What Disney confirmed in the last several months, has a lot of us in tears good and bad.

This year we are getting confirmation of the news that most people do not want to hear. Like the Tower of Terror attraction at Disney’s California Adventure park, getting re-themed to "Guardians of the Galaxy" next year. Although the attraction won’t close until January 2017, as per Disney tradition, so this gives a little time for people to experience the ride before it goes under refurbishments. This change in California has no change to the Tower of Terror at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando. With the new theme, this gives room for Disney’s California Adventure Park to add in more Marvel-related attractions, since Walt Disney World can’t do that due to Universal Studios Orlando having those rights at the moment, east of the Mississippi river.

Now for the actual dreaded news. Paint the Night is officially ceasing their run this September. Actually September 5^th is the last night for the parade to be continuing down Main Street consecutively. But fear not! Paint the Night is not officially leaving Disneyland. It will still be in California, believe or not. It just won’t play every night. As Disney says, it will become a seasonal parade for now. That means that it will be at Disneyland, and will not move down to Walt Disney World as people keep speculating. You can check out the entertainment calendar on the Disneyland website to see when it will be playing so you can catch it when you plan your next Disney vacation. It probably won’t be as often as you would like, but at least it’s not leaving.

Although let’s talk about the problem about Paint the Night, going over to Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. For those who has never seen the parade, you should look up the map of the Disneyland Park. Go compare it to Magic Kingdom’s layout. The parade route that Disneyland has comes out of small world area and goes straight down Main Street with very little turns. Essentially it’s a straight path after turning a little down towards Main Street from fantasyland. After reaching the end of Main Street, it curves into the parade exit near the Abraham Lincoln attraction.

Now if you look at Magic Kingdom, the parade route that we normally see, using the Festival of Fantasy parade as an example. The parade comes out of frontier land and goes all the way down through liberty square turning into where the Castle hub is and after the half circle, goes straight down Main Street until it reaches to the end where it curves down towards near city hall and the fire department building. Honestly it is way too rough right now for the current floats of Paint the Night to follow in Magic Kingdom. I mean have you seen Mac (cars) the truck? That truck is huge, and cannot make all the turns that Magic Kingdom has for their route.

Now the good news for a lot of people, and bad news for some is that Disney’s Main Street Electrical Parade is finally leaving the Magic Kingdom, and returning to its original park. While it is going to leave Magic Kingdom this early October, it isn’t going to Disneyland anytime soon. The soonest the parade will go to the parks is early next year. Now we don’t know the exact dates but it will be there hopefully by the end of winter/early spring.

No word yet for a new night time parade for the Magic Kingdom, but let’s hope that they don’t keep us in the dark about that for too long.

Dates:

Final performance for Disney’s Electrical Parade at Magic Kingdom – October 9^th, 2016

Final consecutive performance for Paint the Night at Disneyland – September 5^th, 2016