DCA's World of Color
 

It struck me that basically the World of Color show at DCA is going to be Fantasy Waters 2.0. It sounds like there are no cast member performers in it. I wonder if it'll seem kind of bland because of the lack of human entertainers running around... This is a link to Al's article about the smaller than expected viewing capacity.

Anyone going to see it when it opens in about a month?

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After experiencing crushing crowds during F! this year I don't have a huge pull to deal with the crowds that will be generated by WoC. My AP also expires in mid-June, so unless things change I won't be seeing it for quite some time.

Letting your Disneyland annual pass expire makes baby Jesus cry.

I knew there had to be an up side.

My pass is currently expired (waiting for WDW so I can get the dual one). I don't think I can deal with the disaster it will be for at least the summer. Unless there are some seating packages like with Fantasmic.

El oh el!
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Like with all Disneyland Report projects there's going to be some problem with WoC. I wonder what it will be... It can't destroy the tracks of Space Mountain by being too heavy, it's not a giant yeti so it can't permanently be broken, it doesn't have to clear passageways on the monorail track, I don't think anything could suck as hard as Light Magic... well we'll have to see. I'm thinking the problem will be with the hydraulics that lift and lower all of the gadgetry in the lake. I predict it will break and they won't be able to fix it for months because they'll have to drain the water to do so. Or they'll run it without some of the promised special effects working properly.

My friend Rik quit over this. He used to be something of a bigwig in Disney Entertainment, and he was adamant that World of Color would never be a second Fantasmic without live performers. He lobbied really hard for a staging zone under the bridge so that performers could be barged out to the lagoon - insisting the show would not have much repeat value if it were just effects and fountains and, best of all for repeat business, film clips.

He and Disney parted ways when they nixed his ideas, and I've been leary about World of Color ever since. The irony is, they most likely will add performers later in a bid to save World of Color when interest wanes in Year 3.

oh, and after reading Al's update, it sounds like seeing World of Color is going to be more of a nightmare than even previously feared. OMG.

I recently visited the Paradise Park viewing area, and it's very nice. But yeah, there's not much great viewing room there. I was bad enough when they were going to make you stand there for hours ... but now the plan is to keep everyone in the Hollywood Backlot only to release you in one giant stampede of run-and-fight for the hundred good viewing spots. Hell, that sounds so horrific.


Adding a third show at 11:30 pm is a good idea though, and hopefully those won't be ungodly crowded. And hey, maybe seeing fireworks and Fantasmic at Disneyland will be a whole lot easier over the summer. Um, if I had any friends that still went to Disneyland once in a while. :(


Anyways, I know I'm gonna want to see WoC once semi-soon after it opens, just as much as pretty much know I'm going to be underwhelmed. I have no doubt it will be pretty and entertaining, but I don't think it will be worth the hassle it takes to see the damn thing.

I want viewing stands on top of the buildings along the walkway so I can get good views of the nightly stampede.