All-New Nighttime Parade Disney Starlight Set to Debut at Magic Kingdom in 2025

Aug 11, 2024 in "Disney Starlight"

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Posted: Sunday August 11, 2024 11:00pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The all-new parade "Disney Starlight" is coming next summer to Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

Disney Starlight Parade Concept Art

"Disney Starlight" will continue the nighttime spectacular legacy started by the "Main Street Electrical Parade," using the latest technology to tell new stories about the characters you love. All of this is brought to life by the magic of the Blue Fairy, in addition to beloved characters from Walt Disney Animation Studios films "Peter Pan," "Encanto," "Frozen," and more.

Disney Starlight Parade Concept Art

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Gusey8 hours ago

So, does this mean that the Frozen float is just Elsa? I'm hoping it means Anna and Kristoff will be walking in front as I had expected them to be on the float

TTA9411 hours ago

I’m glad they finally acknowledged and said the word SpectroMagic and not just Main Street Electrical Parade. What I am curious about is so far we have not seen anything that appears to be a nod to Spectro. The Blue Fairy is a clear nod to MSEP.

mastromjm12 hours ago

Sword in the Stone made it into Magic Happens because it happens to be the favorite movie of a creative on the project

Comped14 hours ago

The various corporate stores do a fantastic job of making CM exclusive pins for many of those films... Just in tiny edition sizes... Seriously, some of the films they've referenced, at least for Disney, are deep cuts. Not many good references to their live action catalogue anywhere though (many of which are unavailable on D+), like The Barefoot Executive or The North Avenue Irregulars, but at least their animated catalogue is well represented somewhere. Will Disney ever make big statements about these sorts of less-loved films unless they absolutely have to/get good PR from it? No, they make too much money on the princesses and content that seems to either be a live action remake of an older film or from the Renaissance on forward.

FigmentJedi14 hours ago

The conceit makes sense as a way to celebrate the company's 100th Anniversary, but there's other ways they could have marked that milestone besides "Weirdly meta princess movie". Like a new Fantasia or a proper Mickey Mouse feature film. Shoot, if you wanted a big reference fest, you could just adapt Fantasmic.

dlr7415 hours ago

Hoping the soundtrack has callbacks to Spectromagic the same way Paint the Night soundtrack calls back to MSEP

brb100616 hours ago

Disney Characters from the 1930s (Silly Symphony characters), 1940s (besides Bambi, Pinocchio, and Fantasia), and a few films from the 1960s and 1970s are criminally underutilized at the Disney Parks. I'm honestly glad Disney made a float dedicated to Sword in the Stone for Magic Happens which is a deep cut by Iger era of Disney standards. Typically the overseas Disney Parks (such as Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong) does a better job at acknowledging Disney Characters of the past including obscure ones. I always felt that DHS would had been the perfect park for a proper representation for a Silly Symphony Land/Section that would been perfect to replace the Animation Courtyard.

eddie10417 hours ago

According to that blog we might be getting more it seems.

aladdin200717 hours ago

The Blue Fairy opens the parade Peter Pan and Wendy Asha from Wish The Madrigal family from Encanto (Mirabel, Isabela, and Bruno) Elsa from Frozen Disney Royals: Aurora and Prince Phillip, Tiana and Prince Naveen, Belle and the Beast, Cinderella and Prince Charming Miguel and Pepita from Coco Moana, joined by Pua, HeiHei, and a manta ray representing Gramma Tala The lineup I have to say Im a little disappointed with. Its just the string of princess films from the last few years, minus Coco, with a couple of classic characters thrown in mainly on a princess float except for Pan. They ignored all the Renaissance films and characters from the 90s, aside from Beauty and the Beast being on the princess float. No Aladdin which would have made a beautiful float for this project is a conundrum. Even the Lion King with some night scape.

TheMaxRebo18 hours ago

It was ok, not the best

brb100618 hours ago

Not to mention the duet song "At All Costs" between Asha and Magnifico early in the film was originally intended as a love song between Asha and Starboy. The demo version made the romantic elements more notable.

brb100618 hours ago

You felt Magnifico's Villain song to be legit?

brb100618 hours ago

I still find Jennifer Lee's reasoning for ditching the 2D animation style lame. Apparently they felt Star and the visuals would be hard to animate in 2D over CGI. Despite past Disney Movies and Renaissance Era movies showing that they are capable of creating beautiful visuals.

DisneyHead12318 hours ago

I liked them both but I think it’s staggering that Moana 2 made like $745 million more than Wish, when they were released just a year apart. There are fair criticisms of Wish but I think even the people who liked it least admit it was, at worst, just lackluster. But plenty of movies that are serviceable and not much else rake it in at the box office, especially with a Thanksgiving release date, tons of promotion, tons of theaters… I honestly think it comes down to “reasons that shall not be named on these boards”, nothing else makes sense.