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Pavilions get LED lighting for Illuminations
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aladdin2007
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I wish they would add in Norway someday. I love how the pavilions are outlined in lights, and twinkle.
graphite1326
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I don't think Marocco is outlined either. Correct?
FerretAfros
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According to legend (I have literally no idea if it's true or not), Morocco's king requested that it not have the lights added, due to concern about the religious structures being used as part of the show.
I have no idea why Norway isn't lit, though I've read at least one source that claims it's to balance out the unlit Morocco pavilion; I find that tough to believe since the two aren't in similar positions on the lagoon
It is somewhat curious that the only two pavilions that don't have the lights are the two that were added after the park opened. Though I don't think they had a nighttime show for the first few years, so the lights would have been added later to the original pavilions
Morocco is indeed religious.
Norway was competed just before GE paid for the original pavilion lighting scheme for 1988s Illuminations. And has never been retrofitted.
C'mon TDO. It would cost a couple of tens of thousands for some LED edge lights and some coloured washes. Surely you could stretch your budget to this.
Norway was competed just before GE paid for the original pavilion lighting scheme for 1988s Illuminations. And has never been retrofitted.
C'mon TDO. It would cost a couple of tens of thousands for some LED edge lights and some coloured washes. Surely you could stretch your budget to this.
Stave church is illuminated at night though. As is the main pavilion.
Morocco (the country) has a law along the lines of no lighting to be attached to a religious building.
No, but it would cost. Add in programming and data feeds to the existing RoE show control computers and additional programming to the latter and it does add up. Ever so slightly.
aladdin2007
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I was told that originally the sponsors of Norway did not want to pay for the Illuminations lighting package. So was it that back in 88 or so or was it Disney not wanting to?
Crazydisneyfanluke
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Glad to see something being updated in RoE, now on to those barges....
Well the fountains were refurbished. And all of the nozzles were working.
Crazydisneyfanluke
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Good to hear! Last time i saw RoE, 3/4 main barges worked, and 5/8 of the smaller ones worked.
Cant wait to see it on April 2nd!
Hopefully, this trend continues to other parts of the park...