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

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TsWade2

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FerretAfros said:
Paint the Night does not have 18 floats. Counting distinct motorized floats with their own driver, there are 12-13 floats, creating 8 units. Some of the floats have multiple parts linked together, but ultimately those are only counted as a single vehicle (such as the literal tractor-trailer, Mack):
  1. Tinkerbell (w/ Drum)
  2. Monsters Inc.
  3. Lightning McQueen
  4. Mack (cab & trailer)
  5. Little Mermaid
  6. Toy Story Slinky Dog
  7. Toy Story Aliens (added for DCA run)
  8. Belle (w/ 3 chandeliers, Rapunzel, & Cinderella)
  9. Frozen (DL) or Incredibles (DCA)
  10. Ball w/ Goofy
  11. Ball w/ Donald
  12. Ball w/ Minnie
  13. Mickey Finale
2-3 rolling puppets also followed the Tinkerbell; these puppets were originally used for the short-lived World of Color pre-show and were mounted on rolling bases for the parade, and are manually pushed along the parade route. The DCA run of the parade also added a UFO with aliens to the Toy Story unit; this was originally in the daytime Pixar Play Parade and appeared to be manually pushed from within during PPP, but motorized after its PTN overhaul.


While 12ish floats is on the longer side of Disney's modern parades, it pales in comparison to the peak of the nighttime parades which often had 30+ floats. Sure, these ones are a lot more technologically advanced, but in terms of sheer scale PTN comes up short; even in person, it leaves most people wanting more. Unfortunately, I see no reason to think that MK’s new parade wouldn’t follow along in a similar scale.
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Well, when MSEP had it's own VHS Souvenir video, Cinderella who is the hostess of the video (Played by a cast member) says that MSEP has over 41 floats. But this is before MSEP started to cut some of the of the floats, like Dumbo.
 
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jrhwdw

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TTA94 said:
Hmm. Probably reading to much into it but they said It all happens along the parade route from Frontierland to Main Street, U.S.A. So maybe it won’t be starting from Town Square?
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It should have said Frontierland to Town Square but that's Me....
 
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jpeden

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In the Parks
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The description sounds positive at least:

Find a sweet spot under the stars to watch Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away—a shimmering processional inspired by the classic Main Street Electrical Parade. It’s a star-kissed constellation of Disney dreams, brought to life by the magic of the Blue Fairy.

Watch as enchanting moments unfold from favorite Disney and Pixar stories such as Moana, Peter Pan, Encanto, Frozen, Pinocchio and more. It all happens along the parade route—from Frontierland to Main Street, U.S.A.

We have seen the float artwork for Moana and Encanto but I don't believe we've seen the full artwork for Frozen, Pinocchio, or Peter Pan, correct (just the two kind of half-pictures that are with the Blue Fairy for Frozen and Peter Pan)? It's nice to see them reaching back to something like Pinocchio for this for sure.
 
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jpeden

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In the Parks
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TTA94 said:
Well no it should have said Town Square or
Main Street to Frontierland not the other way around.
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They may not be running this parade starting in Town Square like they have traditionally done. I wonder if Ops doesn't want to manage a different route (albeit it's the same route just in reverse but still - we all know how hard Ops fought against another nighttime parade so I could see them not wanting any differentials between it and the daytime route).
 
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jrhwdw

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jpeden said:
They may not be running this parade starting in Town Square like they have traditionally done. I wonder if Ops doesn't want to manage a different route (albeit it's the same route just in reverse but still - we all know how hard Ops fought against another nighttime parade so I could see them not wanting any differentials between it and the daytime route).
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The Party Parades have started in Frontierland for Years!
 
TTA94

TTA94

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jpeden said:
The description sounds positive at least:

Find a sweet spot under the stars to watch Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away—a shimmering processional inspired by the classic Main Street Electrical Parade. It’s a star-kissed constellation of Disney dreams, brought to life by the magic of the Blue Fairy.

Watch as enchanting moments unfold from favorite Disney and Pixar stories such as Moana, Peter Pan, Encanto, Frozen, Pinocchio and more. It all happens along the parade route—from Frontierland to Main Street, U.S.A.

We have seen the float artwork for Moana and Encanto but I don't believe we've seen the full artwork for Frozen, Pinocchio, or Peter Pan, correct (just the two kind of half-pictures that are with the Blue Fairy for Frozen and Peter Pan)? It's nice to see them reaching back to something like Pinocchio for this for sure.
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I would have preferred they said inspired by SpectroMagic, but I understand why they didn’t. First Main Street Electrical Parade is more well known and second they probably wanted to use the word “Electrical” so people know what to expect from Starlight.
 

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