"Celebrate A Dream Come True" Parade

BPBfan · 02-05-2009, 08:01 PM

So, the new Celebrate A Dream Come True Parade premiered on January 23, 2009. With very little practice, the parade comes off with a very emotional type of response similar to Wishes! Below is the link to view the parade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYwBw...eature=related

What do you think of the parade? For the third time in a row to use the floats, the parade sure does come together.

xfkirsten · 02-05-2009, 08:57 PM

Speaking as someone who's already seen it in person several times?

BARF.

Here's a review C&Ped from my LJ, opening day:

The Good:
-Mickey and Minnie on the same float, both talking. Cute! We've missed that in daily parades for awhile.
-The costumes on the characters on the final float (Goofy, Donald, Pluto, Chip, Dale). They're loud and over-the-top, but they fit the theming.
-Burt! YAY for having Burt!

The Bad:
-The music. Too sugary and sappy, like swallowing a big mouthful of maple syrup.
-The show stop. Really?! I'm a fan of show stops. I love them. I think that, done well, they can add a lot to a parade. This one? Not so much. The dance moves are nice, but that's really all there is to it. Um, you just dance the whole parade, why do you need to stop everything just to do it again?! If you're going to do a show stop, it needs to ADD something to the parade, not just do the same thing you have been doing. The streamers at the end are a cute idea (and I'm sure the very few kids that get them are happy), but REALLY unimpressive. It's like "Hey! We're too cheap to put a streamer cannon on our floats, so lets just have the performers throw them!" :/ Admittedly, I like that music because it's "Celebrate You" and I think that's a catchy song, but I am also disappointed that it's not Corbin Bleu's version. (I'm not really a fan of his at all, but I love how he did that song)

The UGLY:
-The dancers. Not that the performers themselves were bad - they did a fantastic job - but the whole IDEA. The only performers on the ground are the atmosphere dancers. And they all do generic dances. And they all wear the EXACT SAME COSTUMES. It's like watching the same unit go by over and over and over again. Seriously. It's formulaic. "Okay, here's a dozen dancers and a float. Aaaaand, a dozen more dancers that look exactly the same. And another float. And a dozen more dancers that look exactly the same..."
-The complete lack of props or ANY sort of themed costumes anywhere off the floats. It's like the theming can't touch the ground because OMG IT'S LAVA AND ONLY GENERIC DANCERS WEARING THE SPECIAL OUTFIT ARE SAFE! One of the funnest things about DDCT was the characters that would play and interact with the crowd as they went (the chimney sweeps and the pirates come to mind, especially, they were a blast).

Bottom line? It's like starting at a blank, white wall, instead of looking at one that's covered in a mural. One unit blends into another, and the uniqueness of each float is lost in the generic dancers and bland music. There's a serious lack of characters (maybe 3-4 with each unit, on average) and a serious lack of any sort of personality. It's easily one of the most boring parades Disney has put together... even more so than Parade of the Stars - and you Disneylanders know how bad that must make it. At least Parade of the Stars was VISUALLY appealing and had life to it.

Also, a note for anyone wanting to watch: if you want to see a show stop DO NOT sit anywhere between Splash and the opposite end of Pecos Bill's Cafe. The last float stops around the hot dog stand, so anywhere farther back than that will NOT see the show stop.

quesoboy88 · 02-06-2009, 03:47 AM

^ I think I'm gonna have to agree....I am really disappointed with this parade. It really wasn't all that visually interesting like so many of the other ones, and I agree about the off-float dancers that really doesnt make any sense

BPBfan · 02-06-2009, 02:32 PM

Personally, I didn't like the change to no characters on the street. They did add a lot to the parade. I didn't like the look of Mickey & Minnie's float and the castle float at the back. It looks like a birthday cake gone wrong. They should have done that to all the floats, or not at all.

But the music is a good, I like it. Though this probably will never happen, imagine what the parade's music would have sounded like with the POD floats. AHHH! I guess I can always dream. :[

AraBrokenDreamer · 02-06-2009, 04:03 PM

Do we have a decent version of the show stop music we could put on VF Radio? It'd be interesting to hear them side by side (not a huge Bleu fan myself but I love his rendition of this).

I watched the DDCT parade at Thanksgiving, and I loved it. They're using the same floats, just different music and in a few places different characters, right? (I'm at school so I can't watch the parade video) That's rather lame. I mean, you have some seriously great things here, and you're not changing the parade theme that much. Maybe they'll continually add to it as things go along. The promotion and the parade's run have only just started. It'll shape up (we hope).

-Ara

BPBfan · 02-06-2009, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by AraBrokenDreamer

I watched the DDCT parade at Thanksgiving, and I loved it. They're using the same floats, just different music and in a few places different characters, right?

Pretty much, yes. They just changed the music and redecorated the first and last floats and added a took away a few characters.

I saw the DDCT Parade when I went in July. We went to the MK on July 4th (OMG! It was so crowded, but still fun!) and I loved being able to sing along to it. It was so catchy, but didn't have the corniness to it.

Hopefully the parade does change a little more, it does have some potential.

JEANYLASER · 02-07-2009, 01:19 PM

I can't wait to see it in person!

Palm Desert Babe · 02-07-2009, 04:35 PM

It doesn't look that great...

Being a dancer, I watch the dancers, and they weren't all together so it looked a little sloppy. It's probably just me, but that's my opinion. And I have to agree with xfkirsten. The costumes were so boring when everyone was wearing the same thing....I wish I could say I liked it, but I'm not gonna lie. :'( IMHO.

PeoplemoverMatt · 02-07-2009, 10:25 PM

Like it, hate it, or be indifferent to it, it's more parade than Disneyland has right now.

BPBfan · 02-08-2009, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by PeoplemoverMatt

Like it, hate it, or be indifferent to it, it's more parade than Disneyland has right now.

So true. All we can hope is Disneyland's new "parade" is as "good" as the CADCT Parade. I just wish that they hadn't felt like they needed to change the parade, especially if it's not staying past this month..

Follow this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_K...aytime_Parades

If you look down to the end of the Daytime Parade section, it says that the CADCT Parade will not even be showing past this month.. the Move It! Shake It! Celebrate It! Parade will premiere in March.. I know wiki isn't always right, but does anyone know it it's true?

stevo505 · 02-08-2009, 09:05 PM

Who knows. Maybe that's why they didn't spend so much money on it. They might be planning to keep both even.

xfkirsten · 02-09-2009, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by BPBfan

So true. All we can hope is Disneyland's new "parade" is as "good" as the CADCT Parade. I just wish that they hadn't felt like they needed to change the parade, especially if it's not staying past this month..

Follow this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_K...aytime_Parades

If you look down to the end of the Daytime Parade section, it says that the CADCT Parade will not even be showing past this month.. the Move It! Shake It! Celebrate It! Parade will premiere in March.. I know wiki isn't always right, but does anyone know it it's true?

Nope, that is actually not true. The Move It! Shake It! Celebrate It! thing is something else entirely. That's basically the equivalent of the Family Fun Day Parade in terms of show setup - just down Main Street, a show in front of the castle, then back out. The regular day parade, CADCT, will continue in the afternoons.

BPBfan · 02-09-2009, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by xfkirsten

Nope, that is actually not true. The Move It! Shake It! Celebrate It! thing is something else entirely. That's basically the equivalent of the Family Fun Day Parade in terms of show setup - just down Main Street, a show in front of the castle, then back out. The regular day parade, CADCT, will continue in the afternoons.

Oh, okay. That'll be fun though. Maybe they'll do more with the parade later. Maybe they didn't spend a lot is because they are making the Move It! Shake It! Celebrate It! show.

F!kid · 02-13-2009, 12:16 PM

Darn, I was looking forward to Parade of Dreams in Florida... I wanted my parents to see it... *sigh*

~

BPBfan · 02-21-2009, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by F!kid

Darn, I was looking forward to Parade of Dreams in Florida

Same here, but the music is really warming up to me.

Who knows, we can always be hopeful that it could still come.

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BPBfan Ten-hut! People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 207	"Celebrate A Dream Come True" Parade So, the new Celebrate A Dream Come True Parade premiered on January 23, 2009. With very little practice, the parade comes off with a very emotional type of response similar to Wishes! Below is the link to view the parade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYwBw...eature=related What do you think of the parade? For the third time in a row to use the floats, the parade sure does come together. __________________
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xfkirsten That's How You Know! Moderator People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 1,103 Images: 42	Speaking as someone who's already seen it in person several times? BARF. Here's a review C&Ped from my LJ, opening day: The Good: -Mickey and Minnie on the same float, both talking. Cute! We've missed that in daily parades for awhile. -The costumes on the characters on the final float (Goofy, Donald, Pluto, Chip, Dale). They're loud and over-the-top, but they fit the theming. -Burt! YAY for having Burt! The Bad: -The music. Too sugary and sappy, like swallowing a big mouthful of maple syrup. -The show stop. Really?! I'm a fan of show stops. I love them. I think that, done well, they can add a lot to a parade. This one? Not so much. The dance moves are nice, but that's really all there is to it. Um, you just dance the whole parade, why do you need to stop everything just to do it again?! If you're going to do a show stop, it needs to ADD something to the parade, not just do the same thing you have been doing. The streamers at the end are a cute idea (and I'm sure the very few kids that get them are happy), but REALLY unimpressive. It's like "Hey! We're too cheap to put a streamer cannon on our floats, so lets just have the performers throw them!" :/ Admittedly, I like that music because it's "Celebrate You" and I think that's a catchy song, but I am also disappointed that it's not Corbin Bleu's version. (I'm not really a fan of his at all, but I love how he did that song) The UGLY: -The dancers. Not that the performers themselves were bad - they did a fantastic job - but the whole IDEA. The only performers on the ground are the atmosphere dancers. And they all do generic dances. And they all wear the EXACT SAME COSTUMES. It's like watching the same unit go by over and over and over again. Seriously. It's formulaic. "Okay, here's a dozen dancers and a float. Aaaaand, a dozen more dancers that look exactly the same. And another float. And a dozen more dancers that look exactly the same..." -The complete lack of props or ANY sort of themed costumes anywhere off the floats. It's like the theming can't touch the ground because OMG IT'S LAVA AND ONLY GENERIC DANCERS WEARING THE SPECIAL OUTFIT ARE SAFE! One of the funnest things about DDCT was the characters that would play and interact with the crowd as they went (the chimney sweeps and the pirates come to mind, especially, they were a blast). Bottom line? It's like starting at a blank, white wall, instead of looking at one that's covered in a mural. One unit blends into another, and the uniqueness of each float is lost in the generic dancers and bland music. There's a serious lack of characters (maybe 3-4 with each unit, on average) and a serious lack of any sort of personality. It's easily one of the most boring parades Disney has put together... even more so than Parade of the Stars - and you Disneylanders know how bad that must make it. At least Parade of the Stars was VISUALLY appealing and had life to it. Also, a note for anyone wanting to watch: if you want to see a show stop DO NOT sit anywhere between Splash and the opposite end of Pecos Bill's Cafe. The last float stops around the hot dog stand, so anywhere farther back than that will NOT see the show stop. __________________ View my WDW Photo Updates here!
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quesoboy88 People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 208	^ I think I'm gonna have to agree....I am really disappointed with this parade. It really wasn't all that visually interesting like so many of the other ones, and I agree about the off-float dancers that really doesnt make any sense __________________ Dream a fantastic dream!
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BPBfan Ten-hut! People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 207	Personally, I didn't like the change to no characters on the street. They did add a lot to the parade. I didn't like the look of Mickey & Minnie's float and the castle float at the back. It looks like a birthday cake gone wrong. They should have done that to all the floats, or not at all. But the music is a good, I like it. Though this probably will never happen, imagine what the parade's music would have sounded like with the POD floats. AHHH! I guess I can always dream. :[ __________________
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AraBrokenDreamer People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sanctuary of Dreams Posts: 1,381 Images: 3	Do we have a decent version of the show stop music we could put on VF Radio? It'd be interesting to hear them side by side (not a huge Bleu fan myself but I love his rendition of this). I watched the DDCT parade at Thanksgiving, and I loved it. They're using the same floats, just different music and in a few places different characters, right? (I'm at school so I can't watch the parade video) That's rather lame. I mean, you have some seriously great things here, and you're not changing the parade theme that much. Maybe they'll continually add to it as things go along. The promotion and the parade's run have only just started. It'll shape up (we hope). -Ara __________________ Scripts are the soil of a film. The story is the seed, the actors are the water, and the crew are the sunlight, giving it the chance to bloom into a brilliant flower. "I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous. " -Walt Disney
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JEANYLASER RESCUE RANGERS FAN People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Miami, Florida are planning to move to Orlando, Florida Posts: 333	I can't wait to see it in person! __________________ My Countdown Counting down to: Sophie's BIRTHDAY IN DISNEY WORLD CELEBRATE MY MAGIC!
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Palm Desert Babe hugs and peaches!!! People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: My mind is always at Disneyland. Btw, I don't really live in Palm Desert... Posts: 456	It doesn't look that great... Being a dancer, I watch the dancers, and they weren't all together so it looked a little sloppy. It's probably just me, but that's my opinion. And I have to agree with xfkirsten. The costumes were so boring when everyone was wearing the same thing....I wish I could say I liked it, but I'm not gonna lie. :'( IMHO. __________________ There's no place like , There's no place like .....click click click.... My Countdown Counting down to: NEW MOON!!! WOOOOOO!
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PeoplemoverMatt An Objective Perspective People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Valencia, CA Posts: 4,745 Images: 18	Like it, hate it, or be indifferent to it, it's more parade than Disneyland has right now. __________________ "I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all." -- Charles Augustus Lindberg "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." -- Walter Elias Disney "So are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him...so we too might walk in the newness of life." -- Romans 6:1-4
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stevo505 Celebrate you! People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: California Posts: 1,657 Images: 4	Who knows. Maybe that's why they didn't spend so much money on it. They might be planning to keep both even. __________________ Wishing makes your dreams come true!
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