MSEP/Spectro was at 9 & 11 so IDK how much downtime MK needs...
That is of course...MK actually Greenlights and follows through on a Night Parade....if TWDC gives MK the Money it needs..........
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MSEP ending at Disneyland on Sept 1, WDW return in 2023?
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That is of course...MK actually Greenlights and follows through on a Night Parade....if TWDC gives MK the Money it needs..........
TTA94
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Thats what I think to. Depending on what parade MK is getting. If it’s something brand new, on a large elaborate scale like Dreamlights and expensive to run then it’ll definitely run once. I have a feeling Ops isn’t going to be happy running a night parade once much less twice.
PTN ran Twice at DL, except during the Week in the Off Season.
Dreamlights ran Twice a few nights in Summer 2001 when it opened.
ToTBellHop
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Honestly, in the summer, it would be better to have a parade at 9 and HEA at 10 once it’s truly dark. Add the 11 pm parade around Easter and 4th of July.
Peak winter weeks, they could easily do a parade at 7 and 9 with fireworks at 8. They used to.
Glad Steve is still hearing an actual parade will come. Maybe 2025. They’ll need something to market.
Squishy
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I think having the parade after HEA would be better to manage the mass exodus after the fireworks.
MagicHappens1971
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This would be a hot mess. The crowd management of firework crowd exodus + coupled with a parade running down Main Street?
Squishy
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They did it before with Wishes during peak seasons?
MagicHappens1971
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I did forget they ran a second MSEP an hour after Wishes.
EricsBiscuit
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Yes they ran it twice. Usually 9 and 11 pm. Wishes at 10.
Starship824
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I think the idea is that you keep people in the park so that they watch the parade. The parade wouldn't start directly after the fireworks, the parade after the fireworks would keep more people in the park and make it less of a mass exodus after fireworks. Basically less people would be leaving the park, because they're staying to watch the parade. Therefore, it would cause less strain on the fairies monorails buses and boats after fireworks because there would still be a significant portion of the capacity still in the park. Or at least I think that's the idea behind it. Weather that actually works in practice remains to be seen with today's guests and with happily ever after arguably being more popular than Wishes.
TTA94
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I feel like park exit is a lot worse now than how it was back in the days of Spectro, MSEP and Wishes. To do a parade after HEA they will definitely need to allow time to clear Main Street. What they could do is close off Main Street to people existing, say a half hour or so after HEA ends and then direct guests strictly to the Tomorrowland side of the MS bypass.
Starship824
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This is also how they did it in DL in 2022.
MSEP: 8:30 PM
DLF: 9:30 PM
MSEP: 10:15 PM
TTA94
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Hope it does debut in 2025. If that’s the plan then we should definitely be hearing something in August.
Starship824
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While true those castle projection shows didn't have nearly as much of a crowd as HEA does.
Fine with me!
TTA94
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Yeah like Spectro 2.0. I know it’s far fetched to think WDW would do that.
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Starship824
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With the things we've been hearing to me it sounds like it's an entirely new parade. I have no insider information it just sounds like that based on what other people have been saying. I could be totally wrong, but I don't think Anaheim wants sends over any of their parades and the only other nighttime parades are dreamlights (which is never leaving Tokyo) and HKDL PNT which hasn't been used since the pandemic so we don't even know if it's usable.