Message of 'Inside Out' 'Be Happy' Irks on New Disneyland Water Show


The new “World of Color” program of Disneyland Resort begins with some real nostalgia. Standing before a lagoon in Disney California Adventure, we listen to the voice of Walt Disney, and we see a large number of Disney animated classics: “The Little Mermaid”, “Pinocchio”, “The Lion King” and more, projected in sources for a patient and hary interpretation of “Rainbow connection” of the men of Boyz II.

We are prepared for a romantic memory sample while listening to Disney recite the original dedication speech for Disneyland. We are expected that the park is a “source of joy and inspiration”, only when it reaches the word “joy”, the show suddenly changes direction. That's when Joy's character of the “Inside Out” films arrives at the scene, and quickly seals any look back. “World happiness world!” Then it is out of operation, a quick show and focused on music dedicated to all things “happiness.”

Disneyland this July is 70 years old, but the festivities are officially launched on Friday. “World happiness world!” It is one of the many entertainment offers that the park will highlight during the next year, but is designed to be exhibition production, since many others, such as the “Paint the Night” nightly parade, are returning shows. And “Color happiness world!” Establishes the tone of the 70th anniversary celebrations. Disneyland's faithful who remember the 60th anniversary will remember an anniversary year that deepened in the history and tradition of Disneyland.

“Paint the Night”, initially introduced for the 60th anniversary of Disneyland, returns to its 70th.

(Christian Thompson / Disneyland Resort)

By 70, Disney Creatives talked about wanting to create a party atmosphere. Even the logo jumps as a topper of birthday cake, with the number “70” alternatively blocked and rounded as if it were built with glaze. Those after some of that patented Disneyland nostalgia will find it in a brief five -minute projection show on the facade of his small world, but even that production: “Tapestry of happiness”, which looks very good at the work of art of the key designer of the small world, Mary Blair, is a jovial issue.

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Similarly, a projection show in the Circle Circle in California Adventure- “Celebrate Happy: a Little Bit of Magic every night”, is an energetic bite of two minutes, one with Tinker Bell by converting the exclusive room and restaurant in the castle of sleeping beauty at one time and a canvas for fireworks in the next. Consider a mini street festival. In other places, Disney has added “Coco's” Miguel and Dante to his small world, and the Attraction Toy Story Midway Mania video game has been equipped with a large number of new objectives, some worth 700 or 7,000 points.

Even so, of course, there is “Walt Disney, a magical life”, which will open on the official Disneyland anniversary date of July 17. The program will have the debut of a Disney Audioanimatronics figure, and it is expected to tell the myth of Disneyland creation again. Without a doubt, “A Magical Life” will inject Disneyland's 70s celebration, which is scheduled to last until next summer, a dose of history, but for now, the complex wants the guests to stop and dance. Even a new show for Tots, “Disney Junior: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse live!”

A good moment, without a doubt, and yet I found myself losing a touch of sentimentality while looking “world happiness world!” Apparently, a clip program, any “color world” presents a challenge when trying to unite a theme of sometimes dozens of films, some that are raised through a cascade sources pond, and others that float in the sky in projected bubbles ingeniously designed. The songs that are given the central presentations here include “i2i” by “to Goofy Movie” and “He got a Dream” by “Tangled”.

Fireworks projected in a white building

The new projection show “Celebrate Happy: A Little Bit of Magic every night” is a bite of energy that illuminates the restaurant and lounge facade Carthay Circle.

(Christian Thompson / Disneyland Resort)

The narrative line follows the characters of “Inside Out” while surrounding in other Disney films and its surroundings, so much that “happiness!” Sometimes he feels like a short “inside out.” The search for Joy is to discover what makes everyone happy and she fights with some other emotions, such as sadness and anxiety, and “surface pressure” of “charm” comes to remind us that happiness is not always easy to achieve. But that moment is fleeting. Joy has a mission.

I want it to dig a little deeper. Happiness, after all, is not always our goal, and Disney movies have a breath of emotions, including a number that focuses on finding strength in adversity. “Happiness!” Look, with quick references to “The Lion King” or “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, but the focus is to have an explosion: the band of boys falls in love with “become red”, for example, or topics such as focusing on a dream and making a desire (“this desire”). Have we forgotten the lessons of “The Princess and the Frog”?

However, “Happiness!” It is so firm, by oppressive limit, I would say, in his message that here, in Disneyland, with family or friends, we are happy, that he became the rare Disneyland show that I really felt slightly excluded. Happiness is a luxury, and the public will bring their own emotions to the show. I arrived in the midst of what has been a difficult year, one that makes me resort to Disneyland, yes, but by comfort instead of pure joy.

Disney's dedication speech indicates that it is a place dedicated to “the ideals, dreams and hard events” that the United States has created, and throughout the park we find idealized messages, but those who help us make sense of the world instead of wishing it. Whether exploring gluttony and sin (Pirates of the Caribbean), the impermanence of life (haunted mansion) or perseverance in hard work (the enchanted desire of Snow White), Disneyland delights in the disorder of life.

“World happiness world!” He focuses on a search for the character of “Inside Out” Joy to discover what makes each of us happy.

(Be Teegarden / Disneyland Resort)

At the end of “World of Color Happiness!”, Which concludes with an optimistic commercial tintineo of a melody of Fitz of Fitz and the tantrums, I found myself wanting to shout at Joy: Leave me alone and let me be depressed. Because that is totally well, “Happiness!” It does not aim to be anything but a marketing motto, “celebrate happy”, for the 70th of Disneyland.

And yet, I was delighted with the pre-show for “Happiness!” Here, we see the Muppets, also celebrating a 70th anniversary, we try not to give a security spiel. Gonzo wants to perform a trick, Miss Piggy aims to steal the show, and Dr. Tejidas and the electric chaos fail to reunite the band. Ultimately, the work is done, but not without a variety of comic attacks and beginnings. Here he is betting, he brings you a smile to your face, and he does it without telling you to do it.

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