Over the past few months, there have been a LOT of announcements about what we’ll see coming to Disney World in the coming years.
We know that a new Villains land is coming in the area behind Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and that a new Cars-themed land is coming to Frontierland (replacing Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Square Riverboat), a new Villains show is replacing Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy in Disney’s Hollywood Studios and the park is also getting a whole new Monsters Inc. land, DinoLand U.S.A. is officially becoming the Tropical Americas, and so much more. And don’t get us wrong, all of that is exciting, but there’s something coming that NO ONE is talking about and we need to change that — did all of us forget that we’re getting a new nighttime parade?!
During D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event back in August, it was announced that Magic Kingdom would be getting a new nighttime parade in the Summer of 2025. The parade will be called Disney Starlight, and Disney mentioned that they’ll be “using the latest technology to tell new stories about the characters you love.”
It’s been a while since we’ve last had a nighttime parade in Magic Kingdom. The first was the Main Street Electrical Parade, which ran from 1977-1991, then 1999-2001, and then again from 2010-2016. SpectroMagic, the second nighttime parade in Magic Kingdom, ran from 1991 to 1999, then again from 2001 to 2010.
Disney Starlight will be following in the footsteps of these iconic parades, with Josh D’Amaro saying the the parade “will add to that legacy.” We don’t know too much about this parade just yet, but we do know it’ll be brought to life by the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio, and guests will see scenes from Walt Disney Animation Studios films like Encanto, Peter Pan, and Frozen.
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