Light Magic Theme Song

coastermaster83

coastermaster83

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Hey Gang, Ive been researching old Disney attractions and shows and parades and Ive been looking at information on the Failed Light Magic Parade at Disneyland and Im trying to find the theme music for it. Someone online had like a 15 second clip and it sounded really catchy like Fantasmics music so I wanted to hear it all. If anyone has it can they let me know or know where I can get it online in a mp3 or midi. Thanks
 
coastermaster83

coastermaster83

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It replaced MSEP in the summer of 1997 and was so bad that they stoped it and said it would return in 2000 but it never did and it's nighttime replacement came in 1998 with the night parade mulan.

Its been said that it is taboo to even speak of it if you are involved with Disney
 
Rob562

Rob562

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coastermaster83 said:
Hey Gang, Ive been researching old Disney attractions and shows and parades and Ive been looking at information on the Failed Light Magic Parade at Disneyland and Im trying to find the theme music for it. Someone online had like a 15 second clip and it sounded really catchy like Fantasmics music so I wanted to hear it all. If anyone has it can they let me know or know where I can get it online in a mp3 or midi. Thanks
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I believe Light Magic's soundtrack was available on one of the joint WDW/Disneyland Official Albums. You might be able to find a copy online somewhere.
I got my copy from the Disney Vacation import CD from Japan.

Overall, the parade was a dismal failure. The music was nice in some places, but it was mostly Irish Step-Dancing style, and the Riverdance/Lord of the Dance craze passed long ago. Apparently the only place in the show where the Southern Californians actually applauded was the 60-second tribute to MSEP where they weaved Baroque hoedown into the music as the transition to the finale.

-Rob
 
ISTCrew20

ISTCrew20

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coastermaster83 said:
It replaced MSEP in the summer of 1997 and was so bad that they stoped it
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When I first heard the music, I wasn't a huge fan. Since then, it has grown on me so much. It's one of my favorite parade music songs.

I don't think the parade was bad. The floats were really nice, and so were the fiber optic lights on The Emporium and other buildings on Main Street. I think it was because this show replaced MSEP, a crowd favorite that everyone loved. Any parade, no matter how good, that was "taking the place" of MSEP would of faced the same fate.
 
coastermaster83

coastermaster83

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well actually I think the things that killed it were 1. It replaced MSEP, 2. They kicked tinkerbell the first night, 3. It didnt have a good theme, 4. It wasn't a parade it was a "street-tacular", 5. They just should have spent more time and energy in development and training and not so much freaking riverdance.
 
unkadug

unkadug

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There's a website that, for the life of me, I can't remember the name of. :hammer:

It has alot of music from WDW and Disneyland. Old music and new. Seems like the word magic is in there somewhere.

Anyone remember what it is?
 
Testtrack321

Testtrack321

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Reasons for Light Magic failure...

1.) Booming internet. This allowed them to promote it via a website, but also harsh criticism for the show spread quickly (and is how Al Lutz became popular)

2.) Passing off the AP preview as an incomplete show. Instead of appologizing saying there was more work to do, Pressler just said it was a dress rehersal, making many angry for paying top bucks to see it, and also letting down people thinking it's the whole thing.

3.) Replacing MSEP. Hard to do, and it failed.

4.) NOT EVEN A PARADE! It was a series of giant traveling theaters, people wern't expecting this and were left in the cold just seeing the back of a float for the whole show.

5.) The floats wern't done with the special effects.

6.) Bad advertising, they billed this as MSEP 2.0, but it was a new breed of parade.
 
vonpluto

vonpluto

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The Light Magic soundtrack was available on:

The Official Album Walt Disney Records #60945-7 Released: 1997

Disneyland / Walt Disney World Music Vacation
Pony Canyon Records #PCCD - 00184 Released: 1997
(available only from Japan)

Both albums are out of print.

Everyone's favorite, Jim Hill, wrote a long detailed, multi-part(what else?, it's Jim Hill) article a while back. I don't remember what website it appeared on.
Oh yeah, he never finished it. (Still in limbo with his famous Muppets piece)

HTH,
Frank
 

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