Magic Kingdom 50th Anniversary Plans

[TTA94]

There's a difference between nostalgia and going backwards. A difference between classic and dated. MSEP is awful. It should be thrown into a fire.

I'm my opinion.

Oh I don’t disagree. Or at least update the thing. Well, na burn it then build a new set of floats like Dreamlights lol.

 

[Kman101]

There's a difference between nostalgia and going backwards. A difference between classic and dated. MSEP is awful. It should be thrown into a fire.

I'm my opinion.

You're correct in the first sentence.

What they should do, if they want to keep MSEP for "nostalgia" sake then update it. TRULY refurb it. But they aren't. So yeah, they should finally toss it in the fire (and I love this parade, personally, but of course admit it's way past time ...). But I'd like to see it updated to current standards. It's age is obvious as it sputters down the street.

 

[TTA94]

I’ll flip if they announce a return of SpectroMagic in a brand new, state of the art, modern way. Now that would be nostalgia in a good way.

I know im setting my expectations and hopes way to high on that one lol.

 

[jrhwdw]

I’ll flip if they announce a return of SpectroMagic in a brand new, state of the art, modern way. Now that would be nostalgia in a good way.

I know im setting my expectations and hopes way to high on that one lol.

We'd all flip for that and I would flip that no insiders knew about it!

 

[Squishy]

I think its going to be either MSEP or nothing.

 

[Po'Rich]

I'd rather have MSEP than what we have now.

 

[trainplane3]

There's a difference between nostalgia and going backwards. A difference between classic and dated. MSEP is awful. It should be thrown into a fire.

I'm my opinion.

If they bring MSEP back to WDW, that's what will happen regardless because of our excellent maintenance history.

 

[marni1971]

Oh I know that, definitely not expecting to hear anything we don’t know about, other than entertainment, decorations, etc.

All parks will have nice bunting. Seriously.

But no MSEP please. For the love of god. We couldn’t escape the thing in Anaheim.

 

[Kman101]

I think its going to be either MSEP or nothing.

That's what it feels like.

Maybe for the 55th we get a new parade or they finally upgrade MSEP. LOL. I know ...

 

[MatheusPG]

All parks will have nice bunting. Seriously.

But no MSEP please. For the love of god. We couldn’t escape the thing in Anaheim.

Hatbox, PhilharMagic 4K and a new nighttime parade would be a dream.

 

[DoleWhipDrea]

Since Disneyland’s new show is debuting soon and Paint the Night is only 5 years old and hasn’t been running since 2018, I think that Paint the Night will be coming to Magic Kingdom for the 50th. If we’re lucky, they’ll add in a few new floats.

It really does shock me how drastically different entertainment is handled between coasts. Is it due to the rain?

 

[TTA94]

Well it looks like WDW recently did some shopping at Disneyland for the villains cavalcade additions with Ursula from Frightfully Fun and Flatsam and Jetsam from Parade of Dreams. Let’s hope MSEP didn’t come back with them lol.

 

[TTA94]

Since Disneyland’s new show is debuting soon and Paint the Night is only 5 years old and hasn’t been running since 2018, I think that Paint the Night will be coming to Magic Kingdom for the 50th. If we’re lucky, they’ll add in a few new floats.

It really does shock me how drastically different entertainment is handled between coasts. Is it due to the rain?

Last I heard over in the DL threads Paint The Night is said to be returning to Disneyland or DCA this year.

 

[Squishy]

Well it looks like WDW recently did some shopping at Disneyland for the villains cavalcade additions with Ursula from Frightfully Fun and Flatsam and Jetsam from Parade of Dreams. Let’s hope MSEP didn’t come back with them lol.

They also last year brought the toy story alien saucer from pixar play parade to BTY.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I think he was thinking about the timing of a closure, which this time was especially long (which I think more likely had more to do with the loss of longtime HOP sculptor Blaine Gibson than anything political, as was speculated).

Nevertheless, I think they would just keep with the traditional plan of closing the attraction for a time to add any new president.

Blaine Gibson had already passed the torch of sculpting the Hall of Presidents heads by the time President Obama was being added. I believe Valerie Edwards sculpted him. Not sure who sculpted Trump.

#BackToYourPreviouslyScheduledThread

 

[General Mayhem]

Since Disneyland’s new show is debuting soon and Paint the Night is only 5 years old and hasn’t been running since 2018, I think that Paint the Night will be coming to Magic Kingdom for the 50th. If we’re lucky, they’ll add in a few new floats.

It really does shock me how drastically different entertainment is handled between coasts. Is it due to the rain?

As it's been discussed many times before, Magic Kingdom's parade route is doesn't meet the size requirements for PTN. It will never come to MK in it's current state, and would require a completely new iteration of the parade. I'd rather have a modern version of SpectroMagic, I've always hated MSEP.

 

[peter11435]

As it's been discussed many times before, Magic Kingdom's parade route is doesn't meet the size requirements for PTN. It will never come to MK in it's current state, and would require a completely new iteration of the parade. I'd rather have a modern version of SpectroMagic, I've always hated MSEP.

And yet Disneylands smaller, shorter, narrower parade route is just fine.

The issue at WDW is not the entire parade or the entire route. It’s one float and two locations along the route.

Where there is a will there is a way.

There just isn’t

 

[DoleWhipDrea]

As it's been discussed many times before, Magic Kingdom's parade route is doesn't meet the size requirements for PTN. It will never come to MK in it's current state, and would require a completely new iteration of the parade. I'd rather have a modern version of SpectroMagic, I've always hated MSEP.

Yeah, I’ve heard this claim before, and as someone who regularly visited Disneyland before project stardust to expand pathways before SWGE opened, this is as much baloney as the claim that the Submarine Voyage lagoon can’t be drained because the Matterhorn would sink. Magic Kingdom has significantly more space than Disneyland or Disney California Adventure.

If TDO did the right thing, it would bring back an updated version of SpectroMagic, but considering their track record with investing in new parades...chances don’t look too good.

 

[TTA94]

I personally think they should ditch Star Wars Galactic Spectacular and put a parade like paint the night there lol. Small parade route though and it probably wouldn’t work.

 

[iMax]

Since Disneyland’s new show is debuting soon and Paint the Night is only 5 years old and hasn’t been running since 2018, I think that Paint the Night will be coming to Magic Kingdom for the 50th. If we’re lucky, they’ll add in a few new floats.

It really does shock me how drastically different entertainment is handled between coasts. Is it due to the rain?

Wait a minute, new SHOW? Or did you mean new parade?