Seeing a huge gold bullion from Pirates of the Caribbean on the castle sent shivers down my spine. Illuminations feels less like it was made for specifically for Sleeping Beauty Castle than Dreams!, which of course it wasn’t, not originally anyway.ĭisney Illuminations – Finding Nemo and Pirates of The CaribbeanĪfter The Little Mermaid we get Finding Nemo, because you know, water! I should probably write more about the Nemo scene, but really it’s not my favourite film by a long stretch, and sandwiched in between The Little Mermaid and what comes next, it feels a little out of its depth – pun not intended.
Speaking of which, Sleeping Beauty Castle is used more as a projection screen than with Dreams!, where you had breathtaking scenes such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, utilising the contours and landscape that Disney’s most beautiful Castle offered it. We go to the next scene via Mickey, who falls off of a log into the water, cue The Little Mermaid, which looks fantastic on the Castle.
Water flowing down the Castle was always a high point of Dreams! and in the Lion King scene it is again, accompanied by music that we all know and love. The combination of music, special effects, fireworks and visuals in that opening scene are pretty much perfect.ĭisney Illuminations – The Lion King and The Little Mermaidĭisney Illuminations then takes us on a journey through a variety of films, each one looking as stunning as the next…almost. What was evident from that first scene is that the video mapping, lasers and everything that goes into making these spectaculars in Disneyland Paris, had now entered a new phase, one in which each and every element had been improved upon, with stunning results. I’m more of a fan of Mickey than I am Peter Pan, though I do like Peter a lot, so I wasn’t missing Dreams! at this point, not at all. I’ll start by saying that the opening segment with Mickey Mouse is superb, and the emotions that I was assured I wouldn’t have, I did from the get go. Firstly I wasn’t interested in seeing a video when I could see the show with my own eyes, and secondly the two Castles are very different, so even IF it were exactly the same footage (it isn’t) then it would be presented differently.Īpologies for the quality of the images – I like to use my own images where possible and I used my ailing mobile phone. Being the spoiler avoider that I am, I didn’t watch any of the leaked footage, nor did I rush over to YouTube and watch Ignite the Dream from Shanghai Disneyland when everyone and their uncle told me they were the same show. I was very fortunate to be there for the public premiere of Disney Illuminations in Disneyland Paris on Saturday 25th March, and even though I was almost alone in not knowing John Legend’s music, he sounded pretty terrific during the pre-show, especially when he sung Beauty and the Beast with the Sleeping Beauty Castle sparking along with the music. However, when Disney Illuminations was announced, I wasn’t sad that Disney Dreams! was ending, but more excited for what we were getting – a new night time show, with the some different film franchises featured, mostly.
I’ve watched it many times since, through its various scene changes and seasonal variations and have been a fan throughout, some incarnations more than others.
I was a huge fan of Disney Dreams! when I watched with the live premiere (ahem) with the rest of the online community, and I was an even bigger fan when 6 weeks later I watched it with my own eyes, and ears, in Disneyland Paris.
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