The Parade Begins (Page Three)
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December 24th 2017 - Last Updated: 01/01/2024 20:15:PM
The parade is always fun and this year we had the best seats in town! Please enjoy! A Christmas Fantasy Parade is an annual parade presented at Disneyland Park in the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA. The parade is a holiday parade that runs (usually) from the weekend before Thanksgiving until the Sunday after New Years. It debuted during the 1995 Holiday Season, replacing the "Very Merry Christmas Parade."
Let the show go on!
Always first - A music box float, with a dancing ballerina on top of a revolving platform, and a stuffed Teddy Bear (Duffy the Disney Bear in the 2011 and 2012 versions) sits beside her.
Mr. Teddy... It's going to get hot in that costume!
The Toy Soldiers right out of the 1961 movie "Babes In Toyland"
Love those elves
A very pretty elf indeed
Can you see them?
They about to smooch!
Look good for being born in 1928
Wonder how old Minnie is?
Welcome to A Winter Wonderland Unit
8 snow people scurry along, 4 male, 4 female. Four skiers swing around them.
Perhaps a diet is needed?
A snowy Christmas Tree rolls down the parade route
6 female skaters skate down the parade route on roller skates
Very pretty
Elsa and Anna stand on top of an ice-themed float with an Olaf figure. (This float used to feature Mickey and Minnie ice skating, but they were moved to the mail room float.)
Olaf the Snowman is a fictional character from the 2013 animated film Frozen, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Anna
Nick checks something out?
The leading float in A Recipe for Gingerbread Treats Unit
Clarabelle Cow and 6 Gingerbread Cookies dance down the street.
Big smiles
6 Candy Bakers (3 Male, 3 Female) help Goofy and Pluto (Max Goof until 2013), who are on the Gingerbread float, wreak some havoc
What is goofy up to now?
We had great seats!
Zack, Lilly, and Becca enjoy the goings on
Waiting for the next float!
Lady Tremaine, Drizella, and Anastasia (Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters) are not invited and therefore walk in front of the unit while playing with guests.
Dingleberry? Perhaps!
(Dingleberry, a slang term for a stupid or foolish person)
A face only a mother could love
She's up to something
Lady Tremaine seems to be above it all!
Princesses everywhere
Just beautiful!
Posing for a shot
Hello there!
They dance in and out of the float as it passes by
There's Beauty... Where's the beast?
The Toyland Unit has changed a bit
Jessie and a Green Army Man ride in a military hum-dinger. (Chip and Dale used to drive the hum-dinger, but they moved to the mailroom float.)
Did You Know? - Army men, or plastic soldiers, are simple toy soldiers that are about 5 cm (2.0 in) tall and most commonly molded from green or other colored relatively unbreakable plastic. Unlike the more expensive toy soldiers available in hobby shops, army men are sold at low prices in discount stores, supermarkets, and dollar stores in bulk packaging. Also unlike many toy soldiers, army men are sold unpainted and almost always dressed in modern military uniforms and armed with 20th-century weapons.
An excellent driver
Did You Know? - The first American plastic toy soldiers were made by Bergen Toy & Novelty Co. (Beton for short) in 1938. Beton also acquired the molds of another pre-war plastic figure company, Universal Plastics with their figures remaining for sale when lead toy production was stopped in 1942. The Beton figures were painted like metal figures and sold the same as their metal brethren; individually or in a boxed set of around seven figures. Following World War II, Beton modified their figures in an attempt to change the World War I type helmet into the World War II one.
Following World War II, plastic manufacture was seen as an industry with growth potential with many old and new companies making plastic figures that were widely available in the United States. Army men following the war were sold unpainted, usually in a green colour corresponding to United States Army uniforms in World War II. Plastic figures were sold en masse in clear plastic bags with an illustrated header card in different sizes and prices since the early 1950s.
Here comes buzz
8 Finale Dancers (4 male, 4 female) dance and sing to Christmas carols in front of a moving Christmas Tree adorned with jewels.
Santa Claus sits in his sleigh on the Finale float led by his 8 Reindeer.
Dancing up a storm
Lookin' good!
Here he comes
Great big smile!
...and he is singing!
The sleigh looks overloaded
The rabbit keeps and eye out
Katherine says goodbye to us until next year!
We departed Disneyland leaving the kids behind... We headed for
La Brea Bakery for a bite and a nip!
The crowds seemed to have died down!
The parade was on again so we decided to go to California Adventure
We walked for about 90 minutes before leaving
The trees were decorated out in the forest!
