The ONLY way I MIGHT be OK with Cars in place of River/TSI is if they them the Frontier side of the mountain with more facades or stores/shops built into the mountain so it makes sense in Frontierland
Coming back to this thread after the debut of Starlight is telling, they clearly have no interest in investing in performers. In the past few weeks there's been more cuts to this parade and here's a list of issues as of today.
The opening princess unit is in extremely poor condition, it squeaks its way down the parade route with it's faded flowers and none of the turn tables are working. There have been multiple times where this float has been absent. Beast has been missing for a while, and of course the swan dancers have been missing since 2020.
Tangled: There are of course only 2 dancers instead of four and the mime was missing today, although that may have been do to the heat, beast as well. The hair and lanterns throughout the float have been missing since 2020.
Little Mermaid: This unit luckily went relatively unchanged since 2020, the 2 spinners tailing the float have been missing since 2020. However most of the moving elements on the float weren't working.
Peter Pan: of course the lost boys haven't had the Hola hoops since 2020 and Wendy is on the ground now but the pirate ship and anchor have not swung in years, although that's not a COVID cut it just hasn't done that in a while. And of course tick tock the crock was removed after 2020.
Brave: Completely missing since 2020 with no signs of return.
Dragon: The thorn stilts have been missing for weeks and the crows in front of the float have been missing. The float was working correctly though!
Final: The cavalry of characters on front of monstro have been completely removed. The 7 dwarfs, Jiminy Cricket and all dancers are gone and Snow White, the Mad Hatter, and Alice are now trailing the float with Donald, Daisy and Goofy now on the float with Chip, Dale and Pluto also on the back on the float. Thankfully almost everything on the float was working but what's been done to this unit is just sad.
In conclusion it's a disgrace that the already budget cut version of Festival of Fantasy that was running has been farther cut and it's an embarrassment this is what's running. Hopefully a new parade is on the horizon because this ones been run into the ground.