If Starlight was planned for the 50th and COVID got in the way, why wait till Fall 2024 to act on it??? MK was pretty much back to normal when HEA returned in 2023.
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MK All-New Nighttime Parade Disney Starlight Set to Debut at Magic Kingdom in 2025
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No spare change due to both COVID and pouring all resources into what was then their top priority: streaming.
Linear TV, a huge source of income was going to get cord-cut to death. The pivot to streaming was necessary for the company, even if their parks' investments had to slow down a bit.
And I'm sure counter-programming EU was part of the calculus.
Everything We Know About ‘Disney Starlight’ - Disney Parks Blog
Raise your hand if you love a Disney parade! I know I do! Announced last August at D23 EXPO, “Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away” is the new nighttime parade coming to Walt Disney World this summer. While we’re eagerly awaiting to see “Disney Starlight” light up the streets of Magic...
disneyparksblog.com
Thank-you, WDW, for an orchestra and not gimmicky electronica -- not that electronica can't have depth, but when creating electronica for 'families,' it often becomes... gimmicky.
Sirwalterraleigh
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Did they ever give valid reason why they didn’t have one?
mattpeto
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The crowds of the late 2010s are gone?
Not surprised by the Countering EU part but am Surprised with Streaming taking so much of the Parks' Budget!
mattpeto
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The last float?
Disgruntled Walt
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I think it's the full orchestra and SpectroMagic-esque sound of the music. I'm really bummed I'm missing this by five days, but at least it appears to be exactly what I was hoping for.
They said the music won’t be just orchestral, it will also be electronic.
Streaming alone was $1.5B in the red. For one quarter. Chapek's last.
Like I said, electronica can be good.
But it ain't Baroque Hoedown incessantly chipping away at the cilia in my cochlea. Which is fine by me.
TheCoasterNerd
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Ok, so I now have more context on what I saw. I saw a mockup of a float, not a real float. It was in fact a small mockup of the Mickey section of his float. It was beautiful in person, but definitely looking at the art it was some sort of pre-construction visualization piece, possibly for cast to use during rehearsals
Sooo.... in the end... we knew all the floats.
What we didn't know was that the finale of Mickey and Friends was going to host 3 other IPs in a megafloat.
What we didn't know was that the finale of Mickey and Friends was going to host 3 other IPs in a megafloat.
SpectroBro
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Even though it is a massive draw on paper, live entertainment spends money but doesn’t make money. Honestly just happy that investment in entertainment is happening on this scale again.
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ROE made $120 million (or about $6 million a year) of paper profit during its lifetime, directly attributed to its existence.