The parade's return from Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom will help cover for an extended refurbishment of Paint the Night, which will be on hiatus during the Electrical Parade's run. The Main Street Electrical Parade debuts at Disneyland on January 20, 2017 and will run through June 18. The parade originally premiered at Disneyland in 1972 and was said to be "glowing away forever" from the park in November 1996, though it returned to neighboring Disney California Adventure (minus the "Main Street" from its name) from 2001 through 2010.
Disney will offer a hard-ticket pre-premiere event for the parade on Jan. 19. The event will run from 7:30pm to midnight on the 19th, and includes access to selected Disneyland attractions as well as the first public performance of the Main Street Electrical Parade for its limited-time California return. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Dec. 6, to Disneyland annual passholders, and if there are any left, they'll be available to the rest of the public starting Dec. 13. Tickets can be bought at any Disneyland ticket booth or by calling +1-714-781-4636. (We will update with the price as soon as we get it.)
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We're frequent Disney visitors and nothing made my young daughters light up like the ELP. They like the other parades, sure, but this one had them going nuts--it just has so much more energy and whimsy. It doesn't have to constantly remind you it's magic, it just IS magic.
Any chance it'll return to WDW after its Disneyland run?
I am really curious what will happen to the parade after this limited run, as Disney is not promoting this as the final farewell of the parade. My hunch is that, provided the parade still has appeal, Disney may decide to make this an off-peak parade at Disneyland and save Paint the Night for peak season. If/when it is time to send the parade off for good, I really hope Disney will restore it as closely as possible to the original 1972 version for the final run.
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I loved SpectroMagic, but found the music to not be as engaging as MSEP. Now that Paint the Night includes the Baroque Hoedown, and come on...those floats and costumes are AMAZING, I'm not sure that MSEP will excite people as much as Disney is hoping. Plus, if seems like people are feeling a little tricked with how in years past Disney had teased us with, "Glowing away for ever" promotions.
This parade has has more going away tours than Cher.