Former Show // latest change 1984.06.09
World Showcase · EPCOT · Walt Disney World
Former Show · the memorial record
This show is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
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Laserphonic Fantasy premiered on the lagoon on June 9, 1984, carrying over A New World Fantasy's soundtrack while adding lasers fired from the barges and from around the lagoon.
A New World Fantasy ended its run on World Showcase Lagoon in 1984 after roughly a year of performances.
A New World Fantasy opened on World Showcase Lagoon as EPCOT Center's second regular nighttime show, taking over from Le Carnaval de Lumière.
The show reused Le Carnaval de Lumière's floating barges, running two 80-by-30-foot rear-projection screens alongside four fountain-and-firework barges and nearly 700 firework shells, and added "Pichel lights" that moved automatically.
The show was scored to classical music performed on synthesizer, most of which was later released on Don Dorsey's album Busted, though the "Great Parades and Pageants" segment was left off that release.
Per the documented record, A New World Fantasy at EPCOT opened on Jun 1983.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for A New World Fantasy is dated 1984: A New World Fantasy ended its run on World Showcase Lagoon in 1984 after roughly a year of performances.
The latest documented change (documented Jun 9, 1984): Laserphonic Fantasy premiered on the lagoon on June 9, 1984, carrying over A New World Fantasy's soundtrack while adding lasers fired from the barges and from around the lagoon.
5 documented changes, dating back to 1983 — the fan-kept show changelog nobody else keeps.
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