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taking a look into extinct aspects of
the walt disney world theme parks is
always fun
so today we're gonna take a trip back in
history to 1996.
when a giant pink birthday cake ruled
the magic kingdom
october 1st 1996 marked the start of a
15-month celebration for the 25th
anniversary of walt disney world in
addition to using 400 gallons of paint
to transform the elegant cinderella
castle into a giant pink cake they also
created a brand new parade for the
celebration the 25th anniversary parade
remembered the magic debuted on
september 27th 1996 and moved to the
beat of a catchy new theme song
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reach that world
again come true
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the parade featured six main floats the
crystal castle the little mermaid under
the sea float beauty and the beast
aladdin's treasure float the lion king
pride rock float and the enchanted
forest since the 25th anniversary was
only celebrated for 15 months after it
ended remember the magic became the
magical moments parade on february 1st
1998 and that ran until september 30th
2001
the only real change made to the parade
was in one of the songs lyrics instead
of 25 years of disney magic
it just became remember that disney
magic
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one interesting thing to note though
about the order of the main floats in
this parade is how they appeared in the
order of their film's release dates and
i'm sure this was totally intentional on
disney's part the little mermaid was
released in 1989
followed by beauty and the beast in 1991
then aladdin in 1992 and finally the
lion king in 1994. i mean these are four
main films that helped revitalize disney
animation without those films plus many
others we wouldn't have had the disney
renaissance period during the 90s which
was responsible for the boom of disney
animation
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now remember the magic was unique in
that it was actually the first time a
walt disney world parade featured show
stops depending on where you were on the
parade route the floats would stop
multiple times and kids who were
pre-selected before the parade started
were invited on the street to interact
and dance with the performers
it was pretty much the move it shake it
celebrated street party of 1996 with
kids jumping up and down on the street
minus the pop music
now if you remember back to the top five
castle mistakes video we said that the
pink birthday cake castle began getting
referred to as the pepto-bismol castle
since there were a lot of people less
than thrilled about the giant pink
centerpiece but the parade also
developed a sort of nickname during the
anniversary celebration as well
apparently it became known as the
recycle the magic parade since it used a
lot of recycled floats and costumes but
just how much of the parade was actually
recycled more than what currently gets
recycled in today's parades well let's
start off with the castle float this one
is probably one of the most iconic
recycled disney floats in theme park
history so here the castle float is
being used for the 25th anniversary in
1996 but this float originally debuted
for the 15th anniversary in 1986. it's
been slightly modified from parade to
parade but it survived decades worth of
magic when it was still being used well
into the 2000s for all the incarnations
of share a dream disney dreams and
celebrated dream parades from 2004 until
2014. if you want to really talk about
recycled floats and parades we'll dive
into these parades in another video now
disneyland also had a duplicate of the
exact same castle float and sometime in
around 2005 that float was sent to
florida so it's really hard to know
which one was still being used or maybe
both were being used in florida but the
castle float is still around to this day
backstage at magic kingdom making it
over 30 years old so who knows and we'll
see it again
next is the little mermaid under the sea
unit which was led by these colorful
maraca playing fish
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if you're trying to define disney in the
90s then this here says it all in
addition to the pink birthday cake so
the entire little mermaid float was
actually brand new for the 25th
anniversary so this one isn't recycled
but there's apparently a little bit of
recycling in the animatronic sea band on
the float conducting the under the sea
musicians is a sebastian animatronic and
the rumor with him was that he was
originally built for the little mermaid
dark ride at disneyland paris that was
never built the idea for the ride was
completely shelved in 1994 so i don't
know how likely it is that disney would
have actually begun creating
animatronics
for an attraction that wasn't even
officially greenlit for construction
either way sebastian was now living at
magic kingdom and he eventually went on
to be recycled into other parades but
more about him will be discussed in
another video later next week
the beauty and the beast's float was
also another original unit created just
for the parade it depicted the beer
guest scene from the film complete with
a lumiere animatronic on top of the
punch bowl
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it was a fun kinetic section of the
parade between the float and the push
carts but there's actually a bit of
recycling here as well it looks like the
dancers costumes are just the beer guest
costumes from beauty and the beast live
on stage at what would have been mgm
studios at the time that's sneaky disney
don't think we didn't notice
next is the most recycling you'll find
in the entire parade the aladdin's
treasure float featured a 32 foot tall
inflatable genie which you'll probably
recognize from our video about the
spinning camels most of the aladdin
segment was recycled and reused from the
aladdin's royal caravan parade at the
former mgm studios remember the magic
had the same guard costumes the camels
reappeared
and the genie float was reused but was
slightly modified to replace the giant
magic lamp with the magic carpet however
it does seem like the single whirly
units were constructed specifically for
the 25th anniversary
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the inflatable genie is pretty
impressive so it makes total sense why
they would want to reuse this float
now as for the lion king pride rock unit
this was also created specifically for
the 25th anniversary complete with timon
pumbaa simba and zazu animatronics
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when researching this parade some people
believed this pride rock float came from
the lion king parade at disneyland and
this isn't true these two parades
actually overlapped so it's impossible
and the floats aren't even the same
either but some of the lion king floats
from disneyland did eventually make
their way to florida in 1998 four of the
floats from the disneyland parade are
actually still being used to this day in
festival of the lion king at animal
kingdom and this lion king float from
the 25th anniversary parade was later
used at animal kingdom in 2003 to
promote the dvd release of the lion king
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the last float in the remember the magic
parade was the enchanted forest this
55-foot long float had 1 thousand pounds
of foliage and a miniature castle on top
of the unit the castle would actually
rise 30 feet above the float and would
set off fireworks at the end of the set
it was also originally made for the
parade and was a pretty impressive
finale float that featured about 20
disney characters on and off the unit
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so did remember the magic deserve the
title of recycle the magic i don't think
so in addition to the few costumes only
two out of the six floats were recycled
and both were modified in some way even
festival of fantasy has two recycled
floats i don't think there's anything
wrong with reusing aspects of old
attractions within reason of course if
it fits the overall idea of the new
attraction so there you go that's the
history of the extinct remember the
magic parade from magic kingdom did you
ever get a chance to see this parade for
yourself and how do you think this
parade from the 90s compares to the
parades that disney produces today leave
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