Celestial Goodnight - New Epic Universe Nighttime Show

[simon]

 

[Frank Drackman]

Seems like rather than a projection, they will use an LED wash light to illuminate Helios Grand Hotel, just like the grand opening setup!

they are still installing elements for this. The spots are not wired yet (as of today)

 

[simon]

they are still installing elements for this. The spots are not wired yet (as of today)

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Love these painted fixtures, looks cohesive Thanks for updates!

 

[simon]

Awesome update from Annie as always!

The show will be approximately over 6 minutes; the scale of fireworks and lighting seems grander than the Magic Kingdom nighttime spectacular.

I mean jeez, look at the finale. Never seen a scale of theme park fireworks show this big. It's something you see on these crazy Japanese summer fireworks festival and only 1 out of 3 firework launch pad was functional on this rehearsal.

It's truly Epic indeed.

 

[Dapale]

Magic Kingdom’s show is also like 20 minutes, to be fair. But I do agree that the fireworks are high-quality and abundant, hyped to see the final product.

 

[UOR92]

I'm wondering if the fireworks portion is what's going to be "6 minutes". Average Universal nighttime show is around 18-20 minutes.

 

[simon]

I'm wondering if the fireworks portion is what's going to be "6 minutes". Average Universal nighttime show is around 18-20 minutes.

I assume there will be a 3 minute warming-up show just like the beginning of the current nighttime show to gather audiences and 7-8 minutes of fireworks show, including the theme and music of 4 lands.

 

[simon]

Just realized. They have added 2 set of moving heads and 4 sets of par LED spotlights to almost EVERY street lamp in Celestial Park pathway.(This is why you can see projected gobo lights on streets in the testing footage)(The arrangement of these lights is very similar to parade lighting towers in Disney Parks.)(The arrangement of these new lighting sets in street lamps may correspond to a future parade path)

This is related to the new Celestial Good Night show and perhaps a potential parade show that are in development.

 

[DOOMBOT]

From people I know that have been able to see the previews, seems to be a plussed up version of the existing "The Cosmos Fountain" show. New DK sequence and voice lines from Super Mario, Ygor, Victoria, Frank, Hiccup; some more elaborate fountain, spotlight, and LED patterns; and fireworks through the entire show. Roughly 10 minutes or so. No projections, so nothing like the Phoenix test footage from awhile back. Incredibly similar, if not nearly identical audio (narration, music) and general show pacing to what already exists.

Based on all of that, it almost seems like this was the version they had pitched for Opening Year, but due to budget and time constraints they had to supply a non-Marquee scaled back version until they could get everything put in place. If you've seen the existing show, you've already seen about 70% of the upcoming show, if what I've heard is true. One of my friends that had seen it said they preferred Cinesational.