Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub And while Leemac is answering my personal ?s Why is WDW Celebrate Street Party so different than DL's. I love WDW's and do not even like DL's.Sorry
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I also loved the theme song and I'm not sappy in the least. > Call me an old curmudgeon then. But I swear, if I hear one more theme song about "magic," or "wishes" or "dreams" sung by either the general "Disney princess" voice or a chorus of children, I'm gonna lose about a decade worth of lunches. There, I said it.
Originally Posted By leemac <<Why is WDW Celebrate Street Party so different than DL's. I love WDW's and do not even like DL's.>> Two entirely different creative teams. There is a team that is responsible for the synergy product (ie. stuff that ends up at multiple parks) and produce stuff like the HSM parades (all of them except the very first debacle at WDW) but they didn't run with the two Celebration offerings. All down to choice.
Originally Posted By leemac <<I even loved Disney's On The Record >> On The Record was an odd piece - it was actually a fairly decent theatrical event for a revue show. And David Chase's arrangements were excellent. How it will always have a special place in my heart for bringing the wonderful Ashley Brown into the Disney family. Personally she is the best Mary Poppins I've seen.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 The show has its own page on wikipedia now. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_World_of_Color" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...of_Color</a>
Originally Posted By leemac <<Call me an old curmudgeon then. But I swear, if I hear one more theme song about "magic," or "wishes" or "dreams" sung by either the general "Disney princess" voice or a chorus of children, I'm gonna lose about a decade worth of lunches. There, I said it.>> I couldn't agree with you more Dabob2 - I guess it may have just been a different era. Remember The Magic really kicked off all that schlock at WDW ('96 25th Anniversary) but I kinda liked that one too. But there was something about Believe that really got to me. It may have just been the fireworks were so unprecedented at that time but I really liked the notion of storytelling with fireworks which was new to me at the time. I'm sure I'll always be remembered on LP as the DCA Champion but there was something about '01 that promised so much for me. That first holiday season should have been the start of something and I'll always remember LuminAria (and its theme song Shine) fondly. The problem is always detaching individual events from your own mood, perception or feelings at the time. '01/'02 was an incredible time for Disney theme parks - three new ones opening in little more than a year (all of variable quality for sure) but the period promised so much and delivered so little. So the small gems like Believe..., Eureka! and LuminAria stuck out for me.
Originally Posted By avatarmickey115 I was never able to see LuminAria, well I was only 7 when the show was going on, but I didn't have an annual pass at the time until 2004. I never saw Eureka!, LuminAria, but I think I saw Believe or whatever it was called, the one presented by Kodak. That was Disneyland right?
Originally Posted By dizkid DUDE I was like 5 when I saw LuminAria and the only thing I remembered was: "luminaria... LUMINARIA!!" I also remember that Dlandug got his christmas card to us into the sequence where they showed the christmas cards.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf I still contend that WoC is going to be a nightmare for kids (and consequently for their parents). Think of the fireworks at DL. How many parents have to stick their kids on their shoulders for them to see the fireworks? And that's with a lot of open space up and down main street. Now think of how crammed everyone is going to be watching WoC. Mark my words....there are going to be a lot of unhappy kids and parents.
Originally Posted By Manfried Crowds are always a problem for the small kids. Somehow the families have lived with it for 55 years now.
Originally Posted By avatarmickey115 ya also the scare factor of the show...the villains seen and the fantasia part with the gargoyle (forgot his name) that is gonna scare some children, and the problem with WoC, is that their is only one good viewpoint for the show. So everyone is going to crowd around the viewing area where at Disneyland, the fireworks can be seen from Main Street, Frontierland, New Orleans Square, and some other spots here and there. But you do have to think about how many people are actually going to be there after a year or two. Will it be more than Fantasmic? or less? Because it is DCA we are talking about, not Disneyand. So the crowds might be smaller, but with the expansion and renovation, that might balance it or even bring more people to DCA than Disneyland...did that make any sense at all?
Originally Posted By SuperDry I'm getting really excited about WoC. For unrelated reasons, it looks like I'll be visiting DLR soon after it opens, so I'm purposefully not watching the now-infamous YouTube video of the "complete" run-through or whatever people are calling it. If the June date is true, we're just 8 or so weeks away at this point?
Originally Posted By Supermatt70 <<...it will always have a special place in my heart for bringing the wonderful Ashley Brown into the Disney family. Personally she is the best Mary Poppins I've seen.>> Wow Lee!! You & I have met twice...I guess on our third encounter I will have to properly intoduce myself to you just so I can blather about Ashley! FYI I LOVE ASHLEY BROWN!!
Originally Posted By leemac <<Wow Lee!! You & I have met twice...I guess on our third encounter I will have to properly intoduce myself to you just so I can blather about Ashley! FYI I LOVE ASHLEY BROWN!! >> Haha! One of my truly enduring memories was at the TARZAN premiere party in NYC. Ashley had just been announced as Mary as she turned up. We were on the stage of the venue dancing until the wee hours of the morning. We had a blast. I've not met that many theatrical folks (usually only those associated with Disney) but I can say she is the least pretentious performer I've ever met. She was so gracious and polite the entire time. When she came to London for the BBC Radio 2 show at the Lyceum last year she was wonderful. A true artiste.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I know I'm a little late to the party, but I just got a chance to watch the video, and I wanted to throw my comments in. First off, I agree that there's something funky going on with the pacing/segments used. I was really excited when I heard the Hercules music, as it's a great piece and rarely used these days. I was also intrigued that they were doing the POTC segment, since there hadn't been any mention of it since the original concept art was released, featuring the POTC skull on one of the mist screens in an image with tons of other characters and such. Second, the show seems really really long. I'm sure it's a better length when your up close to it and seeing it with the projections and all, but it just seemed to drag on in several places. That could be because they were showing it out of order (getting 2 slow sections in a row can kill a show's momentum), but even each segment seemed to be pretty long. And that's all without the Alice segment, which they've been hyping the most so I really doubt it's been cancelled. Also, there seemed to be a lot of big finales for the individual segments. When the first few segments ended, they all had a ton of the grid fountains shoot up as high as they could, making a giant cloud of mist. While that may be fine for the grand finale at the end, doing it several times throughout the show just makes it lose the impact. There's also a ton of water being shot into the air for this show. Fantasmic! uses fountains, but nothing anywhere near this scale, or this close to the guests. Yet, guests still manage to get a pretty good misting at times. I wonder how soaked people sitting in front will be, especially during the windy and cold times of year. (Speaking of cold times, any chance they could make a Christmas show?) It can be uncomfortable watching F! at times because of the mist, so I can just imagine the problems that WOC might create. And last, I wonder what happened to Little Squirt. He seemed to be a good connecting storyline from the presentations, but I wonder if he was just too abstract for it to make sense. Without him, I wonder a little bit about how easy it will be to follow the storyline, but if they have strong musical choices, it shouldn't be too hard. From what I heard, there are a lot of segments that rely heavily on characters talking, which I feel like is a bit of a downer. A show like this should be able to have almost no dialogue and still make sense, so it seems like they're using it as a crutch to hold the show up. That said, there are a lot of really impressive segments in there that I'm excited to see in person. I'm pleasantly surprised by the Buzz Lightyear part, which I assumed would use You've Got a Friend In Me (one of my least favorite songs of all time), but it uses the score from the films, which I think is a better choice. I was really surprised by the April Shower part, and it looks like it will be one of the highlights of the show. Great music and choreography, so it should be a success. I also really like that they're using Hellfire from Hunchback (is the choir in the background singing the words or just "ah"ing on the pitches?), especially with the mix of water and fire. I'm hoping it will be a great show!
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 (from Trekker)"FYI, I suspect Bob Paris 1 is Bob Paris, who has been around these boards for about as long as you, with hundreds of posts to his name." Thanks for that Trekker....and actually, I have been posting here since 2000. Some bad luck with computers saw a few crashes and I lost my password a couple of times. It happens. But yes, I am a few months away from a tenth anniversary(YIKES!!!)on LP. (from Trekker)"That he doesn't post here as much anymore could be due to any number of things." Thanks again mate! Yes - the afforementioned crashes, pressures of work and travelling, trying to spend time away from the 'net and, well, the whole Disney 'net scene wears me out after a while and I just get sick of the same things over and over. A few conspicuous blowhards(and I am NOT referencing this mousemerf person - frankly I though HE/SHE was quite new here)make the whole "haning out" thing on Disney boards a bit annoying as well. Oh and the DOMs piss me off to no end as well. I deleted Lou("Everything's WONDERFUL at Disney World[as long as they keep passing me the swag]")Mongello's cloying and saccharine podcast from my itunes weekly list because the sugary nature of his 'casts was starting to rot my teeth!!!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Another thing I noticed that was missing from the video was anything with the ferris wheel. I thought that the reason they had to do the Fun Wheel makeover was because they were going to use the new lighting system during the show. I suppose they could have hidden some lighting effects behind the enormous Mickey (like the projector for Chernabog's head), but it seems like they could have done that with the old sun face in the middle of it. I also hope that if they are using the wheel in the show that they keep it kind of a surprise. As they have it now, they're showing off the effects to the whole world. If they kept the color to a minimum (like the tower near the Palace of Fine Arts rotunda, which only uses white and light blues and greens), when it goes into full color during the show it will have a lot more surprise impact. Fantasmic! wouldn't be as cool if the dragon sat out in full view just before the show, so why give away the surprise to WOC?
Originally Posted By mickeymorris1234 I honestly think WoC is just going to be one of those shows you have to see in person to really get it. Cameras will not do it justice even when it opens. A camera can't show you how high everything really is and it won't give you the clarity of the projections and colors as well unless they are using ten thousand dollar cameras like Disney does with its promos. Plus the soundtrack, the thumping of the water, and all the lights, this is defiantly one for live. Also I don't think they were even running everything in that video anyways. Some of the front screens came up but no projections, not all the lighting was on and the back wall projection I don't think was on as well. Mr. Churn also turned off before the segment was over which makes me think he had a problem so I am just going to have to wait and see. I do agree that they kinda ruined some of the surprise of the finale by doing all those high shoots early however Steve has said that the finale for the finale is going to be a closely guarded secret my guess involving projections and lighting (and maybe some in audience water shots)that will actually seal the show. With how long they have those things shooting into the air at the last moment I would have to say some awesome projections yet to be seen will be done.
Originally Posted By Manfried Geez you guys, you are picking a test show apart. It was done out of sequence and is not finished. It is not like a film preview. They are tweaking, testing and more. QUIT PRE-JUDGING! I want to wait until all the kinks are worked out and view it in the proper sequence, from the proper viewing area. Gee, when everything is actually working. Sometimes I think this Disney geekiness goes too far. I will wait until I come out to see the show this summer and will not looked at the video.
