Light Magic - Disneyland 1997 

I LOVE this parade. I remember seeing it and loving it so much. I loved the music, the fiber optics, the step-dancing... I feel 5 years old again watching this video.

I know everyone likes to rag on Light Magic, but you can tell there was a lot of heart put into it's concept and it's music.

I still remember seeing this live as a kid and being so confused LOL

This was actually really good. I've only heard negative things but I think it was over sensationalized although there are flaws in the show it still has tremendous technology even by today's standards

The fairies 🧚🏼‍♂️ faces terrified me when I was young .

Wow. Today I learned thus existed. I had no idea this parade/show happened in 1997. Apparently, my family didn’t see it.

22.54 It's Me!

I wonder what happened to the floats

Love your disney parade videos, I'm a big fan of Disney parades. I do have to say Light Magic had the best muisc and just the other day I was thinking if light magic was a big succes do you think it would still be here today 20 years later.

I remember seeing this as a child and hating it. River dancing pixies. Oof. It didn't even compare to its predecessor.

The music is so nice

Did anyone notice that major portions of the castle are white? Perhaps they should bring back that color scheme.

I wonder this inspired the Disney Fairies franchise. I mean, there were a lot of fairies that are friends to Tinkerbell in Light Magic and even the latter with the direct to video movies, the Celtic inspired soundtrack…..OMG The Mouse predicted the future!!!

When Disneyland smoked too much mushrooms.

I loveeeeeee the show!!!

L o n g e s t opening ever.....I mean, I get it. You don't just drop in massive floats in a matter of seconds, even by today's standards. But damn. Were there any behind the scenes of the production of this parade? Specifically interested in the retrofitting of the fiber optics into the building facades!

I am astounded every time I watch Light Magic videos--at how absolutely awful this "streetacular" was. Absolutely every part of it is terrible. The astonishing thing is not that it was canceled early; the astonishing things are that it every made it off the drawing board and then lasted even a few months. Far and away the worst Disneyland nighttime extravaganza ever, bar none. (BTW, this might be the best of all the videos out there--Quasimodo jigging to Step In Time with grotesque pixies and Clarabelle in the middle of the night couldn't illustrate my point any better.)

So where did the characters come out of?

Hidden Mickey at 13:28

I am to sober to watch this.

This is what happens when you try to follow the trend and not set them yourself. Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance was huge at this time. Instead of re-imagining the MSEP, they tried to make their own version of Flatley's popular show mixed with the MSEP. Epic failure.

I know it’s not the entertainers’ fault. A job doing what you love is one of the greatest things to have if you hafta work- but I wouldn’t be able to follow through with this. It’s just a messsss.

This show was good

Awful parade, Awesome soundtrack.

Awful!!!!!! lol only good segment was the MSEP dance part lol

Omg this looks so stupid. I would think this would just upset small children…cause them to cry. Lol

This is some of the cheesiest, most uninspiring music they have ever made. Migraine inducing.