World of Color – ONE is the brand new nighttime spectacular at California Adventure debuting for the Disney100 celebration at Disneyland Resort on January 27, 2023. This publish shares a sneak peek at photographs & video of the present, particulars in regards to the digital queue, and a few fast commentary.
According to Disneyland, World of Color – ONE will characteristic an inspiring message that illustrates the storytelling legacy Walt Disney started a century in the past in a outstanding manufacturing by Disney Live Entertainment. In so doing, the brand new nighttime spectacular options songs and tales of a few of the most brave, loving, and galvanizing characters who dared to be wavemakers and alter the world.
World of Color – ONE is only one of many new experiences and particular choices coming to the resort in honor of The Walt Disney Company’s a hundredth Anniversary this 12 months. Also debuting on the identical date as World of Color – ONE is one other all-new nighttime spectacular, “Wondrous Journeys Fireworks at Disneyland.
World of Color – ONE celebrates how a single motion–akin to a drop of water–creates a ripple that may develop right into a wave of change. You’ll uncover the way it solely takes one motion to make an influence on the folks in our lives and the world round us. This mirrors how one man–Walt Disney–began the wave that has continued to develop and encourage folks across the globe for 100 years.
Against that backdrop, listed below are extra particulars in regards to the highly effective story in World of Color – ONE and how one can expertise the brand new nighttime spectacular when it debuts. First, right here’s a sneak peek:
Interestingly, World of Color – ONE is the primary nighttime spectacular in both park at Disneyland Resort to characteristic characters, music, and moments from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel, and Star Wars in the identical manufacturing. (In equity, previous incarnations of World of Color have had every part besides Marvel–and again after they did the pre-show tags, there have been a variety of properties represented.)
World of Color – ONE will characteristic moments from favourite movies together with The Lion King, Moana, Coco, Mulan, Soul, and others. These tales will come alive on an immense water display screen that may span as much as 380 ft throughout.
Over three years after his first look on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update (in addition to The Mandalorian, I assume), Baby Yoda will even lastly seem in a nighttime spectacular at Disneyland Resort. Oh, heeeeeell yeah!
Other films that look like included based mostly on the preview photographs and video are Encanto, Dr. Strange, and Pocahontas. If latest nighttime spectaculars at Walt Disney World are any indication, just about every part that has lately appeared on Disney+ can also be more likely to be showcased. So count on Onward, Turning Red, Luca, Brave, Raya and the Last Dragon, Zootopia, Princess and the Frog, and extra. I’ve no robust opinion on the inclusion of most of these, save for Onward–I feel it’s time to maneuver on from that one; it doesn’t have endurance.
According to Disneyland, this spectrum of tales is ready to a gorgeous musical rating comprised of 18 totally different compositions, together with a brand new, unique tune “Start a Wave,” which was written by GRAMMY-nominated artist Cody Fry and options lead vocals carried out by singer-songwriter and actress Loren Allred.
“Start a Wave” sounds promising, though we solely heard a small portion of it. I’m cautiously optimistic about that unique tune, and it might go a good distance it making World of Color – ONE a extra cohesive nighttime spectacular. (I’m assuming it gained’t be by itself given the numerous disparate properties. Would like to be unsuitable about that.)
In addition to being a driving metaphor within the story of World of Color – ONE, water performs a starring position in reworking Paradise Bay through the present. Each musical second is delivered to life by mist screens and 1,200 dancing fountains, mixed with good lighting, projection, laser, fog and flame results.
You may even put on your MagicBand+ to expertise one other dimension of storytelling to World of Color – ONE! According to Disney, your MagicBand+ will improve the consequences with synchronized dancing lights and vibrations.
Side word: since launch, I’ve barely seen anybody–except for Cast Members attempting to promote them–sporting MagicBand+ at Disneyland. It certain looks like a colossal flop, and doubtless solely a matter of time earlier than Magic Key giveaways or meet-ups to seed extra of those, a la Glow with the Show ears. Wouldn’t be stunned if that occurs with the kickoff of the 100 Years of Wonder Celebration.
The immersive journey of World of Color – ONE builds to an emotional and uplifting finale that highlights how, after we come collectively and mix our efforts, many drops can turn into an ocean. You’ll stroll away feeling impressed to start out a ripple of your personal and be the one to make a wave for the longer term.
This makes me barely extra (cautiously) optimistic about World of Color – ONE. As intimated above (and beforehand), my concern is that this might be akin to Disney Enchantment, which is actually “A Salute to All Things Disney, But Actually Just the Disney+ Streaming Content We Want to Promote.”
If World of Color – One is celebrating the legacy began by Walt Disney and 100 years of the corporate, it stands to cause that 10% of the present is from the final decade. I’m an inexpensive individual, and would even be okay with 15 to twenty% of the present being from the final decade. My worry is that it’s going to cram in too many fashionable and dissimilar IPs, and find yourself extremely disjointed consequently.
My hope is that Disney Live Entertainment acknowledges how and why the Walt Disney World fiftieth Anniversary nighttime spectaculars flopped, and what the viewers at Disneyland expects. I assume the creatives are properly conscious of this, however they’ve mandates from on excessive about IPs that have to be highlighted and might solely achieve this a lot.
While I’d count on higher steadiness consequently, it’s additionally potential that Wondrous Journeys is considered because the “sentimental show” and World of Color – ONE is the “synergy spectacular.” I’d love each to be the previous, tugging on the heartstrings with a compelling and cogent manufacturing, I’d additionally settle for the compromise that the Disneyland fireworks are the nostalgia play and that is the IP powerhouse. When it involves as we speak’s Disney, that’s ok–even for what purports to be the a hundredth Anniversary.
There’s additionally the sensible actuality that previous World of Color ‘special editions’ have been underwhelming nearly throughout the board, with the notable exception of Season of Light. I’m nonetheless scarred by World of Color – Celebrate, so the bar is fairly low on new twists on that wonderful nighttime spectacular. This additionally illustrates how visible wizardry can solely achieve this a lot–World of Color is an outstanding present, which many credit score to the fountains and so forth. Beautiful as these are, they weren’t sufficient to hold subpar incarnations of the nighttime spectacular!
When “World of Color – ONE” debuts, it is possible for you to to entry viewing areas for the present by a digital queue system out there solely through the Disneyland app. Distribution for the complimentary digital queue will start at midday, every day (topic to availability), and is on the market for visitors who’ve entered Disney California Adventure for the day or have entered Disneyland with a Park Hopper ticket.
On nights when there are a number of World of Color – ONE showtimes, distribution for added showtimes will start instantly after distribution for the primary showtime has ended. If you’ve obtained a digital queue choice, enter your designated viewing space on your designated present time through one of many two marked entrance factors (Blue or Yellow) roughly 30-45 minutes earlier than the present begins. Step by step directions for the digital queue system can be found right here.
If the digital queue reaches capability, verify in with a solid member on the Paradise Bay viewing space shortly earlier than “World of Color – ONE” begins for walk-up viewing choices. Joining the digital queue shouldn’t be required, however it’s extremely really helpful as walk-up viewing choices for every efficiency can be found on a first-come, first-served foundation.
As was the case when World of Color first returned (and nonetheless is true on busier days), it’s doubtless that the digital queue for World of Color – ONE will replenish each performances inside seconds or minutes initially. How lengthy this can final is anybody’s guess. Since the brand new nighttime spectacular is debuting through the low season, it is perhaps the case that it solely fills up instantly on weekends and vacation weeks, spring break, after which everything of summer season. It’s potential that it’ll e book to capability inside seconds every single day of 2023…or that the present might be such a dud that it seldom fills up. There’s an enormous vary of outcomes; our recommendation is to err on the facet of warning and be able to e book rapidly proper when the clock strikes 12:00:00 pm!
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Are you wanting ahead to World of Color – One at Disney California Adventure? Excited that it’ll characteristic Baby Yoda, Dr. Strange, and different characters from the Marvel and Star Wars universes, or involved that it’ll have too many several types of IPs, and be disjointed consequently? Thoughts on the theme tune? What about World of Color – ONE utilizing a digital queue? Do you agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions? Hearing your suggestions—even whenever you disagree with us—is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!