Ladies and Gentlemen! It’s time once again for What-If Wednesday! The game show where we use our imagination to bring about Disney change. Contestants from Twitter and Facebook go head to head and compete to invent the most popular (pretend) changes. Get ready to let your imagination run wild! And as Drew Carey would say, this is ”the show where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter.” Let’s play!
This week’s episode – Bringing a New Parade or Show to Walt Disney World!
1 Min Disney Dream (@1MinDisneyDream) suggested this: “New nighttime parade at MK incorporating both Spectro (SpectroMagic Parade) and MSEP (Main Street Electric Parade) music and new floats including some more villains” My two cents: This is a great idea! As long as the villains replaced those creepy Spectro dolls – those things completely freaked me out. I know it was a combination of their facial expression and how they moved. Usually, I don’t have a fear of clowns or dolls, bot those Spectro Magic characters were just spooky! I’d take villains over them any day For that one reason only, the Main Street Electric Parade has always been my favorite. If you have no idea what I’m talking about watch this YouTube video from Orlando Attractions Magazine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv2IlwcMXaM
Disney20Somethings (@DisneyTwenties) was also thinking about villains and would like to see a “villains parade at DHS in old style villain modified cars” was their idea and WOW! Think about that! How much fun would it be to see all our favorite villains and instead of parade floats, they were riding in their own bad-guy-mobiles! Cruella’s roadster is an obvious choice, but what kind of cool car would Hades drive? What about Captain Hook? A ship-like ride? I can just picture Professor Ratigan in a steam-punk ride! Jafar in a snake-y ride or maybe a genie-lamp-shaped one? Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog – I picture a low riding, stretched out magical purple and black car with flames! Think about Yzma and a funky art-deco-looking flintstone-ish vehicle – driven and powered by Kronk! Oh, the possibilities.
Michele T Williams (@MSimbaspride) – Michele wants her new parade to be at the Studios and she said, “I would bring out the Star Wars characters at DHS all year round for a parade once or twice daily. May the force be with you” Michele, being a huge Star Wars fan, clearly doesn’t think Star Wars Weekends are enough – and I’m inclined to agree. If a Star 
Wars Land ever became a reality, a parade that included Jedi Mickey, Yoda, R2-D2, C-3PO, Wookies, Ewoks, Storm Troupers, Jabba the Hutt, and (duhn-duhn-duhn, dun-da-dun-dun) – Darth Vader!!! Yes!
“Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.” – Yoda, Attack of the Clones
A couple of members of The Fam wanted in on this What-if Wednesday…
Megan had ideas for several parks and agrees with Michele from Twitter that Star Wars needs a year-round representation and also voted for “a Star Wars parade at the Studios”. Megan would also like to see “a parade of Disney throughout time at Magic Kingdom. The parade starts with floats and characters from Disney’s early works and ends with today’s stuff like Frozen. A parade at animal kingdom that incorporates live animals, maybe.” My favorite of these is the Disney Through Time idea – the floats and characters could even start out in black and white (Steamboat Willie)! The musical styles would change as time goes by as would all the costumes and characters – yes, that would be a bunch of fun to see.
Raymond, who has a lot of faith in Disney Imagineers, suggested a “Parade around the lagoon at Epcot. When the parade gets to a country everything changes to match that country. Costumes and all. If there are characters from Disney movies, they suddenly appear.” Now, THIS idea would really be amazing! How cool would it be to see the parade move along, morphing as it goes – flags, clothing, characters, music – all changing through Disney magic to match each of the World Showcase countries. Oh, I give this one a big round of applause!
So, what about you? What new parade or show would you add to Walt Disney World?
Thanks for playing, everyone!
My first thought would be to do a parade at EPCOT like Raymond suggests. I recently was listening to an internet radio station playing a part of the Tapestry of Dreams music from that cancelled parade. That was a good parade and I’d like to see a new EPCOT parade. I’m a huge fan of the concert series bringing bands at EPCOT. I’m disappointed I’m just going to miss the Flower and Garden festival this year. I’d love to see more music events. Thanks!
I don’t recall ever seeing Tapestry of Dreams but I’ve heard of it. Epcot could use a parade, for sure! I love Flower and Garden too. As always, thanks for stopping by and taking time to comment!