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

TTA94

TTA94

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Squishy said:
There is visible signs of lighting equiptment waiting to be installed still on the liberty square & liberty square bridge light poles where they added brackets that have screws for 2 fixtures waiting to be installed.
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Have you seen or heard if they added those lighting fixtures yet? Two lighting fixtures on two poles of the whole parade route is nothing to be excited over I know lol but hopefully there was more added that can’t be see like the rooftops.
 
Squishy

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TTA94 said:
Have you seen or heard if they added those lighting fixtures yet? Two lighting fixtures on two poles of the whole parade route is nothing to be excited over I know lol but hopefully there was more added that can’t be see like the rooftops.
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Still nothing, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't get installed till the last week. What I wonder is if they are replacing all the lights on the rooftops or just adding two floodlight mounts to each rooftop pole like seen in Liberty Square & the bridge.
 
TTA94

TTA94

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Squishy said:
Still nothing, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't get installed till the last week. What I wonder is if they are replacing all the lights on the rooftops or just adding two floodlight mounts to each rooftop pole like seen in Liberty Square & the bridge.
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Gotcha. The lighting package could have also been cut, delayed or never was happening in the first place. I know @PREMiERdrum talked about it awhile back and it sounded like it wasn’t just for Starlight. Things are always changing though so knows.
 
TTA94

TTA94

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jrhwdw said:
If Route Lights has a part in Starlight, wouldn't MK need them for Testing?


6 Weeks!.............
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Might be a few weeks out yet but hopefully someone is able to be at the contemporary when they do overnight rehearsals and something can be spotted or heard. IF there are new rooftop lights I would think those would be able to be seen.
 
Squishy

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jrhwdw said:
If Route Lights has a part in Starlight, wouldn't MK need them for Testing?


6 Weeks!.............
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Lighting can go up relativly fast especially if they already have the cables ran & effects pre programmed. I don't think it's going to be heavily used like at DLR where they turn on the lights for certain floats of paint the night now.
 
mattpeto

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aladdin2007 said:
I hope they arent going to ruin this beautiful parade with a bunch of in your face flood lights....or are you all talking about some other type of lighting?
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The fact that FoF coexists with Starlight was an indication to me that package is probably not needed.

This is a true light/night parade. Magic Happens needs that type of infrastructure, but Starlight doesn’t.
 
Squishy

Squishy

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mattpeto said:
The fact that FoF coexists with Starlight was an indication to me that package is probably not needed.

This is a true light/night parade. Magic Happens needs that type of infrastructure, but Starlight doesn’t.
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The lighting package would be used more for just starlight, it could be used for the intro of starlight and they wouldn't have to bring in the temporary lighting poles for Halloween & Christmas. DLR overdoes it a bit because they now use it for certain floats in MSEP & PTN.
 
brb1006

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Squishy said:
The lighting package would be used more for just starlight, it could be used for the intro of starlight and they wouldn't have to bring in the temporary lighting poles for Halloween & Christmas. DLR overdoes it a bit because they now use it for certain floats in MSEP & PTN.
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I dislike how much Dl used the lighting package for MSEP post-2009. The parade looked more charming when it relied on the floats lights as seen in during the parade's original run until 1996. This extends to Fantillusion, Spectro, and Dreamlights, and even the Hong Kong version if PTN
 
LSLS

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Comped said:
Data exists from previous years that proves parades draw significant attendance. Disney has had it for decades.

We can hope.
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They have data that it draws significantly more people to the resort than were already there? Basically attendance at the resorts would be up 5% (or whatever significance level you are using) if they had a parade vs not? If this is true, why did they go 10 years without a night time parade at MK and eliminate parades from every other park. I'd venture to guess they had data that shows E tickets are the only thing to bring more people into the parks which is why they have been so quick to eliminate the extras. And it's possible they have figured out that the extras were not as unimportant as they thought. Sure, the large jump in attendance will happen for the new big things. But keeping people coming back and mitigating the valley after that climb might be more about those extra things they had been ignoring/eliminating. Again, I'm just taking guesses at this point, but I struggle to believe with how Disney has operated the past decade plus, they would eliminate all those parades if they knew it meant more people at hotels/parks.
 
Disone

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LSLS said:
They have data that it draws significantly more people to the resort than were already there? Basically attendance at the resorts would be up 5% (or whatever significance level you are using) if they had a parade vs not? If this is true, why did they go 10 years without a night time parade at MK and eliminate parades from every other park. I'd venture to guess they had data that shows E tickets are the only thing to bring more people into the parks which is why they have been so quick to eliminate the extras. And it's possible they have figured out that the extras were not as unimportant as they thought. Sure, the large jump in attendance will happen for the new big things. But keeping people coming back and mitigating the valley after that climb might be more about those extra things they had been ignoring/eliminating. Again, I'm just taking guesses at this point, but I struggle to believe with how Disney has operated the past decade plus, they would eliminate all those parades if they knew it meant more people at hotels/parks.
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Having the data does mean Disney takes the correct action. They absolute have the data that opening a new major attraction helps and yet WDW has gone on major dry spells for new attractions. Bob did not do much at wdw for about the first half decade of his tenure.

They are not investing in a night parade because they finally decided to spend millions on fan service and or just enhancing the overall guest experience. While those are auxiliary benefits, they are not drivers behind the decision.
 
ToTBellHop

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LSLS said:
They have data that it draws significantly more people to the resort than were already there? Basically attendance at the resorts would be up 5% (or whatever significance level you are using) if they had a parade vs not? If this is true, why did they go 10 years without a night time parade at MK and eliminate parades from every other park. I'd venture to guess they had data that shows E tickets are the only thing to bring more people into the parks which is why they have been so quick to eliminate the extras. And it's possible they have figured out that the extras were not as unimportant as they thought. Sure, the large jump in attendance will happen for the new big things. But keeping people coming back and mitigating the valley after that climb might be more about those extra things they had been ignoring/eliminating. Again, I'm just taking guesses at this point, but I struggle to believe with how Disney has operated the past decade plus, they would eliminate all those parades if they knew it meant more people at hotels/parks.
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They’ve been planning a parade awhile. Just needed the budget green light. Originally, we would have had a light parade 10-1-21. They are well-aware these make them money.
 

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