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

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Paint the Night does not have 18 floats. Counting distinct motorized floats with their own driver, there are 12-13 floats, creating 8 units. Some of the floats have multiple parts linked together, but ultimately those are only counted as a single vehicle (such as the literal tractor-trailer, Mack):

1. Tinkerbell (w/ Drum)
2. Monsters Inc.
3. Lightning McQueen
4. Mack (cab & trailer)
5. Little Mermaid
6. Toy Story Slinky Dog
7. Toy Story Aliens (added for DCA run)
8. Belle (w/ 3 chandeliers, Rapunzel, & Cinderella)
9. Frozen (DL) or Incredibles (DCA)
10. Ball w/ Goofy
11. Ball w/ Donald
12. Ball w/ Minnie
13. Mickey Finale

2-3 rolling puppets also followed the Tinkerbell; these puppets were originally used for the short-lived World of Color pre-show and were mounted on rolling bases for the parade, and are manually pushed along the parade route. The DCA run of the parade also added a UFO with aliens to the Toy Story unit; this was originally in the daytime Pixar Play Parade and appeared to be manually pushed from within during PPP, but motorized after its PTN overhaul.


While 12ish floats is on the longer side of Disney's modern parades, it pales in comparison to the peak of the nighttime parades which often had 30+ floats. Sure, these ones are a lot more technologically advanced, but in terms of sheer scale PTN comes up short; even in person, it leaves most people wanting more. Unfortunately, I see no reason to think that MK’s new parade wouldn’t follow along in a similar scale.

Well, when MSEP had it's own VHS Souvenir video, Cinderella who is the hostess of the video (Played by a cast member) says that MSEP has over 41 floats. But this is before MSEP started to cut some of the of the floats, like Dumbo.

 

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Has anyone seen a video of Spectromagic in its early years, the 90s, with the view of it starting and coming out of the town square gate? I can only find videos of this from the later years.