Over on the Imageneering board, we've been working on a project where we are building a MK-style park together. Things have been going relativly well, but it seems no one can decide which nighttime fireworks show should be performed in front of the Castle. Here are four shows that have been tossed around. If you wouldn't mind doing us a favor and voting for the one that you like best, we would appreciate it. Also, for those from the Imageneering board who actually wrote these shows (I won't say their names since I don't want that to sway the votes), I would appreciate, to be fair, if you don't vote. Thanks.
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#1
Have the castle looking nice, bright and cheerful during the day. The finale begins with bright, cheery lighting on the castle and the into from the movie begins plaing. When it gets to the point of the enchantress casting her spell, the entire castle makes a transition. Much more gothic. Incredibly dark. Lighting shifts, dark colors, lots of shaddows to heighten the effect.
The entire castle is also a series of stages at different levels. ground level: Maurice and phillipe arrive, gets imprisoned.
Next level: Belle finds her father and trades places.
Third level: She finds the rose and gets yelled at
Fourth level: Beast gives her library, ballroom scene, released
Next, the mob approaches to castle following Gaston. There is a fight at ground level, then gaston is spotted among hte towers fighting the beast. Gaston falls, beast dies, belle cries, transformation.
In the end, Castle is back to its normal bright, cheery self.
#2
As the first note of the fanfare music to the show begins, the area from the Castle all the way up Main Street starts to shine as twinkle lights set a Fantasy moode to the night. Over the intercoms comes the voice of the nairattor. As "When You Wish Upon A Star" plays, he beins the nairatton "Once upon a time, in a far away land, there was a magic kingdom. A place where wishes came true, where fantasies became realities, and with some faith, some trust, and a bit of pixie dust, any dream, no matter how great, can come true. This is that place, and may tonight truly be to you, a dream come true."During this the Castle begins to magically change colors and Tinker Bell makes her appearence in the Castle's highest turret and flies down over the crowd via a wire. As soon as she dissapears from site, a single firework explode in the air that looks like a star. The music segues into The Sill Song from "Snow White" as fireworks fireworks dance in the skies overhead to the music. As the last note plays, the sky explodes with blue fireworks and the Genie appears on the Castle. He says "The Genie of the lamp at your service. Got a wish? Well if you want it to come true, all you have to do is say..." and breaks eks out into the chorus of friend like me. While he performs, a number of heram girls and simitars dance around the Castle After they finish their dance with a big exlposion of fireworks, the music slows and Ariel appears on a rock next to the waterfall next to the Castle. She says "Some say dreams come true, but sometimes it seems dreams are too incredable to ever do that. Just look at me." She then starts to sing a selection of "Part of Your World" as fountains begin to rise from the moate. At the end of her song, the Evil Queen from "Snow White" steels Ariel's final line singing "Part of MY World" and, with an evil cackle appears in the Castle Tower with a puff of smoke. She proclaims "You want to see a dream come true, ehh? Well, welcome to MY dream!" With a wave of her hand, fireworks explode in the air and the lighting dark, spooky shades as terrible dancing gargoyals dance on the castle to the tune of "Night of Bald Mountain". The cackeling Ursula comes appears near the moute and proclaims "The seas are now mine to comands! To controll!" the seas as her own causing fountains of water rise from the moate. Next Gaston appears at the Castle and says that he must kill the Beast. The Beast appears and a battle ensues. Belle appears at the Castle Tower and screams for Gaston to stop. Gaston defeats the Beast and tells hims that the villains have won. The Evil Queen and Urusla reappear and laugh in victory. Belle cries "No, please, don't leave me. I love you". The villains scream "No!" and dissapear in puffs of smoke. The Castle begins to sparkle (thanks to fiber optics) and change colors back to its fantasy-like self as the "Transformation" music plays. Belle and her Prince, a human Ariel and Prince Eric, and Prince Ali and Jasmine appear on the balconies of the Castle at the high point of the music and wave to the crowd. Then, the Castle is filled with favorite characters as they dance to an original song a la Fantasmic. Fireworks fill the sky for the finale as the nairator finishes the story saying "And they lived Happily ever after", at which the castle goes dark and the lights come up on Main Street.
#3
It would start off with slow drum beats (kindof like RoE) and then we'd see a platform rise with a trumpeteering fanfare and Mickey would appear on it with a fiery type costume. I'll post art if this gets approved and we'll have dancers dressed in sparkling outfits of blue, green, yellow, etc come out and dance to this tribal beat type beginning and gradually other characters would rise on their seperate platforms, each dressed in a certain way (Minnie as Can-Can Dancer, Goofy with a greenish jungle outfit, Donald as jester, etc.) and fireworks would be shooting in the air in explosive type pattern to match the drums and fire from towers and the ground and then we'd see the music change some and the characters platforms lower some with Minnie's being higher and we'd see can-can dancers emerge and they'd do the "la-lalalala-lala" can-can song with fireworks shooting in all directions and circular bursts in tune with the kicking and then suddenly we'd hear Topsy Turvey start and clowns and fools and jesters would pour onto the stage and in the audience and banners drop from castle and Donald's platform would be the highest one currently and there'd be a Topsy Turvey number with multicolor bursts and comets type things inot the air and over the audience and off the castle. And suddenly, WHOOSH! confetti into the audience as drums rise and Goofy's platform becomes the highest and we see African tribal beats come alive with Lion King type Broadway puppetry and there'd be greens and yellows and amny ground fireworks at this time accompanied by bursts of fire when suddenly we'd see Lumiere appear and a wonderful rendition of "Be Our Guest" would be done and we'd see The Beast appear with Gaston at the end of the number after the champagne bottles explode with pyro and they're fighting and suddenly the Beast gets stabbed and the tribal beats become slow and sad and we'd see Belle over the Beast and she'd say "I love you" and then we'd see the transformation with accompanying tribal music and then to a blazin' Asian fanfare we'd see Chip And Dale's platform rise in the air and ther'ed be a dragon in the audience and Asian dances and beats. Then for the Finale, Mickey rises again with every character on stage and there'd be an IllumiNations hold our hands together hand in hand with those types of fireworks and we'd see dancers slide down wires form the castles with long drages over the audience of red, blues, oranges, and suddenly "When you wish upon a star" and Tinkerbell flys out and the castle bursts into fiber optics with pyro going everywhere in sparklers, shots, comets, etc and finally with a dun-dddun! The music would end and everyone would freeze. There'd be a closing overture with a bunch of beats and some Carribean music and all the platforms would disappear underneath the ground and all the other people would run backstage and the tapestries would fly off the castle returning it to normal except the fiber optics would twinkle.
#4
It has the same beginning as the other Fantasmic. Mickey will appear on a balcony on the castle and direct fountains, sparks etc. Also, sparks come from the tips of his fingers. There will be the projected Scorcerer's Aprentice scene, bubble scene ( bubbles will be blown from the roofs of Main Street and sprinkles down onto the audience on Main Street. Then, it shows Mickey going down the whirl pool and asks what's going on as usual. Then the castle and MSt. goes completely dark when theres a small explosion and lights revael Gaston and his crew on the top of the castle. "I say we kill the Beast!" he says and they attack the castle. But Lumier, Cogsworth and the gang jump out and fight his hench men. Gaston attacks the beast and Gaston falls to his death when Bell holds beast's hand and the Disney Princess scene is queued. The Princess boats float down the moat where the people can see them and then they float away. A stage off to the side of the castle will present the Queen talking to the projeced Magic mirror and turning into the witch. See calls all of the forces of evil. Hades, Ursula, and Jafar complement on this, and a giant Ursula puppet appears on a side stage of the castle. She says some magical spells and shoots smoke from her hands. Smoke blowers from the roofs of Main Street Blow smoke onto the crowd untill they are completely ungulfed. The projected Chernabog starts the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence. Giant Projected shadows of hands sweeps across the audience. Then there's the Malefecient scene. The dragon appears on the roof tops of the castle and shoots flames catching the mote on fire. Mickey saves the day as usual. For the finale, characters dance around the hub while scocerer Mickey directs fire works and lasers from the top spire of the castle. Fire works errupt from variouse places around the Magic Kingdom.
