Drones may be used in Disney Parks in the future.

[The Empress Lilly]

Not at all. Fireworks displays are very toxic and cause significant air, water and noise pollution. It's incumbent upon TWDC to reduce or eliminate these hazards and the drone technology may help.

I for one think you make an excellent point.

Why, Disney too thinks you made an excellent point, that is why they have replaced gunpowder for compressed air in their fireworks.

At DAK, where the negative environmental effects of fireworks are more immediately obvious to the guests (the cuddly animal imported from India may not suffer, unlike the wild Florida one), Disney was forced to develop alternative nighttime shows.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070130091024.htm

Anaheim, California, residents have long complained about the pollution and the noise created by Disney's fireworks bombardment and the 90,000 pounds of gunpowder it ignites 239 nights a year. A group of Anaheim homeowners organized in 2001 to protest the launching of Disney's California Adventure claiming Disney and local officials were ignoring the harmful effects of fireworks debris on humans.

Locals complained that children with asthma had breakouts more frequently because of the smoke generated. William Fitzgerald, a representative of the homeowners group, told participants at South Coast Air Quality Management meetings that high concentrations of chlorate were leaking into the ground and polluting underground water. "Six wells have been shut down and most people rely on bottled water," Fitzgerald said.​

 

[DABIGCHEEZ]

Sorry. But that comment sickens me. Walt Disney's fireworks have been around since 1958. That's destroying his image of what makes his theme parks magical at night.

Recent and current WDW management have proven they do not care much about destroying Walt's vision of the parks.

 

[FigmentForver96]

Drones aren't to replace fireworks. But as you keep dragging this up every few months you already know that.

Fireworks will stop being used one day. Also, the sun will die one day. Neither will happen anytime soon.

Life on earth will end when that happens...,,the sun dying would be pretty bad as well.

 

[Bandini]

Sometimes we have to toss one thing to the side in order to enjoy the other and I'm willing to put the environment on the back burner if it means I get to watch fireworks explode.

Well, this post will really have the environmentalists up in arms! But I totally agree with you!

 

[Tim Lohr]

So does this mean Rivers of Light can finally get up and running?

 

[cjkeating]

So does this mean Rivers of Light can finally get up and running?

Drones are not featured in Rivers of Light.

 

[marni1971]

So does this mean Rivers of Light can finally get up and running?

Nothing to do with RoL.

 

[Tim Lohr]

Drones are not featured in Rivers of Light.

Nothing to do with RoL.

Then what's the hold up?

 

[cjkeating]

Then what's the hold up?

Primarily the GPS systems on the floats not working correctly but it seems just about ready to go... there are hundreds of pages of discussion over in the RoL thread.

 

[Tim Lohr]

Primarily the GPS systems on the floats not working correctly but it seems just about ready to go... there are hundreds of pages of discussion over in the RoL thread.

I'm having a hard time understanding why the 1 park that can't have fireworks wouldn't use the fancy new drones, but thanks, and it would be great if this site had a "rumor of the week" report like ever other Disney site, so people with better things to do could skip the "hundreds of pages of discussion" which usually amounts to a lot of cynical b.s. with the occasional fact thrown in

 

[cjkeating]

I'm having a hard time understanding why the 1 park that can't have fireworks wouldn't use the fancy new drones, but thanks, and it would be great if this site had a "rumor of the week" report like ever other Disney site, so people with better things to do could skip the "hundreds of pages of discussion" which usually amounts to a lot of cynical b.s. with the occasional fact thrown in

Without seeing the show on paper it does make sense that drones could work well in RoL however the show has been in planning for 3 years, maybe going on for 4 years now so the timeframes for considering drones don't match up. All signs point to drones being used in the next version of Illuminations at Epcot.

 

[Tim Lohr]

Then feel free to join those other sites. Its not really hard to keep up with the discussions here, you simply want someone to spoon feed you the information.

I just want the information without having to join any sites, that's some times called "journalism" but that's a pretty strong word for the internet age

 

[Magenta Panther]

Are these drones going to be like that awesome flying dragon?



What a crowd-pleaser that was! Listen to the people freak out on that video!

 

[Phil12]

I for one think you make an excellent point.

Why, Disney too thinks you made an excellent point, that is why they have replaced gunpowder for compressed air in their fireworks.

At DAK, where the negative environmental effects of fireworks are more immediately obvious to the guests (the cuddly animal imported from India may not suffer, unlike the wild Florida one), Disney was forced to develop alternative nighttime shows.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070130091024.htm

Anaheim, California, residents have long complained about the pollution and the noise created by Disney's fireworks bombardment and the 90,000 pounds of gunpowder it ignites 239 nights a year. A group of Anaheim homeowners organized in 2001 to protest the launching of Disney's California Adventure claiming Disney and local officials were ignoring the harmful effects of fireworks debris on humans.

Locals complained that children with asthma had breakouts more frequently because of the smoke generated. William Fitzgerald, a representative of the homeowners group, told participants at South Coast Air Quality Management meetings that high concentrations of chlorate were leaking into the ground and polluting underground water. "Six wells have been shut down and most people rely on bottled water," Fitzgerald said.​

Yes indeed the pollution problems from fireworks at Disneyland are a serious concern. In addition all of WDW is located in the Everglades watershed. As you can see from this Army Corps of Engineers map, the water from WDW flows from central Florida through most of south Florida. It doesn't make a lot of sense to pollute the air and water with toxic heavy metals in an environmentally sensitive watershed.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

My money's on fantasmic at Disneyland this summer for this kind of patent.

I would LOVE this!

 

[Mike S]

I just want the information without having to join any sites, that's some times called "journalism" but that's a pretty strong word for the internet age

Here's a website by our very own @RSoxNo1 that does just that. All the rumors in one spot. Have fun.
http://www.wdwthemeparks.com/rumors

 

[MisterPenguin]

All signs point to drones being used in the next version of Illuminations at Epcot.

And a rumored drone show over the waters at Disney Springs.

 

[DisneyGentlemanV2.0]

Drones aren't to replace fireworks. But as you keep dragging this up every few months you already know that.

Droning alredy exists here, even without a permit.

 

[jt04]

Yes indeed the pollution problems from fireworks at Disneyland are a serious concern. In addition all of WDW is located in the Everglades watershed. As you can see from this Army Corps of Engineers map, the water from WDW flows from central Florida through most of south Florida. It doesn't make a lot of sense to pollute the air and water with toxic heavy metals in an environmentally sensitive watershed.

Worse troll bait ever.

 

[jt04]

And a rumored drone show over the waters at Disney Springs.

Video in other thread looks amazing!

I am guessing Sea World will be next as part of their Electric Ocean promotion.

So much amazing creativity in the pipeline for central Florida.