A Complete History of Disney Nighttime Parades - Main Street Electrical Parade 50th special

[@rafieburgos5529]

Happy 50th anniversary to quite possibly the best Disneyland nighttime parade to ever exist. I have seen this parade so much throughout the years. Wow, how time flies for this parade. Love this parade and I will always will. So, happy 50th anniversary to The Main Street Electrical Parade!!!!

[@sorceress1986]

Thank you for using that particular design for your thumbnail. My great-Uncle was the artist who drew it and it's always nice to see his work carrying on.

[@animation1300]

I’m here after Disney announces a brand new nighttime parade for Magic Kingdom.

[@joseharo5975]

No matter what the DisneyLands Main Street Electrical Parade is still a night time classic. The music the lights is what makes it so special. Disneyland should just keep the parade. And keep on adding new things to it.

[@kaikobak1698]

Eat your heart out Light Magic.

[@ivanthevaluable2559]

Spawning from aquatic roots, bearing over 20 parts, It comes out from plain darkness and it has 2 nightly starts Starting off from Main Street, rising 18 feet up tall, it features a dragon who disapears and breathes a fiery ball It has a finale tribute To a world that's truly small, and if you're a Disney Fan, you know That's certainly not all. It has over 700 legs and tons, and tons of lights! And all a half-a-million Brighten up those summer nights So do the Baroque Hoedown, do-si-do and promenade 'cause Disneyland proudly presents: the Main Street Electrical Parade!

[@michaelharrington4503]

I've always loved this parade! I was upset to see it be removed in 1996 and happy to see it again in 2001 and again in both 2017 and 2019!

[@BowTiesareCool12]

The only one of these I’ve seen in person is Paint the Night while it was in DCA (and I saw the Pixar Play Parade in Disneyland), and it really lives up to the hype it’s so good

[@carminecdinoproductions]

I’d love to see Disney’s Animal Kingdom to have a new nighttime parade that’s eco-friendly and utilizes fiber-optics and LED lights to save on electricity and help save the planet and also has both Daytime and Nighttime capabilities!

[@SamuelLee-gw6wr]

I finally watched a Disney night time parade in 2022! It's Dreamlights in Tokyo!

[@GarethDodo]

Same bro!

[@SamuelLee-gw6wr]

​​​​​@GarethDodo Dreamlights was the first night parade I have ever watched live. In HK I didn't watch PTN, but watched the HKTB CNY night parades on TV. HKDL provided one of the floats each year, sometimes themed on that year's Chinese Zodiac (e.g. 2010 (Tiger) and 2018 (Dog) had Tigger and Pluto as the main focus of the floats), or the theme of promotions in the park (like the 2016 Happily Ever After unit and the 2024 Momentous themed unit after the parade returned after a 5-year hiatus)

[@chrissystewart6268]

Its my first time seeing this

[@christoperswinehart7504]

i loved spectromagic parade it was my favorite

[@rcpolygons]

Fantastic work in the video

[@stepintothemagic2035]

Thank you!

[@ErikCB912]

RIP Ron Logan who created Spectromagic, Fantillusion, Fantasmic, and Illuminations Reflections of Earth

[@jessebowen1879]

No matter what the main street electrical parade will always be timeless. The best.. i dearly miss it... that parade more than anything made me live Disneyland

[@JavaCake]

I just recently found this channel, but the second I saw the trailer/teaser for this video I was hyped. Thanks for the entertaining videos!

[@Mickey19286]

How did you learn what happened to the Hong kong electrical parade?

[@stepintothemagic2035]

I have my sources...

[@JavaCake]

That was sad.

[@Mickey19286]

Now that the answer is solved you can edit it out of the Disney dreams video

[@Trent-Girone]

@@stepintothemagic2035 So, were the Pinocchio unit and the Snow White Diamond mine just shipped back to Disneyland from Paris? I know I’ve read that somewhere, but I’m not sure where.

[@stepintothemagic2035]

@@Trent-Girone correct.

[@carminecdinoproductions]

I want the Walt Disney World and Disneyland Paris Resorts to have new nighttime parades like a new SpectroMagic for either Disneyland Paris or Walt Disney World, new parades for all Disney Resorts with daytime and nighttime capabilities, new parades for Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom, a new Electrical Parade with newer units themed to newer Disney movies like Frozen, etc.!

[@hayley8754]

Great video!

[@lancasterblvd2010]

I didn’t know you were everywhere

[@pedri_esp23]

Más ágil que una tortuga más fuerte que un ratón más noble que una lechuga su escudo es un corazón ES EL CHAPULÍN COLORADO 💛!!!

[@eduardobarrezueta5247]

¡¡NO CONTABAN CON MI ASTUCIA!!

[@Feldsteinfamily]

Did you,forget about the 1978 orange bowl halftime aka the spectacular of lights

[@ivanthevaluable2559]

@Step Into the Magic You misspelled "bringing" as "Brining" in the description of the video.

[@guillaumefrenchboy9399]

Shame to have removed the America float 🇺🇸✨ It’s a MUST!

[@cameryn4705]

It’s still there it just became the small world float

[@guillaumefrenchboy9399]

@@cameryn4705 that’s what I regret. 🇺🇸

[@justimagine2403]

Add - The Paris... Disney Electrical SKY Parade. No mention of Jean-Jacques Perrey?

[@emeraldbreeze5204]

Don't you feel that Tokyo Disneyland is somehow different from Disneyland in other countries? Actually, it's a secret trick.

[@harwickbranch]

I had no clue the story about Hong Kong dumping the WDW floats into the sea was true, wow

[@ivanthevaluable2559]

1:54 one of my favorite Arlo moments.

[@ivanthevaluable2559]

ARLO THE MUSICAL!! COMING NEVER

[@SuperAwesomeness64]

I've talked about this on Twitter before, so I may as well say it here. While I love MSEP, it's really starting to show its age, and I'm getting tired of Disney constantly advertising its return as a major event. The parade either needs to evolve or it needs to be retired permanently. It doesn't have to have the Tokyo Dreamlights treatment (because I know the hardcore fans/purists will have an aneurysm over it), and I don't think they'll want to do both MSEP at Disneyland and Paint the Night at DCA because it might seem redundant (and expensive in Chapek's eyes). So if I were in charge, first thing I'd do is stop doing the same "It's back!" marketing the've been doing since 2017 and just have it be a permanent thing they can do from Memorial Day to Labor Day and maybe also do a Christmas edition like what Tokyo does. And then maybe add newer floats every two years or so. It can either be based on an old property, a new one, or heck, let's finally get a Pixar themed float (the new Small World finale float that includes Merida and Miguel doesn't count IMO). I'd also have a new arrangement of the theme with samples from both the original and new soundtrack (and maybe for the Tinker Bell float, do a new MSEP style arrangement of Light Magic's theme). Other than that, this was a pretty amazing and well-detailed video, I have to say.

[@SamuelLee-gw6wr]

I hope PTN comes back to HK as well after Momentous debuted. We can have PTN at 7:30pm then Momentous closing the park at 8:30pm. For some weekends HKDL can be open until 10pm, with PTN at 7:00, Momentous at 8:30pm and finally PTN again closing the park at 10pm. Then we can have three parks with a representative night parade: DL: MSEP HKDL: PTN TDL: Dreamlights

[@Feldsteinfamily]

Also on January 2nd 1978 the parade was 11 minutes abridged at that year’s orange bowl

[@carminecdinoproductions]

The Main Street Electrical Parade should have these newer movies and IPs for certain units! - Frozen - Toy Story - Aladdin - Hercules - Beauty and the Beast - The Little Mermaid - The Lion King - The Jungle Book - other movies

[@adrianalba8801]

3:20 😂

[@leonard5033]

Tokyo Dreamlights is set to have another update again soon.

[@rickymickey8517]

This raise some questions in main street electrical part. With tokyo disneyland having the new advance techs, why can't california/Florida version couldn't get the same upgrades? It's starting to feel like they are stuck in the past. However. They did got new finale float, but doesn't look much advanced

[@stepintothemagic2035]

People will get mad, I mean we saw the outrage people had when they replaced the finale.

[@rickymickey8517]

@@stepintothemagic2035 but if only they had copies tokyo disneyland's float, they won't get mad at it?

[@stepintothemagic2035]

@@rickymickey8517 We're talking about the same fanbase right??? You replace 2 bulbs on this thing with different colors or change 4 words in the opening announcements and everyone looses their minds. ANY change would have people outraged even if it was good.

[@IntelPlus-H1]

Don't See It At 0:30 AM

[@hatbox_ghost981]

September 1st is the official end date now 😂

[@stepintothemagic2035]

Yes I’m aware, “for the season”

[@hatbox_ghost981]

@@stepintothemagic2035 lo lol

[@eduardobarrezueta5247]

Es EL CHAPULÍN COLORADO ❤CH❤

[@Mickey19286]

4:34

[@micycles1200]

I find it really hard to believe that Paint the Night is too big for Magic Kingdom, considering the way that parade units have to line up behind Main Street in Disneyland for second performances. Have you seen that tiny turn-around they have to go through? There's no way Paint the Night can make THAT turn, but not the Liberty Square one. There has to be another reason as to why they won't run it. Also, I find it odd that they feel the need to store Paint the Night in Florida, considering that usually, Disneyland parades that aren't in current use get stored in Glendale.

[@stepintothemagic2035]

It's really complicated, but believe me, it's true. The problem is the liberty square turn.

[@harwickbranch]

@@stepintothemagic2035 I find it funny that the bigger park was built with smaller turns lol

[@stepintothemagic2035]

@@harwickbranch Well you've gotta remember, Magic Kingdom wasn't built with parades in mind. The first part constructed specifically designed to allow shows to run on a parade corridor was Tokyo in '83. Disneyland just got lucky when putting parades in in the 70s, but there are some really tight and undesirable areas of that route, and WDW got mostly lucky, they were certainly able to run shows on the backstage system they had built, but that turn was not ideal.

[@ivanthevaluable2559]

@@stepintothemagic2035 Do you know which float it was that crashed into a Main Street building?

[@ians4535]

Happy 50th anniversary for the Disney's Electrical Parade that ranged from MSEP to Paint the Night. We glad that almost all Disney theme parks have nighttime parade either past and present. While MSEP celebrate 50th anniversary, tomorrow night in Asia/Hong Kong, we will celebrating the official debut of #Momentous, which marked the return of nighttime fireworks at Hong Kong Disneyland after four Years culminated with the celebration of Castle of Magical Dreams. We will give you arlo and chris live stream link for the official debut of the nighttime spectacular from Lizzy Fantasy (kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3OkcnltetuaeNk) Anyone, including Arlo and Chris, will see the reaction of Momentous debut at HKDL that already showing 3-day soft preview.

[@lancasterblvd2010]

38:45 you call Buena Vista St., a lack of a Main Street

[@lancasterblvd2010]

Tokyo, Disneyland, electrical parade, backstory: the blue fairy used her magic to bring the stories of Disney’s into life into one night time parade

[@stepintothemagic2035]

Buena Vista street didn’t exist at the time Electrical Parade ran at DCA

[@lancasterblvd2010]

@@stepintothemagic2035 ;) I also like the music, you put in the credits of the ending of the video

[@IntelPlus-H1]

1:05:30

[@cannotthinkofausername6379]

I'm sorry to say it but I have never hated a parade as much as I hate the Main Street Electrical Parade. Disneyland is not a museum and continuing to drag out this tired, cheap and boring nighttime parade just because of "nostalgia" is letting Disney, a mega conglomerate, get away with a lot. You can go to locals and see better nighttime entertainment!

[@JavaCake]

I’ve never seen it and have no nostalgia for it and I still love it, but you’re entitled to your own opinion.

[@IntelPlus-H1]

1:03