The Main Street Electrical Parade 1988.

WDW.

[@Littlescienceguy]

Thank you for sharing! There aren't too many complete videos of Walt Disney World's original Main Street Electrical Parade, and this is from an excellent vantage point! Never seen it from this perspective before.

[@brianb8060]

I never actually seen it. During it's original run at WDW (1977-1991), i was either not born yet (1979), or we had gone back to the Fort Wilderness campground. I have watched the Electrical Water Pageant, many times.

[@disneydanny2]

GREAT job! ihard to believe there were fewer sound zones then there are now (hence why thetime between the closing announcement/fanfare from one area to the next is longer now than it was back then

[@Littlescienceguy]

+Danny Eyheralde I know what you mean about the sound zones Danny. It always seems like the Fanfare of Lights ends too early, but it seems they timed it to go with the finale. I prefer the way Disneyland staged it during this time.

[@disneydanny2]

Wynton Stayton I kind of prefer it the way it's done in this video (the way it was done from '99-'01 & now, it's as though the closing announcement and fanfare don't show up until the last float is 1/3 of he way up Man Street)

[@Littlescienceguy]

That's the way it was always done at Disneyland, and even now with the current nighttime parade. I prefer it that way because, to me, the closing fanfare is there to close the music behind the parade, once we can not see it anymore or can barely see it from where we are standing, just as the opening fanfare throws out the music ahead of the parade to pave the way for it. That makes the beginning and ending, from a musical standpoint, symmetrical.

[@disneydanny2]

Wynton Stayton ah now I see what you're saying. yeah having the announcements/fanfares spaced out more does make better sense.

[@disneydanny2]

@@Littlescienceguy as it turns out Florida didn't have the same Float tracking system that Disneyland did.

[@brandonthemainstreetelectr1204]

0:10 wdw opening amnouncement

[@disneydanny2]

10:26 & 20:28 = the only 2 units built for Florida's parade *IN FLORIDA* everything else was built in California and shipped across the country. But that ended up being to expensive.

[@brendanthetankengine21peep30]

I think the Whirly Bugs were also made in Florida for the Parade. Plus the Turtle with Glasses is my Fav

[@disneydanny2]

@@brendanthetankengine21peep30 pretty sure the bugs were built in California , unless of course they at some point built a new set of them in Florida to replace the original set that came with the parade.

[@tiffanyperkins1055]

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