The author makes great points. Love that Disney is not laying anyone off. If the current musians either choose not to audition for the new matching band or don't make the new band they will be offered positions in othe park music groups. Sounds like Disney is modernizing the marching band. Will we be seeing formations down MS?
From what I can tell, it will be a similar set up to the All-American College Band, the old Future Corps at Epcot, and the 'regular' marching bands at TDL and HKDL. They will most likely march in a block (on drum cadence) to their performance location, and then do some formations and choreography there while they play, and then march offstage again.
I would be surprised if they were doing formations while moving from place to place, like the toy soldiers in the Christmas parades
Heard that PTN soft openings seem unlikely at this point based on their current schedule. Hopefully that turns out to be untrue.
Also, heard no AP previews for 60th shows. Also hopefully not true.
DL hasn't done AP previews for major entertainment since the ill-fated Light Magic. Given the obvious similarities between that event and the upcoming schedule, I would be surprised if they started up AP previews for entertainment offerings, since it's just not their SOP in recent years
If nothing happens before the 22nd, DLR may have it's busiest 24 Hr event yet! And correct me if I'm wrong but DL has only one shot at DL Forever that night because of neighborhoods surrounding it?
DL routinely has late-night fireworks for Grad Nights (~2-3am?), so I doubt that waking the neighbors will be a huge concern. They also do full-pyro dress rehearsals for Fantasmic! during overnight hours, and there are no issues with that
Theoretically, they could run into issues with the state if the show uses a ton of pyro, though that seems unlikely with the reliance on projections. Remember...Dreams Come True brought around the air-launch system to use less gunpowder, so the show could be run nightly through the 50th and fit within Disney's allotted air pollution credits. Depending how much fallout the show creates, and how close they are to their threshold, it could be an issue, but that seems unlikely after several months with the anemic Fantasy in the Sky
Pretty sure Disney is still referring to Paint the Night. If Disneyland were getting a new day parade (Soundsational will be just four years-old this year), I would believe Disney would have announced it with the other new entertainment offerings.
I know that WDW likes to keep parades around for decades, but 4-5 years is about the limit for most parades at DLR. Pixar Play Parade is older than that, but had a multi-year hiatus during DCA's construction. Celebrate! A Street Party, Parade of Dreams, Parade of the Stars, Eureka!, were all retired around/before their 5th birthday, and the parades before then rarely lasted more than a couple seasons (MSEP being the obvious exception)
That said, I wouldn't expect a new daytime parade at DLR before the end of the 60th. It's just too much work to be done that quickly, considering the total tack of rumors at this point
