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Once Upon a Time was a nighttime spectacular at Magic Kingdom, which was originally known in Magic Kingdom as its full name, Once Upon A Time: Where Stories Take You Anywhere and formerly at Tokyo Disneyland. Similar to Celebrate the Magic and Disney Dreams!, the Tokyo show premiered on May 29, 2014, and utilizes fireworks, lasers, fire, projection mapping, and searchlights during the 19-minute presentation.[2] The Magic Kingdom version is shorter and utilizes less pyrotechnics and no fire.
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Tokyo Disneyland | |
Area | Cinderella Castle |
Status | Removed |
Soft opening date | May 26, 2014 |
Opening date | May 29, 2014 |
Closing date | November 6, 2017 |
Replaced by | Celebrate! Tokyo Disneyland |
Magic Kingdom | |
Name | Once Upon A Time: Where Stories Take You Anywhere |
Area | Cinderella Castle |
Status | Removed |
Opening date | November 4, 2016[1] |
Closing date | March 16, 2020 |
Replaced | Celebrate the Magic |
Replaced by | Happily Ever After |
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Attraction type | Multimedia and pyrotechnic show |
Designer | Walt Disney Creative Entertainment |
Theme | Iconic moments from Disney's animated films |
Duration | 19 minutes (Tokyo Disneyland version) 14:30 minutes (Magic Kingdom version) |
Languages | Japanese (Tokyo Disneyland version) English (Magic Kingdom/Tokyo Disneyland version) |
Sponsor | Disney+ (Florida) |
In October 2013, Tokyo Disney Resort announced that Once Upon a Time, a new nighttime entertainment at Tokyo Disneyland, would premiere on May 29, 2014.[2] This nighttime entertainment uses projection mapping technology to produce a three-dimensional effect by projecting images in a way that fits the contours of buildings and other structures. This is the first time for this technology to be used in an entertainment program at Tokyo Disney Resort.
The show soft opened on May 26, 2014. Due to inclement weather that evening, a majority of the fireworks were not produced. The show also had performances on May 27 and 28 before the actual opening date.[3]
To avoid overcrowding problems, the show features ticket systems for special viewing areas.
On January 13, 2015, Tokyo Disneyland presented a winter event called Anna and Elsa's Frozen Fantasy. During the period, Once Upon A Time features a special winter edition, featuring the scenes and songs of Frozen, replacing Snow White and Winnie The Pooh scenes, including "For The First Time In Forever" and "Let It Go".[4] The event ended on March 20, 2015 and will be held again in winter 2016.[5] Although the event ended, the show was over popular. Therefore, the park decided to extend the show's ending date til July 5, 2015. After that, the original show will still continue.[2] After Frozen Forever, Frozen-specific projection show, premiered in 2017, this segment become exclusively to Magic Kingdom version.
On October 26, 2016, it was announced that the show would be coming to Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom on November 4, 2016, replacing the previous projection mapping show on Cinderella Castle, Celebrate the Magic.[1]
Magic Kingdom version had some difference from Tokyo Disneyland version because they only used minimized use of fire, fireworks and more searchlights, although lasers was added in June 2017. This version only ran 14:30 minutes and excluding Snow White and Tangled scenes, and replace them with Frozen scene from special winter version.
The Magic Kingdom version was regarded mainly as a light projection show which projects scenes and characters from Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and Alice in Wonderland onto the Cinderella Castle.[6] The show did not return after the COVID-19 pandemic and its website now redirects to a generic entertainment page.
Hosted by Mrs. Potts, the show was framed as her telling bedtime stories to Chip, including sequences showcasing Alice in Wonderland, Tangled, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and finally Beauty and the Beast which culminated in the battle between Gaston and Beast fighting out on the castle itself and Beast's transformation back into the Prince kicking off the finale. The finale montage included brief appearances by characters from Frozen, Aladdin and The Lion King.[2][7]
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