News Happily Ever After fireworks show returning to Magic Kingdom in 2023

[Fido Chuckwagon]

After seeing the lighting enhancements, etc from the new Paris show I feel HEA is looking kinda blah, but the win still being the amount of fireworks unlike Paris. Unpopular opinion and I do get the love for HEA but I think it’s time for either updates or a brand new show.

HEA is still a young show and their track record for replacements is quite bad.

 

[DisneyFanatic12]

I "watched" 5 minutes of HEA from Frontierland last February and ... it was awful. You cannot get whatever story they are pretending to convey unless you are able to see the castle. I watched 'Wishes!' from two different places at the Contemporary, BLT, and from a boat on Bay Lake and knew what was going on because you had the audio going along with things. Well, except for that boat ride, but by that time in our lives we knew what to expect.

I don’t disagree that HEA is this way for some people, but I’ve rarely watched HEA with a view of the projections (especially before COVID), and have still thought it was a great show. In fact, even when I’m infront of the castle I don’t look at the projections at all, I’d say I consciously notice the lighting in the trees more than the castle.

Anyways, not disagreeing that many people find it unenjoyable without the projections, but everyone that I know, myself included, think the show it just as good without the projections.

 

[Centauri Space Station]

Agree to disagree on this topic. HEA is an ADD nightmare that, to me, is projections-first, lighting second, fireworks third. I don't really care what people want to claim is the shell count - Luminous has a ton of shells but when you're launching the same stuff from 5 arms at the same time, that count goes up in a hurry. And types of shells and how they are used matters.

I "watched" 5 minutes of HEA from Frontierland last February and ... it was awful. You cannot get whatever story they are pretending to convey unless you are able to see the castle. I watched 'Wishes!' from two different places at the Contemporary, BLT, and from a boat on Bay Lake and knew what was going on because you had the audio going along with things. Well, except for that boat ride, but by that time in our lives we knew what to expect.

I never view HEA from infront of the castle. Usually at a resort or Fantasyland area and still think it’s fantastic.