Ladybug

Ladybug
Background information
Park attractions	Main Street Electrical Parade
Character information
Occupation	Electrical Parade bug
Likes	Impressing guests
Status	Active

Not to be confused Mrs. Ladybug from "James and the Giant Peach".

The Ladybug is a character from the Main Street Electrical Parade at the Disney Parks.

Background

The ladybug is a coccinellid featured in Electrical Parade. It is consistently featured in the Alice in Wonderland-themed unit of most versions of Electrical Parade, more specifically on a mushroom float where a butterfly is resting. Unlike most animal-themed parade floats such as turtles, snails, or lightning bugs, the ladybug does not twirl but rather moves normally. The ladybug often appears with a black head, two antennae, and a red abdomen with black spots, which are common details of a ladybug.

Effects

The ladybug was designed with a mix between iridescent and LED lights to illuminate the parade floats to give illusion of how the glowing effect works on Main Street Electrical Parade. Said lights are efficient than incandescent bulbs, making them combinable in different ways to make color combinations for ladybug.

Appearances

Main Street Electrical Parade

The ladybug has been featured in the Alice in Wonderland-themed unit in most versions of the Main Street Electrical Parade in the Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, Disneyland Paris, and California Adventure versions of the Electrical Parade respectively. It occasionally appears on one of the mushroom parade floats, more specifically the one depicting a butterfly sitting on the mushroom, giving each of these floats a unique design.

The Tokyo Disneyland version of Electrical Parade featured one of the parade floats depicting a ladybug around 1985 in the same position with a butterfly on a mushroom in the California, Florida, and Paris versions of the park, but was removed from the parade as of 1995. In Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade Dreamlights, a ladybug was featured as an individual parade float in the Alice-themed unit, where it functioned similar to other parade floats. This ladybug featured an animatronic head, which rotated while parading across the park as well as having a different head model and was controlled by an operator inside the ladybug float. It was retired from the parade as of July 2015.

Trivia

• During the parade's 2017 and 2019 run at Disneyland at California, macaroons in the shape of the ladybug were sold at the Jolly Holiday Bakery to promote the parade's run.