Fantasmic! slowing upgrading?

[Mickeyrulz]

Ok...So I just got back from Disneyland yesterday and thought I share with you a little change in Fantasmic! that really excited me. It was a minor change, but still something really cool. I don't know how long this has been like this, so if anyone could tell me, that would be cool. You guys know the part right after Mickey destroys Maleficent and then Tinkerbell is flying around as a projection and right after her, there (what I always thought) are cast members swinging around cloves of fiber optics in circles on the Tom Sawyer Island stage. Well thats now gone, and they installed hundreds of strobe lights on the stage that light up in sync with the music. Like I said, it's minor, but totally awesome. This was done first at Fantasmic! in Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World and I always thought it looked cooler than the spinning fiber optics, but now we have it and it's done way better.
Also, http://miceage.com/allutz/al080205d.htm mentioned that sometime this decade there is going to be a "Fantasmic! II". I don't think that means a whole new show, but more great modifications like the one I saw this past week. =)

[barfownz]

this sucks

[GreenLantern13]

The strobe lights look nifty at the end when they start shooting upwards in a pattern... They're a bit big and bulby for me when they're just randomly flashing...when it should be a lighter twinkling. It's kind of disappointing though because they'd gone through so much trial and error with the stage hands doing stuff during that part. First it was waving their hands around wearing blue glow in the dark gloves..and it looked pretty silly. Then they waved around other stuff.. glow sticks, spinners, yadda. Finally they had these spinning fiberoptic things that changed and did neat synchronized colors and it looked pretty good finally.

[Disneyland_Wolf]

Will Fantasmic II be like Fantasmic with new added scenes and effects? I think should never changed a classic show.

[fantasmic lover]

i like the lights... just so i don't see cms' hands behind the glowy thingies. haha. but fantasmic 2.... does that mean a whole new show or... is it just the current show slightly editted. omg i hope it's not the first because i will cry. too much emotional attachment. maybe they can keep both of them... u kno. do the current one at 9, and the second one at 10 something. and days where there's only one show... well...

[PeoplemoverMatt]

And later this decade Cynthia Harriss's original proposal for "Fantasmic II" could actually now make it off the drawing boards and bring back the huge crowds that used to warrant three Fantasmic! performances per night back in the '90s.

These are the exact words. Fantasmic II is far, far from definetly happening. Lutz is only connecting some dots that really have a very small chance of actually connecting. I really doubt this would ever get approved. Anything with Cynthia Harriss' name on it you aren't going to like. My guess is WDW's Fantasmic w/ no real dragon, fire, or anything. The plan probably was just for movie scenes and a new 50,000 square foot gift shop that takes out 3 rides .

-- Peoplemover "Ok so that was a joke, but kids that was the park's managment's thinking only 4 short years ago! " Matt

[brunetteTinkerbell1955]

i think the CMs with the lights made the show special in a way!

but hey its okie dokie!

but no fantasmic II just a little new scene here and they but no drastic scenes!

[brunetteTinkerbell1955]

anyone have pics or a video they can upload? i wanna see the new lights

[Mickeyrulz]

Yeah by no means do I want them change a classic show like Fantasmic! at Disneyland, but one thing I would love them to bring back is the Ursula float. That always added a little more to our show I think. But yeah I dont think they would change the show, it would be just a few minor upgrades or something. To get an idea of the new strobe lights, I have the Fantasmic video from WDW but I don't know how to upload things. If anyone cares to see it, could you let me know how to do it?

[fantasmic_boy122]

^ I heard/notice that when disney on ice was in my city the mermaid section of it was simarler of height of the Ursula in Fantasmic! I like the fiber obtics better i saw it myself(the FLASHING lights) when i was video taping it i wasnt there i was disappointed. Fantasmic II is probaly going to be WDW And DL combined Anyway.

[PeoplemoverMatt]

^ IMO, WDW's is a bad copy of Disneyland's Fantasmic!, not a seperate show entirely. Basically WDW just replaced some Disneyland scenes with less-interesting movie bits from more recent films like Hercules, Pocahontas, Aladdin, etc. Taking out originality like the dancing monkeys and replacing it with random movie bits inside little water bubbles doesn't do you any favors in my book.

What did Harriss come up with in her little plan for Fantasmic II? I'm not sure I even want to know. But I should reiterate that no one has ever said anywhere that Fantasmic II is officially coming to any Disney theme park. Al Lutz said that it might one day with the extra capital coming from strong attendance numbers in the summer, but who knows really. We just have to wait, see, and enjoy the current Fantasmic! while we can.

-- Peoplemover "WDW knows it too, that's why you don't see Fantasmic! flaunted that much" Matt

[icarian]

WDWs Fantasmic! is simply horrid. Their scenes are too bland, and that makes the show less captivating. The only thing i would like to see come over from WDW is their fountain system... it is TONS better than ours, but thats the only thing worth bringing over and updating with DLs Fantasmic!

[damxcnsxcn]

i totally agree! i saw the entire WDW version of Fantasmic is terrible. First of all the stage is very cheesy. i dont likt the way it is constructed. and then disneyland does a fantastic (no pun intended) of hiding all the special effects and fireworks. Before the show started there were two huge cement blocks in the water that were for the fireworks and they were hideous! i think it is a very bad imitation! oh, and the steam boat willie thing is soo ugly. NOTHING COMPARED TO THE MARK TWAIN BOAT.
and the characters who are on the boat have no dance routine.
they just wave and stand around on the boat! simply disasterous!
anyways DL Fantasmic is simply awesome and they should only add on and make better from the original show.

[stitchhead28]

I totally agree! WDW Fantasmic! is just simply bland and uninteresting! When I saw it, I was just appalled at how much they replaced or took out! I was okay with some of the replacements b/c they wanted to make this Fantasmic different so it can be unique for WDW, but when they replace the Pink Elephants on Parade and Pinnochio's "no strings attached" with random movie scenes! Aggghhhhhh!!! And, the most shocking of all to me is the removal of the Peter Pan and Pirates and the addition of Pocohantas and the whole British settlers vs Indians thing. *again* Aggghhhhhh!!!

[fantasmic_boy122]

The ONLY Thing I like about the WDW one is that it has almost all the disney villians in the show. like in DL it only has Capt Hook Ursula Malificent the Wicked queen Kaa(if u consider him as one) and chernabog. While the WDW has Ursula Malificent the Wicked queen Chernabog cruella hades(my personal fav) jafar Scar Governor Ratcliff Judge Frollo