Starlight soft opening tonight at 9 pm!!!

[Disturbia]

Are the characters clearly visible on the floats? Watching videos online I thought the characters were not brightly lit (royals float in particular) as previous parades.

 

[DisneyFive]

My point was that I don’t think the people with the props were meant to be seen. No need to be condescending with the LOL.

The prop holders with the butterflies on their heads and with the diamonds are not dancing. They’re just walking.

My thoughts exactly. No disrespect to them at all but they were walking with props.

Thanks for the clarification.

Sorry I Didn’t mean to be condescending, It just truly made me laugh out loud that they weren’t supposed to be seen(which is partly because I didn’t read your comment very closely) . I think the problem is, I consider the people walking around as a whole, not separating the actual person from the props that they are wearing or holding. I’m not really up-to-date on parade terminology so I don’t really differentiate between walking and dancing I guess. They were walking/flitting around in what looked like a choreographed way, which looks like dancing to me. I agree that the dark outfits are that way to focus on the other props they are wearing or holding.

Part of the reason for my original comment was that others were saying there was not much going on in between floats, but there really is. Didn’t feel lacking to me

To the person who asked if the characters are well lit on the floats, yes, they are. Very nicely. The problem with cameras is that the lights are so bright on the floats that the camera doesn’t pick up the characters as well, but they really are easily seen all the colors are very bright and colorful actually.

Here are a couple of (not very good) screen captures from some video I took of the “dancers” walking around between floats

 

[DizneyFamof4]

I saw a video by a DISNEY ENTERTAINMENT CM who worked the parades for years and still friends with. She watched SOFT a few times, had concerns so she contacted some of her friends who are in the parade. She asked them if after soft there would be more added; characters walking like usual parades or them getting actual costumes (not black) or them getting choreography as opposed to just walking with a prop. They said NO this is what it is.

She stated she was very disappointed because parades are supposed to be stories that flow and the on the ground CMs in great costumes, dancing etc are what connects the story and floats. I mean she is right, think about Boo to You and Christmas and the daytime. Some of the best parts are the free walking and dancing characters. Hopefully Disney hears some feedback and adds on to it.

We had high hopes for the parade after seeing the sketches, but our family thought the parade as a whole was just ok and not as good as Electric Light or even SpectroMagic. We really liked the floats, but we also thought that there was just to many floats with mainly blue lights. Like others have mentioned, it really needed more in between the floats too and was to dark. We missed having at least a few characters on the ground and we were disappointed with the music, all the other parades we would be humming the parade theme afterwards but not this one. We would have been happier if they just brought the Paint the Night parade that Disneyland had.