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

[jpeden]

They did it for the Christmas DAH.

The real reason is that they need to park cleared before the party, which means the park "closes" at 6 pm. They don't want to encourage day guests to stay in the park, which fireworks would do.

Based on last night they need to HARD CLOSE MK on party nights. No shopping, no food, and no lingering. It was an absolute nightmare trying to navigate between 5:45-7PM. So many folks trying to eat, shop, and just linger as absolutely long as possible because they didn’t have party tickets.

 

[celluloid]

Having hard ticketed events at multiple parks likely has made this worse. And Disney wants their cake and eat it too so I don't think you will get a hard close easily.

 

[Touchdown]

To this day I'm still searching hard for a good transcript of all of the Spectromen's dialogue. The only bits of dialogue I could make out was "Zoom, zoom, zoom", "Look at her!", "Look at him!", "Spectromagic", "Zap!", "Electric Spectromagic", "Electric, Electric, Electric, Electric (laughing)", "Key to energy", and "Sends it round, round, round, round".

Also I'm so glad I wasn’t the only person who been obsessed with the Spectromen's unique dialogue. It was even harder when their voices used to be modified during the parade's early years.

Zip-a-Dee-Zop, Zip-a-Dee-DO! Sticks out in my head.

 

[TTA94]

I hope they go with two performances but I could see ops wanting to do only one on most nights.

 

[Casper Gutman]

Why is all the concept art for this so underwhelming?

 

[ToTBellHop]

Why is all the concept art for this so underwhelming?

My wife said the same about my match.com profile pic but I was worth the wait.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

It's the opposite for me. I actually think the concept art looks really promising. The float designs so far look nice and seem to contain things that I like about the designs in Spectromagic and Dreamlights (not just the blue fairy either as she's literally from Dreamlights). Like particularly the way the lights are placed in a very elegant and organic manner (lots of curves and curls instead of the blocky grid-like patterns as seen in many of Paint the Night's floats).

I'm just concerned that the final product won't live up to the art.

 

[TTA94]

It's the opposite for me. I actually think the concept art looks really promising. The float designs so far look nice and seem to contain things that I like about the designs in Spectromagic and Dreamlights (not just the blue fairy either as she's literally from Dreamlights). Like particularly the way the lights are placed in a very elegant and organic manner (lots of curves and curls instead of the blocky grid-like patterns as seen in many of Paint the Night's floats).

I'm just concerned that the final product won't live up to the art.

I think the concept art is very vague and doesn’t show us to much. Hopefully the final product is impressive. As far as the Blue Fairy did someone confirm the float is a copy from Dreamlights? Maybe it’s the original Dreamlights Blue Fairy that was swapped out?

 

[SpectroMickey85]

I think the concept art is very vague and doesn’t show us to much. Hopefully the final product is impressive. As far as the Blue Fairy did someone confirm the float is a copy from Dreamlights? Maybe it’s the original Dreamlights Blue Fairy that was swapped out?

If the concept art is accurate I think the Blue Fairy is a slighty different design. Appears to be more swirls.

 

[Blobbles]

Honestly kinda surprised they didn’t try to revive the summer nighttastic promotion for the new parade.

 

[TTA94]

Honestly kinda surprised they didn’t try to revive the summer nighttastic promotion for the new parade.

If they did then that would mean more new or updated entertainment and so far no rumors of that happening. Still time though.

 

[Starship824]

I don't know how official this is, but look:

It literally says fan made in the title.

 

[TsWade2]

It literally says fan made in the title.

That's what I thought. You're right, it is fan made. Sorry about that.

 

[TsWade2]

I decided repost this again to show you guys this video. But, this demo music for Starlight is fan made. We still don’t know what Disney will include what the music will be like. Although, if I have to be honest, I wouldn’t be surprise if Starlight’s music will be a bit similar to this.

 

[TTA94]

I decided repost this again to show you guys this video. But, this demo music for Starlight is fan made. We still don’t know what Disney will include what the music will be like. Although, if I have to be honest, I wouldn’t be surprise if Starlight’s music will be a bit similar to this.

I have to agree it wouldn’t surprise me if the real music isn’t to far from this as far as being upbeat. Way off from what we had been thinking the music might be which is a slower waltz.

 

[Squishy]

Honestly kinda surprised they didn’t try to revive the summer nighttastic promotion for the new parade.

I'm surprised too, I was expecting them todo some celebration marketing strategy to get a bigger push out there.

 

[Jedi14]

I decided repost this again to show you guys this video. But, this demo music for Starlight is fan made. We still don’t know what Disney will include what the music will be like. Although, if I have to be honest, I wouldn’t be surprise if Starlight’s music will be a bit similar to this.

I’m now going to be slightly disappointed if the soundtrack is like this.

 

[jrhwdw]

I'm surprised too, I was expecting them todo some celebration marketing strategy to get a bigger push out there.

I would guess WDW would have some type of Summer Marketing for MK Starlight, LM Redo, Villains at DHS and TT 3.0 At Epcot.

 

[TsWade2]

I’m now going to be slightly disappointed if the soundtrack is like this.

Well, whatever the music is going to be sound like, we'll learn to live with it.

 

[TTA94]

Well, whatever the music is going to be sound like, we'll learn to live with it.

This. Not everyone will be happy with it but hopefully the vast majority will love it.