low Fest won’t be able to take place in the same area of DCA next summer due to the huge amount of construction and redevelopment getting underway just after Christmas as part of the Buena Vista Street project. The Red Car Trolley project in particular will continue to add equipment down the Hollywood Blvd. section of the park that is causing some concern from the Entertainment department, and it’s a bigger problem for them just the free lancing go-go girls of Glow Fest. The overhead wires for the Red Car Trolley are going to require that any future parade at DCA fit underneath them. The current Pixar Play Parade will mostly make the height requirement, except for the Ratatouille float with the bungee jumping rats hanging from tall plumbing fixtures.
Rodents everywhere!
The Electrical Parade is slated to be shipped back to Anaheim this Christmas, once the sun sets early enough that DCA can pull off multiple World of Color shows and a night parade to try and balance out the maddening crowds that pack into Disneyland for the Christmas Fantasy Parade and Believe In Holiday Magic fireworks show. But after the Christmas run of the Electrical Parade, the parade route through the DCA Sun Plaza will go into heavy construction mode as part of the switch to the newly expanded DCA parade route that starts near Tower of Terror and ends near the Silly Symphony Swings.
The new parade route will debut in 2012 with an all-new day parade for DCA, using the same type of low-slung modular floats currently being designed for Disneyland’s new parade coming in 2011, Soundsational. The Soundsational parade is a salute to favorite Disney music through the decades, and it will use a new fleet of floats that are designed to have a modular chassis and underpinnings that can be used over and over again with different parades every few years. The same concept is being planned for DCA, with a fleet of DCA-specific parade floats that will allow different parades to be created for that park every few years without having to worry about the overhead wires of the Red Car Trolley.
But I guess it's nice that they're keeping things fresh instead of having the same parade for 10 years.
Also, Steven Davison has shown he can do amazing parades (Jubilation in Tokyo)
