BATB Live! is my favorite live stage production at WDW (not kidding), so I literally watch every video or stream of it online. FOTLK is second to it for me.
Whenever I'm at WDW, I would go see multiple showings per day and park hop to HS in the mornings just for it (did so today on the last day of my trip).
So I basically notice any minor, or big, changes done to the show. During my recent trip this past weekend, the quality of the lighting was already way different than usual. Looking up at the stage infrastructure, I immediately spotted that all of the spotlights have been removed & replaced.
Here, you can see the old setup, which has been there for decades at this point. These are single color spotlights, which each use a translucent gel sheet to project a single color, hence why there are dozens of them. There are blue, red, yellow, etc., which are all the colors you often see in the show. Grabbed these from Google reviews posted 1 month ago.
Now, they have been replaced by 2 LED moving head lights on each side, producing an array of colors. New brackets were installed (painted black), so maybe more lights are coming in the future. My pictures below.
The lights in the middle overhang have also been overhauled.
These new lights produce new patterns throughout the show. During the kick line in Be Our Guest, the stage now flashes on each beat.
During the beast transformation, it does circular bubbles, which then expands after the transformation is completed by the Enchantress.
These updates have me pretty hyped. Overall the show feels somewhat refreshed, similar to how F! 2022 returned with a new look, tech-wise.
It was done pretty recently too. I was also at WDW end of August and the lights were still the old ones then. So the upgrades was probably done in the last 1-2 weeks.
Disney Live! Entertainment has been on a roll recently with doing tech/other updates here and there their shows; eg. FOTLK recently got new dance choreography that removes distancing restrictions.
Whenever I'm at WDW, I would go see multiple showings per day and park hop to HS in the mornings just for it (did so today on the last day of my trip).
So I basically notice any minor, or big, changes done to the show. During my recent trip this past weekend, the quality of the lighting was already way different than usual. Looking up at the stage infrastructure, I immediately spotted that all of the spotlights have been removed & replaced.
Here, you can see the old setup, which has been there for decades at this point. These are single color spotlights, which each use a translucent gel sheet to project a single color, hence why there are dozens of them. There are blue, red, yellow, etc., which are all the colors you often see in the show. Grabbed these from Google reviews posted 1 month ago.
Now, they have been replaced by 2 LED moving head lights on each side, producing an array of colors. New brackets were installed (painted black), so maybe more lights are coming in the future. My pictures below.
The lights in the middle overhang have also been overhauled.
These new lights produce new patterns throughout the show. During the kick line in Be Our Guest, the stage now flashes on each beat.
During the beast transformation, it does circular bubbles, which then expands after the transformation is completed by the Enchantress.
These updates have me pretty hyped. Overall the show feels somewhat refreshed, similar to how F! 2022 returned with a new look, tech-wise.
It was done pretty recently too. I was also at WDW end of August and the lights were still the old ones then. So the upgrades was probably done in the last 1-2 weeks.
Disney Live! Entertainment has been on a roll recently with doing tech/other updates here and there their shows; eg. FOTLK recently got new dance choreography that removes distancing restrictions.
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