Electrical Parade Not Ready to "Glow Away" Yet

[WDW News Today]

Not surprising, but I'm sure many of you will be excited to hear this news from the Disney Parks Blog:

Just as scores of you had hoped – we’re leaving the lights on and extendingDisney’s “Main Street Electrical Parade” at Walt Disney World. By popular demand, the parade atMagic Kingdom Park will continue an open-ended run when “Summer Nightastic!” ends on August 14.

It’s probably no surprise to hear that the parade has been one of our highest rated entertainment experiences at Magic Kingdom Park since returning in early June. It’s been an “overwhelming success,” according to Park Vice President Phil Holmes. And now, you’ll be able to continue cheering and humming “Baroque Hoedown.”

Of course, new elements of Disney’s “Main Street Electrical Parade” will continue during the encore phase of the run. Those include:

• Tinker Bell leads the eye-filling procession, waving from the basket of a balloon floating gracefully above a magical garden shimmering in fairy light.
• Pinocchio and the boys from the classic film’s Pleasure Island sequence join the parade, and Snow White joins the Seven Dwarfs on a diamond mine float.
• There are new lighting effects, and the parade’s highly recognizable musical theme is brightened by new technology.

Will you take advantage of the extended run?

[jasondiff]

Time to update the WDWNT: The Weekend schedule again!

[HackLaSalle]

I am so excited about this. I hope it hangs on until Decemeber. I've seen Spectro and while it's certainly an exciting show, this show takes me back to my childhood. Before I ever came to Disney as an adult I had two long standing memories from my trip as a kid. One Was Figment and the whole imagination pavallion and the other was the Main Street Electrical Parade. I'm hoping that I get to see it one more time.

[Imagineer2017]

I'm very excited! Now I can actually see it, and for the first time!

[WDWGeek]

I's so excited that it gets to stay but I'm also pretty ticked. We are going in 9 days. We went during this exact time before and it was the hottest time ever. Like we had to stay in the hotel sometimes because we just couldn't go out. Sometimes it just got to be miserable. :( But we were not able to go any other time this summer before summer nightastic ends so my parents were nice enough to suck it up and go for me because they know how much this parade means to me. Now I feel really bad because we could have gone the last week of August like we always do because my school starts late and its not as hot. :( Man, I just have a lot of guilt but I am so happy that so many more people will be able to witness the wonder of this classic parade! :)