Originally Posted By Disneydanny the Pleasure Island units & Dwarf Mine from Anaheim's version also had a tour of duty in france. speaking of the MSEP it looks like it'll finally be getting some TLC once the new Daytime parade arrives next year: <a href="http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/dreams-come-alive-and-msep-rebuild.864393/" target="_blank">http://forums.wdwmagic.com/thr....864393/</a> it will be even NICER to not see a piece of the clock float missing during the holidays
Originally Posted By FerretAfros What's missing from the clock float? (I assume you're talking about the one that's part of the Peter Pan unit in MSEP??) The discussion in that link seems to focus on the new floats being too tall to fit under the Christmas garland on Main Street. This was the case for the Parade of Dreams, which ran through the holiday season in 2005, when the parade was still officially just for the 50th anniversary. In the following years, they didn't put up the garland until they began performing A Christmas Fantasy for the season, so the floats could safely pass underneath. I know it's a long shot, but perhaps WDW could follow that cue and perform the Christmas parade daily throughout the holiday season. That way, they'd be able to keep the garland up, and spread a little extra cheer with the parade too. Of course, that means that the parade would no longer be 'exclusive' to the extra-cost parties (and Christmas week itself, crowds and all), so that will never happen...
Originally Posted By Disneydanny here's how the clock looks normally: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlIUunUStY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...IUunUStY</a> (3:16) this is how it looks during the holidays <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P7T-bX3WJY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...T-bX3WJY</a>
Originally Posted By Disneydanny scroll to 6:52 in the latter video to see how it looks during the holidays
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Very strange that they take the 'roof' part off of the float. And it's very strange that they've been doing this for years apparently (at least as far back as 2000). I'm honestly surprised that they go through the effort of removing part of the float, rather than simply cutting it from the parade for the ~2 months that the garlands are up It's also very strange that they performed MSEP with a Christmas soundtrack mixed in. It's enough of the regular music to get the feel of it, but enough synthesizer Christmas music to just seem really strange. I guess the floats are covered in Christmas lights, but there's something about the parade that has always felt distinctly summer-ey to me
Originally Posted By Disneydanny even stranger than that the first time WDW used the Christmas music in the parade in 1999, they sent the cast members out on the parade route without even reheersing the normal Coreography with the Christmas music. they've been removing the roof part every Christmas the parade ran at Disney World (i'm not sure exactly how long that's been as i THINK when they originally got MSEP in '77 they ran it just during the summer like Disneryland did.
Originally Posted By tonyanton Yes, I remember in the '80s if you did not go to WDW in the summer months (and maybe Spring Break) you did not see MSEP.
Originally Posted By TP2000 leemac>>"I've always preferred Spectro for the music and the final float but it is still just a cavalcade of different floats - pretty but vacuous."<< A cavalcade of different float that is pretty but vacuous? Isn't that what every parade is supposed to be anyway? Or are we now expecting a theme park parade to tell some "story" and take us on a journey of discovery with meaningful themes about sustainability and the brotherhood of man and giving back to the community? I'll just take the pretty cavalcade of different floats, please. ;-)
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt *Thinking in my head while reading this thread* I'll never get used to WDW's parade route. The MSEP in Frontierland?
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost You know, I think that is why I have always enjoyed Disney Parks. I have never looked for a theme, continuing or otherwise. Silly me!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN SpectroTragic NOT returning?? Hurray!! GOOD RIDDANCE. Now bring on Dreamlights 2.0 and give the old Museum Kingdom some new technically stunning, cutting edge night time parade, even if there is no narrative to it. The MK park deserves better than a 40 years-old dated parade. >>>With you on Tapestry of Nations Roadtrip...loved that parade!<<< TON was not a parade. It was World Peace Relay of torches short of requesting donations in the name of World peace. Good riddance too. Now pull the plug on Reflection of the Millennium Celebration Last Century and EPCOT Center may just have a shot at being the visionary park it was intended to be... at least in Walt's mind.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>>You know, I think that is why I have always enjoyed Disney Parks. I have never looked for a theme, continuing or otherwise. Silly me!<<< Well, WDW's management think of us as "tourists, what do they know?". So most definitely..silly us.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>Well, WDW's management think of us as "tourists, what do they know?". So most definitely..silly us.<<< Well, apparently they are correct. Silly us! Reality is reality, like it or not.
Originally Posted By leemac <<Or are we now expecting a theme park parade to tell some "story" and take us on a journey of discovery with meaningful themes about sustainability and the brotherhood of man and giving back to the community?>> Different strokes I guess - I don't expect a linear story in a parade - it isn't easy to replicate theater - but I do prefer a parade with a theme - even if it is broad. Fantillusion was basically Fantasmic! on floats but it did try to have a narrative progression from start to finish - the biggest problem was that the parade's Act II (the villains) was far stronger than Act III.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I saw Spectromagic once - at a private corporate event - and I liked it quite a bit. However, given the context in which it was presented we were all pretty wowed by it.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I really don't mind the Christmas overlay of MSEP. I think WDW got the idea from DLP, as they started that tradition first. Now, TDL does it with Dreamlights too. It can be a bit weird hearing Christmas carols mixed in, but for me it works.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Oh yeah, and I remember being at WDW at Christmas and being completely surprised that they had the Christmas version. There was nothing advertising that, and I just assumed it was going to be the regular version. I had heard DLP's soundtrack, so it was a pleasant surprise to hear a similar one at WDW.
