Im not the biggest fan of Steve Davidson

[Bing Bong]

It wasn't half. Only two floats were recycled from Tokyo.

And those two are the largest/longest floats in the parade.

 

[Disneysea05]

Yes, because Tokyo Disney's parades are usually the most elaborate. But again, half? No.

 

[Bing Bong]

Yes, because Tokyo Disney's parades are usually the most elaborate. But again, half? No.

I'd say half because all the other floats except for the Tangled float are rather small.

 

[KLinder7]

I'd say half because all the other floats except for the Tangled float are rather small.

You like the Dragon at the very least right?

 

[cheezbat]

Saw FoF for the first time the other day...pretty good parade, but I understand what the OP is saying...Davison gets lots of praise, but some of his stuff just feels like he's taken from others...idk.

 

[Bing Bong]

You like the Dragon at the very least right?

I'm not saying I don't like it, but the parade feels lacking in a lot of ways. I have issues with Soundsational as well, seeing as half the floats are just the same drum in different skins.
The best daytime parade in my opinion was Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams.

 

[ToInfinityAndBeyond]

Re-hash or no re-hash. FoF is pretty dang sweet.

 

[Bing Bong]

I think the main thing that Davison did to me off (and to be fair it wasn't entirely his fault) was when they completely scrapped World Of Color's story (and the Alice in Wonderland scene) shortly before premiere.

 

[todd23]

I think the main thing that Davison did to **** me off (and to be fair it wasn't entirely his fault) was when they completely scrapped World Of Color's story (and the Alice in Wonderland scene) shortly before premiere.

What was World of Color's story supposed to be? My biggest issue with it is that there is no story!

 

[imagineer boy]

What was World of Color's story supposed to be? My biggest issue with it is that there is no story!

Not everything has to have a story, especially parades/ fireworks shows. Sometimes you can just have a kaleidoscope of imagery and characters and that's all you need.

 

[KLinder7]

Hope to see WoC one day, visually it looks stunning. Wonder if the new AK show will be to that level.

 

[todd23]

Not everything has to have a story, especially parades/ fireworks shows. Sometimes you can just have a kaleidoscope of imagery and characters and that's all you need.

Valid point. When I saw it, though, I thought something was lacking. A unifying force to each of the segments seemed to missing. Just my opinion.

 

[Magenta Panther]

1. Disney rarely "slashes" budgets and, if they do, it's often because the creative folks got carried away and blew their budgets on other projects, so those overages need to be covered elsewhere. People would be shocked at the millions of dollars that are flushed down the toilet chasing ideas down a rabbit hole.

2. Disney's budgets are usually more than enough to accomplish a specific vision, but the creatives put in charge of these projects are often poor financial managers. Giving New Fantasyland the budget of Potter Phase I should have resulted in a product on par with Potter Phase I, and I think most people agree that it didn't. You can't blame the accountants for that. The funding was there, and it was spent on God knows what.

Whoever created the storyline for the Mermaid dark ride ought to be fired IMO. The sensibilities behind it were appalling - Ariel with the SoftServe hair, the ridiculous ending, the re-use of static plastic turtle figures, too much light in the ride that showed all of the infrastructure...just bad show all around IMO.

 

[Bing Bong]

What was World of Color's story supposed to be? My biggest issue with it is that there is no story!

WOC was supposed to flow through different themes and styles. Steve had the show set up so each sequence would flow into the next in a logical order, until Iger came in complained about the show not being modern enough and all of that went out the window.

 

[ToInfinityAndBeyond]

Whoever created the storyline for the Mermaid dark ride ought to be fired IMO. The sensibilities behind it were appalling - Ariel with the SoftServe hair, the ridiculous ending, the re-use of static plastic turtle figures, too much light in the ride that showed all of the infrastructure...just bad show all around IMO.

Well it's based on DCA's.

If only we got Tony Baxter's design. -sigh-

 

[Bing Bong]

The original story for World of Color:

 

[imagineer boy]

Valid point. When I saw it, though, I thought something was lacking. A unifying force to each of the segments seemed to missing. Just my opinion.

I agree, actually. While visually brilliant I think the whole narrative was self indulgent, basically turns into "Fantasmic with Fountains", and really just feels like a bland "Disney's greatest hits" reel.

 

[Disneysea05]

What I will concede to is that WDW hasn't seen Steve's best work, IMO.

California had Remember Dreams Come True, his best firework show to date. Tokyo had Legend of Mythica, the best lagoon show I've ever seen and Paris has Disney Dreams.

I suspect some of this falls on the WDW team.

 

[Disneysea05]

I agree, actually. While visually brilliant I think the whole narrative was self indulgent, basically turns into "Fantasmic with Fountains", and really just feels like a bland "Disney's greatest hits" reel.

It was hardly his doing that the narrative/ story vanished from World of Color though. His bosses had their say. Hopefully the new show in May is better.

 

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

It wasn't half. Only two floats were recycled from Tokyo.

I have a feeling where looking at some recycled Spectromagic going down the parade route as well.