Originally Posted By code90 Hello dresswhites. That was my first summer in ODV. I had hired in the previous Nov. as a CT. I was mostly scheduled nights selling glow or balloons out on the busy parade route (talk about pressure!). I would get in my car after some of my shifts and find that confetti in my hair! lol!!! Even though Light Magic wasn't a big success, many fun moments were had working on that parade route before the shows. You have to admit that theme song was pretty catchy.... I do wish they had kept the fibr optic effects on those Main Street buildings.
Originally Posted By dresswhites ^^^^i agree, the song was catchy. for me i think the streetacular is just a fond memory for me because it was my first summer at disneyland. it also kind of neat because it is one of those things that only a few people got to see. since it only showed three months, alot to most the vistors to disneyland never saw the show. it was kind of neat being part of that moment. i will get sentimental next year, because it would be the 10 anniversary of rocket rods. ah the rocket rods, another interesting chapter in disneyland history! i will reminence about them next year!
Originally Posted By dresswhites me too, it is pratically an antique! code 90 where you there for the vons night parties. those were some interesting nights. it was on one of those nights, where one of the characters fell off the float and tinkerbell did a nose dive. the fireworks on the rooftop were a nice touch though.
Originally Posted By dresswhites my other favorite memory from that period was that they sold bags of confetti, but people could just scoop it up for free! it was also during that period, that i truly felt proud being a custodian. even with that huge mess, we managed to clean it all up very efficiently.
Originally Posted By code90 You guys did an amazing job cleaning up after the show! I do remember seeing the rooftop fireworks from backstage afar on those nights! Poor poor Tinker... and the performer. We have to give the performers credit for giving it their all. A lot of 'em would slip on the silver colored pixie dust that made the floats "magically" light up!
Originally Posted By dresswhites and to make matters worse, for the first few weeks, hercules had confetti too. i think they realized that disneyland would drawn in confetti if they didn't let up on it. pochantas and hunchback had confetti as well. summer of 97: the summer of confetti,the keelboat incident, and the ever moving construction walls of tomorrowland. ah good times.
Originally Posted By MsLindanne Thanks for all the memory's!! I've never worked at DLR but often thought about it. As far as Light Magic, I still enjoyed it. I loved the music too and we have the cd and play it often. When we travel, we crank it up real loud and sing our little hearts out! ha.ha.. It's to bad it didn't last, but I still feel fortunate being there during the time it did run. Those were good times! ºoº
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I think I still have the syndicated special for LM hosted by Alex Trebek. Yup, the special wasn't even on ABC or the other major networks, but was shown on our UPN affiliate...ditto for the New Tomorrowland special they did a year later (I think Trebek hosted that also).
Originally Posted By knightnfrees I saw the special on UPN. I could tell from watching, that LM was poorly paced. <<I didn't care for it due to the fact they just had to jump on the River Dance band wagon which was all the rage at the time.>> I like to refer that as "Michael Eisner's Lord of the Mouse"
Originally Posted By Socrates It's fun to look back at something like this. As far as the "What were they thinking?" question, I thought I'd had that one figured out! - The major disadvantage of the MSEP was that it split the park in two for so long a period. A traveling show like LM doesn't interfere with the East-West traffic nearly as much. - They made a more child-oriented show to serve as a counterpoint to the more adult-oriented Fantasmic. In any event, it didn't work well enough. Socrates "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
Originally Posted By Zwitek Light Magic left me feeling terribly underwhelmed. I was there with two fellow Disneylandiacs, and we all just looked at one another. In all fairness, Walt himself could've risen from the dead, walked down Main St. and given out free $100 bills and some would still say it wasn't a good enough replacement for the Electrical Parade. LM couldn't replace it, nothing could. It could only substitute and it failed at that. Loved the fiber optics though. A neat touch that surprised me when it didn't survive the overall debacle.
Originally Posted By Pollyana I never saw the show but I got a poster introducing the new Lightmagic..... I think I got it from a travel agent. I guess I will hang onto it.... I love the Electricparade... it is a true winner!
