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May the 4th Treats at WDW

Disney News (4/30) – May the 4th Treats at Disney Parks, and Walt Disney World Parades

April 30, 2023
Episode 5

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May the 4th Treats at WDW

On this week’s episode, Kelli gives a rundown of all of the yummy May 4th treats hitting Disney parks this week and Chris gives an overview of Disney parades.

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Show Notes:

Chris and Kelli discuss the ongoing conflict between Disney and the Florida government, focusing on legal arguments and the significance of timing. They also touch on the conflict between Disney and the Central Florida tourism industry. Later, they discuss Disney World’s upcoming 100th anniversary celebrations, new attractions, character meet and greets, and merchandise. The speakers share their personal experiences and opinions on Disney parades and cavalcades, and their love for Disney World and Star Wars treats. They express their dedication to sharing their experiences with others.

Outline

Disney news, including Ron DeSantis’ feud with Disney.

  • Chris and Kelli discuss Disney and wear Yoda ears on their podcast.
  • Disney sues DeSantis over voided development agreement

Disney’s development agreement and its impact on independent business owners.

  • Kelli and Chris discuss Disney’s development agreement and the potential impact on independent business owners in Central Florida.
  • Chris and Kelli discuss a new board member, Michael Sasso, who is easy to spot due to his unique hairstyle.
  • Sasso has chosen to grow his hair in the back of his head really long and comb it forward, which is a rare and bold hairstyle choice.

Disney World’s 100th anniversary, including new attractions, food, and mementos.

  • Chris and Kelli discuss Disney’s 100th anniversary celebration, including new attractions, character meet and greets, and merchandise.
  • Kelli expresses disappointment in the design of the Disney 100 popcorn buckets, suggesting a more elaborate design could have been created.
  • Chris and Kelli discuss Disney news, including layoffs, Fantasmic suspension, and dragon self-immolation.
  • Chris and Kelli discuss the upcoming Disney+ release of “Quantum Mania” and the trailer for “Disney Animations Wish.”
  • Kelli shares her extensive knowledge of Star Wars and participates in the “Foodie Guide to May 4 Galactic Goodies” segment.

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge food and drinks at Disneyland and Disney World.

  • Kelli excitedly shares new food offerings at Disneyland and Disney World, including a cute sipper cup.
  • Kelli and Chris discuss various food and drink offerings at Disneyland, including a grow goo candy apple and a ginger daiquiri.
  • The duo finds some of the offerings, such as the grow goo candy apple, to be adorable and over-the-top.

Star Wars-themed food and drinks at Disney parks.

  • Kelli and Chris discuss Star Wars-themed treats at Disney World’s Hollywood Studios, including Darth Vader cupcakes and Wookie Cookies.
  • Disney offers Star Wars-themed treats, including churros, pops, and pins.
  • Kelli and Chris discuss Disney parades, with a focus on nighttime events.

Disney parades and cavalcades.

  • Chris and Kelli discuss the history of parades at Walt Disney World and Disneyland, including the first parade held at Magic Kingdom in 1971.
  • The first parade at Magic Kingdom included characters from Snow White and other movies, with Mickey Mouse as the grand finale.
  • Chris and Kelli discuss the rainy day cavalcade at Disneyland, a special parade that only happens on rainy days.
  • The parade features characters wearing rain gear, led by cast members with a sign, followed by Mickey and Minnie in an old antique car.

Disney’s Magic Kingdom parades and their details.

  • Chris and Kelli discuss the Festival of Fantasy parade at Magic Kingdom, including its characters, floats, and special performances.
  • The parade features over a dozen Disney films, including Snow White and Frozen, with highlights like Maleficent’s dragon and the Tangled float.
  • Chris and Kelli discuss the Magic Kingdom’s holiday parades, including the cavalcades and floats, and the effort that goes into making them.
  • Chris shares a favorite parade moment from a recent trip, where they unexpectedly saw a princess cavalcade while enjoying ice cream at the Plaza.
  • Children’s joyful reactions to meeting Tiana at the parade.

May the 4th Star Wars Food: https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2023/04/disney-eats-foodie-guide-to-may-the-4th-galactic-goodies/

  • World Showcase ©
    • The Parades of WDW
  • SO we got our latest edition of the WDW magazine recently and one of the articles focuses on the Parades of WDW. And I thought – ok then, let’s talk about Parades at WDW.
  • And if we haven’t said so recently, WDW magazine – or DLR – the DL version – are really great and would highly recommend.
  • Full disclosure: For most of my life as a Disney Parks fan, I never really cared all that much about the daytime parades. They just took time away from opportunities to ride things.
    • The nighttime parades: Main Street Electrical Parade or Spectromagic were exceptions.  That was appointment viewing.
  • That has changed for me in recent years, partly because I appreciate the effort and coordination required to pull these things off.
    • Partly because the Festival of Fantasy parade is just so great and I’ve been won over.
  • So, how did the parades start at WDW:
    • DL has been running parades since the day the park opened in 1955. That first one was simply called: The Opening Day Parade
    • And through the years prior to the opening of the Magic Kingdom in 1971, they ran 17 different parades – some for very specific moments or launches (like the Zorro Days Parade that ran in 1958 – 59)
    • But also seasonal parades: at DL the Candlelight Processional was effectively a parade.
  • At the MK, the first parade was held on opening day, Oct. 1 1971, and was just called the Character Parade
    • We didn’t have the amazing colorful floats of today, but many of the same characters we see today were there, along with talented musicians (like the Dapper Dans), and antique cars.
    • It included characters from Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, Bambi, and the Jungle Book among others
    • Mickey is usually the grand finale of the parades but he kicked off the Character Parade.
  • MK has been home to 19 different themed parades – FOF being the latest.
  • After re-opening following the pandemic Disney launched Cavalcades, or mini-parades. These run throughout the day and were effectively small parades focusing on one, usually very elaborate themed float that celebrated a number of characters related to the theme.
    • For example: The Disney Adventure Friends Cavalcade featured Miguel (Coco), The Incredibles, Moana, Mirabel.
    • These evolutions of the parade were kind of ingenious at a time when the park wanted to provide entertainment but thought it best not to create a scenario in which half the park was standing in close proximity for the duration of a 20 minute parade.
    • These ran more often, so the chance of seeing it increased, smaller crowds at one viewing, and they only took up few minutes.
  • The Rainy Day Cavalcade is a treat if you can catch it. And it’s just what it sounds like: Cast members wearing rain gear lead Mickey and Minnie, who sit in a covered antique car and other fantastic characters ride some of the Omnibuses provided by the Main Street Transportation Company.
  • The Festival of Fantasy parade is currently the biggest parade running at MK.
    • It launched in 2014 to celebrate the addition of New Fantasyland
    • It (typically) includes characters and floats from over a dozen Disney films – ranging from Snow White to the Frozen movies.
    • The show stopper here though is the enormous Steampunk version of the Maleficent Dragon.
      • She is 53 feet long, and she slowly meanders through the parade route, and during normal operation only stops to literally breathe fire!
      • It’s all pretty ridiculous.
    • This parade is glorious and beautiful. The Tangled float of characters on big swinging battle axes.
  • MK also hosts seasonal parades, which can usually only be seen during the special ticketted evens (MNSSHP or MVMCP) like the:
    • Boo To You Parade or Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas Parade
    • These parades features over the top costuming and performances.
      • The grave diggers and ghostly ballroom dancers, and often even the bride from the Haunted Mansion in movie quality makeup to look zombiefield – and costumes that emit a ghostly glow
      • All I can say is google the grave diggers… the choreography of their routine is just so so creapy and cool.
      • And the Tin Soldiers in the Christmas parade are just so delightful.
    • The Once Upon a Christmastime parade can be seen in late December around the holidays without attending a ticketed event.
  • What kind of blows me away is that these parades are legit spectacles.
    • Cast members prep the streets. With tape and ropes.
    • They play traffic controllers.
    • The performers travel all the way from Frontierland, through Liberty Square, around the Hub, and down Main Street through Town Square.
    • And if you attend MK during the holidays you might witness this 4 times as FOF runs usually twice per day, and the Special Parade will often run twice at night.
  • The Parades and Cavalcades are great because they provide such proximity and interaction with the characters at the heart of the Disney experience.
    • Somehow every guest comes away feeling like they had a personal interaction with characters – without having to wait in line for a meet/greet.
    • And this is the best place to see rare characters I think.
    • It’s also fun to interact with the cast members some of whom are Photopass team members who carry props and signs that make for PERFECT vacation pictures.
  • My favorite place to watch the parades are in Town Square.
  • My favorite parade moment ever – and one of the reasons I’ve come to love the parades – one of our more recent trips post covid we were having ice cream from the plaza when a cavalcade suddenly started coming around the hub.
    • Naturally I ran to get pics – which cavalcades allow you to do without your ice cream melting.
    • This was a Princess Cavalcade and Tiana was on the float along with a bunch of the other princesses.
    • Three little girls of color were standing beside me – their reaction to seeing Tiana and being acknowledged by her – people it was rapturous. They were beside themselves. I can still hear “OMG IT’S TIANA!!!!” like it was 5 minutes ago.
      • They will never forget it. 

Episode Transcript:

NOTE: This transcript was produced by AI and may have many inaccuracies. Please excuse any transcription issues.

welcome aboard Disney fam Hello out there Disney fam. My name is Chris and I’m Kelly. We are so happy that you are here back with us again. Folks. We are like going to set new records this month for downloads and I am I am humbled. I cannot even believe how excited Clearly everybody is for this podcast. That’s included.

Kelli 0:53
In addition to us.

Chris 0:58
Yeah, so we had Oh, you’re wearing Yoda ears literal Yoda ears.

Kelli 1:03
Yes. And they are very fragile. Are they these are maybe my most fragile ears. The band is not heavy enough to withstand the weight of the ears. And Yodas

Chris 1:15
ear hair the white ear hair is here. It’s a fabulous detail but very delicate just about melts

Kelli 1:21
off in the rain. So I mean I love these years but they are very, very fragile but they are absolutely on topic for me.

Chris 1:30
Oh, all right.

Kelli 1:32
Hey honey, who listened to us this week?

Chris 1:34
We had downloads from Van Texas. Van ban VA in Texas. Little less than 3000 Fun folks. Northwest 26 miles northwest of Tyler, Texas. Okay. Clear Water Clearwater Florida.

Kelli 1:50
Clearwater Clearwater. People in Clearwater are used to be in Clearwater Yeah,

Chris 1:57
it’s Clearwater for sure. It’s my kind of place Sun sand, Tampa Bay to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the west. Love everything. About Clearwater, Florida. We also 29 days ago this very quaint little southern town celebrated the 88th running of the Carolina cup races. Oh, my Camden, South Carolina, South

Kelli 2:21
Carolina. We should have worn flowery dresses we had we should

Chris 2:25
have 29 days ago.

Kelli 2:27
Oh my goodness. The Carolina cup went to the Carolina

Chris 2:31
cup and didn’t see one horse that’s what I was usually my experience.

Kelli 2:36
Everybody’s experienced. I don’t even know where the horses were.

Chris 2:44
So welcome Camden, South Carolina and Huddersfield in the UK. Ryder Hutter ATDD er s field, Huddersfield right in the middle, sort of between Sheffield Leeds and Manchester. Okay, it’s a wonderful football history there and shot in Huddersfield but I won’t be close to them. I don’t think you’ll make the trip up there. No.

Kelli 3:09
All right, but still welcome. And hey, if you want to come see me in London, June 5 or 28th.

Chris 3:17
Feel free Feel free. You ready for some mainstream reaction? Yes. All right. Okay, well, as is common. Now. We start off with the continuing saga of Ron DeSantis. blowing his own toes off in his personal fight with Disney. It’s gotten so funny. And here’s here’s what happened in the last week. So great. Okay. The Florida Senate passed a bill that would void Disney’s agreement with the Reedy Creek board before DeSantis is board took over and also the new board met this week and voted to declare the previous development agreement null and void. Within minutes of that declaration, Disney finally sued DeSantis and the members of the new board right. The weighed in on this honestly, Oh, yes. Disney is not suing for financial damages. Their suit alleges that DeSantis and the new board has acted in specific retaliation to harm their business in violation of Disney’s first amendment right. To have a political opinion that differs from governmental leaders. Yep. Right. You know, and I know they stopped donating also, but donations are political speech. They’re sued simply seeks to rollback the decisions and legislative actions that have been taken in retaliation intended to harm their business. The timing obviously suggests that Disney’s lawyers had been prepping for this moment for months and as soon as the declaration was made by them, they were right. They

Kelli 4:43
are three steps ahead of him. I mean, they know exactly what he’s going to do. I

Chris 4:47
think that that Disney, the ability to have corporate lawyers that are liable to eat state lawyers for lunch, is probably Pretty good possibility they

Kelli 5:01
it seriously it’s a chess game and they are five moves ahead of him. I think so too. But which is fantastic. I love it so much. We’ll

Chris 5:08
see what happens. Yes. Let’s see here. Before the new board officially voted to nullify Disney’s development agreement, independent business leaders that operate in and around Disney gathered to respond in person during the comment portion of the new board’s meeting. So reps from winebar George owners who was there I think George was personally there. reps from winebar, George T. Rex, cafe, Yak and Yeti, the boathouse, splitsville,

Kelli 5:37
all of Disney Springs,

Chris 5:38
these are all independent business owners that operate in conjunction with Disney. Yes, right so Gideons and Nasri and yeah, that and that highlights the the issue here that yeah, it’s 75,000 Disney employees that you’re screwing around with. It’s all the tax money from Disney but we’re talking hundreds of 1000s of tourism industry Yes. People who rely on the tourism industry of Central Florida to pay the bills

Kelli 6:09
it’s gonna hurt all of Florida like this is this is your pissing match. Yes. And it’s your own personal one with Disney and you’re going to literally ruin the state as a

Chris 6:20
reminder all because they don’t agree with continuing to further marginalize marginalized people. Yeah, that’s it. They won’t they won’t hate they won’t hate the same people you want them to hate. So

Kelli 6:32
they would like to legislate hate and Disney says no, we would rather put you

Chris 6:36
your business at jeopardy and all of our constituents proving out their hypocrisy at every opportunity. A new one of the new board members, Michael Sasso I’m assuming I’m saying his name right. And his family enjoying the day at the Magic Kingdom oh my god taking in all that woke ideology. In fact, there’s you can find video online of legislators who have been recorded arguing to punish Disney in debates on the legislation floor and and then announcing from the floor their intent to immediately follow that debate with a family trip to Disney joking quote, I’m not kidding here. If they still let me in.

Kelli 7:16
Oh my god.

Chris 7:20
So and you know, I’m not one to make fun of people’s choices about how they decide to do their hair or whatever. But I’m gonna hear from Mike Sasso. Okay, what’s besos losing his hair and as somebody who is follically challenged. I get it man. It’s it’s, it’s it’s a little bit humbling. I gotta Google this dude. Oh man. But then a lot of folks take certain choices to try to hide the fact that hide the fact that we’re we’re losing our hair I’m not I’m just going shorter and shorter and shorter until it’ll eventually just go away entirely. He has gone with the very rare option of growing clearly growing the hair in the back of his head really really really long and then combing it forward and cutting it and cutting it cutting it like bangs in the front and so does his hair part is right in the middle of the back of his head

Kelli 8:17
so what you’re saying there is he’s easy to spot he’s easy to spot

Chris 8:20
and they did they spotted him right

Kelli 8:22
picture strongest

Chris 8:23
of what him online. Straight or straight back. I mean, we you know, I had a beloved college professor that did the same thing. We called him Wolfman. And so Mike Hey, I’m just saying that this Disney thing in the only bad choice you’ve made recently. So yeah, there you go. That’s the That’s our catch up there. Wow on it’s special. It’s a special it’s certainly look he’s gone with certainly a decision he’s gone with

Kelli 8:54
the choice he’s made. And it is he and he’s he’s owning that and I can appreciate that. He’s decided to really embrace it.

Chris 9:02
Yeah, yes. Okay, so no mirrors or friends no mirrors or friends. While there’s a girl has shared moving on, by the way from sorry, debacle. We don’t usually make fun of people. No, but some people that he brought it on it. Some people aren’t. Oh, Disney World Shared six ways or a few ways that there’ll be celebrating Disney’s 100th anniversary later this year. Epcot will actually serve as the focal point for their for the Walt Disney World portion of the celebration. Oh, yeah. You’ll you’ll see like Disney 100 signs up at all the parks and things like that. But Epcot is really the center that’s keys for it. You’ll be able to meet and greet Mickey and Minnie and their new Platinum outfits at Epcot.

Kelli 9:44
them on my on my dream like Valley Island.

Chris 9:48
Oh yeah. And they’re in their platinum in their platinum outfits

Kelli 9:51
and they do look really nice. They’re nice looking. Yeah. And I will say the rug too that I could buy on my island. I really like it’s nice. It goes well with their out That’s right. That’s awesome. I’ve got it all over the island there’s 100 100 anniversary rugs everywhere.

Chris 10:07
Spaceship Earth is getting a new beacons of magic show. They actually just previewed this week to celebrate Yes.

Kelli 10:15
Yes had the Mickey heads.

Chris 10:17
Yep, let’s go. New selfie opportunities in front of Disney 100 backdrops and signage all over the place obviously new food and drink options for Disney 100 Other Meet and Greet character meet and greets and platinum outfits at the resorts which is cool. And Disney 100 mementos like popcorn, buckets, mugs cups, etc.

Kelli 10:39
But you’ve said that the the popcorn buckets kind of a disappointment?

Chris 10:43
I think so but

Kelli 10:44
they could have done for someone could have made a bucket that’s like in 100 or in a diamond with 100 on it. Sure, Mickey head in his platinum outfit

Chris 10:53
or platinum jacket, something platinum blazer,

Kelli 10:55
something some good that drippy platinum stuff that they’re doing that would have been great on about Sure.

Chris 11:00
Sure. For sure. Hollywood Studios Pixar place will reopen on May the 14th with a refreshed look and new Meet and Greet opportunities at the Edna Mode experience. And a Mo Yeah, yeah, she’s coming back, bringing it back. Like a new Meet and Greet will launch this summer allowing guests to interact with Ariel from The live action release of The Little Mermaid Ooh, yes. Kids will have a chance to see themselves in this version of Ariel that could never be done before. And that is great. In my cynical Elde age here, I really have have concerns about idiots at the park or the who already treat princesses with disrespect oftentimes, so I worry about this a little bit, but it’s not it’s absolutely worth doing.

Kelli 11:48
It is worth doing. And I will say my I would bet that they plan for it and that they would

Chris 11:53
if if Chris here in Lincoln, Nebraska is thinking about it. So

Kelli 11:57
I think they’ll have proper handlers for this right. I’m

Chris 12:01
a little bit of sad news here. You know, Disney is up to about 4000 of the 7000 layoffs that they had planned to make through the summer. And D 23. Is getting hit hard. So 25% Probably of the D 23 team could be affected by the layoffs. So we could see some restructuring of D 23. In the coming months. Wow.

Kelli 12:22
Okay, that’s

Chris 12:23
pretty that’s kind of sad. Yeah, that is Disney lands. Fantasmic will be suspended for at least three more weeks, which is understandable considering the dragon self immolated a couple of weeks ago

Kelli 12:35
called the play splice. I think we should take a second

Chris 12:38
take a minute take a minute

Kelli 12:41
take a minute and fix it test it all

Chris 12:43
Yeah, I can’t believe only three more weeks frankly. I know there’s a there’s a beach show that they do you know if they need to wear Maleficent sort of raises up into the air

Kelli 12:54
but but they’re not doing any show.

Chris 12:55
That’s right.

Kelli 12:56
Any show Yeah, well I mean at the very least they’ve got to make a new Dragon hit me nothing melted the

Chris 13:04
dragon other fire breathing animatronics have also been temporarily system been suspended other Disney parks?

Kelli 13:12
Yeah, I would say we need to check those mechanisms. Yeah.

Chris 13:15
And man in the Wasp quantum mania will debut on Disney plus on May the 17th. That’s exciting for math for those that are like me. And Disney Animations wish trailer debuted this week. Did you see the

Kelli 13:30
wish trailer? Oh, you wish out that? Yes. Yes.

Chris 13:32
It looks like it’s just going to be beautiful. And

Kelli 13:35
why keep forgetting that you

Chris 13:38
tell you over and over again. And the only thing that I tell you you forget.

Kelli 13:41
Oh my gosh.

Chris 13:43
Oh my gosh. Okay. Oh, Chris Pine. By the way. Chris Pine is going to play the role of King magnifico, the ruler of the land of Rose sauce in that movie. Okay. Rocks got

Kelli 13:52
stuck with Chris Pine.

Chris 13:53
You do? He was he was Captain Kirk in the new Star Trek movies.

Kelli 13:59
Really? I loved it.

Chris 14:04
I know you’re a big fan of that guy. He’s doing okay

man, Okay, you ready? Ready? All right, here we go.

Kelli 14:18
So y’all, this week is May the fourth. Now for those of y’all that know me, you know that I am a Star Wars officiant Oh, yes. I mean, so I should definitely be the one to do this segment. Yes, because my Star Wars knowledge encyclopedic is unparalleled.

Chris 14:40
I would agree with that. I agree. Your Star Wars knowledge is unparalleled.

Kelli 14:44
But the beauty is we’re talking about food, so I feel very qualified. We’re gonna do the foodie guide to the May 4 Galactic goodies and I will link to this on the website. This is from Disney Parks blog when they put out their foodie guides. So it’s really good Okay, so this is cool. We’ve got Disneyland Disney World and Disneyland Paris all participating. But I will tell you if you’re a Star Wars buff, highly recommend the Disney Land version of Disney Land has way more than any of the other parks and then interesting yeah, okay, so first we’re gonna start with the whatever he’s talking about is the lightup acid spitter or sipper I cannot say that again with a lanyard that includes Your choice of a fountain beverage. That’s it’s the same sipper that I got the last time we were there, it’s like round with a little frog thing. Yeah,

Chris 15:36
okay,

Kelli 15:37
I don’t know. I guess that little frog thing is an acid spitter. I don’t know what he is. But but these are at Walt Disney World and Disneyland docking bay seven and ronto roasters in both parks so they’re really putting a lot of money into those into those spitter people. Okay, so let’s head on over to docking bay seven this is Disney Land. They have a temple y’all know docking bay seven is just one of my favorites. Love Love docking made them and you really love it. They have a temple root leaf and moss salad with a seasoned guaido egg. This is a sweet savory salad greens, brined vegetables, roasted mushrooms fried potato noodles, oh, and a soy marinated soft boiled egg. You can also get this without the egg. So now most of these treats are going to be available for the month of May some into early June. Okay. Some just on the day of and so over at galactic grill. We’ve got the Darth by chocolate parfait. This one’s only available available may 2 through sixth. Okay, and it’s what you would expect right Darth Darth Vader and lots of chocolate in parfait type situation. Here’s what I think people ought to be super excited about is not the acid spitter thing. There is a grow goo Sipar he is so adorable as a sipper, they they show a picture of him on the website like sitting in some grass. And he’s holding like his little cup

Chris 17:12
it is so just super is him holding a cup. Yes,

Kelli 17:15
the zipper is him and he’s holding his little cup. It is so cute. Like people are gonna be fighting over that that’s available while supplies last beginning May 3 Which means if you’re not there at 6am on May 3 By noon, it’s gone. It’s gone. So best wishes to you on that. Mobile order is available. So again, best wishes. Cat sockets kettle by the way, we’re still at Disney Land, cat Sakas kettle has three popcorn versions or two popcorn versions and a muffin. Oh, our cat’s kettle doesn’t have muffins. So I think this is interesting. She’s got the syrup that valley mix which is a kettle corn a sweet kettle corn. And then she’s got the neon most mix which is a savory sour cream and chive and you can get named jelly fruit muffin, which is a passion fruit buttermilk muffin with pineapple and blackberry jam. It looks delightful sounds I mean it really does looks delightful. Like blackberry jam is underrated. Yeah, sure. I mean over at the milk stand. Another amazing thing the Tinu swirl crunchy cereal. This is blue milk topped with strawberry and grape candy pebbles. So I want you to imagine the blue milk. And it looks like somebody poured a red. Like like a syrup. Almost it so it’s kind of running down the sides on the inside. Okay, but I think it’s gonna be like nerds. Nerd candies. Yes. Yes. So I would I would definitely try that. At Ogas Cantina. Okay, they have what they’re calling a five blossom bread with mustard cream. This is a warm pretzel knot but it’s really like a figure eight knot. Oh, it’s bigger. Okay, with a creamy honey mustard dip. There’s like mustard seeds in the middle of the dip with little leaves. It looks like a honey mustard dip with a little pineapple in it like I had to really zoom in it’s adorable. They also have a ginger lime tea lemonade with soju and this is so jus minute made lemonade gulping unsweet iced tea having your line and ginger flavors topped with a matcha foam home and it sounds every bit as crazy as as I just read the beverage carts at Star Wars Galaxies edge has garlic puffs which are puffed cheese chips and at the fruit kartra cart and lemonade cart in Tomorrowland you can get that grow goose slipper

Chris 19:46
okay so I mean those those cast members better get ready

Kelli 19:50
plan because it’s gonna go Downtown Disney at Marcelino confectionery you can get a grow goo candy apple which is a grainy Smith dipped in caramel with marshmallow ears in robed in colored white chocolate with gold standing sugar for sanding sugar for the belt. He is adorable as a candy apple. I mean just too much

Chris 20:12
find me a way that Greg is not.

Kelli 20:16
At the Disneyland Resort this is at Grand California Hotel and Spa. In Hearthstone lounge you can get a ginger daiquiri, which is celebrating issue and at the Grand Californian hotel lobby cart. This is throughout the end of May. Star Wars sugar cookie, a Wookie Cookie, fret lightsaber lightsabers a falcon lollipop storm trooper crisp rice treat stretchy, tropical whoopie pie and a galaxy macaroon box. So I’m telling you Disney Land is where it’s at. Okay, but let’s pop over to Disney World. All of this is Hollywood Studios. Oh, okay. And the commissary. The backlot Express pizza Rezo and Rosie’s all American Cafe they have a jettison juice, which is lemonade and watermelon served the glow cube non alcoholic backlight. backlot Express cache I’m struggling today. They have a Darth Vader cupcake, which looks amazing.

Chris 21:19
backlot express a lot of times has those I mean, you know, chocolate

Kelli 21:23
cake with a chocolate peanut butter butter cream dipped in dark chocolate ganache edged in chocolate flakes and topped with a chocolate Darth Vader. I mean, I think I just got diabetes reading that but they also have the Wookie Cookie, which is to oatmeal cookies with vanilla cream and his little sash across the top. It’s really cute. docking bay seven has the oil puff, which is a raspberry cream puff with a passion fruit mousse that’s only available on the fourth and fifth.

Chris 22:01
Oh wow. Very special.

Kelli 22:03
And Pizza Rezo and the trolley car Cafe only on fourth and fifth have the dark side chocolate creation. So there’s I think there’s like a man or something that’s like red and yellow kind of swirl and he’s got like horns. You know? He’s red and he’s got little brown horns. It’s gonna come to you

Chris 22:23
and no no dark. That sounds like Darth Maul to me. Okay, great.

Kelli 22:26
It’s him. It’s a malted milk job.

Chris 22:33
Now we get it with a

Kelli 22:35
raspberry mousse filling slivered almonds and the chocolate shortbread cookie that’s adorable. That’s even better. Now that other what is that? And then the churro carts at the market have the lightsaber churros with chocolate sauce. So these are red or blue churros served in like a like a paper holder so it looks like you’re holding a lightsaber really cool. Disney’s Polly has at the pineapple lanai. They always bring some special stuff or the Millennium Falcon Star Wars soft serve Sunday, which is a galactic grey vanilla soft serve with mint flavor chocolate cream, Campbell’s chocolate drizzle, chocolate brownie asteroid pieces and starred us sparkles with the Millennium Falcon chocolate piece. Okay, and then now we’re at Disney Springs. Okay, where you can imagine like an archery is just blowing everybody away. They have a Queen Amidala chocolate pinata, which is a dark chocolate pinata filled with Ruby chocolate and raspberry bark. It looks amazing. They have an Ahsoka pop which is a plant based coconut and blueberry swirl and robed in dark chocolate. And then they have swirl and then at they have a Millennium Falcon pop. Which is a milk chocolate pot with Chris Earl’s. And then it swirls on the wider it can get your dough whip. Mango swirled with an hoburne Euro soft serve and a red velvet cone with a toasted graham cracker crumbs chocolate rocks and a BB eight edible garnish. Oh, they’re calling that the loyal the loyal astromech swirl. And then the only thing left is one little thing at Disneyland Paris but I’m telling you it’s all they need. Because it’s just perfection. Okay, what it is here is to grow boomerang. White chocolate icing and macro. He’s got ears. He’s got the little it looks like he’s eating like he’s blowing a bubble. Oh with the white chocolate icing. It is so adorable. Adorable.

Chris 24:56
They really did something when they when they introduced the world to grow. Yeah,

Kelli 25:00
they really did. I mean, I think they Disneyland Paris could have come on a little bit stronger than just one thing. Sure. But maybe, I don’t know. Maybe Star Wars. isn’t that big there?

Chris 25:10
I mean, they’ve got Hyperspace Mountain.

Kelli 25:13
That’s true. It is true. I am so glad that that guy’s name is is Darth Maul. Because that makes that treat just so perfect. Thank God I knew that.

Chris 25:24
I mean, but showing off those Star Wars

Kelli 25:28
really sold it is what it did. But I just kept him well right further red and yellow swirled around is really red and black, but okay with the brown horns.

Chris 25:42
Yo, man. Good job, honey. I want to eat all that, too. So we got our latest edition of Walt Disney World WWE magazine. So we have I mean, we love this thing. If we hadn’t said So recently, this is absolutely worth it. If you’re a big Disney fan. There DLR Disneyland Resort version is just as good and it focuses all on Disneyland Disneyland Resort. This was the Walt Disney World version. We love it. We love them. They do a great job. Quality magazine is top notch. Photography is photography is out of bounds. So they wanted their articles this week focused was all about the Disneyland sorry, the Walt Disney World parades, the Magic Kingdom parades, and so you know what I thought just Magic Kingdom just Magic Kingdom parades. You know what I thought? I thought let’s let’s talk about the parades at the Magic Kingdom is what I do now. It most of my life as a Disney park person. I will it wasn’t into the daytime parades.

Kelli 26:47
I didn’t mean daytime parades. I was talking about nighttime.

Chris 26:50
Oh yeah, well the nighttime rates I love a nighttime parade I really do. But the daytime when the I could take or leave that that has changed though in recent years. Mainly partly because I appreciate more the effort and coordination that goes into these things and because you enjoy sitting I do enjoy sitting at the parks and taking it in take taking things in enjoy sitting as we get older and the and the festival of fantasy Brighton in particular has sort of one. I liked the festival fantasy for sure. So how did the parade start at Walt Disney World? Well, they really started at Disneyland obviously. They’ve been running since the first day the park opened in 1955 at Disneyland The first one was simply called the Opening Day Parade.

Kelli 27:37
Wow, they know hard for that one. Same

Chris 27:40
thing that’s gonna happen on the Walt Disney World version two through the years prior and enter the year prior to the opening of Magic Kingdom in 1971. They actually ran 17 Different parades at Disneyland in some form or another. A lot of times even for just specific moments or launches like the Zorro Days Parade there in 1958 and 59. Okay, interesting. So

Kelli 28:04
Mara is a man with a sword right he is. Is he Disney?

Chris 28:09
Oh yeah. Okay. But but also seasonal parades like the the Disneyland candlelight processional is effectively a parade. Right? They walked down Main Street USA, okay. At the Magic Kingdom, the first parade was held on opening day, October 1 1971, and was just called the character parade. We didn’t have all the amazing colorful floats that we had today. But many of the same characters we see today were there alone with talented musicians like the dapper dance, and antique cars. It included characters from Snow White, and the seven doors Dumbo, Alison Wonderland, Bambi, The Jungle Book, among others. Mickey usually is the grand finale of most of the parades. But that particular braid, he actually kicked off the parade he was at the front. All the other characters followed him. Okay, Magic Kingdom has been home to 19 different themed parades since they first launched and festival fantasy is the most recent. After reopening following the pandemic Disney launched cavalcades Yeah,

Kelli 29:11
I remember that. Which I love.

Chris 29:13
I think they’re great. They’re like they’re many parades, right? There are many parades.

Kelli 29:19
People don’t fight for space. I get it. I get it, honey. Yeah, don’t fight for space, you can always get a good good view. That’s

Chris 29:25
right. The these were really sort of ingenious at a time when the park wanted to provide this kind of entertainment, but thought it best not to create a scenario where half the park was standing in close proximity for up to 20 minutes at a time. These run more often so the chance of seeing it increased with smaller crowds at each viewing and they only took a minute or two to go past. They are like I said small parades, usually just one very elaborately themed float that celebrates a number of characters related to a theme for example, Well, you can see the Disney adventure friends cavalcade their features Miguel from cocoa. The Incredibles Mallanna Mirabelle right. If you’re really lucky, you might see the rainy day cavalcade this is a pretty it’s only do it on rainy days, right? is pretty cute.

Kelli 30:20
Oh, how cute. Tell me they’re wearing like coats and boots. No. So

Chris 30:23
here’s how they do it. Glad you asked. It is just what it sounds like. So cast members are wearing rain gear from head to toe. And like they lead the parade with a little sign that says Disney’s rainy day cavalcade. And right behind these cast members. You’ll have Mickey and Minnie in an old antique car with a cover with like, with a tarp on it. Oh, how cute. Yeah, so they come rolling by, you know, you can see them very clearly. And then you know, those omnibuses that run up and down Main Street like in the mornings. They’re involved in the main street transportation company who runs these Omni buses, they will follow Mickey minis car, and they often carry a lot of princesses or a lot of princesses or other characters. Right. And these are these are pretty cool, because I mean, you you’re standing in the rain, don’t watch it. They’re covered up by the omnibus roof and the car roof. But they’re more at ground level than they usually are in a parade. And so you get like you can get pretty close right to them, you can feel pretty close to that school. The Festival of fantasy parade is currently the biggest parade running at Magic Kingdom it launched in 2014. To celebrate the addition of new fantasyland. New fantasyland technically opened in like I think December of 2012. And then a year later, they launched the festival of fantasy. It’s hard to believe that the new fantasyland is 12 years old. Yeah,

Kelli 31:50
no, but I guess I didn’t 11 years old. I’ve never really thought about it as like new fantasy land. I get that.

Chris 31:58
So it typically includes characters typically because sometimes they’ll pull a float out, you know, for whatever. But it typically includes characters and flows from over a dozen Disney films ranging from Snow White to the frozen movies. The showstopper here is of course the enormous steampunk version of the Maleficent dragon. Right? Is

Kelli 32:18
it still blowing fire right now?

Chris 32:20
No, right now. She’s not allowed to blow fire. But normally she would. She’s fast. She’s fishy three feet long. Yeah, she’s really impressive. Yeah, she slowly Miranda’s meanders down the parade route. And during normal operations stops every once a while and literally breathes out a stream of fire that is very, very dramatic. No, she’s

Kelli 32:41
serious about it for sure.

Chris 32:43
It’s all really pretty ridiculous honestly, and and frankly the tangled float whose comes to my memory to its this is the big it’s a huge float with like these badly huge battle axes that are swinging back and forth. And like characters from the movie are standing on those battle axes. It is crazy.

Kelli 33:02
That is impressive. Yeah, I didn’t remember that till you said it. But no, you’re right. That’s good one. Yep.

Chris 33:05
Magic Kingdom also hosts seasonal parades, which usually can only be seen during special ticketed events like the not so scary Halloween party, or Very Merry Christmas Party. The booty parade or Mickey’s once upon a Christmas time parade are those they feature over the top costuming and performances the grave diggers, that ghostly ballroom dancers, and often even the bride from the Haunted Mansion can be seen in that booty parade. There were in like movie quality makeup to make Oh, yes, their costumes often emit a ghostly glow. Yes, I just tell you Google the grave diggers performance in the parade on you know on Google or something? They’re choreographed routine is so so creepy uncle. Yeah. The 10 soldiers from the Christmas parade are just a dog on delight. And the ones that have Christmas time breaking can be seen usually in late December right around the holidays without going to the ticketed event as a special you know, Christmas time, okay, there.

Kelli 34:07
Okay, that’s cool.

Chris 34:09
Blows me away. Also, the these things are just legit spectacles, the logistics around them are crazy cast members will prep the streets by putting down these, you know, taped lines for walkways. And then they roll out the ropes and then they carry it pull up all that stuff and then they put it back down again for the next one. Right? They don’t leave that stuff out there between you know, two showings of the parade, which is wild to me. They had to play traffic controllers with all the people. The performers travel all the way from Frontier land through Liberty Square around the hub down Main Street and through times, Times Square through town square. And if you attend Magic Kingdom during the holidays, you might witness this four times as festival a fantasy is going to run twice. And then the special seasonal parade is probably also going to run twice in the evenings. Wow. It’s a lot going on there. A lot of effort and it’s absolutely worth it. I think the braids in the cavalcades are great because they provide such proximity and interaction with the characters at the heart of the Disney Experience. Somehow every guest comes away feeling like they had a personal interaction with one of the characters you

Kelli 35:17
got to see the character you got to see him close. There was a time when you could go to Disney and not see and not

Chris 35:21
see a character and without having to stand in a line for a meet and greet right. It’s the best place I think to see rare characters on these floats. It’s also fun to interact with the cast members, some of whom are PhotoPass team members who carry like signs and props that make for great vacation pictures. I like to watch these parades in town square.

Kelli 35:41
Yep, I agree.

Chris 35:43
My favorite parade moment ever. And one of the reasons I’ve come to love the parades. One of our more recent trips post COVID We were having ice cream ever at the Plaza on at the end of Main Street. And a cavalcade suddenly started coming around the hub. That’s one of the cool things about the cavalcade. They can actually sneak up on you. Naturally, Aranda, get picks which the cavalcades allow you to do without your ice cream melting away. This was the princess cavalcade. And Tiana was on the float along with a bunch of other princesses. Okay, three little girls of color were standing right beside me. As I was trying to get pictures. Their reaction to seeing Tiana and being acknowledged by her like they were literally two feet away from her. Their reaction was rapturous. They were beside themselves, I can still hear. Oh my god is like it was five minutes ago. I know they’ll never forget it because I’ll never forget it. Like

Kelli 36:42
you know that Tiana that has to just make her day. She’s got to think right best princes, because I make all the little kids of color happy,

Chris 36:50
man. I mean, and they were beside themselves. I never seen like such a joy on people’s faces as those kids when they saw Tiana right there in their face. Because otherwise, Tiana does have a meet and greet. Right. You had to stand in line, you know, and all that it was great. And I loved it and it makes the parades totally worth it. It’s

Kelli 37:10
fantastic. Yes.

Chris 37:13
So the parades Good job. I

Kelli 37:15
like that segment.

Chris 37:16
Oh good. Thanks. I hope like it was all the people that are listening. Yes. If you did, please help us out. Go out and leave a five star rating on wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review because that’s going to bring others to the show.

Kelli 37:31
Absolutely. And if you’re looking for more things Disney please visit SCF adp.com. That’s s for Super C for Cali everfresh annalistic eight for awesome deeper Disney P for podcast. And don’t forget we’ve got cool merch now

Chris 37:44
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