Tapestry of Nations without the drums

[AllyInWonderland]

If I ever get a chance to open my theme park they're will be a parade with the same puppets, those puppets arrant Disney trademark .

Don't forget the amazing music!

 

[AllyInWonderland]

The puppets couldn't have been to hard on the performers because they still use puppets like that for special events quite a bit.

Really? What events?

 

[HMF]

If I ever get a chance to open my theme park they're will be a parade with the same puppets, those puppets arrant Disney trademark .

Yeah I am pretty sure I have seen Diskman outside car dealerships.

 

[HMF]

Really? What events?

I believe they sometimes appear on New Years Eve at Epcot.

 

[AllyInWonderland]

I believe they sometimes appear on New Years Eve at Epcot.

I haven't heard about that! It sounds cool!

 

[AllyInWonderland]

Yeah I am pretty sure I have seen Diskman outside car dealerships.

I called him Noodle Man when I was little because of his hair and then whenever we passed by a car dealership, I thought of Noodle Man.

 

[wdwfan22]

Really? What events?

Mostly private corporate events.

 

[Polydweller]

I loved that parade, when I was there specifically to watch it. Maybe the best they've done. But if I wasn't there to watch it, perhaps going to an ADR, it was a nightmare. The World Showcase walkway just isn't wide enough, even without the drums. And now with booths around the park, especially during F&G and F&W, movement around the showcase would be impossible. As much as I enjoyed it I would never want to see another parade there.

 

[harryk]

I loved that parade, when I was there specifically to watch it. Maybe the best they've done. But if I wasn't there to watch it, perhaps going to an ADR, it was a nightmare. The World Showcase walkway just isn't wide enough, even without the drums. And now with booths around the park, especially during F&G and F&W, movement around the showcase would be impossible. As much as I enjoyed it I would never want to see another parade there.

This parade could still be accommodated in the space around the lagoon. Disney must have just decided that it was only good for the century change and shelved it later. At least they kept the lagoon torches - which arn't lighted often enough (just having them lit for illuminations is totally inadequate). Saying it hurt the performers backs seems a stretch and a bad excuse.

 

[donsullivan]

I loved that parade, when I was there specifically to watch it. Maybe the best they've done. But if I wasn't there to watch it, perhaps going to an ADR, it was a nightmare. The World Showcase walkway just isn't wide enough, even without the drums. And now with booths around the park, especially during F&G and F&W, movement around the showcase would be impossible. As much as I enjoyed it I would never want to see another parade there.

In addition to the health (backs) issues of the performers with the puppets one of the really big issues is that Epcot is simply not designed with the needed traffic flow patterns for a parade. Many areas of the World Showcase Promenade are so narrow that they had to be completely blocked while the parade was passing by. This resulted in large clogs of people in areas like United Kingdom of people who didn't want to watch the parade but could not continue moving around the lagoon. It created such a major bottleneck for people that it could become very unpleasant.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

They do a tribute to them with gameboards and pices as a Window display at Once Upon A Toy at DTD

I find it Ironic that one has Sorry on it's chest...

 

[AllyInWonderland]

They do a tribute to them with gameboards and pices as a Window display at Once Upon A Toy at DTD

I find it Ironic that one has Sorry on it's chest...

I looked for that when i went in December but I didn't see it. Is it still there?

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I looked for that when i went in December but I didn't see it. Is it still there?

Yes..It's on the side where the Genie Statue is..Down along one of the windows..

 

[AllyInWonderland]

Grrr!!! I was going to take a picture of it! I need to look for it again next time.

 

[AllyInWonderland]

I had this weird dream recently where I was at a Walmart and Disney was selling Diskman puppets, so I got one immediately, and tried putting it on to see how heavy it was. Then I put it inside a car and it looked like he was sitting up.

 

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

I had this weird dream recently where I was at a Walmart and Disney was selling Diskman puppets, so I got one immediately, and tried putting it on to see how heavy it was. Then I put it inside a car and it looked like he was sitting up.

I had a dream like that to LOL, I bough a full size fold up puppet. Thats scarey that the puppet was sitting up, it would be scarier if one of those wooden hands started to creap towards the dashboared.

 

[AllyInWonderland]

I had a dream like that to LOL, I bough a full size fold up puppet. Thats scarey that the puppet was sitting up, it would be scarier if one of those wooden hands started to creap towards the dashboared.

Yeah. I keep having dreams where Diskman puppets are being sold and people buy them, not knowing or caring where it came from, and I'm just like THOSE ARE SPECIAL PUPPETS FROM DISNEY WORLD!!!! BE CAREFUL!!!!

 

[Allen C]

My favorite parade as well.


Way Back Weekend - Tapestry of Nations, Epcot, 2001 by Allen Castillo, on Flickr

 

[harryk]

What has happened to the drums and puppets? Were some rethemed and used in the Mickey's Jingle Jungle parade?

 

[Jwhee]

Yea are any of the clocks still on site? or did they end up like the wand...