News 'Disney Dreams That Soar' Drone show coming to Walt Disney World this summer

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

If this show really was to bring people into DS and increase sales then the only reason I can think of why it won’t continue or have a holiday show is because they found it did bring in people, but it did not help with sales. Which imo is no surprise because I’m sure many just came to see the free show and then bolted.

I don't think this would help sales on any of those small shops. Would it bring sales for the restaurants, more to the rest yes it could.

It creates to much of an operational nightmare for staff. Disney Springs isn’t designed for this, the walkways are to cramped. I don’t see this coming back anytime soon.

Depends what your referring to about. Is it just keeping the main viewing area from people to get them from fighting to get the best spot? That should be the only issue main thing. Traffic directioning is another thing which all this is no different than Happily Ever After.

 

[stuart]

Depends what your referring to about. Is it just keeping the main viewing area from people to get them from fighting to get the best spot? That should be the only issue main thing. Traffic directioning is another thing which all this is no different than Happily Ever After.

We actually never took it in, put off by the reports of how cramped it was within the viewing area.

If it had been a 3D show, or rotated 45 or 90 degrees, then it would have allowed better viewing from around Downtown Disney to see it face on.

Also, as a guest at Riverside, I would rather it didn't mean the boat service had to stop much earlier every evening if it were to be repeated there.

 

[WondersOfLife]

Tried to see before, cancelled due to weather.

Finally saw it tonight.

Good riddance. Wrong place to do this. Crowds are atrocious.

 

[Moth]

I thought it increased foot traffic for Disney springs pretty well, no?

I'm curious if the increased foot traffic led to increased spending at stores or the spending remained around the same marks... Hmm....

 

[esskay]

I like the idea of a repeating smaller scale thing there, something that people want to see but doesn't create the operational issues. The problem is though theres no central tall item you can do anything like projection mapping onto so drones is one of the obvious choices, but still ends up being a pain in the rear as you have to stop the boats.

Daft as it may sound, something like the osborne lights spread across the entirety of springs is about as good as it would get, but only works at christmas.

 

[bmr1591]

We saw it this past Thursday night at the late showing and had no issues. It wasn’t packed at all. The first showing did reach capacity.

 

[jannerUK]

Are they planning on doing a stint of it again in future?

 

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

I like the idea of a repeating smaller scale thing there, something that people want to see but doesn't create the operational issues. The problem is though theres no central tall item you can do anything like projection mapping onto so drones is one of the obvious choices, but still ends up being a pain in the rear as you have to stop the boats.

How about projection on the Hot Air Balloon?

 

[DisneyFanatic12]

How about projection on the Hot Air Balloon?

Curved surfaces are REALLY hard to projection map, same with surfaces that are uneven (hence the screen that covers the MMRR sign during their show). Even if they went and computed the projection map for the balloon, I’d think the outer edges would have a noticeable difference in definition, due to the curve.

From the very little I know about it, at least.

 

[Brian]

How about projection on the Hot Air Balloon?

It shifts in the wind.

 

[mattpeto]

Tried to see before, cancelled due to weather.

Finally saw it tonight.

Good riddance. Wrong place to do this. Crowds are atrocious.

Free shows are just the worst aren't they? /s

 

[James Alucobond]

Free shows are just the worst aren't they? /s

Please reduce enthusiasm by 80%, increase misery by a factor of 4, and initiate persecution complex protocol epsilon. Your compliance is appreciated.

 

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

Good riddance. Wrong place to do this. Crowds are atrocious.

What about it was atrocious? Size of crowds, dynamics of the crowd, being pancaked in the area as more crowds fill in..

The MK Hub is compost packed so if this is worse than that then I digress.

 

[Nickm2022]

Personally think the drones should come to AK first. They got the space and need for it along with not being able to do fireworks. Plus doing the drones over the water would be really pretty.

 

[WondersOfLife]

Free shows are just the worst aren't they? /s

They are when they are a logistical nightmare in a place not designed for it.

I wonder if theyd ever consider a nighttime show at a hotel resort.

 

[mattpeto]

They are when they are a logistical nightmare in a place not designed for it.

I wonder if theyd ever consider a nighttime show at a hotel resort.

 

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

So if this was all indeed a test to boost sales from shops enticing bringing more reasoning to go and stay shop at Disney Spring's then if then what's next because let's just say it did, they can't have this going forever.... I don't think it did so time will tell if this impacts changes of shop lineups or not. Will be interesting to guess

 

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

I wonder if they had the second show at an earlier time say 10pm, would it flesh out the insane crowds because to me everyone is who wanted to see this are in ways eager to see the show at that time 9pm. Maybe moved the 9pm show to 8pm. 11pm is just seems so long for anybody especially tourists.

 

[DisneyFanatic12]

They are when they are a logistical nightmare in a place not designed for it.

I wonder if theyd ever consider a nighttime show at a hotel resort.

I’m sorry, water pageant and Boardwalk entertainment… I like you at least!

 

[DisneyFanatic12]

I wonder if they had the second show at an earlier time say 10pm, would it flesh out the insane crowds because to me everyone is who wanted to see this are in ways eager to see the show at that time 9pm. Maybe moved the 9pm show to 8pm. 11pm is just seems so long for anybody especially tourists.

The summer is pretty tough with the sun not setting until almost 8:30pm some days! They need to wait until it’s dark enough (even 9pm is right on the verge of too early for a couple days), and then they need to keep the shows far enough apart that the first showing can fully flush out before the second show begins. Allegedly the reason the two firework shows a night test failed post-Covid… they were too close together!

Although I think 9pm and 10pm or 10:15pm would work for a drone show with smaller crowds than something like Enchantment.