DisneyDodo
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Not according to guest ratings. I think SGE was the only attraction at WDW where guest satisfaction increased when it was closed
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MK All-New Nighttime Parade Disney Starlight Set to Debut at Magic Kingdom in 2025
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peter11435
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What makes you think that?
HuntrixOwlMouse98
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Starlight missed out on an award win, because they haven’t phased out the Wish float with a potential Owl House unit followed by the additions of units based on Inside Out and Zootopia, like how the old Stars and Motor Cars replaced the Atlantis car with a Lilo & Stitch car in 2002, due to the former’s underwhelming box office performance and the latter being released that same SummerDisney Wins Two 2025 IAAPA Brass Ring Awards, But Starlight Parade Misses Out
Disney Wins Two 2025 IAAPA Brass Ring Awards, But Starlight Parade Misses Out
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AxolotlTales
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There's been two performance nights since it opened and they've all started in Town Square.
Pizza Moon
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Ironic too because Lilo and Stitch is a mega IP.
It, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and Lion King not having rides is mind blowing.
Biff215
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Agree completely on Stitch, huge missed opportunity for WDW. I teach in an elementary school. For most, Stitch is Disney for them.
The others you mentioned at least have some representation in the parks. Of course the scale or execution can be questioned but at least they are there.
Back to Starlight, would running the early and late parade in opposite directions help at all? I know it’s been done in the past but I don’t know the logistics backstage.
Brian
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Not at all. If the parade starts in Frontierland, there is a slow moving barrier preventing people from Frontierland and Liberty Square, and later Main Street, from exiting the park timely, almost always at park close. Backstage, it's a bit challenging and time consuming to "turn around" the parade to start in the opposite direction.
peter11435
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It really hasn’t though. WDW has never alternated the direction of first and second night parades as part of standard operation.
Pizza Moon
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I’m biased because Stitch has always been my favorite Disney character and one of my favorite movies of all time.
But man, is it totally true. It absolutely could anchor a headlining E-ticket.
It can fit in so many existing lands too from Tomorrowland to Adventureland, though it seems like they like to push Moana, they both could justify rides.
Aladdin too. Shame we’ll likely never get rides in the States for them all.
Biff215
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I guess I imagined that, for some reason I felt like Spectro or MSEP did that. Maybe it’s that the daytime and nighttime parades typically went opposite directions.
peter11435
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Daytime and nighttime do usually run opposite directions. With daytime starting in Frontierland and nighttime starting on Main Street.
Disneyland does run opposite directions when they run two of the same parade due to operational requirements.
brb1006
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I actually found a few rare videos of Spectromagic going the opposite route. I believe one of them was taken sometime in the early to mid 1990s and another from the early to mid 2000s.
Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
- No
I feel like I saw it happen with Spectro multiple times in the mid to late 2000s. Definitely at least once. I only went once per year in the summer.
peter11435
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Nope. Unless they were doing media production spectromagic began on Main Street. It’s never been standard operation to alternate directions.
Squishy
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Seems like Disney has changed the wording on there website on which way the parade goes.
Before:
Now:
Biff215
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Interesting, I guess we’ll see tonight.
It changed on MDE as well.... I'm confused, is this a Test or Fake Rumors? I feel a Flag Pole Shot is too good to be true........
We don't even have rumors of Starlight testing the other Direction...only Flying Testing in early Jan.
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