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"Madames et monsieurs, et vous les enfants! Disneyland Paris est fier de vous presenter son extraordinaire festival d magie nocturne et d'enchantement, dans une feerie de milliers de lumieres, sur une musique electro-synth-magnetique: the Main Street Electrical Parade!"
The Main Street Electrical Parade debuted at EuroDisneyland on 11th April 1992 as part of the Grand Opening of EuroDisney having originally been presented at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World running from 1977 to 1991, when it was then shipped out to the Paris Resort. The famous opening introduction above was presented in French with the parade sponsored by Philips from 1992 to 2002. Thousands of twinkling lights adorned the parade floats bringing nighttime magic to the Park.
Original floats included the Blue Fairy, Casey Junior, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Dumbo's Circus, Pete's Dragon and the Small World floats, these were later joined by the Swan Lake floats in 1997 as a 5th Anniversary gift from Tokyo Disneyland. In 1998, Disneyland Paris recevied the Seven Dwarfs Mine & both Pinocchio's Pleasure Island floats from Disneyland Resort (Anaheim).
Characters filled the parade both on floats and walking with the Casey Junior float featuring Mickey, Minnie and Goofy and occasionally Donald and Pluto, the Dwarfs Mine Train originally included all Seven Dwarfs walking with the float in their lit up mine hats but this was later reduced to just Dopey and Snow White.
The iconic music of Baroque Hoedown was played across the parade route with each floats themed music mixed in with the parade, Disneyland Paris even created a special Christmas version of the famous music.
The parade ended on 23rd March 2003 when the floats were shipped over to Hong Kong Disneyland ahead of their opening in 2005 but the parade never made it to a public appearance and it is unclear what happened to the units from there on. Pinocchio's & Snow White's floats made their way back to the United States to rejoin Disney's Electrical Parade in Disney's California Adventure, while the Swans made it back to Tokyo Disney Resort for the Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights.
Meanwhile Disneyland Paris received their replacement for the Electrical Parade with Fantillusion debuting in Paris on 5th July 2003 from Tokyo Disneyland.
Specifics
- DLP - Parade Route Full
- 1992 Apr 12 - 2003 Mar 23
- 1990/1992 - DLP - Euro Disneyland Grand Opening Celebrations
- 1992 Apr 11
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