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

TTA94

TTA94

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I do prefer the Dreamlight Blue Fairy as she was more, flowy if that’s the word and not a flat front. Also bigger wings. The back end of her though with Pinocchio and Gepetto is very weird and almost disturbing depending how you look at it. I have this thought in my mind now that they look trapped inside the Blue Fairy lol. Sorry had to say it.
 
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FigmentForever96

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ToTBellHop said:
Ones that weren’t widely ridiculed for 10 years. Hated it so much you actually love it?
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This! I’m not saying paint the night hasn’t always had its fan, but come on. Two of the floats are noting but basically screens (and this is coming from someone who thinks screens are fine if they enhance the parade.) Not to mention all the hate it has always gotten for its soundtrack feeling like the party bus was rolling down MSUSA.

This parade is not perfect by any means but I’m not going to pretend that somehow PTN is suddenly some amazing night parade and this is just the trashy sibling. One could argue that the same supposed bias some of us have due to MK not having a night parade for so long could be the same one people have for PTN since Disneyland seems to only want to bring it out months at a time every few years.
 
Casper Gutman

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Agent H said:
You say this like wish is some objectively bad film. It’s not. Mediocre maybe but not even close to the disaster people make it out to be.
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Mediocre is worse than bad. I’d rather have a Twilight float then a Wish float.

But honestly, Wish is fine for a year or two. Corporate synergy is part of the game, gotta pick your battles. Swap it out at the first opportunity.
 
ToTBellHop

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GhostHost1000 said:
it should NOT be a float and character in their new nighttime parade which is limited in floats and characters
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Regardless of the film’s box office performance, I can see how they looked at concept art for the film and thought it would work in a light parade. But, perhaps throwing her on a larger float like they did with Rapunzel would have been more prudent? Seems like a peculiar choice for an entire float over a classic like The Little Mermaid, for example.
 
GhostHost1000

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ToTBellHop said:
Regardless of the film’s box office performance, I can see how they looked at concept art for the film and thought it would work in a light parade. But, perhaps throwing her on a larger float like they did with Rapunzel would have been more prudent? Seems like a peculiar choice for an entire float over a classic like The Little Mermaid, for example.
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That would make more sense to me. A float that includes many characters and not solely one half the crowd doesn’t even know the name of
 
MerlinTheGoat

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ToTBellHop said:
Ones that weren’t widely ridiculed for 10 years. Hated it so much you actually love it?
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I've been very clear throughout my time on this forum that I highly dislike Paint the Night. I find its music obnoxious and inappropriate for a castle park parade, it's short, the float designs are mostly poor (with a couple exceptions), and I detest its very straight-lined modern grid patterns of lights. I have also been consistent in noting the few things that I think it did well. Namely the costumes and like two of the princess floats.

The reason I have brought up PtN a lot here is because this new parade shares one of its major flaws (shortness), but also because I expected the costuming of Starlight to be more similar to PtN (the one great thing about it that it did better than other parades). And while I think the designs of many of PtN's smaller spacer floats are ugly, I'll at least admit that it has them (Starlight has none). It's very odd to me that PtN actually did a couple of things better than this one.

I still think Starlight is overall quite a lot better than Paint the Night. On a spectrum of good to bad, PtN is more on the bad side for me while Starlight is more on the good side. Though to be clear on something, the likes of Spectromagic, Fantillusion and Dreamlights absolutely blow it out of the water. And it's not even close.
 
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brb1006

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docnabox said:
I agree about the title float. Since it is Starlight, a float designed like a large two-sided shooting star using technology like Whimsy’s face to swirl and alternate between “Walt Disney World Presents” and “Starlight.”

I’d have the Blue Fairy after that and then I would add a float of flying characters following her - maybe Hercules on Pegasus, a circling Dumbo in the center and Mary Poppins floating while holding her umbrella at the end. That could transition nicely into the London scene of the Peter Pan float, especially if Pan and Wendy fly as has been said.
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I loved how the original Tokyo version of Disney's Fantillusion actually had the title unit at the very beginning of the parade. It actually moved in sync to the parade's theme with Mickey's Flower Garden in the back. Wish Starlight did something like that instead of saving the title float at the very end.
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TheMaxRebo

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ToTBellHop said:
Regardless of the film’s box office performance, I can see how they looked at concept art for the film and thought it would work in a light parade. But, perhaps throwing her on a larger float like they did with Rapunzel would have been more prudent? Seems like a peculiar choice for an entire float over a classic like The Little Mermaid, for example.
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Of all the application for Wish, I think a light parade makes the most sense - though can also see your point of having it as a segment of a larger float vs a stand alone one probably being more appropriate
 
brb1006

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Stupido said:
Yeah, I was genuinely shocked to see no Clarabelle as well. She's been getting a much bigger park presence over the past few years
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Disney: "Sorry, Clarabelle, Horace, and Clara Cluck. You will only appear during the Halloween and Christmas seasons! And if you been in good behavior, you might be lucky enough to meet guests during the non-holiday seasons."

True Story: I remember spotting Horace and Clarabelle randomly meeting guests in front of Main Street Station during my first trip to WDW in Summer 2004.
 
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brb1006

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Stupido said:
Yes, because that's what this parade needs, swap outs not additions.
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Heck, during MSEP's original run in the 70s and 80s at both Disneyland Walt Disney World. The parade would sometimes replace or update floats for specific Disney films. Occasionally they would add new floats for a limited time such as The Fox in the Hound in 1981, Mickey's 50th and 60th Birthday float, and Return to Oz.

There was even a brief period when MSEP had a Christmas version that played various Christmas melodies at WDW and Paris.
 
TTA94

TTA94

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Very small thing but did anyone else notice the opening announcer says Dream The Night instead of Dream The Night Away? Wonder why he left out the word Away?

I do like the music but it definitely needs lyrics even if it’s only during the parades exit? Similar to Nightfall Glow. If lyrics were indeed recorded I hope they consider adding it in.
 

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