see second post for a list of videos of HEA
Introduction: Desiring the Dream
10 seconds: Instrumental “Happily Ever After”
90 Seconds: “Happily Ever After” [by Adam Watts, Melissa Peirce & Andrew Dodd]
10 seconds: Instrumental (from anything?)
10 seconds: instrumental variations on "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio
28 seconds: instrumental of "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid
53 seconds: "Out There" from Hunchback of Notre Dame
Boldly Beginning the Journey
50 seconds:
7 seconds: musical interlude (tune?)
72 seconds: "How Far I’ll Go" from Moana
Friends on the Journey
4 seconds: silence
26 seconds:
30 seconds: "Friend Like Me" from Aladdin
Love is the Journey
6 seconds: silence
36 seconds: "Love Is an Open Door" (slow instrumental) from Frozen
16 seconds: "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" (instrumental) from The Lion King
31 seconds: Instrumental of "You’ll Be In My Heart" (31 seconds)
Overcoming Adversity
21 seconds: Instrumental from Mulan
14 seconds: transition instrumental
25 seconds: "I Can Go the Distance" (instrumental licks, from Hercules)
102 seconds: "I Can Go the Distance" (lyrics from Hercules the movie and from the pop version)
Conclusion: Find Your Own Happily Ever After
24 seconds: Narrator...
93 seconds: "Happily Ever After (reprise)"
Introduction: Desiring the Dream
10 seconds: Instrumental “Happily Ever After”
- Castle: Blue and orange. Large keyhole (for unlocking doors to one's dreams)
- FX: Spotlights and strobes
- FX: Hub's fountain turns color appropriately
- FX: Made with Magic ears and other paraphernalia work in sync with HEA
And they all lived happily ever after.
Each of us have a dream, a heart’s desire, it calls to us,
and when we’re brave enough to listen, and bold enough to pursue,
that dream will lead us on a journey to discover who we’re meant to be.
All we have to do is look inside our hearts and unlock the magic within.
90 Seconds: “Happily Ever After” [by Adam Watts, Melissa Peirce & Andrew Dodd]
Vocalists [Jordan Fisher & Angie Keilhauer]:
Ready to begin, let the wonder take hold.
Feel it draw you in watch the moment unfold
- Castle: Yellow streams of sparkling light exit the keyhole
Spark a dream we’re meant to follow
Setting out for a new tomorrow
- Castle: Red and orange lacquer, gold trim
Every step we take brings a new hope, new day
Every choice we make helps us find our own way
Every wish finally put into motion
- Castle: Silver filigree over the red and orange lacquer
Diving in with our hearts wide open
The story comes alive / when we look and shine
a new adventure / bear in your eyes (bear in your eyes)
It’s just beginning
Feel your heart beat faster
- FW: Heart shaped
reach out and find your happily ever after
find your happily ever after
10 seconds: Instrumental (from anything?)
- Castle turns blue
- FX synchrolite: Flare (Pearl FW) lobbed to highest turret and becomes a star
The evening star is shining bright
So make a wish and hold on tight
There's magic in the air tonight
And anything can happen
10 seconds: instrumental variations on "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio
28 seconds: instrumental of "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid
- FW: Jellyfish blossom
- Castle: underwater, Ariel swims up (longing to be on land)
- FX: Laser bubbles
- Remy shows up in front of Gusteau's and Eiffel Tower (longing to be a chef)
- Rapunzel in her tower (longing to be free)
53 seconds: "Out There" from Hunchback of Notre Dame
Strolling by the Seine / Taste a morning out there
Like ordinary men Who freely walk about there
Just one day and then / I swear I'll be content
With my share / Won't resent / Won't despair / Old and bent
I won't care / I'll have spent / One day / Out there
- Quasimodo shows up, climbs the tower
- Star in turret turns to bells, Quasimodo rings them
- Castle turns to Notre Dame, doves fly
Boldly Beginning the Journey
50 seconds:
- Merida (spoken): Your destiny lies with you you just have to be brave enough to see it and then your journey begins
- castle covered in green growth
- FX: synchrolite: Merida shots an arrow, becomes a flare
- FW: Bullseye
- "Touch the Sky" from Brave
I will read every story / Take hold of my own dream
- Merida rides a horse
Be as strong as the seas are stormy / And proud as an eagle's scream
- Flick from A Bug's Life rides a dandelion glider
- waterfall comes down main turret
I will ride, I will fly / Chase the wind and touch the sky
- cars from Cars drive in, rev up, and race off
I will fly / Chase the wind and touch the sky
(Na na na na Na na na na La na na na Na na na)
- house from Up with balloons floats in and up
And touch the sky / Chase the wind /
Chase the wind / Touch the sky
- castle turns blue, water rises
- FX: blue lasers become the surface of the water over the hub
- Nemo, Crush, and Dory from Finding Nemo swim by
7 seconds: musical interlude (tune?)
72 seconds: "How Far I’ll Go" from Moana
- castle is covered with torches and Pacific Island touches
- triangular sail
- Moana appears in several scenes singing
Moana: Every turn I take, every trail I track
Every path I make, every road leads back
- FW: Moana swirls
To the place I know, where I can not go, where I long to be
See the light as it shines on the sea? It's blinding
- FX: Yellow lasers
- Maui tattoos appear
But no one knows, how deep it goes
And it seems like it's calling out to me, so come find me
And let me know, what's beyond that line, will I cross that line?
- FW: synchrolite - Tala as the sting ray flies up and continues as FWs
- FW: sting ray shape
- Tala hugs Moana
The line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me
And no one knows, how far it goes
If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me
One day I'll know, how far I'll go
Friends on the Journey
4 seconds: silence
26 seconds:
- Aladdin (spoken): Trust me, having a best friend by your side opens up a whole world of possibilities
- FX: smoke from the genie's lamp
- "Friend Like Me" from Aladdin (instrumental)
- Castle turns into brightly colored gear works and the gears works theme remains through the next few songs/scenes
- Terk, Tantor and friends
- bunch of bugs run out and away (From A Bug's Life?)
- Timon and Pumba
- fireworks are shaped like yellow lion heads with a red mane.
- castle is made of Tinker Toys
- Woody and pals show up
- FW: blocks
- Tinker Toys fall to reveal a green gear works castle
- cast from Jungle Book come out to dance
- Ralph and Vanellope from Wreck It Ralph
- Baymax and Hiro from Big Hero 6
- Judy and Nick from Zootopia chased by The Big Donut
- Joy and Sadness from Inside Out
Vocalists: And when you're outside, looking in
- Sully and Mike from Monsters Inc. with doors passing by and power canisters on overload
Who's there to open the door?
Shere Khan vocal: That’s what friends are for
- the mouth of the gear works castle sings this line
- castle is nightclub
Vocalists & Genie: Mr. Aladdin, sir, have a wish or two or three.
I'm on the job you big nabob!
You ain't never had a friend, never had a friend,
You ain't never had a friend, never had a friend,
You ain't never had a friend like me.
You ain't never had a friend like me
- main turret becomes a rocket that takes off
- FX: Lasers used for pinwheel fireworks and applause sign
- FW: smiley faces
Love is the Journey
6 seconds: silence
36 seconds: "Love Is an Open Door" (slow instrumental) from Frozen
- castle becomes blue with purple highlights
Olaf (spoken): Some people are worth melting for
Vocalists (slow cover): Say goodbye... Say goodbye...
- moon rises up and off
To the pain of the past
We don't have to feel it anymore!
Love is an open door! Love is an open door!
- two turtles swim by from Finding Nemo
16 seconds: "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" (instrumental) from The Lion King
- WALL*E and Eve from WALL*E
- Simba and Nala from The Lion King
Vocalist: You'll be in my heart
- Kala and Tarzan hugging from Tarzan
- Riley and parents wrasslin' from Inside Out
No matter what they say
- baby Dory and parents hugging from Finding Dory
- Carl and Russell hugging from UP
You'll be here in my heart / Always
- FW: heart
- baby Dumbo and his mother hugging from Dumbo
- Judy Hopps hugging parents from Zootopia
- Incredible family hugging from The Incredibles
31 seconds: Instrumental of "You’ll Be In My Heart" (31 seconds)
- castle is a pink garden with waterfalls
- Cinderella and Prince Charming
- Aladdin and Jasmine
- Tiana and the frog
- Ariel and Eric
- floating lanterns rise
Vocalists: And at last I see the light
And it's like the fog has lifted
And at last I see the light
And it's like the sky is new
And it's warm and real and bright
And the world has somehow shifted
All at once everything is different
Now that I see you
- Rapunzel and Eugene in the canoe
- two straggling lanterns dance around each other and light up the figures in the windows
Overcoming Adversity
21 seconds: Instrumental from Mulan
- Emperor from Mulan (spoken): The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.
- who is the villain in silhouette at the top of the turret??
- FX synchrolite: Chinese firework is shot from a Mulan character and it continues as real FW past the castle
- Syndrome shoots electric bolts
- walls at bottom of castle crumble as the final Omnidroid battles Mr. Incredible
- waters rise and Ursula appears shooting bolts at Prince Eric from her trident
- Scar and Mufasa fight in the center casting large shadow, hyenas at the bottom
- Jafar the Serpent v. Aladdin
- Maleficent turns into a dragon and attacks Philip
- the castle is on fire
- pirates (which ones?) fight in silhouette in middle of castle
- more silhouettes at the bottom (who?)
- silhouette of Aladdin batting away at something?
- FX: synchrolite - the thing hit continues off the castle as a red flare
- Merida firing her bow
- Mulan bo stick and kick
- FX: clouds billow out the front of the castle
- Incredibles appear in silhouette at bottom?
- Philip kills Maleficent the dragon
14 seconds: transition instrumental
- The castle is in embers
Mufasa (from The Lion King, spoken): Look inside yourself
25 seconds: "I Can Go the Distance" (instrumental licks, from Hercules)
Mufasa (continuing): You are more than what you have become
Remember who you are
Remember, remember
102 seconds: "I Can Go the Distance" (lyrics from Hercules the movie and from the pop version)
Vocalists: I have often dreamed of a far off place
- Aladdin
Where a hero's welcome would be waiting for me
- Tarzan
Where the crowds will cheer when they see my face
- Mulan
And a voice keeps saying, this is where I'm meant to be
- Hercules
- Star returns to turret, castle turns blue
- Moana
- Wendy, John, and Michael ("Peter Pan")
- Snow White and Prince
- Dwarfs
- Ariel and Eric
- Aurora and Philip wedding (or is it Cinderella and Prince Charming??)
- Vanellope winning a trophy
- Genie and Aladdin
- Anna and Elsa
- Tiana and Naveen wedding
I will beat the odds / I can go the distance
- Castle gets gilded and characters show up as stained glass portraits
- Cinderella
- Aladdin
- Tarzan
- Hercules
I will face the world / Fearless, proud and strong
- Woody
I will please the gods / I can go the distance
- Merida
- Anna & Elsa
Till I find my hero's welcome / Right where I belong!
- Tiana
- Pinocchio
- Snow White
- Aurora
- Mulan
- Belle
- Beast
- others on the side, disconnected turrets
- Alice
- Moana
- Pinocchio
- Peter Pan
Conclusion: Find Your Own Happily Ever After
24 seconds: Narrator...
And so our journey comes to an end
but yours continues on
grab hold of your dreams
and make them come true
for you are the key to unlocking your own magic
now go, let your dreams guide you
reach out and find your happily ever after
93 seconds: "Happily Ever After (reprise)"
the battles, the stories
the losses in all the glories
we’re changed by the way
we live everyday
just look up and reach to the sky
we all have the courage to fly
"You Can Fly" from Peter Pan
you can fly (you can fly)
you can fly (you can fly)
you can flyyyyy!
- Tinkerbell flies out of castle self-lit up
The story comes alive / when we look and shine
- castle takes on different color schemes
- FX: trees have laser fireflies
a new adventure / bear in your eyes (bear in your eyes)
it’s just beginning / feel your heart beat faster
reach out and find your / reach out and find your
reach out and find your / happily ever after
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