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.
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