Main Street Electrical Parade Part 1 

I was in this parade in 1979 and 1980 - I was one of the dancing mice in front of the Cinderella carriage. We were called "Rats" and I still think we were the cutest characters in the parade! Thank you for posting this!! It's great footage of the Rats!! I get choked up and teary-eyed remembering those summers, and my very last Electrical Parade in 1980.

Just as I remember it in 1981...Moog synth music and all. Thanks for posting this!

One of the reasons I miss the OLD music! The new soundtrack doesn't have the same vitality as the original.

I love the opening voice and when all the lights go out!!

I love it when everyone claps in the beginning too! I don't stop clapping! XD I want everyone to see that the same baseline runs through the whole parade, under all of the units.

That's true. I wish they bring it back. During the Christmas holidays, when the're not performing the Very Merry Christmas Parade of course. I loved it.

WOW! tears in my eyes too...Thank you so much...I hope someday someone at WDW will see fit to bring that back to the Magic Kingdom..where it belongs...

I couldn't agree more.

The original float though was like, 12-ish Blue Knights. The Blue Knights rocked.

the sad thing is, the one chance I had to see this in person was in 1999, but i cant even remember it bcuz i was 7 and i feel really bad about it... but i get to go to Disneyland next year, and I have the life mission of seeing the parade that i shall fulfill! i hope they dont take it out b4 then :(

Heck yeah! That's the business!!!!

It's coming back to WDW this summer, so maybe you'll have the chance!

All the times I have seen the parade I wondered how they are able to see in the dark to drive the floats and how they can get so close to the public.I know that the turtle,snail, & bumble bee floats the drivers dont spin with the float. Its on a seperate mechanism.

Ah I miss this! They should bring it back

@jdh2006 Yeah, but in my opinion, the old music and new music are both pretty good.

There's some talk about using the Dreamlights version of the music for the MSEP return.

I'm sad that the MSEP has changed...I was looking forward to possibly taking my kids to see it one day.

Very true. Those didn't come until '85, as I understand it. This is one of the best videos of the parade I've seen, from WDW '99-'01. You even got the Electric Fanfare and opening announcement. Great job! Where exactly were you positioned mcrtnyfan?

@cmontheplane Are you serious? SWEET!!! Where did you hear this?

Me too! I'm worried it'll be that re-recorded garbage they used at DCA last year....

Apparently, it went with the WDW parade when it was moved to Disneyland Paris.

I went to Disney paris for the first time in 1999 and loved this parade to death, i bought the CD with track on it, track number 9

I know! I noticed that too! Is it really THAT much more expensive to have four more people carry her train? Like, come on! That's like 12 or 16 court dancers in the Cinderella Unit. They JUST upgraded to 16 at California Adventure this year. It's inexplicable.

great job all around. too bad about the guy with the lightsaber, but what can you do. Since I've never been to DW, interesting to see the differences between the DL and DW versions. did you do the video to digital transfer yourself or send it out?

how bout that part with peter pan and captain hook. look at em go!

Yeah, except in those days, there was no section themed to Peter Pan or Snow White.

i was there in june 99!

There's no difference in the DW and DL parades here because those ARE the DL parade floats. :)

I never did the video to digital transfer