Originally Posted By tcsnwhite Hello, Anyone hear anything about the changes being made to the parade, beyond what we alreay know? and does anyone know when the reformated parade will appear?
Originally Posted By riverted All the changes with the floats will be messy since they're doing them one by one over this summer (while the current parade version is still running daily)... So you will see floats reappear slightly redesigned & globe-less after being gone for awhile... Minor changes have already started actually... & rehearsals will begin after July 4th... You can expect to see testing of the full new version to be in place by mid Sept-Oct 1st for the 35th Anniversary... Yeah right now its about to begin a busy season of rehearsals for this parade, Halloween, Xmas & the *NEW* Pirates & Princesses starting in Jan...
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Are they going to mention the 35th at all in the parade? Or the park for that matter?
Originally Posted By riverted Who knows what marketing & merchandise is gonna do? I doubt it!!!! They hardly mentioned it being the 30th anniversary for "100 Years Of Magic" except for the few merchandise items (pins, postcards, photo albums, collector cards, etc) they released for the Disney geeks...
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb That's too bad. D-Land's 35th was a lots of fun. Although I did get a little tired of Partygras by December.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 The best change would be ... oh, I don't know ... say, a new parade!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Or may I dare say... NO parade at all?? If they can't do it well, then don't bother.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb >>Or may I dare say... NO parade at all?? If they can't do it well, then don't bother.<< to syphon people away from the E-tickets?
Originally Posted By Chelledun I'm going to be there the 17-22, so I guess I will see the new version! Didn't know there was going to be one until I read this post. I thought the old version was ok if a little unexciting.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 I'm excited to see the new parade. Hope it's great, and you would think that somewhere they would mention the 35th right?
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 It will be nice to have the snow globes removed. That always seemed like such a blatant marketing ploy to me. Plus it made the characters seem detached from the audience.
Originally Posted By rhodisney I for one will welcome a new parade!! That snowglobe thing never caught on with me. How many years did it run??? I suppose it isn't cost efficient to change the parades every year..but this one was just dragging on. I would also like to see one that is continuosly moving, not stopping four or five times in route to interact with the guests. I think it would be cool, since I'm from La. if they would throw some thing off the float into the crowd...like spongey Mickey footballs...oh well, I'm just ready to see something new.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Uhm ... new parade? Folks, this is the same parade sans globes with a likely rejiggered soundtrack, probably not original but made up of even older Disney sound. This is a lame attempt to make a tired five-year parade go on even longer and save $$$.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I don't think anybody thought it was a new parade. I think people are just happy that's it's being changed so that it's not the same thing running for years. Yes, these are the same floats, basically, but WDW could have done nothing and kept this parade going like they did with the "Remember the Magic" parade.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Sorry, I don't give WDW a pass for trying to pass off a tired five-year old parade as something new or improved. I remember when Disney changed parades annually and had special parades at certain times. It's all about money and putting out a dumbed down product.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I'm not really giving them a pass either, however, I would rather them change the parade than keep running it into the ground for the next few years. It's certainly nothing I would be excited to see and plan a trip to WDW for. No, I would rather go because there are new attractions I have not seen yet. I'm making a Christmas trip, and the parade is not a big incentive!
Originally Posted By leemac <<Folks, this is the same parade sans globes with a likely rejiggered soundtrack, probably not original but made up of even older Disney sound.>> Well it has worked at TDL this spring with the rejigged Dreams on Parade.
