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| 75.1 | | ATE012::CLAUDE | Claude G. Berube | Fri Apr 07 1989 19:26 | 5 |
| My favorite 2 places are the sidewalk in front of the Town Square Cafe
and on the sidewalk of the Square in front of the castle looking down
Main Street.
Claude
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| 75.2 | Hub looking down main street | DEC25::STANLEY | Marilyn I. Stanley | Fri Apr 07 1989 21:21 | 15 |
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My favorite place is also on the sidewalk of the "hub" looking down
Main Street.
The floats are usually spaced far enough apart so that I can get
a picture of the front of it and then get pictures of the side
as it turns the corner. Because of the curves, the people who
are directly besides don't get in the way.
Get there early because the curb seats go fast. But don't fret
when people start trying to sit where they don't belong. The
cast members are wonderful about keeping them back while the parade
is going on.
mis
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| 75.3 | Main Street USA Railroad Station | RECAP::SEAGLE | Disney-aphile | Mon Apr 10 1989 23:44 | 15 |
| Another good place is the observation deck at the Main Street USA
railroad station. Be warned, however, that sometimes this can be
the *worst* place to be. For example, if you visit WDW/MK during
Christmas your view from the railroad station is of the back of
a towering Christmas tree!
In general, however, this spot is ideal for the photographer (still
or video) provided that you have a telephoto and/or zoom lens.
Because of the height of the deck you typically can get shots with
excellent perspective/angles, usually "dead-on", and with no one's
head in your frame. Go early and stake your position.
FWIW,
David.
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| 75.4 | Try watching from Thunder Mountain | 11SRUS::LOWELL | Ruth 'Disney' Lowell | Wed Nov 22 1989 22:40 | 24 |
| If you're not too concerned about photos, any curb spot along
the parade route will do. Otherwise I would pick a spot on the
hub facing down Main St. toward the train station.
If you're really not fussy and don't want to spend your time
sitting on the curb, go over to Thunder Mountain. There is a
parade crosswalk there, plus that is the end of the parade route.
If you want to get some average pictures, stand by the crosswalk
until they rope it off to prevent further crossing and then stand
against that rope. I got some ok pictures of the characters that
way and my impatient 2 year old didn't have to wait. The main
disadvantage to watching from here is the people in the parade
are pretty wiped out by this time and have to rush out of the
way of the floats as they go through the gate to the storage area.
If you aren't taking pictures, go a little further up the path
toward Thunder Mountain and sit on the boulders or fence (the
cast members don't notice) and you'll at least see the floats.
Of course, the real reason for watching the parade from this
area is... after the parade ends, run like hell to the ride and
there'll be no line. Or, if you don't care about the parade,
ride Thunder Mountain four or five times in a row during it. I'm
serious, you can sometimes stay in your seat for multiple rides!
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| 75.5 | Electric Parade on VHS??? | HBO::MACDONALD | Happy Holidays Everyone!!!! | Tue Dec 26 1989 14:14 | 10 |
| Went to DISNEY for 2 weeks over Thanksgiving, and got to see
everything we wanted. One problem, the video of the Main Street
Electric Parade didn't come out for some reason. Any fellow
Disney noter have a good VHS tape of this parade and its music
that could be made available for copying? I have two decks
so making the copy is not a problem for me. Thanks in advance
for your help.
Mac (Work in Chelmsford [ICO] live in Londonderry, NH)
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| 75.6 | You Can BUY the Music | INDMKT::GOLDBERG | Len, Back From the World | Tue Dec 26 1989 14:34 | 3 |
| The music from the Electric Light Parade, (titled Baroque Hoedown), is
available on cassette in the Disney Stores and from Disney Mail order.
As I remember it was less than $5.00.
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| 75.7 | Parade Veiwing Suggestion | DNEAST::ROBBINS_GARY | Let's get busy... | Sat Oct 20 1990 18:58 | 9 |
| RE:.0
Hi,I'm Abbi,Gary's 12 year old daughter. When I was at WDW I watched
the parade from the left of the Frontier Land RR station. It'
where the floats come out,and it wasn't crowded at all!! It's a
nice spot to watch from.I think you should try it next time you go.
Abbi Robbins
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| 75.8 | Parade Route | SUPER::SCOPA | | Thu Jan 30 1997 15:05 | 18 |
| The word from Orlando is that the parade route for all prades in The
Magic Kingdom may be reversed. That is, the parade route may be
permanently changed so that the floats proceed down Main Street USA
towards the train station.
Reasons for this change are:
- Requests by guests for this so that the castle will be in the
background for all pictures.
- The incline in Frontierland. It constantly is a worry because
some floats have to be helped to make it over the incline.
Apparently the batteries aren't strong enough.
- Also, new sensors have been put in place (for parade music)
and they may work better with the new route.
Mike
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| 75.9 | I'm confused... | ABACUS::ARCHAMBAULT | a rebel to the naked eye | Mon Feb 03 1997 14:37 | 6 |
| Maybe I'm having a real air-head kind of day, but I could swear that
all the parades I've seen in the Magic Kingdom travel towards the train
station. Why would this be a change?
Carolyn
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| 75.10 | Parade Route History | SUPER::SCOPA | | Mon Feb 03 1997 20:24 | 18 |
| Carolyn,
Over the past 25 years all the parades have traditionally started from
the right of the Fire Station and then go around the hub and up towards
the castle eventually ending behind Splash Mountain.
When filming for television specials all the parades would travle
towards the train station to accomodate all the television cameras.
Several years back when the Mickey Mania parade was introduced to TMK
the parade route was also towards the train station but the nightly
Spectromagic parade still held it's route (away from the train
station).
Apparently either most recently or soon all parades will head towards
the train station.
Mike
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| 75.11 | | BRAT::ARCHAMBAULT | a rebel to the naked eye | Tue Feb 04 1997 15:00 | 6 |
| Thanks Mike. When I was there in October, the Remember the Magic
parade started by Splash Mountain. I just assumed that's the direction
they always take.
Carolyn
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| 75.12 | | VMSSPT::PAGLIARULO | | Mon Feb 10 1997 12:46 | 5 |
| Just got back Saturday for a week inside Walt's dream. The Spectromagic parade
started at the fire station. As Carolyn said, the Remember the Magic parade
started at Splash Mountain.
George
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| 75.13 | Not when I've gone | GLRMAI::HICKOX | N1KTX | Fri Feb 14 1997 17:27 | 7 |
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Every time I've been at MK, all parades (day and spectro-magic)
have been routed from the Castle to the Train station. Maybe they
change this periodically for one reason or another. I have the
pictures and video to prove it.
Mark
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| 75.14 | SpectroMagic is the Question | DONVAN::SCOPA | | Mon Feb 17 1997 12:21 | 6 |
| True...in the past I've seen both the day and evening parades move
towards the castle. A few years back they reversed the route for the
day parade. I think the question is whether or not Spectromagic will
continue on it's present route.
Mike
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| 75.15 | we'll know soon | HYLNDR::BADGER | Can DO! | Mon Feb 17 1997 23:09 | 4 |
| don't know about spectromagic yet, but saw twenty-fifth dome from
castle to fire station.
ed
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| 75.16 | MGM | EPS::JOBRIEN | | Wed Mar 26 1997 17:04 | 12 |
| this is from the Web, it didn't say anything about what would be
replacing the paraded from June 9th thru June 19th.
Last performance of Toy Story Parade- June 8. The
characters will continue with meet-and-greets at Pizza Planet,
adjacent to Muppet*Vision 3D.
Hercules "Zero to Hero" Parade Debut- June 20.
Disney-MGM Studios is proud to present this hilarious
parade which salutes that mythological man of steel,
everybody's favorite hunk, Hercules.
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