The first leg of the Parade Do-see-do has just been completed with California Adventure sending it's "Pixar Block Party Bash" to Disney's Hollywood Studios. California Adventure was rewarded with a brand new parade the "Pixar Play Parade", of course that's experienced a bump or two in the road lately.
Another rumor site recently posted that Disney's Animal Kingdom won't be getting a night parade after all. The infrastructure change required to make the DAK parade corridor capable of handling a night parade were deemed too drastic and therefore "Rivers Of Light" has been snuffed out. Having walked Disney's Animal Kingdom explicitly looking for how a night parade would work, I have to agree that any widening of the pathways would affect a drastic change on the intimate feel of the park.
Hopefully the Rivers of Light idea can be revived at another theme park; one also in need of a night parade... can you say Epcot? Although the death of ROL at DAK has not been confirmed by my sources.
Now I'm hearing that as soon as October 2009 the Parade of Dreams from Disneyland will be exported to the Magic Kingdom. This is in addition to rumors sending SpectroMagic to Paris in exchange for Fantillusion, which originally debuted at Tokyo Disneyland. I'm not sure if the Rivers of Light change will factor into this. It would be nice to get an original night parade at Walt Disney World soon.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Disney Park Parade Rotation coming soon
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The LAST thing Epcot needs is a parade. Do you not remember the horrible traffic stopper that was the (otherwise beautiful) "Tapestry of Dreams" parade...?
When we were in Epcot in December 2000, it was nearly impossible to walk from country to country and we would have to make sure that we made it to our destination (say where we would be having dinner or at least a pavillion with LOTS to do, like the Millenium Village) to not be trapped somewhere. It was made even harder to maneuver around the center countries flanking America since on the other side of the walkway, facing the water, there was a line (regular and standby) for the Candlelight Processional.
No, I personally would never again want there to be a parade in Epcot!
bfirrera,
I agree that I would only want a parade in Epcot if they solved the traffic flow problem. I believe they do have a solution where the only bottle neck would be between Mexico and the boat launch. The parade would launch, believe it or not, in future world near Spaceship Earth.
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