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The things that I insisted on from the beginning were that we didn't have small units like a single dragon and a single funhouse face or whatever. I wanted large units - more like Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland that would fill the street, so that we'd be able to climb inside of a unit and have one musical idea that stayed for longer than just a minute.

So we set up the basic divisions starting with the Disney opening and the garden section, then the underwater section and the musical section with all the instruments, the Fantasia section and the finale, which was to do the transformation.

All of the units were supposed to undergo different types of transformation, because we had new technologies. So the key thing was that each would change - the garden would go from day to night, the Fantasia unit would transform and open up and become something different - and the finale would go from sparkling silver to all rainbow colors; it would "wash" from the front of the unit all the way to the back. I suggested that we could put a carousel on it, because we had done all sorts of other things - and I said a carousel would be fun; we could have characters riding it, and they said, "Well, it would have to be very tiny." You know, it could only be six feet across to sit on a float, and I said, "Well why does it have to be round? It could run the length of the float - make it a rectangular, forced-perspective squashed carousel." And they said, "Oh. We guess we could do that." It was an engineering challenge of course, and in the ultimate realization of it, it worked. But when it broke early on - I think it was in the first week - after the first couple of performances it broke - and they never bothered to fix it. I think they had money problems other places and chose to direct those funds to other parts of the parade. So that carousel, on which the horses go up and down as well as around the long way, never operated except for the first couple performances. I was very disappointed in that, but very, very pleased with the way that whole unit emotionally worked. Either way, it's a fantastic look |silver vs. color]. The best thing about SpectroMagic is the ability for the floats to transform, so that each unit really could take you to different places. With short units - if you had just Pete's Dragon and it transformed, half the time, you wouldn't see it. And of course, I wanted to keep "Baroque Hoedown" as the theme and you know - do it in a different way - we would put over-lays and so on, but that was shot down