As many of you already know, I submitted my proposal for a new Disney theme park resort over the last few months within numerous posts. You also might remember that I had planned Main Street Electrical Parade as my night time parade. Since then, I have learned that Hong Kong will be getting WDW's MSEP unit which ran at DL Paris from 1992-2003, and Tokyo's MSEP unit has been scrapped. Therefore, I decided for my park to have a brand-new, much updated unit! In fact, when I originally posted my proposal, I stated that MSEP may be a slightly updated version from the original version.
Basically, this is the same parade which previously ran at Disneyland, WDW's Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and currently runs in a modified version at California Adventure. However, the parade floats will have better, more up-to-date floats fiberoptic lights, very much like the DreamLights! floats used at Tokyo Disneyland. In case anyone's not familiar with DreamLights!, its a 21st century spin-off of MSEP currently running at Tokyo Disneyland . More information, along with parade videos, can be found at the following URL:
http://www.barrybedford.com
The updated MSEP will also use the original Baroque Hoedown theme song used in MSEP and Disney's Electrical Parade at California Adventure (DreamLights! uses an orchestrated version of Baroque Hoedown instead of the original version), which will be interspersed at various times with songs from the respective Disney films represented. Here is a sound file of this tune:
http://www.disneynut.com/wdw/music/msep288.ram
The parade will run approximately the same length as the original MSEP (approx. 23 minutes) Oddly enough, Dreamlights! runs in the same time span, more or less, but with nearly twice as many floats! I'm not sure how they do this, possibly with shorter gaps between parade float units. I asked this question on the Tokyo/Hong Kong forum, but to no avail. I will also add a few additional float units to the parade's original lienup, but less than DreamLights! added to theirs.
Now, onto my parade:
OPENING AND ANNOUNCEMENT
(Lights dim around around parade route just before start)
[Soundtrack: "Electric Fanfare" by Don Dorsey]
Synthesized-like voice says, "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Disneyland (name of park's location)'s Magic Kingdom proudly presents our spectacular pagaent of nighttime magic and imagination in thousands of sparking lights and electrosynthomagnetic musical sounds, The Main Street Electrical Parade!".
[Fanfare of Lights by Don Dorsey]
[Main Street Electrical Parade soundtrack begins, with Baroque Hoedown by Jean-Jacques Perry and Gershon Kingsley]
1.) BLUE FAIRY
For this and all existing parade units within the Main Street Electrical Parade, see the MSEP script at http://www.disneylandian.com/faqs/msep.html
since these parade units will be exactly the same, scriptwise, as the original parade. The new units will be described when I get to them.
2.) CASEY JR. TRAIN, with Goofy in the engine cab, pulling a big drum that alternates between saying "Disneyland (name or park's location)'s Magic Kingdom presents" and "Main Street Electrical Parade". With the improved, fibreoptic lighting, the drum sign will be composed of numerous bulbs as opposed to the flashing neon sign of the original-- much like the DreamLights! drum float sign, in a Las Vegas-like manner. Also, the "Presents" sign will use the theme park resort's actual logo (much like the blue script-like lettering of Disneyland's logo, and the red Walt Disney World logo with the "mouse ears" globe) due to the improved lighting. Mickey and Minnie ride the drum float, as usual.
3.) ALICE IN WONDERLAND: same as original MSEP, see script in above URL
4.) WINNIE THE POOH: This is similar to the DreamLights! float, with Winnie the Pooh & friends on a small float around the famous Honey Tree. This float is followed by dancers in bee costumes, dancing to the song "Winnie the Pooh", which plays as the dancers pass by. Here is a midi file:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9711/winniepoo.mid
5.) CINDERELLA: same as original MSEP
6.) PETER PAN: same as original, with Hook's pirate ship, The Jolly Roger, and Smee's rowboat following behind.
7.) ALADDIN: This is basically a small float designed like a magic carpet in the front and middle sections. Aladdin and Jasmine ride on the msgic carpet. A giant blue lighted Genie appears in the back. With this float, the music shifts from Baroque Hoedown to "A Whole New World", and back to Baroque Hoedown after the float passes. Here is a midi file of "A Whole New World": http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9711/newworld.mid
The Aladdin unit was entirely my own creation, and has never appeared in MSEP, Spectromagic, DreamLights!, or anywhere for that matter!
8.) DUMBO: same as original MSEP
9.) SNOW WHITE: ditto
10.) PINOCCHIO: ditto
11.) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: This unit is similar to Dreamlights's unit, broken into two small floats. First we have a "desert cart" float with Lumière, accompanied by dancers dressed as waiters and waitresses to the song "Be Our Guest". Here is a midi file:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9711/berguest.mid
The second float replicates the castle's ballroom, with Belle and Vincent (Vincent appears in the Magic Kingdom, whereas the Beast appears at Disney Studios only, due to the presense of the post-transformation castle in The Magic Kingdom) dancing to the song "Beauty and the Beast". Here is a midi file: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9711/beauty2.mid
12.) PETE'S DRAGON: same as original MSEP
13.) IT'S A SMALL WORLD: This is an abbreviated version of the Dreamlights! IASW unit, broken up into two floats, with live Cast Members dressed at the IASW dolls (face characters) in lighted costumes, singing (possibly lip-synching) and dancing to the song "it's a small world". The music shifts from Baroque Hoedown to it's a small world, reverting back to Baroque Hoedown about 2/3 of the way through the second float. Here is a midi file:
http://www.pacificsites.com/~drhoades/sounds/small_world.mid
The first float will be a showboat, and the second float a combination of the sun and moon floats from DreamLights! in one longer float. Both IASW floats had various Disney characters riding them while the IASW children sing and dance; among them, Donald and the 3 Amigos, Pluto, Roger Rabbit, Mary Poppins and Bert, plus a few others!
14.) TO HONOR AMERICA: similar to the original MSEP unit, but shorter, about half the length of the original (which is/was almost 100 feet long), at the most. Chip & Dale appear in front to this float, along with All-American Girls in red, white, and blue outfits; who hold a rope while others start removing the crowd-restaining ropes.
-- PARADE ENDS --
If anyone has questions, comments, and/or suggestions, please feel free to post!
Basically, this is the same parade which previously ran at Disneyland, WDW's Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and currently runs in a modified version at California Adventure. However, the parade floats will have better, more up-to-date floats fiberoptic lights, very much like the DreamLights! floats used at Tokyo Disneyland. In case anyone's not familiar with DreamLights!, its a 21st century spin-off of MSEP currently running at Tokyo Disneyland . More information, along with parade videos, can be found at the following URL:
http://www.barrybedford.com
The updated MSEP will also use the original Baroque Hoedown theme song used in MSEP and Disney's Electrical Parade at California Adventure (DreamLights! uses an orchestrated version of Baroque Hoedown instead of the original version), which will be interspersed at various times with songs from the respective Disney films represented. Here is a sound file of this tune:
http://www.disneynut.com/wdw/music/msep288.ram
The parade will run approximately the same length as the original MSEP (approx. 23 minutes) Oddly enough, Dreamlights! runs in the same time span, more or less, but with nearly twice as many floats! I'm not sure how they do this, possibly with shorter gaps between parade float units. I asked this question on the Tokyo/Hong Kong forum, but to no avail. I will also add a few additional float units to the parade's original lienup, but less than DreamLights! added to theirs.
Now, onto my parade:
OPENING AND ANNOUNCEMENT
(Lights dim around around parade route just before start)
[Soundtrack: "Electric Fanfare" by Don Dorsey]
Synthesized-like voice says, "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Disneyland (name of park's location)'s Magic Kingdom proudly presents our spectacular pagaent of nighttime magic and imagination in thousands of sparking lights and electrosynthomagnetic musical sounds, The Main Street Electrical Parade!".
[Fanfare of Lights by Don Dorsey]
[Main Street Electrical Parade soundtrack begins, with Baroque Hoedown by Jean-Jacques Perry and Gershon Kingsley]
1.) BLUE FAIRY
For this and all existing parade units within the Main Street Electrical Parade, see the MSEP script at http://www.disneylandian.com/faqs/msep.html
since these parade units will be exactly the same, scriptwise, as the original parade. The new units will be described when I get to them.
2.) CASEY JR. TRAIN, with Goofy in the engine cab, pulling a big drum that alternates between saying "Disneyland (name or park's location)'s Magic Kingdom presents" and "Main Street Electrical Parade". With the improved, fibreoptic lighting, the drum sign will be composed of numerous bulbs as opposed to the flashing neon sign of the original-- much like the DreamLights! drum float sign, in a Las Vegas-like manner. Also, the "Presents" sign will use the theme park resort's actual logo (much like the blue script-like lettering of Disneyland's logo, and the red Walt Disney World logo with the "mouse ears" globe) due to the improved lighting. Mickey and Minnie ride the drum float, as usual.
3.) ALICE IN WONDERLAND: same as original MSEP, see script in above URL
4.) WINNIE THE POOH: This is similar to the DreamLights! float, with Winnie the Pooh & friends on a small float around the famous Honey Tree. This float is followed by dancers in bee costumes, dancing to the song "Winnie the Pooh", which plays as the dancers pass by. Here is a midi file:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9711/winniepoo.mid
5.) CINDERELLA: same as original MSEP
6.) PETER PAN: same as original, with Hook's pirate ship, The Jolly Roger, and Smee's rowboat following behind.
7.) ALADDIN: This is basically a small float designed like a magic carpet in the front and middle sections. Aladdin and Jasmine ride on the msgic carpet. A giant blue lighted Genie appears in the back. With this float, the music shifts from Baroque Hoedown to "A Whole New World", and back to Baroque Hoedown after the float passes. Here is a midi file of "A Whole New World": http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9711/newworld.mid
The Aladdin unit was entirely my own creation, and has never appeared in MSEP, Spectromagic, DreamLights!, or anywhere for that matter!
8.) DUMBO: same as original MSEP
9.) SNOW WHITE: ditto
10.) PINOCCHIO: ditto
11.) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: This unit is similar to Dreamlights's unit, broken into two small floats. First we have a "desert cart" float with Lumière, accompanied by dancers dressed as waiters and waitresses to the song "Be Our Guest". Here is a midi file:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9711/berguest.mid
The second float replicates the castle's ballroom, with Belle and Vincent (Vincent appears in the Magic Kingdom, whereas the Beast appears at Disney Studios only, due to the presense of the post-transformation castle in The Magic Kingdom) dancing to the song "Beauty and the Beast". Here is a midi file: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9711/beauty2.mid
12.) PETE'S DRAGON: same as original MSEP
13.) IT'S A SMALL WORLD: This is an abbreviated version of the Dreamlights! IASW unit, broken up into two floats, with live Cast Members dressed at the IASW dolls (face characters) in lighted costumes, singing (possibly lip-synching) and dancing to the song "it's a small world". The music shifts from Baroque Hoedown to it's a small world, reverting back to Baroque Hoedown about 2/3 of the way through the second float. Here is a midi file:
http://www.pacificsites.com/~drhoades/sounds/small_world.mid
The first float will be a showboat, and the second float a combination of the sun and moon floats from DreamLights! in one longer float. Both IASW floats had various Disney characters riding them while the IASW children sing and dance; among them, Donald and the 3 Amigos, Pluto, Roger Rabbit, Mary Poppins and Bert, plus a few others!
14.) TO HONOR AMERICA: similar to the original MSEP unit, but shorter, about half the length of the original (which is/was almost 100 feet long), at the most. Chip & Dale appear in front to this float, along with All-American Girls in red, white, and blue outfits; who hold a rope while others start removing the crowd-restaining ropes.
-- PARADE ENDS --
If anyone has questions, comments, and/or suggestions, please feel free to post!
