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Billed as the almsman to the admired Main Street Electrical Parade, Disneyland's new 1.5 million-light Acrylic the Night will be a abreast carbon archetype of a Hong Kong Disneyland caliginosity parade.
Starting May 22, Disneyland's new arrangement joins a new fireworks affectation as able-bodied as Disney California Adventure's new adaptation of the World of Color baptize actualization as allotment of a design ceremony celebration that's accepted to amplitude through the end of the year and beyond. A smartphone app will acquiesce visitors to collaborate with the parade.
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Described as "overwhelmingly bright," the new caliginosity arrangement will affection 76 performers in afire costumes. The agreeable soundtrack, which will be recorded at London's allegorical Abbey Road Studios, pays accolade to the Electrical Parade's enduring "Baroque Hoedown."
Using the Hong Kong adaptation as a template, the Acrylic the Night arrangement will affection floats from "Cars," "Toy Story," "Monsters Inc.," "Beauty and the Beast," "Little Mermaid" and "Frozen." The advance will bang off with a Tinkerbell float and achieve with a Mickey Mouse float. The signature boom float from the Electrical Arrangement will accomplish a cornball appearance.
During a contempo columnist preview, I watched a dress call of Acrylic the Night and was afraid at how technically avant-garde the new arrangement was compared with the old Electrical Parade.
During the demonstration, Carz Crew dancers wore aflame apparel that afflicted colors in time to the music. A life-size big rig barter float, accepted as Mack in the "Cars" movies, pulled a bivouac abounding with volumetric lights that cycled through a acutely amaranthine arrangement of anesthetic displays.
Spoiler Alert: What follows is a abundant breakdown of the floats and performers featured in Acrylic the Night. Consider yourself forewarned.
Tinkerbell leads off the arrangement with a float dubbed the Abracadabra of Brownie Dust that bliss up a sparkling agitate of bubble colors, brought to activity from a storytelling standpoint by Mickey Mouse's abracadabra acrylic brush. Following abutting behind, a boom float with Peter Pan sitting aloft pays accolade to the Main Street Electrical Parade.
Performers accepted as Cilia Fairies cutting apparel accessory with cilia optic strands are advised to attending like dancing brownie dust. Several of Tinkerbell's bogie accompany will accompany the procession.
With Sulley Sullivan and Mike Wazowski on board, the "Monsters Inc." float will affection a alternation of spinning peek-a-boo doors with hidden video screens that acknowledge Monstropolis scarers.
Lightning McQueen leads the "Cars" accidental with the 25,000-light Mack barter followed by the glow-in-the-dark Carz Crew dancers.
The 25-foot-tall "Little Mermaid" float, dubbed Electric Watercolors, appearance a massive King Triton amount with a rear-projection face. A ample affiliation of performers tags behind, including the electroluminescent apricot angle as able-bodied as the Nemo and Marlin characters.
Video footage apparent during the columnist accident showed an electric afraid aerialist cutting a accessory on his arch that fabricated anesthetic aglow tentacles circuit about him as he absolved the arrangement route.
No Disney arrangement would be complete after a advance of princesses. Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" commands the advance float bedeviled by a massive red rose with Cinderella and Rapunzel on abaft candelabra mini-floats. The Court Dancer performers abrasion color-changing apparel while the Dove Dancers attending like active ballerinas.
Frozen Fractals is one of two new floats not begin at Hong Kong Disneyland (the added is the drum). Elsa's aerial ice alcazar glows an irised dejected as the "Frozen" snow queen is abutting by her sister Anna and the delusional-wacky snowman Olaf. A aggregation of Ice Crystal Dancers that attending like active snowflakes aisle the float.
The "Toy Story" float, dubbed Electric Rodeo, appearance a 20-foot-long Slinky Dog with Sheriff Woody and Buzz Lightyear sitting alarmingly aloft the aflame coils. The Apprehend Dancers, anniversary spinning a afire brawl on a cord advised to attending like a neon lasso, are abutting by Jessie the cowgirl.
Wielding a behemothic acrylic brush, Mickey Mouse brings the Acrylic the Night arrangement to a abutting with a 17,000-light afterpiece float boasting a agrarian active carve that creates an optical apparition with an arrangement of disco balls. Nearby, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy sit rather abominably aloft afire all-around mini-floats that altogether bottle the amusing wackiness of the aboriginal Main Street Electrical Parade.
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