Stupid guest trick or stupid Disney trick?

pixiedust · Post by **pixiedust** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 4:18 pm

wheelieman wrote:Would that be the "Party-Gras" Parade? Or maybe the street scene from Blast to the Past? i LOVED both of those. The music was awesome, and the dancers totally made the parade. I really miss those days....

Dave

Aw.. I remember whatever parade/celebration that was where the BIG HUGE confetti pieces would be left all over after. I was pretty young at the time, and I would take pieces of it home with me cause it was pretty.

sistercoyote · Post by **sistercoyote** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:36 pm

Actually (my sister worked Light Magic; she was one of the Petalskippers), there was "tinsel" thrown during Light Magic. There were two kinds - largeish squares of mylar and then smaller, more glitter-like stuff.

I know this because we still periodically find it in things that the sister handled during that time period.

Stuff's pernicious.

BabyAngel024 · Post by **BabyAngel024** » Sun May 02, 2004 12:17 am

I was a passholder at the time that light magic was started. I did not get the see the preview because i was young at the time, but when i did see it one night, i was very unhappy about it and wrote disney about it, and i actually got a response which susprised me, and basically all that it stated was the Walt intended for everything to change and Light Magic was a good show. I complained that if i wanted to see a show i would go the theathers and watch it there, not watch them at some parade, and how they thought that it was better than the electrical parade, which i mind you that i love, still to this day. Mind you i was proably about 12 or 13 i think at the time that i wrote the letter. As a child i didnt like it and wanted the electrial parade back. And look we do, wrong park, but hey its here i cant complain.

imissRBT · Post by **imissRBT** » Thu May 13, 2004 10:35 am

I'm not sure if i ever watcherd the light and magic parade....but i know i was at least at the park once while it was going on...wasn't it like...super short? especially ccompared to the electricl parade if i remember right...anyway well i didn't think (what i saw of it) was worth seeing again but if i had been invited to a preview i would not have asked for my money back.

sistercoyote · Post by **sistercoyote** » Thu May 13, 2004 4:08 pm

Yes, it was "short" in terms of number of floats &c.

OTOH, it wasn't ever really intended to be a parade. More like a
streetside show (something used much more effectively over at DCA in
Eureka, frankly).

TheManator · Post by **TheManator** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:24 pm

Wow.
I remember when this parade debuted (I was still living in SoCal at the
time)...personally...yes, I found it a crappy replacement for the Elec
parade, but I was young at the time and it made me cry when I saw it.

I guess children like things better than adults.

Cloud Buster · Post by **Cloud Buster** » Thu May 13, 2004 11:05 pm

Polar33 wrote:For the record, in the newspaper handed out to the press on the day of
the 50th announcement ceremony, the new parade was described as
a "streetacular" as well. I'm hoping that it's just a case of someone not
knowing the true origin of the word, instead of forshadowing things to
come.

Oh no...

Well this time, I'll be on the inside. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Personally I'm more worried about the name "Parade of Dreams" and its
striking resemblance to the name POTS (Parade of the Stars)...sounds
like POTS on acid....as if POTS needed that.

Cloud Buster · Post by **Cloud Buster** » Sat May 15, 2004 4:05 am

Today me and some old(er) time show guys were chillin in the show cage swapping stories, when someone mentioned LM - or as they called it, "Light Tragic". Apparently, they were there when the floats were destroyed, and roasted marshamallows in celebration as they watched!

VonSeegs · Post by **VonSeegs** » Sun May 16, 2004 10:28 pm

Ok ok ok. To watch the show was crap. We all agree. To dance the show was really fun though. At least for me. It was my first job with Disney. It was my first paid "gig" if you will. (If you can call being a dwarf a gig.)

The thing with the show was that it came out a year too early. The big wigs said they needed a show here and now after the EP and what had been planned, a lot of the concepts, were overlooked. One of the stories that I remember hearing was they used a bunch of different vendors for the fiber optics, but the vendors all underbid for the jobs and they all went bankrupt. Fact or fiction, I dunno. If they had just waited an extra year I think it would have been a great show.

The world will never know.

dazyhill · Post by **dazyhill** » Sun May 16, 2004 11:31 pm

I was there the night of the AP "Premire" of the LM parade. I don't remember what I was expecting the parade to be like but it certainly wasn't the parade I saw. I found it a poor replacement to the Electrical Parade and was confused by the supposed storyline. Just why were the Disney characters in pajamas :?:
At the end of the night I was one of the many who stood in line to get a refund from City Hall. I didn't feel bad about it. I mean my family spent about $100 (there were four of us) and we felt it was a waste. The parade kept breaking down and that is what we were there for right?
I felt bad though for the CM's working the area because they were caught completly off-guard and I'm sure many pass-holes gave them a bunch of crap. As if they had anything to do with the creation of the parade. They were just doing their jobs.
The night was not a total loss however. I got to meet Tony Baxter, the Imagineering genius behind many beloved DL attractions and saw a very cool model of the new Tomorrowland. :D
And while I was a passholder, I did attend some really awesome events such as Mickey's Halloween Treat, and AP Passholder Night (rode Space Mountain with the lights on , cool)