New nighttime show 'Rivers of Light' confirmed to be coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom

Next Big Thing · Sep 10, 2016

JakeSpadaro said:
Highly doubt it. I can't remember the last time Disney released a soundtrack. I've downloaded PTN, Disneyland Forever, Festival of Fantasy and a bunch more off of YouTube :/

That's a good reason for them to release one though. They have so much new music to put out if they so choose.

mickeyfan5534 · Sep 11, 2016

Next Big Thing said:
That's a good reason for them to release one though. They have so much new music to put out if they so choose.

It's ridiculous just how much money the merchandise teams could be sitting on and probably how frequently we'd get entertainment refreshes if they just released CDs of the entertainment.

MagicHappens1971 · Sep 11, 2016

What really boggles my mind is that this show was supposed to be ready almost 6 months ago. And Disney waited so long to announce the opening date. How did they ever expect it to be ready April 22nd, when its still not ready almost 6 months later. I can't see any reason why Disney would purposely delay the opening but somethings a little off. Edit: I know it's likely to open next Month, but thats not the point of my post

Magenta Panther · Sep 11, 2016

PorterRedkey said:
Have you watched the short press preview?

That was mind-bogglingly gorgeous!

brb1006 · Sep 11, 2016

Next Big Thing said:
That's a good reason for them to release one though. They have so much new music to put out if they so choose.

The soundtrack and the show itself so far reminds me of the musical version of The Lion King that is on stage.

No Name · Sep 11, 2016

JakeSpadaro said:
What really boggles my mind is that this show was supposed to be ready almost 6 months ago. And Disney waited so long to announce the opening date. How did they ever expect it to be ready April 22nd, when its still not ready almost 6 months later. I can't see any reason why Disney would purposely delay the opening but somethings a little off. Edit: I know it's likely to open next Month, but thats not the point of my post

Umm, they expected it to be ready because, when they originally, announced the opening date, they did not foresee major technical problems occuring. All of the design aspects of the show were ready and the floats and costumes and all were built, made, and ready by April 22. The issues (and reasons for delay) are/were with the technical aspects, which did not pop up until after they had announced the opening date.

You can argue that it's bad that they didn't foresee the technical problems. But there is no conspiracy here.

MagicHappens1971 · Sep 11, 2016

egg said:
Umm, they expected it to be ready because, when they originally, announced the opening date, they did not foresee major technical problems occuring. All of the design aspects of the show were ready and the floats and costumes and all were built, made, and ready by April 22. The issues (and reasons for delay) are/were with the technical aspects, which did not pop up until after they had announced the opening date.

You can argue that it's bad that they didn't foresee the technical problems. But there is no conspiracy here.

I'm not going so far as to say there's a conspiracy, just that it seems odd.

disney4life2008 · Sep 11, 2016

They need to fix the seating. Ot is horrible and in the heat it worse!

ToTBellHop · Sep 12, 2016

disney4life2008 said:
They need to fix the seating. Ot is horrible and in the heat it worse!

Have you ever seen Fantasmic?

Or IllumiNations in the summer when sunset is at 8:30 pm?

Or the daytime parade?

Or any of the performers around World Showcase?

Or any streetmosphere anywhere?

TTA94 · Sep 12, 2016

Hopefully some of our insiders, @marni1971 ;-), can let us know soon what changes have been made to the show over the past 6 months... I know marni had said awhile back he was not able to comment just yet.

Somehow I feel this video showing the fog effect, running bear and meantion of fire are 3 things we won't be seeing :-(

cjkeating · Sep 12, 2016

mnelson3 said:
Hopefully some of our insiders, @marni1971 ;-), can let us know soon what changes have been made to the show over the past 6 months... I know marni had said awhile back he was not able to comment just yet.

Somehow I feel this video showing the fog effect, running bear and meantion of fire are 3 things we won't be seeing :-(

I think the running bear and fire will survive... the floats will move which allow projection and the fire seems to be the finale.

We have never seen any evidence of fog effects except for in this video so that probably didn't make it.

TTA94 · Sep 12, 2016

cjkeating said:
I think the running bear and fire will survive... the floats will move which allow projection and the fire seems to be the finale.

We have never seen any evidence of fog effects except for in this video so that probably didn't make it.

Im assuming the running bear will be on a separate small barge we have not seen? I don't think it would be one of the lotus as they probably won't move that fast.

disney4life2008 · Sep 12, 2016

MansionButler84 said:
Have you ever seen Fantasmic?

Or IllumiNations in the summer when sunset is at 8:30 pm?

Or the daytime parade?

Or any of the performers around World Showcase?

Or any streetmosphere anywhere?

Yes i have. And the seating is fine. However, the seating for rol is tragic! Hard has a brick and hot!

FigmentJedi · Sep 12, 2016

brb1006 said:
The soundtrack and the show itself so far reminds me of the musical version of The Lion King that is on stage.

That's because they share a composer: Mark Mancina

brb1006 · Sep 12, 2016

mnelson3 said:
Hopefully some of our insiders, @marni1971 ;-), can let us know soon what changes have been made to the show over the past 6 months... I know marni had said awhile back he was not able to comment just yet.

Somehow I feel this video showing the fog effect, running bear and meantion of fire are 3 things we won't be seeing :-(

Guests would had been blown away by the fog effects and the running bear.

brb1006 · Sep 12, 2016

Tahu said:
That's because they share a composer: Mark Mancina

That explains alot

peter11435 · Sep 12, 2016

disney4life2008 said:
Yes i have. And the seating is fine. However, the seating for rol is tragic! Hard has a brick and hot!

The seating for fantasmic is a flat aluminum bench. It's no more comfortable than ROL. The other things mentioned don't have seating at all.....

TTA94 · Sep 12, 2016

brb1006 said:
Guests would had been blown away by the fog effects and the running bear.

I mean if they can get the guidance system to work for the other floats then I don't see why they would have cut the running bear or fog... Unless it was a budget cut deal

. I'm still concern about the floating lanterns.

ToTBellHop · Sep 12, 2016

peter11435 said:
The seating for fantasmic is a flat aluminum bench. It's no more comfortable than ROL. The other things mentioned don't have seating at all.....

Indeed. Disney (or anyone, for that matter) is not known for supplying plush, shaded viewing for nighttime spectaculars. In July, it doesn't matter which show you are seeing: you will either be sweaty and hot while you wait or it will still be raining.

disney4life2008 · Sep 12, 2016

peter11435 said:
The seating for fantasmic is a flat aluminum bench. It's no more comfortable than ROL. The other things mentioned don't have seating at all.....

Exactly. And yet fantasmic seating is more comfortable. Rol seating is terrible

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