Micheal Mann producing new parade in magic kingdom?

[NewfieFan]

You mean for the Christmas morning abc show? It wouldn't be the first time. One year, right before DCA opened they did the show on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas morning. It wasn't so much a parade as it was the Whose Line is it Anyway guys doing a "comedy" bit looking for Santa Claus, Frankie Muniz looking to take girls on a tour of the unopened park, and lots of other C-list stars of the day singing. I don't even think they had anything that resembled a parade. Then I believe one year they skipped it all together.
Every year it gets less and less focused on the parade itself and more emphasis on which Disney Channel star has a new album, which abc star has a new "very special" episode of, Samantha Brown telling us how awesome Aulani is, and which current pop star is going to butcher a Christmas standard.
I still love to watch it and make it event tv in my house but I really miss the days when they gave you the feeling it was live on Christmas morning, it was all about seeing the park, they would have the temperature on the screen, do little snippets of what's new and upcoming, and really got you excited about your next trip. Now it just seems they just want us to know how hip and cool they are.
My opinion is if they can get a parade through Manhattan on Thanksgiving Day for 4 hours they can get something decent done at the Magic Kingdom on Christmas morning in two hours.

We tape it now and watch it in the evening after the hustle of Christmas day has settled down. We fast forward through the singers and just watch scenes of the parade and parks.

 

[Goofnut1980]

I have been there twice during filming for Christmas Parade. It was insane. However, last year we did use the by-pass to avoid main street!...

 

[wogwog]

Accept the fact that the parade or what ever they decide to do this year is one giant infomercial to sell a trip to WDW or Disneyland. Period. Last year I heard it was a big infomercial for the whole Magic minus fiasco with some D list stars wearing bands and showing them to the camera. But wait there is more...with every hotel stay in 2015 you will get a ShamWow to clean your sweaty band.

The infomercial usually shows bits of a faux parade that never happened. They take two sometimes three days to tape, depending on the weather to tape shots of both MK and Disneyland and insert song and dance numbers that may or may not have been filmed in a park. Very few small parts of the broadcast will even resemble the traditional Christmas parades.

 

[MissingDisney]

We've been at WDW during the taping and then watched the parade on TV. Many times we looked at each other and been like "what?!? That didn't happen like that!" It's kinda funny. Sadly, we've come to accept that it's a Disney infomercial and nothing more. At least we get to pause on some scenes and reminisce about our trip.

 

[PhotoDave219]

I'm waiting for the giant Festivusvnumber in Townsquare. I hear it's going to involve Christopher Walken doing some softshoe.