Festival of Fantasy Parade coming to Magic Kingdom in 2014

SpectroMan93

SpectroMan93

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TheVisionarySoul said:
Let me put it this way... you don't build a fire-breathing dragon float to show it off in the daytime. This parade is designed to be used around sunset. And with MiceChat's news that Disneyland wants the Electrical Parade back for their 60th, I think it's a safe assumption that this new parade will become Magic Kingdom's only parade. (Which is fine, "Move it, Shake it, Celebrate it" is a lot of fun in the daytime.)
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So are you saying this will be Magic Kingdom's day and night parade like Soundsational at Disneyland? Or will this be a nighttime/sunset only parade? Is that why there is a 2 month gap between CADCT and FOF, to gauge how the park does without a daytime parade?
 
The Visionary Soul

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SpectroMan93 said:
So are you saying this will be Magic Kingdom's day and night parade like Soundsational at Disneyland? Or will this be a nighttime/sunset only parade? Is that why there is a 2 month gap between CADCT and FOF, to gauge how the park does without a daytime parade?
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The two month gap is to save money and to do necessary work on and around the parade route. Lots of new crowd control fixes are happening around the park right now. As far as I know, there is a very good chance this will be like Soundsational at Disneyland in terms of scheduling. It will also allow for the eventual change to have a lot of people gather in the hub at an earlier time for... well, you know... Steve Davison's next big thing. (And before you ask, I know absolutely nothing about when Steve's new show will replace Wishes. But there IS a Wishes replacement in development.)
 
TTA94

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TheVisionarySoul said:
The two month gap is to save money and to do necessary work on and around the parade route. Lots of new crowd control fixes are happening around the park right now. As far as I know, there is a very good chance this will be like Soundsational at Disneyland in terms of scheduling. It will also allow for the eventual change to have a lot of people gather in the hub at an earlier time for... well, you know... Steve Davison's next big thing. (And before you ask, I know absolutely nothing about when Steve's new show will replace Wishes. But there IS a Wishes replacement in development.)
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Do you know exactly what they are doing around the parade route? and could FOF begin in March with this type of schedule?
 
The Visionary Soul

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mnelson3 said:
Do you know exactly what they are doing around the parade route? and could FOF begin in March with this type of schedule?
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A lot of concrete replacement, some path widening, a few other necessary upgrades here and there. Not anything that I would call extremely major work, though a certain stretch of pathway is getting widened in Liberty Square that should have been widened back when they built the riverwalk for SpectroMagic back in 1991. (I may be wrong, the riverwalk might have not been built till the next year, but it was because of SpectroMagic, I know that much.)

The park is getting a sound system upgrade that will be a test for the sound system going into Shanghai Disneyland, and I hear this system is going to be stellar. I believe they even got Don Dorsey involved with the design, and that's impressive. He's probably the best audio engineer Disney uses in the entire company.

And I have no idea what the schedule will be when they open the Festival of Fantasy parade. One can only hope operations will let the dragon breathe at night. Let it be known that this parade was designed for it.
 
TTA94

TTA94

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TheVisionarySoul said:
A lot of concrete replacement, some path widening, a few other necessary upgrades here and there. Not anything that I would call extremely major work, though a certain stretch of pathway is getting widened in Liberty Square that should have been widened back when they built the riverwalk for SpectroMagic back in 1991. (I may be wrong, the riverwalk might have not been built till the next year, but it was because of SpectroMagic, I know that much.)

The park is getting a sound system upgrade that will be a test for the sound system going into Shanghai Disneyland, and I hear this system is going to be stellar. I believe they even got Don Dorsey involved with the design, and that's impressive. He's probably the best audio engineer Disney uses in the entire company.

And I have no idea what the schedule will be when they open the Festival of Fantasy parade. One can only hope operations will let the dragon breathe at night. Let it be known that this parade was designed for it.
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WOW!! So the sound system has not been installed yet? Some had said it was.. I was getting worried it got cut or only a very small upgrade. Do you know if any lighting enhancements around the route are planned?
 
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The Visionary Soul

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mnelson3 said:
WOW!! So the sound system has not been installed yet? Some had said it was.. I was getting worried it got cut or only a very small upgrade. Do you know if any lighting enhancements around the route are planned?
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Woah buddy, woah. I don't know the timeline of the installation of the sound system update. I know it was cut down from the original plans, (WDW doesn't really want the upgrade, it's being forced upon them so they can work out the bugs for Shanghai. Honestly, I think you took what I wrote to mean something else, so let me clarify. I know Don Dorsey is working on the amazing new sound system for the entire park for Shanghai Disneyland. WDW's parade route is only getting a small portion of that system just to beta test. It really won't change a whole lot on the guest side of things. Sorry to bust your bubble.) but it was still happening. A couple speakers are getting replaced as part of it, and I don't think it affects the lighting at all. If it does, I don't know about it.

There is a larger wide-scale project on-going to replace all the theatrical lights at WDW with color changing LED bulbs, though I don't know if they got to the parade routes yet.
 
TTA94

TTA94

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TheVisionarySoul said:
Woah buddy, woah. I don't know the timeline of the installation of the sound system update. I know it was cut down from the original plans, (WDW doesn't really want the upgrade, it's being forced upon them so they can work out the bugs for Shanghai. Honestly, I think you took what I wrote to mean something else, so let me clarify. I know Don Dorsey is working on the amazing new sound system for the entire park for Shanghai Disneyland. WDW's parade route is only getting a small portion of that system just to beta test. It really won't change a whole lot on the guest side of things. Sorry to bust your bubble.) but it was still happening. A couple speakers are getting replaced as part of it, and I don't think it affects the lighting at all. If it does, I don't know about it.

There is a larger wide-scale project on-going to replace all the theatrical lights at WDW with color changing LED bulbs, though I don't know if they got to the parade routes yet.
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lol. Sorry I misunderstood what you said.
 
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aladdin2007

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TheVisionarySoul said:
Woah buddy, woah. I don't know the timeline of the installation of the sound system update. I know it was cut down from the original plans, (WDW doesn't really want the upgrade, it's being forced upon them so they can work out the bugs for Shanghai. Honestly, I think you took what I wrote to mean something else, so let me clarify. I know Don Dorsey is working on the amazing new sound system for the entire park for Shanghai Disneyland. WDW's parade route is only getting a small portion of that system just to beta test. It really won't change a whole lot on the guest side of things. Sorry to bust your bubble.) but it was still happening. A couple speakers are getting replaced as part of it, and I don't think it affects the lighting at all. If it does, I don't know about it.

There is a larger wide-scale project on-going to replace all the theatrical lights at WDW with color changing LED bulbs, though I don't know if they got to the parade routes yet.
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WDW never wants to do anything, it always has to be forced on them. Speaks volumes about how inept management is. And of course they got to cut the budget by 25% percent. Seems they could have saved better money by getting rid of the annoying movie it shake it, but thats just my personal opinion/preference. Over all though, sounds like Festival of Fantasy will be fantastic, large, colorful, and sound great! Cant wait.
 
Wikkler

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TheVisionarySoul said:
(Which is fine, "Move it, Shake it, Celebrate it" is a lot of fun in the daytime.)
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You just said that?
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Next Big Thing

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I wonder if we actually lost anything from the parade with the 25% cut (meaning number of floats) or if we retained the same number we would've had, but just not as many new floats (as some are recycled from TDL). Anyone know anything more about the cuts that took place?
 
WDWLover#1

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Be interesting to see how much the "leaked" parade call is true. This was released in april. I doubt it's true as they've got the brave float all wrong and it says there's a show stop but ya never know
Mickey Mouse and the Friends float: The parade starts with Bumble Boogie from Melody Time in “Bumblebee Take Wonder”, bee is a fully working animatronic and hovers over the title-float Mickey and Minnie drives a a hot air balloon named “Adventure of Wonder” There will also be a small float Hyacinth Hippo and Madame Upanova from Fantasia, Bongo the bear from Fun and Fancy Free leads a procession of various unique characters, an oversized doll of Peter play violin on the out and similar giant dolls of Sasha play Flute on the up Sonia play Oboe on the down and Ivan play Clarinet on the back There will also be a small float Professor Owl from Melody and Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, and Young Lambert from Lambert the Sheepish Lion a large float Cow from Fun and Fancy Free, Donkey from The Three Caballeros and Willie the Whale from Make Mine Music. and greets all the guests around the parade route, and his friends Pluto, Goofy, Roger Rabbit, Donald, Daisy and Chip ‘n’ Dale also sing and dance along with him Happiness is Here Parade, Cinderella conclude the unit aboard their own float; Jaq plucks an oversized violin with her Gus by her side, while Pearl features on the back. A purple player piano is the major feature of this float.
  • Sleeping Beauty float: Based on the 1959 animated film. Princess Aurora atop Forest Tree. She is followed by Flora, Fauna & Merryweather and a few pink Ball dancers. follow on an ornately-decorated Magic float; this is attached to the a spinning wheel float, which features Maleficent and four Maleficent's Goons. More Bat and frog and Dragon round out the unit.
  • Pinocchio float: Based on the 1940 animated film. The float features Pinocchio next to his good friends Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto’s & Honest John and Gideon, and attached to the float are Clock, Toys and Music Box With four 2 Russian Girl puppet and 2 Russian Men puppet spring-loaded stilts, and a performer in a Clock bringing up the rear. During the show stop, four bungee-jumping Ballerina rise into the air to perform tricks from Flights of Fantasy Parade at Hong Kong Disneyland.
  • The Little Mermaid float: Based on the 1989 animated film. A including an enormous float version of the Ursula the Sea Queen giant float. Ariel sits on top of a giant fountain made of clam shells, with Part of Your World and Under the Sea playing in the background. Bubbles float around Ariel. on a float similar to Sea Carrousel from Mickey's Soundsational Parade at Disneyland Park. This unit also features Audio-Animatronics Sebastian and Flounder. Before the unit are dancers decorated like stylized waves, blue and white pearl dancers, and light-colored 'fish kites' the water fountains on Ariel's shell was replaced by clear plastic tubing.
  • Tangled float: Based on the 2010 animated film. The longest float in the parade, it features Rapunzel and Flynn Rider atop boat with Pascal looking on, along with three larger swings from Pixar Play Parade at Disney California Adventure. Maximus takes up the rear of the float dancing and waving to guests.
  • Brave float: This unit is based on the Disney and Pixar film Brave. Merida dances atop a giant float raining with During the show stop, the "Castle" part of the unit raises up and the Moon Girl perform an amazing Spanish Web routine from Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams at Disneyland Park. Macintosh, MacGuffin and Dingwall atop Festival of Forest. Harris, Hubert, and Hamish leads his dancing team, which is formed of black bear Men dancer.
  • Peter Pan float Based on the 1953 animated film. Peter Pan and Wendy ride atop a ship of pirates float dominated by a Never Land. The addition of the skull rock float is Tinkerbell takes on the starring role atop the giant flowers float Captain Hook & Mr. Smee atop ship down. The Three bicycle Tick-Tock the Croc bring up the rear of the float.
  • Dumbo float: Based on the 1941 animated film. The large float features Casey Junior Bubbles and the circus. Various clowns ride, Timothy Q. Mouse atop a small float. Live flying elephants will be tethered to the float and hover overhead. During the show stop, the "Circus" part of the unit raises up and the High Wire Girl perform an amazing high bar from Pixar Play Parade at Disney California Adventure. Other characters include The Ringmaster, Dumbo and Pink Elephants.
 

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