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

aladdin2007

aladdin2007

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  • The Blue Fairy opens the parade
  • Peter Pan and Wendy
  • Asha from Wish
  • The Madrigal family from Encanto (Mirabel, Isabela, and Bruno)
  • Elsa from Frozen
  • Disney Royals: Aurora and Prince Phillip, Tiana and Prince Naveen, Belle and the Beast, Cinderella and Prince Charming
  • Miguel and Pepita from Coco
  • Moana, joined by Pua, HeiHei, and a manta ray representing Gramma Tala

The lineup I have to say Im a little disappointed with. Its just the string of princess films from the last few years, minus Coco, with a couple of classic characters thrown in mainly on a princess float except for Pan. They ignored all the Renaissance films and characters from the 90s, aside from Beauty and the Beast being on the princess float. No Aladdin which would have made a beautiful float for this project is a conundrum. Even the Lion King with some night scape.
 
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eddie104

eddie104

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aladdin2007 said:
  • The Blue Fairy opens the parade
  • Peter Pan and Wendy
  • Asha from Wish
  • The Madrigal family from Encanto (Mirabel, Isabela, and Bruno)
  • Elsa from Frozen
  • Disney Royals: Aurora and Prince Phillip, Tiana and Prince Naveen, Belle and the Beast, Cinderella and Prince Charming
  • Miguel and Pepita from Coco
  • Moana, joined by Pua, HeiHei, and a manta ray representing Gramma Tala

The lineup I have to say Im a little disappointed with. Its just the string of princess films from the last few years, minus Coco, with a couple of classic characters thrown in mainly on a princess float except for Pan. They ignored all the Renaissance films and characters from the 90s, aside from Beauty and the Beast being on the princess float. No Aladdin which would have made a beautiful float for this project is a conundrum.
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According to that blog we might be getting more it seems.
 
brb1006

brb1006

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aladdin2007 said:
  • The Blue Fairy opens the parade
  • Peter Pan and Wendy
  • Asha from Wish
  • The Madrigal family from Encanto (Mirabel, Isabela, and Bruno)
  • Elsa from Frozen
  • Disney Royals: Aurora and Prince Phillip, Tiana and Prince Naveen, Belle and the Beast, Cinderella and Prince Charming
  • Miguel and Pepita from Coco
  • Moana, joined by Pua, HeiHei, and a manta ray representing Gramma Tala

The lineup I have to say Im a little disappointed with. Its just the string of princess films from the last few years, minus Coco, with a couple of classic characters thrown in mainly on a princess float except for Pan. They ignored all the Renaissance films and characters from the 90s, aside from Beauty and the Beast being on the princess float. No Aladdin which would have made a beautiful float for this project is a conundrum. Even the Lion King with some night scape.
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Disney Characters from the 1930s (Silly Symphony characters), 1940s (besides Bambi, Pinocchio, and Fantasia), and a few films from the 1960s and 1970s are criminally underutilized at the Disney Parks. I'm honestly glad Disney made a float dedicated to Sword in the Stone for Magic Happens which is a deep cut by Iger era of Disney standards. Typically the overseas Disney Parks (such as Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong) does a better job at acknowledging Disney Characters of the past including obscure ones.

I always felt that DHS would had been the perfect park for a proper representation for a Silly Symphony Land/Section that would been perfect to replace the Animation Courtyard. After all the Silly Symphony cartoons played an important role with Disney Animation prior to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Plus it's the perfect location for guests to encounter various Silly Symphony Characters (such as Elmer Elephant, Tilie Tiger, and Toby Tortoise) and making the Three Little Pigs Characters (Fifer, Fiddler, Practical Pig and Big Bad Wolf) become common meetable characters again.
 
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FigmentJedi

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easyrowrdw said:
Thank you. That doesn't change a lot for me, although the dual villain would have been different at least. I dunno. The whole idea seemed to be up it's own *** - a Disney movie made to celebrate Disney movies.
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The conceit makes sense as a way to celebrate the company's 100th Anniversary, but there's other ways they could have marked that milestone besides "Weirdly meta princess movie". Like a new Fantasia or a proper Mickey Mouse feature film. Shoot, if you wanted a big reference fest, you could just adapt Fantasmic.
 
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Comped

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brb1006 said:
Disney Characters from the 1930s (Silly Symphony characters), 1940s (besides Bambi, Pinocchio, and Fantasia), and a few films from the 1960s and 1970s are criminally underutilized at the Disney Parks. I'm honestly glad Disney made a float dedicated to Sword in the Stone for Magic Happens which is a deep cut by Iger era of Disney standards. Typically the overseas Disney Parks (such as Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong) does a better job at acknowledging Disney Characters of the past including obscure ones.
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The various corporate stores do a fantastic job of making CM exclusive pins for many of those films... Just in tiny edition sizes... Seriously, some of the films they've referenced, at least for Disney, are deep cuts. Not many good references to their live action catalogue anywhere though (many of which are unavailable on D+), like The Barefoot Executive or The North Avenue Irregulars, but at least their animated catalogue is well represented somewhere. Will Disney ever make big statements about these sorts of less-loved films unless they absolutely have to/get good PR from it? No, they make too much money on the princesses and content that seems to either be a live action remake of an older film or from the Renaissance on forward.
 
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mastromjm

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brb1006 said:
Disney Characters from the 1930s (Silly Symphony characters), 1940s (besides Bambi, Pinocchio, and Fantasia), and a few films from the 1960s and 1970s are criminally underutilized at the Disney Parks. I'm honestly glad Disney made a float dedicated to Sword in the Stone for Magic Happens which is a deep cut by Iger era of Disney standards. Typically the overseas Disney Parks (such as Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong) does a better job at acknowledging Disney Characters of the past including obscure ones.

I always felt that DHS would had been the perfect park for a proper representation for a Silly Symphony Land/Section that would been perfect to replace the Animation Courtyard.
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Sword in the Stone made it into Magic Happens because it happens to be the favorite movie of a creative on the project
 
TTA94

TTA94

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I’m glad they finally acknowledged and said the word SpectroMagic and not just Main Street Electrical Parade. What I am curious about is so far we have not seen anything that appears to be a nod to Spectro. The Blue Fairy is a clear nod to MSEP.
 
Gusey

Gusey

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DCBaker said:
What Characters Can We See in “Disney Starlight?”

From the moment the Blue Fairy’s magic wand lights up the night, dreams will come to life with an enchanting order of floats with these fantastic friends:

The Blue Fairy
Peter Pan & Wendy
Asha
La Familia Madrigal (Mirabel, Isabella, Bruno)
Elsa
Aurora and Prince Phillip, Tiana and Prince Naveen, Belle and the Beast, and Cinderella and Prince Charming
Miguel and Pepita
Moana

There’s still more to come to this magical list, but this is the order you can look for soon!
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So, does this mean that the Frozen float is just Elsa? I'm hoping it means Anna and Kristoff will be walking in front as I had expected them to be on the float
 
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Comped

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mastromjm said:
Sword in the Stone made it into Magic Happens because it happens to be the favorite movie of a creative on the project
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Just like how you used to see jazz music and trumpets everywhere during the 80's-2000 or so - the guy in charge of entertainment at the corporate level played the trumpet and loved jazz. Good for them - maybe we can have more (for modern Disney at least) deep cuts elsewhere for guests to see.
 
Brer Panther

Brer Panther

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Comped said:
the guy in charge of entertainment at the corporate level loved jazz.
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Is this the guy?
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TTA94

TTA94

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TsWade2 said:
Anyway, I'm still anxious what other Disney animated films they're going to include. I hope they include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Aladdin, Hercules, Tangled, and many others that might be included.
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Well if Tangled is going to be a small float then it’s very unlikely there will be any more large floats, so I think the best we can hope for is a few more small floats or something like SpectroMagics finale with a mashup of different characters.
 
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TsWade2

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TTA94 said:
Well if Tangled is going to be a small float then it’s very unlikely there will be any more large floats, so I think the best we can hope for is a few more small floats or something like SpectroMagics finale with a mashup of different characters.
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I hate to say this, but I’m afraid that you’re probably right. Oh well! We’ll see what happens.
 

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