TTA94
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Of course Disneyland will get a new show and they’ll probably get Magic Happens and Paint The Night back, while Magic Kingdom gets Maybe HEA back and nothing more. Oh wait scratch that, MK will get a 100th cavalcade.
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News 'Disney Enchantment' coming to Magic Kingdom October 1 2021
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Of course Disneyland will get a new show and they’ll probably get Magic Happens and Paint The Night back, while Magic Kingdom gets Maybe HEA back and nothing more. Oh wait scratch that, MK will get a 100th cavalcade.
Disney Glimpses
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I would be perfectly fine with that. I still doubt they do the right thing though re: Enchantment.Of course Disneyland will get a new show and they’ll probably get Magic Happens and Paint The Night back, while Magic Kingdom gets Maybe HEA back and nothing more. Oh wait scratch that, MK will get a 100th cavalcade.
I wonder who will be the magic next year?!?
aladdin2007
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We got nothing for the 50th (about the 50th anyway), not expecting anything for the 100th event. sadly.
yensidtlaw1969
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And people wonder why we never get anything new in the swamps . . .
I get that Happily Ever After had a shorter run than expected (due to poor planning), and I wouldn't mind seeing it return in the future. But when you consider that The Magic Kingdom has only run 3 different full-time Fireworks Shows since Wishes debuted in 2003, and Disneyland has rotated 6 in that same time (as well as a few short-run transitional shows), it seems silly to discourage them from creating something new.
The answer to Disney missing the mark with Disney Enchantment shouldn't be to insist they fall back on an old show, it should be to hold their feet to the fire and insist they make something new that's even better than the old show.
Happily Ever After isn't the be-all end-all of Disney Fireworks, and given their habits in Florida there's a high liklihood that if they bring it back we won't get another new show for more than a decade. I feel like as guests we'd be better off encouraging them to push further than begging them to fall back on their laurels.
If HEA scored so highly with guests and Enchantment is floundering, why wouldn’t they go back to a tried and true show? Sometimes the best solution is the simplest one.
mikejs78
Premium Member
A show at Disneyland wouldn't translate to MK. The parks are too different and the expectations for nighttime shows are different. MK has the large castle for projections, along with a very different setup for launch sites.
Squishy
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It still would save Bob some bucks compared to creating 2 new shows from scratch.
mikejs78
Premium Member
I don't think it would much at all. Music maybe, but everything else would need to be custom done for each park.
mattpeto
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I think that’s the most unlikely scenario honestly.
You have to remember one of the reasons why they did AH parties last year was specifically so guests could see their new 50th fireworks show and Beacons.
Well they regrouped for this year and decided Enchantment didn’t earn the continuous running and starting in mid August will only run 3x per week until late December. That’s likely why they are running it 2x in a week, they need to use up the shells they expected to use up in August.
I think the writing is on the wall, Enchantment won’t be running past 3/31/23.
Disney Glimpses
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That's the sunk cost fallacy.
They will absolutely abandon it if they feel that it is not having the desired impact. It's really a tricky issue though because surveys do show that Enchantment scores well (even as well as HEA) among guests who have never seen HEA. Guests who have seen HEA, especially die hards, prefer HEA by a rate of more than 80%.
All of that said, the "hype factor" with Disney Enchantment simply isn't there as it was with HEA. The show is definitely slated to end sooner than planned because of all of this but the questions are when and how.
wdwfan22
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Main Street is packed nightly for fireworks. Enchantment scores well with Guests. i think you are going to be disappointed when it continues to play next year. The Halloween and Christmas party’s were always going to return
Disney Glimpses
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1. Enchantment is no where near as crowded as Happily Ever After. It's easy to get a spot directly front and center in the hub just seconds before the show begins. You can walk from the Main Street train station to Fantasyland with basically no friction at all right in the middle of the show.
2. It scores well with some guests.
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this is the complete opposite of my experience of being in MK during enchantment. it's like sardines in that hub. last time, I could not get through to anything let alone Fantasyland, right up the middle.
Disney Glimpses
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I am sure it varies but I spend many, many, many nights at MK every year and I've noticed a huge difference. As far as getting to Fantasyland, I'm referring to the sidewalks which are pretty empty (during HEA they were mobbed).
mattpeto
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aladdin2007
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and to Disney some guests is good enough for them to not have to spend on change or switching something out. They are notoriously bad for skewing data to use as an excuse. However this one seems a little different and they need to do something, its just so poorly done compared to predecessors and what Disneyalnd has,,,but they probably won't do a thing for a long time. lets hope thats not the case but we all know how this goes.