News Disney Villains After Hours coming to the Magic Kingdom

[Squishy]

Way too much dialogue. The cast couldn't keep up with all that lip syncing -- and very obviously so. It also made it a bit plodding at times. Need to edit out at least 5 minutes. Or, add some songs, which are much easier to lip sync to. It seems to want to be like a Festival of the Lion King, minus all the good music.

I don't think they lip sync, during the last showing of the night hades mouth mic broke and a cast member rushed on stage to give him another mic.

 

[jt04]

Way too much dialogue. The cast couldn't keep up with all that lip syncing -- and very obviously so. It also made it a bit plodding at times. Need to edit out at least 5 minutes. Or, add some songs, which are much easier to lip sync to. It seems to want to be like a Festival of the Lion King, minus all the good music.

Exactly. Needs a great song or two. Slightly less dialog.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I don't think they lip sync, during the last showing of the night hades mouth mic broke and a cast member rushed on stage to give him another mic.

Watch Hades' mouth when he says "Let's party!"



There are many times when lips aren't even moving, but there's dialogue, especially from the other characters.

 

[Minthorne]

I adore Disney villians.. they are much more fun and developed characters than the good guys. Come on Ursala makes the little mermaid, same with Hades in Hercules. Jafar is right up there with Genie and my all time villain...View attachment 379777

Pull the Lever!

 

[mm52200]

Watch Hades' mouth when he says "Let's party!"



There are many times when lips aren't even moving, but there's dialogue, especially from the other characters.

Hades and Meg are live and mic’d. There’s also a live DJ who meant have been off camera. The other four villains are lip synched.

 

[Squishy]

Watch Hades' mouth when he says "Let's party!"



There are many times when lips aren't even moving, but there's dialogue, especially from the other characters.

Weird, you can see on spokes's stream his mic breaks;

 

[jt04]

I also thought borrowing the Headless Horseman from DCA would have been very popular.

 

[wdwmagic]

Watch Hades' mouth when he says "Let's party!"



There are many times when lips aren't even moving, but there's dialogue, especially from the other characters.

The dialog is live from the performers, not lip synced. I had to combine footage from 3 shows to make the multi angle, and occasionally the lines were delivered at slightly different times giving appearance of lip sync error. Unfortunately a by-product of trying to do a multi camera video across 3 shows with a single camera.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

WDW isn't grabbing the $$$$$$$$, it's being thrown at them. And why should we be upset. I'm happy they are doing well. You don't get new things when there's no $$$$$ coming in.

I'm happy they do this, and MNNSHP and MVMCP. Sure I need to plan around it this fall when we are there, but the last night of our trip we'll be there to check it out.

It's all about the $$$$$$$$$ as it should be. I was tickeled when I saw them turning 8 $200 lightsabers stations like 3 times an hour. That's a minimum of $24 million a year from one room and a pile of plastic and metal. WOOOO HOOOO, that'll buy several rides and maybe a bar or two (plus it employs several people,) so good on WDW.

Love it.

The thing to remember is that Disney has never had NO money coming in, especially from the Parks which have always done well and have even been used as a crutch for other less successful branches of the company from time to time.

So, are we really more likely to see sizable investment when Disney’s making money hand over fist and people are coming whether or not new, exciting, high quality experiences are being added? Or is it more likely that they’ll spend, which they’ve historically always been able to afford to do, when they feel the need to incentivize a discerning customer base to return?

Case in point - MK has always been the leader in WDW with regards to visitation, popularity, and guest spending, and TRON will be the first E-Ticket added to the park in nearly 30 years. While Animal Kingdom and DHS saw and/or will see huge gains in those numbers as a result of a large infusion of cash from Disney on large-scale projects for these parks, not because they were already raking it in. The forthcoming revitalization of Epcot - be it for better or worse - is a product of the park’s falling numbers, not high grosses.

This isn’t to say I want the parks to fail so Disney feels the need to spend money, but it seems a good idea to call a spade a spade. If they do something great we can appreciate it, but it’s reasonable to be disappointed if Disney seems able to get away with half-hearted projects or events.

Having not been to this Villains event, I can’t say where it falls on this spectrum.

 

[Goofnut1980]

It was music in the dark. Very original. LOL.

 

[Goofnut1980]

The dialog is live from the performers, not lip synced. I had to combine footage from 3 shows to make the multi angle, and occasionally the lines were delivered at slightly different times giving appearance of lip sync error. Unfortunately a by-product of trying to do a multi camera video across 3 shows with a single camera.

The barbosa in pirates was lip synced. The guy kept messing up the words.

 

[Goofnut1980]

Overall my opinion. It wasn’t anything you could just call to be a villain party. They didn’t even get all of the merchandise in for the event. I wanted the hat and it never came in. So they told us to come back in a few days and they should let us buy it if we show we had a ticket. Maleficent didn’t roam the park like it was mentioned. She went on the parade route in semi darkness so it would be hard to take a pic. She had some little strobe lights added to the outside. A lot of people were leaving by midnight when we left. I’m sure some folks loved it. I just didn’t think it was all up tot hype they talked about. And how many ice cream bars or popcorn can people eat. I would have loved a smal pretzel or something just carby and not full of sugar.

 

[wdwmagic]

Here is our photo gallery of Maleficent traveling through the park.

Maleficent at night during Disney Villains After Hours

Maleficent at night during Disney Villains After Hours

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[wdwmagic]

And a large gallery from Villains Unite the Night

Villains Unite the Night show

Villains Unite the Night show

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[HoldenC]

Thanks for all your hard work @wdwmagic! Always proving why this is the best WDW website out there.

 

[Magicart87]

This is pretty cool.

Barbossa castmember needs a raise. Delivery was great and his motion perfectly straddled that of a live actor and a robotic AA character. Very well done.

 

[wdwmagic]

Regardless of if you like the entertainment from a writing/design perspective, I think the WDW entertainment performers deserve a lot of credit for always delivering. There are some really talented people in WDW Live entertainment!

 

[Captain Barbossa]

Barbossa castmember needs a raise. Delivery was great and his motion perfectly straddled that of a live actor and a robotic AA character. Very well done.

I was impressed. He sounded a lot like Geoffrey Rush.

 

[palmickey420]

I guess I’m in the minority in thinking this was a great event. I loved the additions they did. Didn’t feel anything was missing. I did enjoy that space mountain added villains sounds and Barbossa in Pirates. The treats were really good. Definitely worth the money in my opinion

 

[Indy_UK]

Could you imagine the guest satisfaction if they perminatly had a live performer or two in the ride? And then change them around now and again?