Can confirm there was a good amount of elements missing, including a couple of floats.
Glad to hear there’s more coming, it’s already so much better than the previous parade and it can get even better.Can confirm there was a good amount of elements missing, including a couple of floats.
They also need to triple the size of the marching band.Seeing all these responses, I think the key to most of these fixes is that we want to see the iconic movie moments we love happening in real-time on the floats. Floats like Ghostbusters and Jurassic Park are more evocative because there are a lot of action elements (though I wish that there were “streams” on the Ghostbusters float).
The most successful unit in memory in a parade is the Sleeping Beauty float in Festival of Fantasy, which tells the entire story of the battle between Phillip and Maleficent, including the fairies, the thorns, and the chaotic fire. The closest this parade gets is Jaws, with the active battle between the townies and Brody. The issue here is that the payoff float does not allow for the actor to truly activate the shark in any way.
I think that there are choreography changes possible that can allow the Delorian to “rev up” or “lightning to strike the clock tower”, E.T.’s magic healing touch to “activate”, and the “streams to cross” in an activated way, just as Excalibur is pulled in “Magic Happens” during every musical loop. They just need to find those story beats and find a way to activate at least one or two light/smoke effects on the floats to really make it feel like the films are alive.
EDIT - I do low-key hate the lead float though. Just, everything about it is wrong to me.
I was hoping for a, like, a theater. Grand theater entrance on the front side and an actual screen with clip shows on the back. Chasing lights, dancing theater goers with popcorn buckets and 3D glasses. They could have done something special to open the parade instead of such a sterile float. And I think more than anything that’s what bugs me about the entire parade’s aesthetic at the moment. It just feels sterile.Add some fiberoptics, liquid nitrogen, and one of those electricity balls with Woody the Woodpecker leading the parade. Deffinatley hasn't been done before. (Universal logo should have been HUGE and the dancers got too far ahead of the float)
Legacy, is it just me or are they pulling from the BTTF musical for that section of the parade?
would timing be a problem, ?I just hope they’ll get the music sorted out, and playing on speakers or something. Just coming from the floats doesn’t work.
Disney does it.would timing be a problem, ?
would timing be a problem, ?
Up close you can see paint marks and the wood all out of shape/mis aligned... not a great product. The screen also has seams in it that take away from the design.They also need to triple the size of the marching band.
EDIT - I do low-key hate the lead float though. Just, everything about it is wrong to me.
Up close you can see paint marks and the wood all out of shape/mis aligned... not a great product. The screen also has seams in it that take away from the design.
Just start with the BTTF unit... no need for this intro float.
What were they thinking with this float? at least have Woody or a character on it.
Should’ve consulted their Japanese parade partners