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Tokyo's Cinderellabration

Dragonrider1227

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Original Poster
What makes Tokyo's version of Cinderellabration different from Orlandos? I found a clip of it on youtube. It was the introduction of the other prince's and princess' and I did notice that no one was introducing them, and that the Beast was infact, the Beast and not human. I can understand this change for Orlando. I imagine it's ALOT hotter in Orlando than Tokyo and we can't have the poor guy sweltering in that suit for what must be a 15-20 minute show. What else is different?
 

uglybug2005

New Member
Tokyo's version was a bit longer and featured more characters, including Mickey and Minnie, and the villains. To be fair, the plot was pretty much the same (nil) and all the villains did was... well, show up.
The other main difference is the size of the stage it was performed on. Because Tokyo's Central Plaza is about 4x bigger than MK's, the stage is much larger and can accomodate more characters. They also had Cindy come up the street (again, much more room for traffic) in her coach, and the "Lights of Romance" played prior to the show at night (acrylic statues of the royal couples lit from beneath in time to romantic music from their movies and accompanied by lit archways similar to the "Lights of Winter" featured at Epcot during the holidays.) If I remember correctly, Cinderellabration was featured near Valentine's Day, so the lit archways may have been TDL's Lights of Winter just left up for a few weeks after New Year's and incorporated into the new show. Because TDL's guests visit more frequently and are more interested in live spectacles/pageants than guests at WDW, TDL changes live shows much more frequently (sometimes every 4 months). Also, nearly everything at TDL is sponsored, which seems to go overlooked in the internet communities. We always hear about how Oriental Land is "willing to spend more than TWDC", but we rarely see photos of the prominent Sponsor-Logo floats featured in each parade. Seriously, even the riverboat has a sponsor. That's good business. I wish more things were sponsored here (although some of the same folks who decry Brawny presenting LMA bellyache over not having as big a Cinderellabration show... go fig...)
 

Dragonrider1227

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Original Poster
interesting. From what I understand from the Japanese culture, they do like things more elaborant. I mean, Disney's gotta compete with a country that actually has anamatronics pretty much everywhere. From what I also understand, Japan is BIIIIG on buisness and tying one buisness with another. Hence all the sponsers.
and from I understand about OUR culture, we have small attention spans so it's only natural it'd be shorter and with our stage not built for Japan's kind of show, I can see why they gave it less characters.
 

S.E.A.

Member
Dragonrider1227 said:
interesting. From what I understand from the Japanese culture, they do like things more elaborant. I mean, Disney's gotta compete with a country that actually has anamatronics pretty much everywhere. From what I also understand, Japan is BIIIIG on buisness and tying one buisness with another. Hence all the sponsers.
and from I understand about OUR culture, we have small attention spans so it's only natural it'd be shorter and with our stage not built for Japan's kind of show, I can see why they gave it less characters.

all i don't understand is, why did WDW bother to get the show at all if they can't reproduce it in the same glory as that of Tokyo's, leading MK to have the least impressionable addition for the HCOE. They should have just received one of TDL's parades instead.
 

Dragonrider1227

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Original Poster
S.E.A. said:
all i don't understand is, why did WDW bother to get the show at all if they can't reproduce it in the same glory as that of Tokyo's, leading MK to have the least impressionable addition for the HCOE. They should have just received one of TDL's parades instead.
maybe, but I was happy with it. :)
 

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