Disney Magic on Parade

Disney Magic on Parade is the current daytime parade at Disneyland Park. Based on Disney's Once Upon a Dream Parade, this 20th Anniversary spectacular has new music, new costumes and some fully redesigned new floats.

The parade replaces Disney's Once Upon a Dream Parade, a parade which had been featured at the park since 2007 to 2012, while featuring floats from that former parade. It features a new theme song "Magic Everywhere".

The new floats start with the reworking of the original Dreams of Imagination opening float as "Making Magic". Its sun, moon and hot air balloon for Mickey and Minnie were icons of the old parade, and they've been completely cleared off the storybook float to make way for a pink castle and three characters: the Fairy Godmother, the Blue Fairy and Merlin.

Opening the parade are the Three Good Fairies, who appear to move magically across the parade route using some kind of hands-free segue system. It’s a clever “floating” effect which, along with the nice mix of rarer characters here, might just about make up for the disappointing opening float itself, completely lacking the presence, quality and imagination of Dreams of Imagination.

From here, the parade consists of four relatively unchanged original floats, now renamed as Magic of Laughter & Fun, Magic of Friendship, Magic of Adventure and Magic of Fantasy. Within these we see the arrival of the White Rabbit, new puppet dancers alongside Pinocchio and Geppetto, bumblebees following Winnie the Pooh, colorful birds flying either side of Adventure and purple-clad pearly kings and queens following Mary Poppins. Each float has a hidden ’20’.

The grand finale is preceded by more dancers, floating on segues, dressed in pink, purple and orange. Repainted in similarly bright shades, Magic Everywhere is the new name for the former Dreams of Romance: Finale unit, now home to Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Chip ‘n’ Dale, Goofy and — yes — Duffy. Mickey Mouse, in a new variation of his classic sorcerer’s outfit, ends the parade atop the blue Fantasia-inspired hillside, dotted with anthropomorphized mops holding buckets.