Hot take.
Every nighttime spectacular - 90% of them, anyway (which wasn’t the first 35 years of Epcot nighttime events, Rivers of Light 1.0, or BraviSEAmo), has IP baked into it. Anyone could look at them with today’s cynical eye and consider the same “subscribe to Disney+” statement...
There have been videos where the high beams were turned off even before they added the new segments.
From what I heard, they were definitely fixed. The company that used to make them went belly up during the End Times.
Low level pyro coding still a bit off, but they finally lined the marigold comets up where Miguel strums his guitar [one of the many things that have annoyed me about this show]. Now another case for the argument that they can fix the pyro choreography whenever they want. [cued to moment]
I’ll give you your point on ”You are the Magic“ - it very much is an earworm. But given that the HEA theme song was imported and reworked from Hong Kong for nighttime show consumption, I would hardly call it a random song. (The same songwriters [who wrote the original AND reworked it] also gave...
Balance. That’s the best way I can put it. HEA’s story, character representation, etc was just the perfect mix. Enchantment was too much on one side and not enough elsewhere, story-wise and characters. (Also, pyro was a hot mess)