DLRP Today

It’s a small world afterall… This is the third edition of dlrpTV, a brand new weekly column discovering unique, historic or just simply magical videos from online sharing sites, every Monday (or in this case, Tuesday!). Click here if you missed the introduction!

In just a few weeks, Disney’s Once Upon a Dream Parade will celebrate its first birthday and enter its second year of performances — a fact we should celebrate and rejoice! Why’s that? Because… not every parade in the history of Disneyland Resort Paris has been so lucky.

Disneyland Park’s parade for the new millennium sought to bring together nations around the world with music, characters and colour. With the tallest Disney parade floats ever created, Disney’s ImagiNations Parade was a truly spectacular and rousing spectacle as it traversed the park.

Unfortunately, fate was not kind. As construction began on Walt Disney Studios Park next door and budgets were stretced, it lost a lot of its original dancers and characters. Ultimately, guest feedback suggested it wasn’t popular enough to continue. A lack of characters, and impractical floats for the wind-swept fields of Marne-la-Vallée.

The Photos Magiques team captured the parade during its first and only Summer:

At about this time back in March 2001, Disney’s ImagiNations Parade was cancelled and the floats scrapped. A cut-down version of The Wonderful World of Disney Parade returning to the parade route for what would become a severely extended run — until just this time last year, when Disney’s Once Upon a Dream Parade brought imagination back to Disneyland Park.