Former Show // latest change 1988.01.30
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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IllumiNations premiered on the same lagoon six days later, reusing most of the arrangements from A New World Fantasy and Laserphonic Fantasy but rescored for full orchestra instead of synthesizers.
Laserphonic Fantasy performed for the last time on World Showcase Lagoon after more than three and a half years.
Laserphonic Fantasy premiered on World Showcase Lagoon at EPCOT Center, succeeding A New World Fantasy as the park's nighttime spectacular.
The show fired lasers from the barges and from around the lagoon, and its "Skater" segment used the first non-continuous lines in a laser animation and the first laser graphics projected onto a water-droplet screen.
The production carried over the synthesizer soundtrack "The Festival of Festivals" by Don Dorsey from A New World Fantasy.
Per the documented record, Laserphonic Fantasy at EPCOT opened on Jun 9, 1984.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Laserphonic Fantasy is dated Jan 24, 1988: Laserphonic Fantasy performed for the last time on World Showcase Lagoon after more than three and a half years.
The latest documented change (documented Jan 30, 1988): IllumiNations premiered on the same lagoon six days later, reusing most of the arrangements from A New World Fantasy and Laserphonic Fantasy but rescored for full orchestra instead of synthesizers.
5 documented changes, dating back to 1984 — the fan-kept show changelog nobody else keeps.
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