GiveMeTheMusic
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MSEP opens at DL in January. The current plan is for it to run through the spring while PTN is reworked. PTN would then come back in the summer, possibly retiring MSEP for good.
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Paint the Night Parade to end this Fall
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GiveMeTheMusic
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Only if we take flamethrowers to make sure it can never come back.
TP2000
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And yet even Miceage admits that WDW has made a request to take PTN back to Orlando in some sort of weird swap. Sounds like TDA rebuffed them for now, but knowing corporate politics that's a decision that could be changed with little warning.
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You know what's crazy? The fact that WDW, especially the MK, has a huge annual entertainment budget yet it has to "borrow" a parade from DLR. Surely they have enough money out there in Florida to build their own PTN parade.
brb1006
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I agree, let the Tokyo version carry the torch of the original parade's legacy.
Phroobar
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Why spend the money to build a new one when you can "borrow" a new one? (ie. steal)
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What makes this even weirder to me is that they wouldn't even need to start the production from scratch. The blueprints, models, music recordings, choreography, timing, etc, etc, for the show have existed for 3 years now.
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SuddenStorm
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I never got to see the parade in DL Park, but I think it'd be awesome if Disney put a little money into it and made it as close to the original version as possible for this limited run. At the very least, they could bring back the original music and change the first float to say "Main Street Electrical Parade" again. If I'm gonna see this parade, I wanna see the original, not a modified version of the original.
Yes, I know this won't happen, but it'd be cool if it did.
Yes, I know this won't happen, but it'd be cool if it did.
GiveMeTheMusic
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I think the drum title getting changed is a sure bet.
I'd like the Blue Fairy back myself.
@spectrodanny told me that Don Dorsey has said that the drum won't be changed, but I'm not sure how in-the-know Don is considering I don't think he's worked directly on a Disney production since Reflections of Earth (though I could be mistaken).
SuddenStorm
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If they did change it, they could spin it as giving the parade a proper farewell, as opposed to a cheap alternative to PTN for a few months.
That's true. Just passing on what I've been told. Besides, we don't know how extensive the refurb will be. Could be just fixing up what's already there instead of adding new things.
Phroobar
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The Blue Fairy creeps me out ever since that one in A.I.
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The "original" MSEP from 1972 bore little resemblance to the parade that left Disneyland in 1996. Most of the floats in the original parade were two dimensional. The MSEP most people are familiar with today is the version that appeared in 1977 after a two-year hiatus for America on Parade during the Bicentennial, but that production was altered multiple times before it finally ended.
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Figments Friend
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So.....
Who is going tonight to see the final performance on its original run...?
Any uber-fans going to try to make it in for the finale...?
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Who is going tonight to see the final performance on its original run...?
Any uber-fans going to try to make it in for the finale...?
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brb1006
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I forgot that Paint The Night also ends the same night as the Jungle Book Show for Walt Disney World.
TP2000
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Good. The whole "Disney's" branding thing just seems so canned and corporate and stuck in the 1990's, and it would rub West Coasters the wrong way. When I lived back east that always bugged me how folks said "We went to Disney" or "This is like being at Disney". Disney? Do you mean Disney World? Or the store at the mall? Or the studio in Burbank? What?
West Coasters say "We went to Disneyland" or "This is like being at Disneyland".
They need to drop the corporate branding for California audiences and call it what it is, the Main Street Electrical Parade.
brb1006
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Hopefully they might bring back the old logo with it's original yellow/white text. Maybe they could finally bring back the Dumbo float since it was given an updated soundtrack back in 2010 but remained unused.