Its so sad that the crowd today watching the new version of this parade dosent have the same electricity or excitement that it did years ago, maybe its the new music that has something to do with it....
@ManEatingSharks I wasn't disappointed in the Electrical Parade. I prefer Spectro Magic myself but I saw it so many times I spoiled it for myself so a nice little break is good. I tend to worry about Spectro Magic knowing the imagineers could be doing something really bad to it. If I were them I wouldn't let them lay a finger on that parade. We don't need some clowned up version of Spectro Magic parade to make us crave a bottle of aspirin.
Wow, how awesome is that, you my friend have a rare Disney jewel on your hands plus you captured the closing announcement with Jack Wagner's voice saying Walt Disney World rather then saying The Magic Kingdom, that kind of announcement is hard to come by.
This is a wonderful video, not just because you captured the original Walt Disney World version of the parade, but also because you captured the extremely rare closing announcement, done by Jack Wagner. That is very hard to find. In 5 years of being on You Tube, this is only the 2nd video I've seen which has that announcement. I just wish you were able to get the opening announcement. Thank you for posting!
I recorded the real ELP in 1988. They had an Oliver and company promo float before hand. I recorded it from the top of the train station and it turned out good. I need to find it.
@echoscot that's interesting. Did they ever do a reverse route for Spectro (If they did I kinda doubt they've done it it that often as I know the reverse route involves a steep incline backstage & the floats have to be towed just to get up it
@disneydanny2 Occasionally we did the reverse Spectro parade as well. Not often but not really for the reason implied. There is a steep hill going to Main Street in order to get floats over the RR tracks, but they still do it. Towing floats is not a huge deal.
Wow, they changed a lot!!! I never knew they had an it's a small world part!! The time I remember seeing it before last year was back in 1999 I think. I don't think I watched the whole thing then, but I know the blue fairy was still there. Thanks for the upload.
@G2red89 yep and at this point in time WDW was the only U.S. park that still had Small World in the parade (Disneyland retired theirs in '88) Tokyoi also had it but their version had the push floats for that section on a motorized float as well as having aq ferris wheel float that neither California nor Florida had in theirs
I actually saw the Electrical Parade when it returned to Florida in the late 90's. While I always preferred Spectromagic, I enjoyed this a little better than what they have now (especially since they replaced Tinkerbell with the Blue Fairy, and the dumb direct-to-video one no less!) But what happened to the Snow White, Peter Pan and Pinocchio floats? I thought those were in the original too, but it looks like there's some floats based on It's a Small World.
@TheITinFIT WDw never had the Pinnochio or Snow WEhite floats in their origibnal version the closest thing they had was the Pinnocchio Underwater float which ran in Florida until 1984. the Snow White & Pinocchio floats seen in the current version were Disneyland's
I miss this version SO much...
dodgergurl24 53 minutes ago
love it oh the good old days!! its was more fun back then!!!!
spacenutstou 1 month ago
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The main thing I like about this parade is the Elliot float. I have never seen Pete's Dragon represented in any Disney Park so it is a nice change.
EmmaC1204 3 months ago
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EmmaC1204 3 months ago
Its so sad that the crowd today watching the new version of this parade dosent have the same electricity or excitement that it did years ago, maybe its the new music that has something to do with it....
Geeker1982 3 months ago
Why were there wooden soldiers here? Was this around Christmastime?
Kartoonkid95 5 months ago
@Kartoonkid95 they've always been in the parade as far as i know. idk why Anaheim took them out of our version.
disneydanny2 5 months ago in playlist Main Street Electrical Parade 2
LOVE that original closing announcement! It's a big deal to all us MSEP fans, way to go!!
cmontheplane 9 months ago 2
@ManEatingSharks I wasn't disappointed in the Electrical Parade. I prefer Spectro Magic myself but I saw it so many times I spoiled it for myself so a nice little break is good. I tend to worry about Spectro Magic knowing the imagineers could be doing something really bad to it. If I were them I wouldn't let them lay a finger on that parade. We don't need some clowned up version of Spectro Magic parade to make us crave a bottle of aspirin.
omg122448 10 months ago
@ManEatingSharks Hope you don't mind me asking this but what didn't you like besides the unpopular Tinker bell Float?
omg122448 10 months ago
Wow, how awesome is that, you my friend have a rare Disney jewel on your hands plus you captured the closing announcement with Jack Wagner's voice saying Walt Disney World rather then saying The Magic Kingdom, that kind of announcement is hard to come by.
Geeker1982 1 year ago
This is a wonderful video, not just because you captured the original Walt Disney World version of the parade, but also because you captured the extremely rare closing announcement, done by Jack Wagner. That is very hard to find. In 5 years of being on You Tube, this is only the 2nd video I've seen which has that announcement. I just wish you were able to get the opening announcement. Thank you for posting!
Littlescienceguy 1 year ago 2
Wow, 20 years you still got this filmed. Awesome, I kinda miss the floats they've removed.
TheAC29 1 year ago
I recorded the real ELP in 1988. They had an Oliver and company promo float before hand. I recorded it from the top of the train station and it turned out good. I need to find it.
Smithfilmproductions 1 year ago
@Smithfilmproductions that would be neat to see. as iirc for some reason they had the parade starting in Frontierland as ooposed to Town Square
disneydanny2 1 year ago
@disneydanny2 The original parade ran twice a night and frequently did "Reverse" or Frontierland step-offs for the second performance.
echoscot 1 year ago
@echoscot that's interesting. Did they ever do a reverse route for Spectro (If they did I kinda doubt they've done it it that often as I know the reverse route involves a steep incline backstage & the floats have to be towed just to get up it
disneydanny2 1 year ago
@disneydanny2 Occasionally we did the reverse Spectro parade as well. Not often but not really for the reason implied. There is a steep hill going to Main Street in order to get floats over the RR tracks, but they still do it. Towing floats is not a huge deal.
echoscot 1 year ago
@echoscot I saw them reverse Spectro Magic twice. Both times the parade was almost canceled do to rain.
omg122448 10 months ago
Wow, they changed a lot!!! I never knew they had an it's a small world part!! The time I remember seeing it before last year was back in 1999 I think. I don't think I watched the whole thing then, but I know the blue fairy was still there. Thanks for the upload.
G2red89 1 year ago
@G2red89 yep and at this point in time WDW was the only U.S. park that still had Small World in the parade (Disneyland retired theirs in '88) Tokyoi also had it but their version had the push floats for that section on a motorized float as well as having aq ferris wheel float that neither California nor Florida had in theirs
disneydanny2 1 year ago
Wow-does that bring back memories. Thats the parade I remember! :)))
auntiedena72 1 year ago
I actually saw the Electrical Parade when it returned to Florida in the late 90's. While I always preferred Spectromagic, I enjoyed this a little better than what they have now (especially since they replaced Tinkerbell with the Blue Fairy, and the dumb direct-to-video one no less!) But what happened to the Snow White, Peter Pan and Pinocchio floats? I thought those were in the original too, but it looks like there's some floats based on It's a Small World.
TheITinFIT 1 year ago
@TheITinFIT WDw never had the Pinnochio or Snow WEhite floats in their origibnal version the closest thing they had was the Pinnocchio Underwater float which ran in Florida until 1984. the Snow White & Pinocchio floats seen in the current version were Disneyland's
disneydanny2 1 year ago