Joined: May 04, 2006 Posts: 1754 Location: Los Osos, CA
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:56 pm Post subject: Main Street Electrical Parade returning to MK @ WDW
According to the Disney Parks Blog the Main Street Electrical Parade is returning to the Magic Kingdom this summer. Here is a link to the story ... http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/
Right now there is a big press event going on at WDW, even more announcements:
Main Street Electrical Parade
The Main Street Electrical Parade will feature all new LED lightings, new audio technology, and 3 new floats for Tinker Bell, Snow White and Pinocchio. Tinker Bell will lead the parade waving from the basket of a magical balloon aboard one of the new floats. The parade is set to return in early June 2010.
'Magic, Music and Mayhem' firework spectacular
The incredibly popular and well received firework show 'Magic, Music and Mayhem' from 'Disney's Pirate and Princess Party' will return to the Magic Kingdom during regular park hours and will include the perimeter fireworks. The show will replace Wishes for the summer period for around 70 nights, beginning early to mid June 2010 (exact start date to be determined).
Tower of Terror
The 'Tower of Terror' will receive some new special effects and an all new drop profile - all ready to terrify summer guests from early June 2010.
Joined: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 80 Location: Central Florida
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:56 am Post subject:
YAY! My favorite parade is coming back! _________________ Sam the Eagle: Will you stop this foolishness?
The Great Gonzo: What foolishness would you like to see?
I was never a big fan. I've seen it a few times. It seems like the soundtrack plays once a day on UAB. Maybe that's why I don't care for it...overdose. _________________ [
Joined: Feb 21, 2006 Posts: 4196 Location: Sanford, Fl
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:49 pm Post subject:
Summer Nightastic fireworks show named
Mar 28, 2010
The Summer Nightastic fireworks show has been named, and it will be called 'Summer Nightastic Fireworks Spectacular'. The show will be the very popular 'Music, Magic, and Mayhem' show (including the perimeter pyro) that was shown during the hard ticket event, Disney's Pirate and Princess Party. The show will have new introductory dialog. The actual show however, will be identical to 'Magic, Music, Mayhem' as it was shown in the second and final season of 'Disney's Pirate and Princess Party'. This means that it will have the small cut to the Cinderella portion of the show that was made following season 1, but will be otherwise unchanged. All 8 of the perimeter launch locations will be in place, running from Splash Mountain around to to Space Mountain. The show will replace Wishes for the summer period for around 70 nights, beginning June 6 2010 and ending on August 14 2010.
Summer Nightastic begins on 6 June 2010 for the summer season until 14 August 2010.
Joined: Feb 21, 2006 Posts: 4196 Location: Sanford, Fl
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:33 pm Post subject:
The best part of the show is when Captain Hook sets the castle on fire... Fantastic! _________________ Up or Down North, South, East, or West An Adventurer's Life is Best!
Also, here is a press release that Disney put out about the parade:
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- When the “Main Street Electrical Parade” returns to Magic Kingdom for a limited engagement this summer, the cherished Disney nighttime spectacle will have a new glow. Tinker Bell will sprinkle her pixie dust to illuminate the classic parade. The parade’s highly recognizable musical theme will be brightened by new technology.
The parade, which normally is featured at Disneyland Resort in California, was last at Walt Disney World Resort from 1999 into 2001. But as it returns to Magic Kingdom to headline “Summer Nightastic!” June 6 through Aug. 14, 2010, “Main Street Electrical Parade” will be showcasing lots of features never before seen – or heard – in Florida.
Tinker Bell leads the procession on an all-new float, and her trail of pixie dust enchants all the parade floats with new beauty along the way. The popular pixie waves from the basket of a balloon floating gracefully above a magical garden shimmering with fairy light.
In addition, enhanced versions of two classic favorites will return to the lineup after a 13-year hiatus – the shimmering diamond mine of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the Pleasure Island haunts of Pinocchio.
WHAT: The parade twinkles with approximately half a million lights. Of those, nearly 10,000 are new “pixie dust” lights spread over the 23 parade floats. The new LED lights use one-quarter of the power of incandescent lights. The Tinker Bell float alone has more than 25,000 points of light and 75 percent are powered by an LED source.
WHEN: Nightly beginning Sunday, June 6, and continuing through Saturday, Aug. 14, in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort.
LIGHTS ON DEMAND: A new control system makes it possible, for the first time, for each light to be programmed individually. One example is the new Tinker Bell float, which has 160 dimmers, by far the most of any parade float, to control the lighting. Programming for this parade took approximately two months.
AN EVEN BETTER HOEDOWN: The unforgettable musical theme of the “Main Street Electrical Parade,” which has inspired several generations of Disneyland Resort guests to clap along, was adapted from a synthesizer piece known as “Baroque Hoedown,” written in 1967 by Gershon Kingsley and Jean-Jaques Perrey. Disney themes are superimposed over the original piece. For “Summer Nightastic!,” the distinctive “electro-sytho-magnetic” “Baroque Hoedown” has new audio technology that gives it a richer, fuller sound.
MAIN STREET ELECTRICAL PARADE FUN FACTS
More than 80 performers appear in each presentation of Disney’s “Main Street Electrical Parade.”
There are 11,000 lights on the dancers’ costumes alone. Thanks to the energy-efficient LED lights, some of the dancers’ costumes now carry only one battery pack instead of two.
All the floats are battery-powered. More than 500 batteries supply power for lighting, propulsion, audio and special effects.
Approximately five miles of wire is used throughout the floats.
The tallest float in the parade is the Cinderella clock tower, at 18.5 feet tall.
The Fireworks Finale float, the longest in the parade, has seven cars that span 118 feet.
MAIN STREET ELECTRICAL PARADE HISTORY
“Summer Nightastic!” 2010 will mark the return of the original Disneyland “Main Street Electrical Parade” to Walt Disney World Resort. Previously the parade had a limited engagement in Florida from 1999 through 2001.
The original “Main Street Electrical Parade” premiered at Disneyland on June 17, 1972.
The parade was presented at Disneyland nearly every summer until it was “retired” in 1996.
A version of the “Main Street Electrical Parade” was created for Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort in 1977.
The Magic Kingdom version was presented until 1991 when it was replaced by “SpectroMagic” (“Main Street Electrical Parade” was refurbished for the opening of Disneyland Resort Paris).
The original Disneyland “Main Street Electrical Parade” was brought out of retirement and extensively refurbished for a limited engagement at Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom from 1999 into 2001.
Following the conclusion of the parade’s limited engagement at Walt Disney World Resort, it premiered at Disney’s California Adventure in July 2001 as “Disney’s Electrical Parade.”
The parade has been performed more than 5,000 times at Disneyland Resort.
The original “Main Street Electrical Parade” floats were “flatter” and less three-dimensional than the current floats. While new floats have been added through the years, some have been retired: “it’s a small world” float, Briny Deep float, and special anniversary floats for Disneyland’s 25th Anniversary (1980) and Mickey Mouse’s 60th Birthday (1988).
One of the original floats, the Title Drum Unit near the beginning of the parade, was created using an actual bass drum, one of the world’s largest in 1972. This drum had been used in Disneyland parades in the 1960s, when Mickey Mouse used to beat it using large drumsticks.
A third version of the parade has been presented at Tokyo Disney Resort (premiering 1985).
There are certain members of my household who are reverted back to being 9 at the sound of this news! _________________ Up or Down North, South, East, or West An Adventurer's Life is Best!
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