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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmastime Parade''' is the annual Christmas parade presented at [[Magic Kingdom]] at Walt Disney World in Florida during the holiday season. It is performed primarily as part of [[Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party]], the park's separately ticketed evening Christmas event, and brings together Disney characters in holiday dress with elves, toy soldiers, reindeer, gingerbread figures and Santa Claus. It is the Walt Disney World counterpart to Disneyland's ''A Christmas Fantasy Parade''.<ref name="fandom">{{cite web |title=Mickey's Once Upon a Christmastime Parade |website=Disney Wiki |url=https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Mickey%27s_Once_Upon_a_Christmastime_Parade}}</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
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Christmas parades at [[Magic Kingdom]] long predate the current production. Earlier holiday processions included Mickey's Christmas Cavalcade, presented from the 1970s into the early 1990s, followed by ''Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Parade'', which ran in its final form from 1994 to 2006 as the centrepiece parade of [[Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party]] — itself first held in 1983.<ref name="wdwmousing">{{cite web |title=Magic Kingdom — Christmas Parades |website=WDWMousing |url=https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-35---magic-kingdom---christmas-parades.html}}</ref><br />
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In 2007 the parade was replaced by a very similar but refreshed production under its present title, '''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmastime Parade''', which has remained the party's parade ever since.<ref name="dtb">{{cite web |title=Mickey's Once Upon A Christmastime Parade Photos |website=Disney Tourist Blog |url=https://www.disneytouristblog.com/mickeys-once-upon-a-christmastime-parade-photos/}}</ref><br />
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When [[Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party]] was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic, a reduced version of the parade returned in 2021 for the substitute ''Disney Very Merriest After Hours'' event, staged as part of Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary — notably, it was the first parade performed at Walt Disney World since the parks' 2020 closure. Several units were initially missing, and the parade was restored to full strength by 2023.<ref name="fandom" /> Its soundtrack was replaced in 2024.<ref name="fandom" /><br />
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== Show ==<br />
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During [[Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party]] the parade is performed twice each event night, stepping off in Frontierland and travelling past [[Cinderella Castle]] and down Main Street, U.S.A.<ref name="wikipedia-party">{{cite web |title=Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party |website=Wikipedia |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%27s_Very_Merry_Christmas_Party}}</ref> Artificial "snoap" snowfall on Main Street accompanies the evening performances.<br />
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The parade opens with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse in holiday attire and proceeds through a series of winter scenes: elves and characters preparing for Christmas, a Frozen unit with Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and Olaf, gingerbread men and bakers around a gingerbread house, Disney Princesses and their princes in a candlelit ballroom sequence, toy blocks and toys come to life, and the parade's signature marching toy soldiers, whose precision drill is played as a deliberate homage to ''Babes in Toyland''. Dancing reindeer precede the finale, in which Santa Claus rides high in his sleigh and calls out a Merry Christmas to the crowd.<ref name="wikipedia-party" /><ref name="fandom" /><br />
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In the final stretch of the season the parade steps out of the party format: from around December 21 until December 31 it is typically presented in the daytime for all [[Magic Kingdom]] guests, temporarily replacing the park's regular daytime parade, before the daytime parade resumes on January 1.<ref name="fandom" /><br />
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The parade should not be confused with the television production broadcast on ABC on Christmas Day. That programme's parade segments are specially staged and filmed at Walt Disney World in early December, and are not simply a recording of a party performance.<ref name="dtb" /><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party]]<br />
* [[Magic Kingdom]]<br />
* [[Cinderella Castle]]<br />
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