I heard the dates are the 3rd-5th of December! Anyone know anymore details? When will the celebrities who will be on the show list be up? Also, Are they going to give out free tickets via there website again?
Here is a link to the production company that has been producing the parade show on ABC for many years. In the past they have had a link for extra's on the website, but I do not see anythink yet.
Understand that there really are no free tickets. You will be cast as an extra and will be required to do such until the production sees fit to dismiss you. It could be a 4 hour day or a 12 hour day depending on how shooting is going and if the weather is cooperating. Once you are dismissed you can spend the remainder of the day in the park.
http://www.lightshiptv.com/company/about.php
If I recall here was last years days/line up:
12/3 - Yanni and his singers followed by Chris Allen
12/4 - Celine Deon
12/5 - Jonas Brothers and the parade
Wrong and wrong!
1. The tickets are free. (limited quantities)
2. As for you having to wait all day, this is not true. You are not forced to stay! You can come and go freely. HOWEVER, you can not leave the park and come back in. With the free passes you are given a early admission so you are closer then the general public. The people that tend to get their at the early opening (requires a special ticket) tend to be dressed up for the taping. Most of the people who are just normal guests do not know of the taping and have regular clothes on.
Ok, so you were were part of this before? They let you roam around and do what you want??
I know you do not pay $$ for the tickets. I guess I should have clarified myself better. You pay for your tickets by being a stand-in for the taping. I guess reading between the lines can be difficult
As far as being able to come and go as you please?? Unless this has changed, I cannot imagine they would give people access to the park for free and let them go do what they want. Many people would take advantage of a free ticket and just disappear. I was going to sign up a few years ago and the application directly stated that I would not be able to leave the taping until released by the production crew. For that I refused to be involved because I did not want to be tied up all day.
If they are now giving tickets to anyone for that day that signs up (in limited quantities) and you can come and go as you want, Well sign me up!!!!!!!
I have been there for that weekend many many times and when the taping is going on security is controlling the people that are viewable by the cameras for the stage performance in front of the castle and they also route most guests backstage around Main St USA during parade taping. A few guests can get through the shops, but it is pretty packed along the parade route. The parade also gets boring when they stop it and back it up if they need a retake and also only runs parts of the parade at a time and not the whole parade. It is looks much better on TV!
If I recall here was last years days/line up:
12/3 - Yanni and his singers followed by Chris Allen
12/4 - Celine Deon
12/5 - Jonas Brothers and the parade
All I know is I saw everyone perform besides Celion. I was at GF waiting and waiting but had to go to work.
Word on the street was she was very ignorant to everyone there. Did the song and left.
All I know is I saw everyone perform besides Celion. I was at GF waiting and waiting but had to go to work.
Word on the street was she was very ignorant to everyone there. Did the song and left.
Ok, so you were were part of this before? They let you roam around and do what you want??
I know you do not pay $$ for the tickets. I guess I should have clarified myself better. You pay for your tickets by being a stand-in for the taping. I guess reading between the lines can be difficult
As far as being able to come and go as you please?? Unless this has changed, I cannot imagine they would give people access to the park for free and let them go do what they want. Many people would take advantage of a free ticket and just disappear. I was going to sign up a few years ago and the application directly stated that I would not be able to leave the taping until released by the production crew. For that I refused to be involved because I did not want to be tied up all day.
If they are now giving tickets to anyone for that day that signs up (in limited quantities) and you can come and go as you want, Well sign me up!!!!!!!
I have been there for that weekend many many times and when the taping is going on security is controlling the people that are viewable by the cameras for the stage performance in front of the castle and they also route most guests backstage around Main St USA during parade taping. A few guests can get through the shops, but it is pretty packed along the parade route. The parade also gets boring when they stop it and back it up if they need a retake and also only runs parts of the parade at a time and not the whole parade. It is looks much better on TV!
For all of these reasons, as well as everything else about it, I wish they would go back to LIVE. It was only around 10-15 years ago that it was live. We happened to go there the very next year, and I was hoping then it would be only a passing fad, because of how commercial it looked as compared to before.
The parade on TV in the eighties and early nineties was much more electric and fun than the two hour commercial we get today. You could feel it, and my family used to look forward to having it on after everyone had opened presents and was waiting for extended family to come in that afternoon. My brothers are both musicians and choir leaders at church and school, so they live entertainment -- and know it. The parade is more polished now, but has no life. It's like an info-mercial.
They need to do it live again. Compare it to the Macy's parade on Thanksgiving Day (or even old tapes of the live Disney World parade). It's also commercial, but live is so much more electric and genuine.
Paul
I did not know they even ever did it live.
She was rushing a lot... I was on the 5th floor (normally restricted but tickets for taping got me up there) and she was changing up there too in one of the suites... moved as fast as possible, but it was an alright performance.
Photos from that day:
http://gallery.figmentsmedia.net/Walt-Disney-World/Magic-Kingdom/Disney-Parks-Christmas-Parade/10568707_JtQFA
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