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

MisterPenguin

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jrhwdw

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ToTBellHop said:
Let’s hope they didn’t assign the World Celebration lighting design team to this parade! Can’t have random lights off or displaying the wrong color for these effects to work and if they can’t do this correctly, they should stick with Christmas lights.
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Point taken but I believe TDO got World Celebration working again.
 
TTA94

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From a technology standpoint I wonder what parade is more advanced Paint The Night or Dreamlights? And where might Starlight fit in to this?
 
TTA94

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MerlinTheGoat said:
Silver lining- At least these lights won't be embedded into a surface that people walk over, or that gets rained on and pressure washed?

Then again, given that there's a precedent of storing their parade floats improperly and in non-climate controlled locations...
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Or unexpectedly rained on durning performances. Shouldn’t happen though as much at FoF.
 
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MerlinTheGoat said:
Silver lining- At least these lights won't be embedded into a surface that people walk over, or that gets rained on and pressure washed?

Then again, given that there's a precedent of storing their parade floats improperly and in non-climate controlled locations...
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MK should be able to care for 1 Nighttime Parade. Why 2010 was so different than MSEP'S 1999 Run when Mk had to juggle more Parades than now IDK!
 
MerlinTheGoat

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TTA94 said:
From a technology standpoint I wonder what parade is more advanced Paint The Night or Dreamlights? And where might Starlight fit in to this?
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If i'm not mistaken, there's probably little to nothing remaining of the original Dreamlights from when it first debuted. Not only are the new floats using the same kind of tech as PtN, but all of the originals have been either retrofitted or scrapped/replaced entirely with new iterations of the modern lighting tech as well. Most of these changes were made after Paint the Night was created too. As a whole, it's probably at least relative to and perhaps now more technically advanced than PtN. The elaborate synchronized light choreography PtN can do, Dreamlights can also do. Prime examples are the Genie, Elliot and Cheshire Cat floats. Though the others again have the same capabilities as well.

It's certainly a far better usage of the tech than PtN as well, especially in terms of artistry. Most of PtN's floats have a very modern look to them. The floats are of block and/or abstract shapes. Same goes for the light placement, which often adheres to very straight gridlike patterns. The Monsters Inc and Cars floats are especially glaring examples. Dreamlights and other parades of its kind were the opposite. Float design had a lot of organic looking shapes and details, including the light pattern. And this philosophy was pretty faithfully adapted even when rebuilding old floats with the new lighting tech.

The only element in which i'd say PtN still arguably has any sort of tech advantage are some of the costumes of secondary walking performers like fairies, candelabras etc. They're also some of the best parts of the parade and would fit better with more classical and less modern looking float shapes.

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As you may have surmised (and i've said this before), I do not like Paint the Night. I kind of hate it in fact. It's mostly an artistically poor, inappropriate and obnoxious parade. But with some very cool technology that was squandered and later used for far better purposes elsewhere. Probably too much to hope that Starlight will have Spectromagic-like music, but hopefully it at least takes far more overall cues from Dreamlights than PtN. The concept art so far seems to be pointing towards a promising direction, but we'll see...
 
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brb1006

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MerlinTheGoat said:
If i'm not mistaken, there's probably little to nothing remaining of the original Dreamlights from when it first debuted. Not only are the new floats using the same kind of tech as PtN, but all of the originals have been either retrofitted or scrapped/replaced entirely with new iterations of the modern lighting tech as well. Most of these changes were made after Paint the Night was created too. As a whole, it's probably at least relative to and perhaps now more technically advanced than PtN. The elaborate synchronized light choreography PtN can do, Dreamlights can also do. Prime examples are the Genie, Elliot and Cheshire Cat floats. Though the others again have the same capabilities as well.

It's certainly a far better usage of the tech than PtN as well, especially in terms of artistry. Most of PtN's floats have a very modern look to them. The floats are of block and/or abstract shapes. Same goes for the light placement, which often adheres to very straight gridlike patterns. The Monsters Inc and Cars floats are especially glaring examples. Dreamlights and other parades of its kind were the opposite. Float design had a lot of organic looking shapes and details, including the light pattern. And this philosophy was pretty faithfully adapted even when rebuilding old floats with the new lighting tech.

The only element in which i'd say PtN still arguably has any sort of tech advantage are some of the costumes of secondary walking performers like fairies, candelabras etc. They're also some of the best parts of the parade and would fit better with more classical and less modern looking float shapes.

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As you may have surmised (and i've said this before), I do not like Paint the Night. I kind of hate it in fact. It's mostly an artistically poor, inappropriate and obnoxious parade. But with some very cool technology that was squandered and later used for far better purposes elsewhere. Probably too much to hope that Starlight will have Spectromagic-like music, but hopefully it at least takes far more overall cues from Dreamlights than PtN. The concept art so far seems to be pointing towards a promising direction, but we'll see...
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I love how the current incarnation of the Drum Float is now able to alternate between normal colors to going dark with twinkling white lights for a few seconds. This upgrade makes The Blue Fairy using her magic wand to alternate the parade's lights make sense and a perfect set up for the Small World finale.

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That concept reminds me of promotional material for MSEP's return in 2009 for Disneyland's "Summer Nighttastic" where the entire parade used to have a trail of pixie dust that started from Tinker Bell up to The Bald Eagle finale.
 

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