Insane fireworks at 11:45pm tonight!?!

[KevinPage]

Anyone know if something special was going on? Watching TV and all of a sudden I hear fireworks. Go out onto my balcony and Magic Kingdom is doing an insane fireworks show, like a grand finale for 5 minutes straight.

There isn't any Halloween party tonight and the park closed at 8pm. 11:45pm is very late for them to do something of this scale, unless it was some sort of media event.

Either way it was nice to see before hitting the hay

 

[10 min. to wdw]

well I know nothing about the mk fireworks but I drove by MGM tonight just before midnight and they were also shooting off a impressive show from the GMR. it rivaled WISHES. I wonder if thats what you saw or not?

 

[Swagger]

Was the last showing of Fantasy in the SKy that night? If not no idea. The MGM show was most likely Sorcery.

 

[Dean[AU]]

Maybe they were doing a "burn off" :S

 

[10 min. to wdw]

well mgm was closed at the time of the show, and I've never seen a firework show like that before at mgm. it was way to well chioographed to be a burnoff.

 

[KevinPage]

It could very well been MGM. I normally am unable to see Magic Kingdom fireworks, only Epcot. But this was to the left in my viewing area, so MGM is entirely possible

 

[X2CommNavISTC]

What a lot of companies do is they rent out the parks for a special event. They'll rent out the park, fireworks and a lot of other things.

This could have been one of these things, more than likely what it was.

 

[KevinPage]

If it was a buyout, it was no other fireworks show I've ever seen

 

[DMC-12]

Maybe they were just burning off the remaining stock they had of FITS fireworks?

 

[10 min. to wdw]

no way it was to well timed for it to be a burnoff or removal of excess stock. I think x2 has it when he said the park was probly rented out as I did see a few Mears busses pulling into mgm near the end of the show

 

[Dean[AU]]

A burnout... with style :lol:

 

[wedwayjr.]

I saw it as well, although I looked at the clock and it was 9:30. Still after the park was closed. It was not a firing of excess as some have commented, but further testing of the 'wishes' show.

They're are several mortar locations which are around the perimeter of the entire park. In the fireworks finale, these go off in a series of synchronized lanches.

I think they've cut this part of 'wishes' because of the possibility (or evidence) that a fire could start on the surrounding buildings. This is the third test that I've seen of these addition launch locations, but none have occured during operating hours or in any of the premieres of this new show.

 

[JeepGuy77]

if u saw fireworks last night eh 14th it was for the ehalloween party. They were the regualt fantasy in the sky foreworks halloween ones. they were delayed last night becasue of tecnichal difficulties. So they went off like 10:30 instead of 10. I was working at MK last night. LATE.

 

[X2CommNavISTC]

Originally posted by wedwayjr.
I think they've cut this part of 'wishes' because of the possibility (or evidence) that a fire could start on the surrounding buildings. This is the third test that I've seen of these addition launch locations, but none have occured during operating hours or in any of the premieres of this new show.

This is sooo not the case. If this were true. The fireworks would never go off at all. Mainly because AdventureLand/Libery Square (These are the main areas) has lost a lot, and I mean A LOT of tables due to the fallout of the shells (Little *******, still feelin the burns from those turkeys from opening night) what destroyed the tables and they've been coming real close to people, and a little too damn close to me, I damn near lost my Commanders Jacket opening night to a shell, Luckly I had it over the bench I was on and the shell hit my arm.

I know Disney is more worried about the safety of people more than they are about a fire being started. True they worry about the fires but the guests come first.

The ones shot off during MNSSHP, and if they're ever used in Wishes in the future, are shot off from platforms that are brought out onto the rail road tracks.

 

[AkiraRaptor]

Originally posted by JeepGuy77
if u saw fireworks last night eh 14th it was for the ehalloween party. They were the regualt fantasy in the sky foreworks halloween ones. they were delayed last night becasue of tecnichal difficulties. So they went off like 10:30 instead of 10. I was working at MK last night. LATE.

So, are all the MNSSHP going to show FITS or will they be doing Wishes?

 

[2much2do]

The MNSSHP fireworks are not really FITS or Wishes, they are special MNSSHP ones. Basically FITS with a special finale. Actually, it's really cool. I'll be seeing them tomorrow night when I work the party. Hopefully I won't get hit by a shell.
Last night, however, I closed Epcot, so I saw nothing of what you're talking about cuz I was already at home


Kinda cool that you can see them from your apt. I live too far away for that

 

[mr.yensid]

wow!!! you can see wdw fireworks from your house??? i didn't know there was any area in celebration where you could see the fireworks -- do you know what the best part of town to see them from is? i'm going to be visiting celebration in a month and would love to be able to see some fireworks from inside the town

 

[JLW11Hi]

Just for the record, there was a fireworks show that used to be shot off from the GMR: Sorcery in the Sky!

 

[Swagger]

The best firework show Disney had in my opinion.

 

[Bagheera]

The fireworks that were at MGM were tremendously loud. The sound bounced off of the Swan and were very, very loud in our room at Boardwalk Villas. We also heard quite a bit of narration about the history of animation. I have no idea what it was for. Must have been some "special event" that they rented the park out for.