Walt Disney World - Magic Kingdom, Part 8
Daily Parades
There's a parade every day in Magic Kingdom, usually themed after the current "celebration". Sometimes, a celebration will end, but the parade will live on, just with all the celebration themeing eliminated. But it's still a live parade!It might be shorter or different if it's raining, or it's extraordinarly hot. All parade vehicles run on propane, there is no vehicle that has liquid fuel.
If you Google Map the southwest part of Magic Kingdom, the big building just being Splash Mountain is the parade barn. It's pretty easy to see how they stage the parades between Frontierland and Main Street...
If you watch (or video) the parade where it comes out from backstage, you can watch it from start to finish, then walk to the place where the parade goes backstage, and see the entire parade again!
That's what I did with the Share A Dream Come True Parade...
Video of Disney's Magical Moments Parade (2000)
Video of Share A Dream Come True Parade (Full Version)
Video of Share A Dream Come True Parade (Town Square Version)
The Main Street Electrical Parade
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These pics were just some incidental camcorder pics I took.
The Main Street Electrical Parade, June 2000
Video of The Main Street Electrical Parade
SpectroMagic! (2010)
SpectroMagic! returned in 2001. I taped the parade in 2006, when I first tried my hand at High-Definition...Disney's Electrical Parade (2010)
(aka The Main Street Electrical Parade v2.0)
The need for construction staging at California Adventure (for the recently opened Cars Land, not to mention a new night show, World of Color), took the DCA Electrical Parade Unit out of DCA and put into Magic Kingdom.It was part of the Summer Nightastic promotion. At the promotion's end, Disney announced the parade was going to stay indefinitely. Good move!
Since DCA has no Main Street, the parade is clearly labeded Disney's Electrical Parade but it was branded The Main Street Electrical Parade when it arrived in Magic Kingdom. Ironic, since less than half of the parade is actaully on Main Street.
The new Electrical Parade unit has LED's as it's light source. They're all white LED's, it's the cap that gives it color. There are six different colors, each color has a light and dark variety, plus white, for 13 colors.
The lights are grouped in sets of seven, and each set of seven alternate with another set. So if an LED fails, an entire group of seven lights will go out, but since it's every other light, it's less noticeable.
Interestingly, the tech they use for the color caps fade in sunlight, so all the floats are kept indoors or under roof panels during the day.
There's a lot more information on the parade units from the D23's 2011 Magic and Merriment event I attended.
The first time I saw the Parade after it returned to Magic Kingdom
was in December 2010. Let me say it was cold. (censored) cold.
Tink was jumping all around, not because she was Tink, but because
she was trying to get warm. Not a good night to have a skimpy costume...
PiC shot this parade, while I videotaped it.
Disney's Electrical Parade, Dec 2010
Disney's Electrical Parade (2011)
The weather for the second time I saw the new parade, was perfect. High-80's, intense sun during the day, but a pleasant night.I shot this parade. Hand held. I love my G12...
The Main Street Electrical Parade, May 2011
Video of Disney's Electrical Parade (aka The Main Street Electrial Parade v2.0)
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| The finale of Wishes during the Christmas Season |
Wishes
Wishes nighttime spectacular is a show that rivals Illuminations in every way, but shares none of the elements between the shows. This is Disney Imagineering at its best...
Video of Wishes nighttime spectacular (and the holiday varients.)
My camcorder allows me to capture up to 3-6MP images while taping. These are those captures.
Wishes and various captures during taping
These were taken from the Tomorrowland Terrace. The counter service was actually open (until just before Wishes), so we munched on chicken fingers waiting for the show... The camera is on a tripod.
Wishes Nighttime Spectacular, Oct 2007
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