Bring back the parade!

[Kimberle]

Showing the parade itself won't take more than 20 minutes. Show the parade, then show the musical acts, etc.

 

[MIGrandma]

I've been watching the Rose Parade on HGTV for years, always enjoy it until this year. Those annoying tweets!!! Occasionally they stopped showing them and it was nice, but most of the time they had them at the bottom and to me they were just so annoying and distracting. I tried to ignore them and just not read them, but occasionally did read them. One just said their new year's resolution was to have their tweet shown on air. Good grief? Really?

The floats were beautiful, as always, though.

I wish Louis could have lived long enough to be the Grand Marshall, but it was nice to see his family, and the float dedicated to him, that was awesome!

 

[sleepydog25]

Showing the parade itself won't take more than 20 minutes. Show the parade, then show the musical acts, etc.

True about the parade length, but they'd never show it live anyway, I'm sure. However, an imaginative producer could certainly find a way to highlight the Disney parades in their entirety (DL and WDW) and have the singers and tie-ins be secondary to the Disney characters and theme. I don't mind if the production isn't totally live (though I'm sure there is a way they could do that, too, if they wanted), but this year's Disney celebration thingie stunk.

I didn't like the tweets, either, as they were annoying and, like most tweets, inane. I did manage to concentrate on the floats and bands for the most part. I especially loved the Pasadena City College Honor Band--they played snippets from at least eight sci-fi/fantasy based films while marching nearly flawlessly. They started with Lost in Space and transitioned to the following at one time or another: Star Wars, Wizard of Oz, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Jetsons, and finished with Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star as they turned the corner. Superb job!

 

[rajak73]

But for some of you...(the FP+ fans) I thought Disney could do no wrong

Obviously they can and they do, this debacle was the perfect example. We put it on and did not pay any attention to it because it was boring.

DH is convinced that they are having problems with Aulani since all they do is promote it to death, even through DVC.

But for some of you...(the FP+ haters) I thought Disney could do no right.
I have this fancy newfangled thing on my tv called a "channel changer" If I don't like what I'm watching I just hit a little button and wala, I can change the channel to something I want to watch. I didn't like the parade either but didn't watch something I don't like for 2 hours, just used the fancy button.

 

[Ilivetogo]

Not a fan of the "show" this year. It's usually the "parade". We liked the "parade".

Hated all the Tweets at the bottom. Super annoying.

When they (finally) showed one of the floats, or characters walking, or whatever, it was on the screen for mere seconds before flashing away. Really?

Too many singers doing "show" acts.
The reunions were nice, but irrelevant to the parade.
I'm not a huge cheer-fan, but the cheerleader thing was really cool and well done. However, all those marching bands that get to play there have worked really hard to get there. Show them for more than 12 seconds!!!!!

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