VIDEO - Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade gets an official opening date

Feb 24, 2014 in "Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade"

Posted: Monday February 24, 2014 9:25am EST by WDWMAGIC Staff

March 9 2014 is the big day for the Magic Kingdom's new daytime parade - 'Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade.'

Disney made the announcement of the official opening date this morning, along with providing a couple more videos giving us a look behind the scenes at the creation of the parade. 



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SpectroBroMay 09, 2018

I can say for a fact that the costume with the expandable wings WILL be back. The wings are currently being repaired. They went 4 years with out being replaced so these repairs are much needed.

DisoneMay 08, 2018

bummer.

SquishyMay 08, 2018

Haven't seen this said by anyone yet but, The raven costumes in the festival of fantasy parade seemed to have change for permanently. The costumes currently in use we're temporary in 2017 and only used in windy days but for the past 3-2 months it looks like this is a permanent change. Apparently the wings of the old costumes broke too many times because of the wind. Old costume: New costume:

CrazydisneyfanlukeNov 16, 2015

I haven't seen any in a recent search, could you link one?

riorizNov 16, 2015

There's videos of the 5pm on YouTube

TTA94Nov 15, 2015

Oh I do agree fully that the garland is very much missed! I do hate those stupid wreaths! Im just saying, regardless of the Christmas decor, that FOF is even more awesome at dusk!

JoeCamelNov 14, 2015

Oh Please, I have to whine that they took the garlands down for this parade. How could it possibly be great with the lights when the garlands are missing. This is a travesty that must be rectified by cutting the floats down to size or erecting risers for the garlands at once TIC...

Cesar R MNov 14, 2015

and noone took photos? HERESY!

cjk0318Nov 14, 2015

It's definitely pretty :)

TTA94Nov 13, 2015

Just saw FOF at 5pm because of the Christmas parade taping today.. I still wish they would run it at this time more often! 6 or 7pm would be even better! Seeing FOF with the Main Street lights is really cool!

JoeCamelJun 18, 2015

Uh - no, the idea is to have you pay to come into the park not sit and watch it on your phone?

jrhwdwJun 18, 2015

WDW just Periscoped FOF and it was awesome!!!! Someone PLEASE tell management that they need to do this or set up a Live Cam MUCH more often!!!

dstrawn9889Jun 02, 2015

fridays' show, apparently the parade controls were misbehaving -- wrong audio ques for the floats, onstage effects offline(not triggered)

mm52200Jun 02, 2015

Already an ongoing discussion about this in the thread titled "Mess-tival of Fantasy". It was just one of those days where everything that could have gone wrong happened. I saw the parade in person that day, and I saw it the day before. It was in perfect working order the day before, every single effect was working. So this was definitely a fluke of some sorts.