World of Color

World of Color is a nighttime show at Disney California Adventure, part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The entire show cost $75,000,000 USD to design, manufacture and build,undefinedpremiering on Friday June 11, 2010 as part of "Summer Nightastic!". Designed by Walt Disney Creative Entertainment, the show has more than 1,200 fountains and includes lights, water, fire, fog, and lasers, with high-definition projections on mist screens. Mark Hammond and Dave Hamilton arranged the music, which was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Construction and Development
The show was first announced as part of the Disney California Adventure Park expansion in the fall of 2007. Construction for the water show began with the draining of the lagoon on November 3, 2008. Construction on the platform began on January 5, 2009. The water was refilled in Paradise Bay in November 2009. Testing began during and after park hours in January 2010. A 25-minute video of sequences from the show was posted on YouTube by a hotel guest staying at Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel on April 7, 2010. The first performance was held on June 5, 2010 for the creators of the show and guests. In the week leading up to June 11, private viewings for cast members, contest winners, and a celebrity-filled World Premiere took place.

Early plans also called for a small orange fountain, named Little Squirt, that was meant to embody Walt Disney's artistic and mischievous spirit, and it appears at the very end of the after show (the post-show that plays after the main World of Color show). After all the other fountains turn off, the little orange fountain remains on for a couple seconds as it bows to the audience, then disappears.

Show Elements
The show uses 1,200 fountains that can shoot water up to 200 ft in the air. Each fountain is equipped with and LED light ring. Other water features include a 380-foot-long mist screen on which images are projected (similar but smaller screens are used in Fantasmic! at Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida). Fire nozzles are capable of shooting flames up to 50 ft in the air. Fog and lasers are used.undefinedProjection domes emerge from the water atop telescopic masts and feature lighting effects and video projected onto the inside surface of the domes.undefinedA 65' tall telescopic mast was installed in the lagoon, to create Chernabog of Fantasia, but the tower has not been used since May 2010. Mickey's Fun Wheel has its lights synchronized throughout the show.

A new holiday edition of the show, titled "Winter Dreams", hosted by Olaf the Snowman from Frozen, will debut in 2013.

Searchlights and other light towers rise from boxes bordering Paradise Bay. Special animation sequences were created using paper animation by paper artist Megan Brain, who created many characters for the show. The music was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, England with over one hundred musicians. Australian Choreographer Joshua Horner created a unique interpretation of the music for the Disney Creative Entertainment team thus serving as another source of inspiration for the movement of the water fountain sequences.

The viewing area is known as Paradise Park. Situated along the northern shore of Paradise Bay, the viewing area can hold up to 4,000 spectators at full capacity. It is multi-tiered, similar to the viewing area for Fantasmic at Disneyland in the same resort. It features trellises, flowers, and an interactive play fountain during the day. Hidden fountains located in the flower beds in the viewing area, are incorporated into the stampede scene from The Lion King, as well as the finale.

Permanent Sequences
-Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

-Walt Disney Introduction

-The Little Mermaid

-Part of Your World

-Under the Sea

-Finding Nemo

-The EAC (East Australian Current)

-Dory Speaks Whale

-Fantasia 2000

-Pines of Rome

-Wall-E

-Eve and Wall-E

-Toy Story

-Andy's Room

-Buzz Lightyear vs. Zurg

-Up

-Frank's House

-Aladdin

-A Whole New World

-Friend Like Me

-Brave

-Touch the Sky

-Remember to Smile

-Fantasia 2000

-Spring Sprite

-Pocahontas

-Just Around the Riverbend

-Colors of the Wind

-A Bug's Life

-Heimlich

-The Old Mill

-Storm

-Bambi

-Little April Showes

-Pirates of a Carribean

-Yo Ho (a Pirates Life for Me)

-He's a Pirate

-The Lion King

-Mufasa's Death

-Finale

-So Close

-The Lion King

-Dumbo

-Bambi

-Tangled

-Lady and the Tramp

-Beauty and the Beast

-The Princess and the Frog

-Cinderella

-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

-Sleeping Beauty

-Alice in Wonderland

-Lilo and Stitch

-The Hunchback of Notre Dame

-Tinker Bell

-Aftershow

-The Wonderful World of Color (pop version)

-Little Squirt

Future Additions
'''World of Color-Celebrate! The Wonderful World of Walt Disney is a nighttime spectacular that will premier on May 22, 2015, along with Paint the Night, a spectacular nighttime parade, and Disneyland Forever, a fireworks spectacular, all of which are part of Disneyland's Diamond Celebration''' which celebrates the 60th anniversary of Disneyland Resort. Concept artists revealed the ideas that the new version would have a Alice in Wonderland unit and The Princess and the Frog unit, along with an adapted version of the opening them song.

Alternate Sequences

 * TRONcore - (October 29, 2010 - March 23, 2011)
 * The Game Has Changed
 * Fall


 * Extended Pirates of the Caribbean (May 20, 2011 - June 15, 2012)
 * "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)"
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
 * "My Jolly Sailor Bold"
 * "Mermaids"
 * "Drink Up Me Hearties" (from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End)


 * Disney's Prep & Landing (Holiday Intro to the show) (November 14, 2011- January 8, 2012)
 * Brave - (June 15, 2012 - Present)


 * Winter Dreams - (November 15, 2013 - January 6, 2014)
 * Snow – a breathtaking ride through winter- Bambi, Frozen, Fantasia
 * Glow – a festive exploration of light
 * Enchantment – a Disney•Pixar Toy Story version of The Nutcracker
 * Spirit – a joyous sing-a-long
 * Merry & Bright – a fantastic finale that features holiday light

Voice cast

 * Corey Burton: World of Color Announcer
 * David Frankham: Narrator for Wonderful World of Color
 * Jodi Benson: Ariel
 * Phillip Lawrence: Sebastian
 * Keith Ferguson: Crush
 * Ellen DeGeneres: Dory
 * Albert Brooks: Marlin
 * Elissa Knight: EVE
 * Ben Burtt: WALL-E
 * Tom Hanks: Woody
 * Tim Allen: Buzz Lightyear
 * John Ratzenberger: Hamm
 * Andrew Stanton: Zurg
 * Jeff Pidgeon: Little Green Men
 * Bob Peterson: Dug
 * Brad Kane: Aladdin (singing voice)
 * Lea Salonga: Jasmine (singing voice)
 * Robin Williams: Genie
 * Kelly Macdonald: Princess Merida
 * Billy Connolly: King Fergus
 * Judy Kuhn: Pocahontas (singing voice)
 * Bill Nighy: Davy Jones
 * Johnny Depp: Jack Sparrow
 * Penélope Cruz: Angelica
 * Gemma Ward: Tamara
 * Ian McShane: Blackbeard
 * Jonathan Taylor Thomas: Simba
 * James Earl Jones: Mufasa
 * Jeremy Irons: Scar
 * Paige O'Hara: Belle
 * Josh Gad: Olaf
 * Petet Behn: Thumper
 * Idina Menzel: Elsa the Snow Queen
 * Estelle Harris: Mrs. Potato Head
 * Don Rickles: Mr. Potato Head
 * Joan Cusack: Jessie
 * Larry the Cable Guy: Mater
 * Kristen Bell: Anna
 * Santino Fontana: Hans