is proud to present.... Disney's Electrical Parade!" The sad part is that other than the fresh coat of light bulbs given to it for the WDW run, DCA audience won't get anything new in it. The NYC Hercules event floats seem to have vanished fron the face of the Earth. There will be no updating with newer character floats (those new floats will be premiering at TDL's new "Dreamlights" parade) You will get the same old and tried show you had back in 96 minus a few floats. I highly doubt DLP will send the Pinocchio and TDL Swan units to DCA anytime soon. (Futurist: the swans have been in DLP for over 2 years. OLC already got their $$ for them and i am sure they wouldn't mind what DLP does with them). One poster have expressed that WDW's 4 parks were introduced without nightime entertainment. True, however it is my understanding that the MK had the fireworks since day 1. Then there is OLC introducing Tokyo DisneySea with an already built-in nightime lagoon show "DisneySea Symphony". So mch for new Disney parks without nightime spectacles.. Another poster was concerned about pavement conditions at DL and what it could do to the electical floats. Fear NOT! as the MK walkways have more than potholes, they've got SINKHOLES all over that park, and i refuse to believe DL surfaces could actually be worst than WDW's MK. Others are expressing interest over Fantasmic being moved to DCA, instead. My question is, where are they going to store all of the equipment currently used for the show?? Behind Calif. Screaming?? and.. Could they perform the show just as it is now, with floating stages moving from right to left of the stage? Even worst, will the riverboat and Columbia be brought over and put on DCA's lagoon?? Would you rather see the boring Pocahontas and miniscule Steamboat Willie from MGM's Fantasmic as replacements on a DCA version of the show?? Again, seems to me TDL gets what DCA should have gotten on that lagoon... I know i have been lucky to have had the MSEP 15 minutes away from me here in Orlando for the last 2 years and am glad some of you who had been hoping for it to return there are finally getting it. However, the Disney Company is capable of bigger and better things. Walt's original jewel deserves that much and more. Whatever happened to the innovative, bigger-than-life ideas that were the hallmark of the Disney Co.?? As somebody else stated here, "DCA is a teen hangout.." Really?? Is that so?? Then if i was a teen, i'd be insulted if being "teen-friendly" means cutting corners in quality and quantity. I yearn for the good old days so bad, and i am not even in my 40's yet!
Originally Posted By CuriosWolfSo Me? I have mixed feelings about this too. While part of me is happy to see the parade coming back again but I also like to see it updated with the newest Disney characters and floats.I doubt if any kids today know who Elliott (Pete's Dragon)is now.
Originally Posted By cmattson It's kind of funny how people complain that Animazement and a lot of the current entertainment doesn't have any of the older characters, and then now they show up and we want the new ones. I know, the issue is more that the parade itself hasn't been updated, but it's just sort of ironic.
Originally Posted By olddisneybetter I'm sorry, I am not interested in DCA in any way and the return of MSEP will not get me in there. (oh sorry, Disney's Electrical Parade - not to be confused with Walter Knott's Electrical Parade)Viva Synergy!! Viva Brand Recognition!! And I have no reason to go to Disneyland in the summer anymore because its just not the same without the parade. They really dropped the ball bigtime on this fiasco. Instead of that ridiculously lame Light Magic, they should have just done a big budget upgrade on MSEP. And no, I dont care about Team Disney's bottom line. At all. I'm paying premium prices and I want the product to be up to the standard that made Disney famous. Nothing else will do. I'm not renewing my pass this year.
Originally Posted By Ghost Hostess Here's what I think that everyone with 2-park passes (including myself) will do: We'll go to Disneyland, and then about a half hour to an hour before the Electrical Parade starts, we'll all file over to DCA. Then when the parade is over, we'll all file back to Disneyland! ;-D
Originally Posted By schmittyGoodVibes >>>I find so many things that are funny/ironic about this. DCA is using Disneyland elements and characters albeit the many statements that the two parks would compliment each other but there would be no Disney characters in DCA.<<< >>>FYI, there are the Fab 5 characters in DCA.<<< DUH The original INTENT was not to have the Fab 5 costumed characters there at all. That changed just prior to opening.
Originally Posted By Britain Okay, so, this is what I predict will happen this summer: A few more locals, happy to see the parade again, will come on the weekends, but this isn't going to help bring in more out-of-towners. So we probably won't see the increase in 3-day ticket sales like Eisner wants. Anyway, one possible side effect of this would be a "transfusion" of nostalgia. Here are guests sitting down at DCA, all the lights are dim, and that funky music comes on... Suddenly, these guests have memories of a magical theme park, Disneyland, flooding back to them. Even if they were never fans of MSEP, they cannot avoid the music triggering the memories. So, after the parade, they might ride the rollercoaster and float on the raft ride, giving the park a little bit more slack because they had that whiff of Disneyland nostalgia. That's what Disney is hoping anyway.
Originally Posted By Britain Also, the Electrical Parade was always the shorthand nickname for it anyway (for non-Disney sticklers). Also it fits into DCA just as well as anything else does in this strange mish-mash of a theme park.
Originally Posted By plpeters70 Or that bit of nostolgia you mentioned might just make these poor tourists long for that magical park across the Espalande. Then they might just take a look around and realize they're not there -- there in DCA instead. Won't that be a depressing moment for them!
Originally Posted By MiklCraw4d It just smacks of desperation, that's all. I guess I'm old fashioned because I think the Main Street Electrical Parade should stay on Main Street. Also that a new park should come up with new experiences, especially when it touts itself as all 'new, hip, and edgy'. Although I do like the delicious irony that in their desperation the only thing they can pull out to save them is a 25-year-old parade from another park. Hehehe, good job guys! mc
Originally Posted By believe >>> The original INTENT was not to have the Fab 5 costumed characters there at all. That changed just prior to opening. <<< I'll bet you read it from Al's site. Anyways, the characters were there since day one of opening and during most previews. Al's site was speculating that DCA wasn't going to have characters because on the first few previews, they didn't. However, the reason why they didn't have them (during previews)was because the costumes were still being made - even Al's site later said so.
