MK All-New Nighttime Parade Disney Starlight Set to Debut at Magic Kingdom in 2025

[Starship824]

From a technology standpoint I wonder what parade is more advanced Paint The Night or Dreamlights? And where might Starlight fit in to this?

Considering paint the night came out 10 years ago I sure hope Starlight is more advanced.

 

[aladdin2007]

Considering paint the night came out 10 years ago I sure hope Starlight is more advanced.

My concern is they will try to be too geeky again with tech and it be something that doesn't operate right half the time because of too much tech and or fails or what have you. Sometimes less really is more, they reach for those stars too much and it can hinder it. But still have good vibes on the direction of this.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

They've probably hit a sort of stagnation point of how far they can continue to advance the lighting tech. I assume it should at least hold up to Dreamlights and PtN in terms of raw tech.

If anything, it's possible to go way too far with technology while neglecting other important elements. Some of PtN's floats, particularly the Monsters Inc one, felt like literal flat video screens on wheels. I appreciate Dreamlights for using modern lighting tech in a much more tasteful and artistic manner.

I'd also much rather the parade be significantly longer with a greater quantity of floats (and ones that are more elegantly designed) rather than push harder and harder to advance tech into infinity. Spectromagic was a tad bit hard to gauge since it had a handful of floats were sort of trailer hitched together, but they were also large and separate enough to consider their own individual floats. The float count was comfortably in the 30s during its heyday when all original floats were operating. There were a ton of street performers too. Dreamlights in its present state is operating 22 floats. Paint the Night has about half as many as Dreamlights (Hong Kong's was even worse when it first debuted as they actually added a float to CA's I believe). A handful are also more glorified puppets than proper floats, lesser than even the small spherical globes ridden by the spectromen. It does have quite a number of street performers with again some admittedly very impressive costumes (Spectromagic had a ton of these performers in its early years too). Fantillusion I'll need to watch again to do a proper count, but internet says over 30 when it debuted in Tokyo (they removed around half of them when shipped to Paris).

So we've really been losing out on a lot of content over the years. It doesn't help that they also often run these already short parades missing a number of the floats (common among day parades like Festival of Fantasy). Again probably setting myself up for failure in this, but I really wish Starlight would at least push for 20+ proper floats again...

 

[TTA94]

Don’t want to get my hopes up but I am wondering if Starlight will have similar fog effects that Mickeys float did in Spectro. In the concept art with the Blue Fairy it does show a fog like cloud in front of her and they have mentioned stars and clouds for the princess float. Paint The Night lacks any fog effects so I hope they do include it somewhere in Starlight.

 

[joanna71985]

If it's Spectromagic inspired I may cry tears of joy when I see it in person

Same! I loved that parade (it was the first night parade I saw at WDW)

 

[Disstevefan1]

This is one permit I hope goes through quick with no delays.

WDW needs its nighttime parade back!

 

[jrhwdw]

This is one permit I hope goes through quick with no delays.

WDW needs its nighttime parade back!

Amen!!!

 

[TTA94]

Guess we will see if the Frontierland light towers come down now that the cast event is over. If any big noticeable work is to take place for a new lighting package like new towers you’d think that work would begin soon and before Spring Break.

 

[SpectroMickey85]

Guess we will see if the Frontierland light towers come down now that the cast event is over. If any big noticeable work is to take place for a new lighting package like new towers you’d think that work would begin soon and before Spring Break.

I do not believe that is what’s happening.

 

[TsWade2]

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I think this new float looks very similar to this float from Dreamlights.

Oooooooh! Pretty!

 

[drizgirl]

At least it’s not the ol mirror princess float that’ll never die

AMEN!

 

[Hey_yo90]

The lighting towers in Frontierland have been stripped of their lights.

 

[jrhwdw]

The lighting towers in Frontierland have been stripped of their lights.

Thanks. I guess that's not part of Starlights's Package......

 

[MisterPenguin]

Thanks. I guess that's not part of Starlights's Package......

It'd help an electric light parade if everything else was in pitch darkness!!!

 

[Agent H]

It'd help an electric light parade if everything else was in pitch darkness!!!

Yeah it’s really cool when everything goes dark and then the parade starts Disney magic at its finest

 

[jrhwdw]

It'd help an electric light parade if everything else was in pitch darkness!!!

Very Fair but I think we're thinking any Lighting Package would be used during the Intro and Outro like DL MSEP 2022???

 

[Squishy]

I was watching a stream today and this pole looked interesting. There was a electrical box added to the lighting pole near the river boat sometime last month.
Today:

Sometime early last month:

 

[Squishy]

I was watching a stream today and this pole looked interesting. There was a electrical box added to the lighting pole near the river boat sometime last month.
Today:
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Sometime early last month:
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I just realized they added these boxes to a few lighting poles in the hub now too, replacing the old lighting boxes.
New:

Old(same pole) contained a box in the back:

 

[HauntedPirate]

It's for a "shocking" new parade experience!!!

 

[jrhwdw]

It's for a "shocking" new parade experience!!!

Oh My!