Speaking of which, Sleeping Beauty Castle is used more as a projection screen than with Dreams!, where you had breathtaking scenes such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, utilising the contours and landscape that Disney’s most beautiful Castle offered it. We go to the next scene via Mickey, who falls off of a log into the water, cue The Little Mermaid, which looks fantastic on the Castle. Water flowing down the Castle was always a high point of Dreams! and in the Lion King scene it is again, accompanied by music that we all know and love. The combination of music, special effects, fireworks and visuals in that opening scene are pretty much perfect.ĭisney Illuminations – The Lion King and The Little Mermaidĭisney Illuminations then takes us on a journey through a variety of films, each one looking as stunning as the next…almost. What was evident from that first scene is that the video mapping, lasers and everything that goes into making these spectaculars in Disneyland Paris, had now entered a new phase, one in which each and every element had been improved upon, with stunning results. I’m more of a fan of Mickey than I am Peter Pan, though I do like Peter a lot, so I wasn’t missing Dreams! at this point, not at all. I’ll start by saying that the opening segment with Mickey Mouse is superb, and the emotions that I was assured I wouldn’t have, I did from the get go. Firstly I wasn’t interested in seeing a video when I could see the show with my own eyes, and secondly the two Castles are very different, so even IF it were exactly the same footage (it isn’t) then it would be presented differently.Īpologies for the quality of the images – I like to use my own images where possible and I used my ailing mobile phone. Being the spoiler avoider that I am, I didn’t watch any of the leaked footage, nor did I rush over to YouTube and watch Ignite the Dream from Shanghai Disneyland when everyone and their uncle told me they were the same show. I was very fortunate to be there for the public premiere of Disney Illuminations in Disneyland Paris on Saturday 25th March, and even though I was almost alone in not knowing John Legend’s music, he sounded pretty terrific during the pre-show, especially when he sung Beauty and the Beast with the Sleeping Beauty Castle sparking along with the music. However, when Disney Illuminations was announced, I wasn’t sad that Disney Dreams! was ending, but more excited for what we were getting – a new night time show, with the some different film franchises featured, mostly. I’ve watched it many times since, through its various scene changes and seasonal variations and have been a fan throughout, some incarnations more than others. We anticipate Disney will release the announcement about EPCOT Forever – and maybe some information on the upcoming new show – when we get closer to 2023.I was a huge fan of Disney Dreams! when I watched with the live premiere (ahem) with the rest of the online community, and I was an even bigger fan when 6 weeks later I watched it with my own eyes, and ears, in Disneyland Paris. The massive barges were a significant financial expense, and it’s not confirmed that Disney will walk away from that investment so quickly. It’s believed Disney will scrap the large taco-shaped barges (good riddance), but that remains to be seen. What do we know about EPCOT’s new show? Not much. We saw this kite-free version of EPCOT Forever in 2021 when fireworks shows initially returned to Walt Disney World. When EPCOT Forever does return, it will be the version that doesn’t feature the fun kites pulled by jet skis. This is familiar territory for EPCOT Forever as it played a similar role between the closure of Illuminations: Reflections of Earth and the debut of Harmonious. That indicates there will once again be a sizable gap as the torch is passed from one EPCOT spectacular to another.ĮPCOT Forever will reportedly bridge the gap between the ending of Harmonious and the debut of the new show. However, it has been reported that Harmonious, EPCOT’s current show, will wrap up at the end of Walt Disney World’s 50th celebration in March 2023. Disney announced during the D23 Expo 2022 that a new nighttime show was coming to EPCOT in 2023 for the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company.ĭisney did not mention when the new show will debut outside of saying late 2023. EPCOT is once again changing up their nighttime spectaculars.
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