![]() ![]() I was getting to the point in development where I was starting to lose the childhood fantasy that Disney magic was real, and instead had to make the conscious decision to suspend my disbelief. It was during these two trips that I really fell in love with Walt Disney World. In fact, we visited Walt Disney World the week between Christmas and New Years of 2001 when we arrived at MCO, the airport was empty, as were the Disney parks as a result of the recent September 11th attacks in New York City and Washington DC. I was in seventh and eighth grade during those trips and have vivid memories of seeing IllumiNations, Epcot’s Tapestry of Nations/Dreams parade(s), standing beneath the “twelve story sorcerer’s hat” that stood in front of the Chinese Theater at MGM, and watching the “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Day” commercials on our resort television (I still have a special place in my heart for the Fastpass character from these commercials, which was used to educate guests on the new ride reservation system that had rolled out in late 1999). ![]() My family traveled to Walt Disney World during both the Millennium Celebration and the 100 Years of Magic. At this time, the 2000 was dropped from the Epcot fireworks show, which continued being the park’s firework show for the next two decades, complete with the inferno barge and the globe screen. In 2001, the Millennium Celebration gave way to the 100 Years of Magic celebration, which honored the 100th birthday of Walt Disney, celebrated primarily at the then-Disney-MGM Studios park. During this celebration, which was headquartered at Epcot, Disney pushed the message of global unity as the Earth entered a new century and millennium (it was during this time that the infamous Mickey wand, accompanied by the year 2000, was added to the top of Spaceship Earth). ![]() IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth, which was originally known as IllumiNations 2000: Reflections of Earth, premiered on Octoas a part of Walt Disney World’s Millennium Celebration. I am someone who doesn’t like change I’d had a difficult enough time when we recently sold the couches from our living room, which we’d had since we got married eight years ago.Īfter a second thought, it finally came to me enough for me to explain it to my wife: A brand new $4-million lighting grid was unveiled that delivers twice the brightness and a wider spectrum of colour all at a quarter of the energy consumption than the previous illumination.As I was plugging my phone in for the night after the show had concluded, Andrea asked me why I’d gotten upset about a “fireworks show.” I’d been asking myself the same question. The Niagara Falls nightly illumination has greatly improved and changed over the years, with an update as recently as December 2016. Since their erection, The Niagara Falls Illumination Board has financed and operated the Falls illumination. This ultimately led to the creation of the Niagara Falls Illumination Board in 1925, to ensure the management, operation and maintenance of the illumination lights. The group, known as the 'generators', raised enough money to purchase and install 24 new arc lights. It wasn't until a group of Niagara Falls businessmen lobbied for improvement of the Niagara Falls lights that Falls illumination became more common. Niagara Falls at night were forever changed more than 100 years ago in 1860, when 200 Bengel Lights were arranged to illuminate the Falls in honour of an upcoming visit by the Prince of Wales.įrom then until the early 1920s the Falls continued to be illuminated for further Royal visits and special events. ![]()
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