It needs more filler content and smaller floats that interacted with guests.
They have survey data suggesting 10-15 minute parades are the perfect length. Can’t delay guests too long with LLs to get to!
It’s a parade of old barely hanging on floats from the 80s. I was in Boo to You for four seasons and have a lot of fond memories of it, but it’s time has come and gone. They should use the same song and title, but get actual Halloween floats purposefully built for the parade. It is currently a parade made entirely of hand-me-downs.
I believe I saw the example of the Epcot ground lighting issues referenced in this topic. That is a poster child example of something like this and what most miss is the ridiculous, but nonetheless real reasons why some of this stuff takes so long to get fixed. Please note, I have no specific facts on this but having worked in the industry the patterns are pretty similar. 1) You create a design you want to implement. 2) You put the design out for proposals on how to implement what you want/ 3) you get to a final design and bid the building and installation of the 'thing' you want to deploy. it goes in and everything seems to work until some random event causes it to stop working.
What made Spectromagic stand out more was the color scheme they used for the characters. Unlike other electrical parades, Spectro used the color white, grey, yellow, blue, silver costumes. It gave the parade its own identity since it didn't use the traditional character costumes.
Even Spectromagic, Fantillusion, and Dreamlights gave love to the Villains (notably Hook, Smee, The Evil Queen, and The Queen of Hearts).
That’s a planned addition around 2030 to coincide with something else.
Remember when Pete from Pete's Dragon would alternate between a male or female? You could easily tell by hearing the character's voice from a few blocks away back in the 80s and 90s.
At least the International Disney Parks (mainly Paris and Tokyo) have an excuse on giving pre-recorded dialogue to the face characters.
To my knowledge, or from what I've seen, outsourcing floats has been done since around the 2000s. Though different elements are outsourced depending on what's needed. I know companies like Garner Holt, AES, L3DFX, and a few others are responsible for some of the stuff you see in most of the recent parades. I think Paint the Night's light programming was outsourced too if I remember correctly. I don't think it's necessarily bad they outsource as most advancements are happening outside of Disney. The quality issues, specifically their actual construction, wouldn't be at complete fault of the companies who fabricated it. Disney is usually very strict with the budgets they put into these projects. If you cheap out on making the product you'll end up with something cheap. So while the 3rd party company is still responsible for the actual production, Disney is also still responsible for making sure they invested enough for it to be high quality.
Tokyo still does this, though the lines are obviously prerecorded now.
Same with the Once Upon a Christmas Time Parade which also consists of 80s and 90s era floats.
The Disneyland version of PTN used to have Ariel talking live to guests. They eventually removed it a few years later.
Yes and there are also different levels of outsourcing. Disney worked with Arrow for the Matterhorn. It’s not anything new.
A speaker that can amplify a live mic can just as easily amplify pre-recorded audio.
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