'Mickey's Magical Friendship Faire' will open Spring 2022 at Magic Kingdom with an all-new original song

Nov 20, 2021 in "Mickey's Royal Friendship Faire"

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Cinderella Castle Forecourt Stage

Posted: Saturday November 20, 2021 2:37pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

A daily castle stage show will return to Magic Kingdom in Spring 2022 with the debut of "Mickey's Magical Friendship Faire."

The new show will feature favorite scenes from the former "Mickey's Royal Friendship Faire," and will be plussed with an all-new original song "Where the Magic Feels Like Home."

The recently refurbished Cinderella Castle Forecourt Stage will be home to the new show in Spring 2022.

A new opening number and finale will be part of the new show, along with new costumes.

Mickey's Magical Friendship Faire costumes

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TTA942 days ago

If the parade is planned for 2025 then it should be in the process of being built?

yensidtlaw19692 days ago

WDW is pretty content to do things differently than Disneyland, in many regards. I think Disney’s interest in beefing up their 2025 offerings quickly is what’s most likely to drive a new Night Parade.

Starship8242 days ago

So has anything changed in that regard? Also, I would assume one of the arguments being used to justify green lighting a parade is that Disneyland does it all the time so what's Walt Disney World's excuse

wdwmagic2 days ago

One of the main barriers to MK not having a night parade has been a reluctance from an operations standpoint to deal with the crowds in the hub and Main Street.

Starship8242 days ago

Also it fits the Studios theme by celebrating the studio. I know " The wonderful world of animation" it's supposed to celebrate the studio but it doesn't do it very well because in my opinion that show is bad and I Wondrous Journeys is incredible. The wondrous projections team should be able to retrofit it to the Chinese theater pretty easily since they already had to retrofit it for a bunch of different other surfaces in Disneyland as the original show was made for the castle first and then changed to match MSUSA, IASW, and ROA.

jrhwdw2 days ago

We got close last year.........

jrhwdw2 days ago

WJ and it's Low Pyro Package! If B Mode works at DL, it can work at DHS!

Starship8243 days ago

This is a really cheap idea but I say bring over Wondrous Journeys and throw it on the Chinese theater.

TTA943 days ago

Thanks. DAK is definitely in need of a nighttime show and even a parade, but I don’t think they will go that far? and Studios could use a parade and maybe a different Chinese Theatre nighttime show, but mainly a parade. As far as MK goes, is the reason they decided to give in and bring back a light parade because they feeling MK nights are lacking and HEA is no longer enough?

spectromagic043 days ago

Hopefully means new nighttime parade for MK, new DAK nighttime show and daytime parade at DHS? Wouldn’t mind if entertainment also returns like Main Street Trolley Show and Citizens of Hollywood. Try and get the overall entertainment back to pre covid standards. Even if FOF continues to limp.

wdwmagic3 days ago

Nothing on day parade so far. Think the focus is really on boosting other areas that are completely lacking right now.

TTA943 days ago

It is great that a light parade is in development but it would also be nice to know there are plans to address FoF in some way shape or form. @wdwmagic have you heard anything?

TTA943 days ago

This is depressing. What used to be an awesome parade with all the dancers is now a mess.

gerarar4 days ago

At this point it's probably either under some brief refurbishment or technically unavailable for some reason. There have been past effects that disappeared from the show that eventually returned. The trampoline stunts were out for about 4-ish months last year before finally returning. Laser projections onto the mountain disappear every once in a while, but eventually returns a few weeks/months later. Fire in the moat also went away for a couple weeks last year but eventually came back. Currently the finale lasers are too missing, but that will eventually be fixed like before. This is probably no different. Also just a tip, if there are 2 shows being presented while you're there, you can easily get a center seat for the second show since it isn't blocked off/reserved. Only one effect actually did permanently go away fairly recently. The physical fireball pyro shot that comes from the dragon's mouth was pulled after a near-miss towards some guests due to high winds back in December 2022. Hasn't been seen again since. And this was an impressive effect because this single fireball actually is what used to ignite the water instead of the current flamethrower in the barges.