Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Fireworks - Believe... in Holiday Magic, Believe... There's Magic in the Stars, Disney's Celebrate America, Disney's Lumi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Believe... In Holiday Magic, Believe... There's Magic in the Stars, Disney's Celebrate America, Disney's LuminAria, Disney's Nightmare in the Sky, Disney Dreams , Disney in the Stars, Fantasy in the Sky, Halloween Screams, HalloWishes, IllumiNations, IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth, Imagine... A Fantasy in the Sky, Magic, Music and Mayhem, Magical: Disney's New Nighttime Spectacular of Magical Celebrations, Remember... Dreams Come True, Wishes: A Magical Gathering of Disney Dreams. Excerpt: IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth is an award-winning night time show performed nightly at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. The show utilizes fireworks, pyrotechnics, laser lights, fountains, and fire to create a visual production on the park's World Showcase Lagoon. It premiered on October 1, 1999 as IllumiNations 2000: Reflections of Earth as part of the Walt Disney World Millennium Celebration; it was so successful that after the celebration ended the 2000 was dropped from the name and the show was continued. The show is currently sponsored by Siemens and has received several awards throughout the years including the 2009 and 2012 Best Outdoor Night Production Show by Gold Ticket Awards. Before the show begins, a 30-minute music loop is played around the lagoon. The first loop played from the show's premiere through 2004, while the 2nd one has been running from 2004 to the present. 1999 - 2004 Music Loop 2004 Present Music Loop The speakers around the lagoon have been recently upgraded and use a proprietary audio technology developed by Bose, originally for military purposes. The speakers can be controlled individually, and project audio, meaning that, like a video projector, the speaker only sends audio in one direction, isolating it from other audio from surrounding speakers. Audio from the speakers travels well, without losing much volume, and the sound waves do not reflect as much as standard speakers. Walt Disney Creative Entertainment uses this to enhance the pre-show experience, making the music begin in a few small areas and eventually build to cover the entire promenade. Each country uses the same base loop track mentioned above, with accents from that country's musical style added in. Each "speaker" is actually a cluster of several of these high-tech speakers, each controlled as a separate track. Disney has also applied this technology in their parades, isolating the different musical tracks played in the different park sec