World of Color: Looking back
Today is the birthday of one of Disneyland Resorts greatest nighttime spectaculars World of Color. This massive show combines water, fire and other amazing special effects like no other. A project so big, it took 5 years to plan, design, build and program the show. When the show was announced back in 2007, I was instantly amazed and all in for this new show. The show is nothing that Disney ever did before. Sure the shows in the past had water fountains, but nothing at the scale of World of Color. California Adventure always suffered from the lack of nighttime entertainment save for the aged Electrical Parade. The park needed a brand new show. Paradise Pier, which is the place to put on these large scale shows always had issues with fireworks. Luminaria, the first nighttime show at California Adventure was a firework based show and only lasted one season due to complaints of the smoke from the show going to the hotel guests and the nearby neighborhoods. World of Color would not have fireworks save for 4th of July and New Years Eve.
I followed the show from announcement to opening night on June 11th, 2010. The anticipation always built up every month as the opening night drew near. By fortune, my sister who was a Cast Member at the time got tickets to the first night of Cast Member Preview. My first time seeing it was all heart beating as the show began and I instantly fell in love with the show. I also went to Opening night with a friend and had a blast seeing the 1st show and hearing the applause the first show got. I've seen the show over 100 times and I still love pretending to conduct the fountains and singing along to the songs.
The show has also had me met some amazing people including some fun Cast Members. Disney Parks have ways of bringing people together.
To wrap up this post, heres some shots of the show
Chernabog was a hit but was removed to extend Pirates in on May 2011 |
TRONcore was a hit with the audience. Removed Spring 2011 |
Tarzan made a cameo in "So Close" but was replaced with Rapunzel in May 2011 |
Pirates was extended to include scenes from "On Stranger Tides" the scene would be shortened in the Summer of 2012 to allow Brave in the show |
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