[KentB3]

As many of you already know, I submitted my proposal for a new Disney theme park resort a couple of months back or so. You might also remember that I had planned Main Street Electrical Parade as the night parade in my Magic Kingdom park (my theme park resort includes two parks, The Magic Kingdom and Disney Studios). Since then, I have learned that Hong Kong will be getting WDW's old MSEP unit which ran at Disneyland Paris from 1992-2003, and Tokyo Disneyland's MSEP unit has been scrapped. Therefore, I decided for my park to have a brand-new, much updated parade unit! In fact, when I originally posted my proposal, I stated that my 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 with fiberoptic lights, very much like the DreamLights! floats used at Tokyo Disneyland. In case anyone's not familiar with DreamLights!, it's 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 used 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 with at various times with songs from the respective Disney films represented in the parade floats. Here is a sound file of this tune: http://www.disneynut.com/wdw/music/msep288.ram

The parade will run roughly the same time length as the original MSEP (approx. 23 minutes). Oddly enough, DreamLights! runs in the same time length, more or less, but with nearly twice as many floats! I'm not sure how they do this, possibly with shorter parade gaps between floats. I added a few additional float units to the parade to the original lineup, but less than DreamLights! added to theirs.

Now, onto my parade:

OPENING AND ANNOUNCEMENT

(Lights dim around parade route just before start)

[Soundtrack: "Electric Fanfare" by Don Dorsey]

A 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 sparkling 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. CIRCUS TRAIN, with Goofy in the engine cab, pulling a big drum that alternates between saying "Disneyland (name of park's location)'s Magic Kingdom presents" and "Main Street Electrical Parade". With the improved, fiberoptic 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 resorts actual logo (much like the blue script-like lettering in Disneyland's (Anaheim) 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 and 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 bee dancers pass by. Here is a midi file: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/...nieThePooh.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 an middle sections. Aladdin and Jasmine ride on the magic 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 then back to Baroque Hoedown as the float passes. Here is a midi file of "A Whole New World": http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/...leNewWorld.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: similar to the DreamLights! unit, broken up into two small floats. First, we have a "desert cart" float with Lumière, accompanied by dancers dressed as waiters and waitresses to the song "Beauty and the Beast". Here is a midi file: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/..._Bandbeast.mid

The second float replicates the castle's ballroom, with Belle and Vincent (Vincent, Belle's prince, appears in The Magic Kingdom, whereas the Beast appears at Disney Studios only, due to the presence 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/SouthBeach/...tyandBeast.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 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 throught the second float. Here is a midi file: http://www.pacificsites.com/~drhoade...mall_world.mid

The second float is a combination of the sun and moon floats from DreamLights! into one longer float. Both IASW floats have various Disney characters riding them while the IASW characters sing and dance; among them, Donald and the 3 Amigos, Pluto, Roger Rabbbit, Mary Poppins and Bert, plus a few others!

14.) TO HONOR AMERICA: similar to the original MSEP unit. Chip & Dale appear in front of this float, along with the All-American Girls in red, white, and blue outfits.

-- PARADE ENDS --


If anyone has questions, comments, and/or suggestions, please feel free to post!

[inluvwithdisney]

Some of you links are not working!!!

[KentB3]

Originally Posted by inluvwithdisney

Some of you links are not working!!!

I checked all the links in my post, and they turned out fine. For the DreamLights! link, click on the icon reading Tokyo Disneyland on the first page, and the DreamLights! icon on the next page. The MSEP script leads directly to the parade script. The rest are audio files-- when you click these, you should get a popup asking if you want to play the file or download it to your computer.

Hope this helps!

[tragic312]

kent, your parade sounds spectacular. i'm listening to the song that comes from the second link and you should see my face!! it lit up immediately. i remember the song from DL's parade. man, how i loved that parade when i saw it. anyway, the parade idea sounds incredible. i wish you the best of luck on your proposed disney theme park. good luck!!

[KentB3]

Originally Posted by tragic312

kent, your parade sounds spectacular. i'm listening to the song that comes from the second link and you should see my face!! it lit up immediately. i remember the song from DL's parade. man, how i loved that parade when i saw it. anyway, the parade idea sounds incredible. i wish you the best of luck on your proposed disney theme park. good luck!!

That's great! I am SO glad that I brought back such childhood memories for you!

Actually, as I said earlier, my parade is an upgraded version of the original, so you'll still get the same parade, only much better!

[KentB3]

Originally Posted by KentB3

Actually, as I said earlier, my parade is an upgraded version of the original, so you'll still get the same parade, only much better!

A better comparision would be MSEP meets DreamLights. DreamLights is a spin-off of the original MSEP, which is upgraded technologically like mine, but theirs strays much more from the original MSEP script; for example, many of the floats and storylines of the float units in their parade have been changed completely. Mine sticks more closely to the original, and uses the original version of Baroque Hoedown. DreamLights uses an orchestrated remake.

[KentB3]

Originally Posted by KentB3

A better comparision would be MSEP meets DreamLights. DreamLights is a spin-off of the original MSEP, which is upgraded technologically like mine, but theirs strays much more from the original MSEP script; for example, many of the floats and storylines of the float units in their parade have been changed completely. Mine sticks more closely to the original, and uses the original version of Baroque Hoedown. DreamLights uses an orchestrated remake.

Another possible comparision could be MSEP meets SpectroMagic, since my updated MSEP used Fiberoptic lights and improved (technologically) floats like Spectro!

[Disneywife]

Do a little research on Light Magic, which followed the Electrical Parade on Main Street in DL, which nobody wanted to end and was actually mourned by the masses when it left. It was a huge flop, and only lasted a few months. It was based on fiberoptic lighting.

Sometimes only the original classic will do.

Even now that the parade is back, but at DCA instead of DL, it still isn't the same.

My opinion is don't change a thing.

[KentB3]

Originally Posted by Disneywife

Do a little research on Light Magic, which followed the Electrical Parade on Main Street in DL, which nobody wanted to end and was actually mourned by the masses when it left. It was a huge flop, and only lasted a few months. It was based on fiberoptic lighting.

Sometimes only the original classic will do.

Even now that the parade is back, but at DCA instead of DL, it still isn't the same.

My opinion is don't change a thing.

Light Magic was just a bad parade, in fact I don't this it even was a parade (I think). Actually, mine is still the same parade, with the same script mostly, just with updated floats and fiberoptic lights, plus a few new float units (all of which are short and have no more than one float), since they might distract too much from the original format if I made them any larger. So you're still getting the same parade anyway! Light Magic was just a completely different parade(?), and a completly different story!

[Disneywife]

Originally Posted by KentB3

Light Magic was just a bad parade, in fact I don't this it even was a parade (I think). Actually, mine is still the same parade, with the same script mostly, just with updated floats and fiberoptic lights, plus a few new float units (all of which are short and have no more than one float), since they might distract too much from the original format if I made them any larger. So you're still getting the same parade anyway! Light Magic was just a completely different parade(?), and a completly different story!

The thing is though, what made the Main Street Electrical Parade so charming was its obnoxiousness. If you make it all streamlined, with teeny tiny lights, it just won't be the same thing.

[KentB3]

Originally Posted by Disneywife

The thing is though, what made the Main Street Electrical Parade so charming was its obnoxiousness. If you make it all streamlined, with teeny tiny lights, it just won't be the same thing.

That's an unusual perspective, to find obnoxiousness the thing that makes a parade charming!

[KentB3]

Any more questions, comments, and/or suggestions? If so, please post!

[Disneywife]

Check out these links:

Main Street Electrical Parade memories:

http://www.yesterland.com/msepmemories.html


"We lost something that night" (The final Electrical Parade)

http://www.yesterland.com/msepfinal.html

[KentB3]

Any more questions, comments, and/or suggestions? If so, please post!

[KentB3]

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