The entire top centrepiece window of Sleeping Beauty Castle was practically rebuilt for that feature in 2012, with a clever swing-in mechanism that allows it to now slide out of place while the star unfolds outwards. It seems to feature on the Frozen image released to depict Disney Illuminations, or is that just because it’s a reworked image of the current show?
On the ground, it has to be wondered what happens now to the “Second Star to the Right”. Perhaps the pull of having Mickey Mouse as the star is too strong? Perhaps they worried even a totally revised “Disney Dreams!: With A Subtitle” wouldn’t seem like enough of a “new” thing for visitors to be excited by? Maybe next year, Shanghai will also receive a new scene based on the live action Beauty and the Beast?īut again, why not just work these new scenes into the successful Peter Pan storyline? It’s this over-arching narrative which has made Disney Dreams! arguably the best of all Disney’s similar spectaculars, grounding and binding the show together where others can feel like a random jumble of popular scenes and promotional trailers.
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Which films were we promised for Disney Illuminations again? Yes, it looks like the “Disney nighttime spectacular exchange programme” is in full force. The Lion King, Aladdin and Frozen‘s “Let It Go” are featured there in scenes eerily similar to those in our own Disney Dreams!, while Ignite the Dream also conveniently includes new scenes based on The Little Mermaid, Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars. In Shanghai’s show, Mickey Mouse effectively plays the role of Peter Pan’s shadow, tumbling through various Disney musical numbers. It’s said that the new Disney Illuminations (nothing to do with Epcot’s IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth) will be a very close cousin to Shanghai Disneyland‘s new Ignite the Dream spectacular, including having Mickey Mouse as its host. So why drop the entire Peter Pan storyline, rather than add new elements to the already-loved show?
Not least because, when it launched, there was indeed said to be a “ten year plan” that would see the show grow and evolve with new scenes and elements - the Light’Ears that were far from a success, the new Brave and The Lion King scenes, the special Christmas edition but also projection mapping along the length of Main Street, U.S.A., something later realised in California. That’s a truly surprising decision: dropping a major piece of entertainment which has become beloved of so many visitors after just five years. The phenomenally successful Disney Dreams! nighttime spectacular, which launched for the 20th Anniversary and has arguably carried the entire resort on its shoulders for the past five years, will very soon be no more.Įxactly when it’ll last be performed we’ve yet to discover (as of this morning, Disneyland Paris’ own official website doesn’t seem to have a clue), but from 26th March 2017 the park’s nighttime spectacular will be the entirely new Disney Illuminations. How many people have a “ten year plan” that seems to go astray? Chalk Disneyland Paris up for one.
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