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Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party is now showing as sold out on December 14.
Dates with tickets still available: December 16, 18.
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EPCOT Christmas Tree is now up
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↩ replying to DCBakerUpdate - Disney has added the New Year Countdown Fireworks at Disney's Hollywood Studios to the schedule on December 31 at 11:57pm.
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↩ replying to DCBakerIs this the same as last year or is this a new thing?
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I think during the christmas season they should live stream the Candlelight Processional on disney+ and the disneyland version. It wont hurt attendance as people will still cram in to see it in person. But give everyone the holiday spirit every night before christmas, especially people who have never attended or can no longer attend. Also bring more value to that ever increasing cost of a subscription.
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↩ replying to ppete1975Celebrities would want more money for that (unless they're big Disney fans), same with the orchestra. God knows you'd have to take out a bunch of seats to film it properly... It's logistically complex to put it lightly.
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↩ replying to CompedI am really bummed Jennifer Garner won't be coming, as I had hoped to see her. I also have not enjoyed Candlelight as much since that fantastic poem "One Solitary Life" was removed.
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Jollywood Nights is now showing as sold out on November 15.
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↩ replying to wdwmagicI guess they determined that the Christmas tree makes more revenue through PhotoPass sales than the VIP experience at GEO 82 for fireworks does.
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↩ replying to Meeko77It was not the choice of the creative team, and was effectively forced upon DLE by corporate (specifically legal), because they were afraid of a lawsuit due to "religious offense" from some non-Christian religious groups. Threats of several were made, and in 2013 they removed it because they felt the risk was no longer worth it. True story. Many (including some narrators) are still very angry about it begin removed to this day. Disney may have "had a word" with some of the more hardcore fans who narrate about not using their speaking slot to read the poem.
Fun fact - the poem was also the only time at UCF that I outright heard a religious text read aloud (or really even mentioned). 2nd time I got chills (the other 2, before and after, were seeing the Disney internal only video of Reflections of Earth, with a full flat view of the globe). It is just that good of a poem.
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↩ replying to CompedAre we to believe that in a concert in which sacred songs are sung proclaiming Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and almost all of the narrator's text is straight from scriptures -- again proclaiming Jesus is Lord -- that some anodyne spiel about Jesus's impact on society is a bridge too far?
I'm not arguing it should have stayed in the program. I just find it incredulous that the reason it got the boot was from fear of a lawsuit, which would be totally groundless and immediately dismissed in any court based on the Free Speech and Free Religion clause; not to mention the text of the songs and scriptures propose a much stronger religious sentiment.
Telling people "legal said it had to go" is one of the most common corporate lies to cover any unpopular change.
I wish that that there be no additional non-scriptural text, whether "One Solitary Life" or "How Silent Night was Composed" or the current, awful treacly "Imagine what Mary and Joseph were Thinking!" There's no need to stop quoting scriptures to add in some college intern's poorly composed cloying sentimentality.
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↩ replying to CompedHow do you know the legal team was afraid of a lawsuit?
Given the religious theme of the event that doesn’t make much sense.
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Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party is now showing as sold out on December 18.
December 16 is the last date with tickets still available.