Once Upon A Time (Tokyo Disneyland)

Once Upon a Time
Tokyo Disneyland
Area Cinderella Castle
Status Operating
Soft opening date May 26, 2014
Opening date May 29, 2014
General statistics
Attraction type Multimedia and pyrotechnic show
Designer Steve Davison
Theme Disney stories
Duration 19 minutes
Wheelchair accessible

Once Upon a Time is a nighttime spectacular at Tokyo Disneyland, that premiered on May 29, 2014. Similar to Celebrate the Magic and Disney Dreams!, it utilizes fireworks, lasers, fire, and projection mapping to project animation onto the castle.[1]

Show Summary

Hosted by Mrs. Potts, the show is framed as her telling bedtime stories to Chip, including sequences showcasing Alice in Wonderland, Tangled, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and finally Beauty and the Beast which culminates in the battle between Gaston and Beast fighting out on the castle itself and Beast's transformation back into the Prince kicking off the finale. The finale montage includes brief appearances by characters from Frozen, Aladdin and The Lion King.[1][2]

Show scenes

“Tell me a story!” Chip asks his mother and Mrs. Potts begins to tell stories that begin with “Once upon a time…” As she speaks, the pages of the towering storybook change to show scenes from various Disney stories.

Song: “Once Upon a Time.”

Alice finds herself in Wonderland as she runs after the White Rabbit. There she’s chased by the Card Soldiers of the Queen of Hearts and meets the Mad Hatter and his pals at a whimsical tea party.

Songs: “Alice in Wonderland,” “I’m Late,” and “A Very Merry Unbirthday (The Unbirthday Song)”

Cinderella Castle is wrapped up in the magical golden flower as Rapunzel and Flynn Rider gaze at the starry sky from their boat. Lanterns then float up into the night.

Songs: “Tangled,” “I See the Light,”

Appearing before Cinderella as she weeps, her Fairy Godmother casts a magical spell. The little birds and mice help make her dress. And she dances gracefully with Prince Charming.

Songs: “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo,” and “So This Is Love”

Peter Pan and the children fly through the night sky over London as Big Ben tolls on their way to Never Land.

Song: “You Can Fly!”

In a cottage deep in the woods, the Seven Dwarfs are cheerfully dancing with Snow White. When Dopey sneezes, the cottage seems to collapse, falling towards the audience.

Song: “The Silly Song (The Dwarfs Yodel Song)”

Pooh is hanging onto a balloon as the wind blows him around the Hundred Acre Wood. He ends up in a dream.

Song: “Heffalumps and Woozles”

Arendelle is celebrating Elsa's cornation.Anna is so excited as she sings "For The First Time In Forever". Then Elsa escapes to the North Mountain to "Let It Go".The sequence ends after Olaf gave Sven his carrot nose while riding him.

Song:For the first time in forever,Let it go

Belle and the Beast are waltzing, when the scene changes to the duel with Gaston.Gaston dies by falling from the top of the castle.After he dies,the hell fire explodes. What follows is the joyful moment when the Beast is transformed back into his human form.

Songs: “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Mob Song,”

As Mrs. Potts and Chip say together, “And they lived happily ever after,” the performance reaches its grand finale.During the grand finale, various characters from Frozen and Lion King also appear. The show ends with an explosive hell fire.

Song: “Once Upon a Time”

History

In October 2013, Tokyo Disney Resort announced that the Castle Projection show “Once Upon a Time,” a new nighttime entertainment at Tokyo Disneyland, will premiere on May 29, 2014.[1] This fantastic and heartwarming nighttime entertainment uses projection mapping technology to produce a three-dimensional effect by projecting images in a way that fits the contours of buildings and other structures. This is the first time for this technology to be used in an entertainment program at Tokyo Disney Resort.

The show soft opened on May 26, 2014. It was raining that night,so some fireworks were not produced.The show also had performances on May 27 and 28 before the actual opening date.[3]

To avoid overcrowding problems,the show features ticket systems for special viewing areas.

Frozen edition

On January 13, 2015, Tokyo Disneyland presented a winter event called Anna and Elsa's Frozen Fantasy. During the period, Once Upon A Time features a special winter edition, featuring the scenes and songs of Frozen, replacing Snow White and Winnie The Pooh scenes, including "For The First Time In Forever" and "Let It Go".[4] The event ended on March 20, 2015 and will be held again in winter 2016.[5] Although the event ended,the show was over popular. Therefore, the park decided to extend the show's ending date til July 5, 2015. After that, the original show will still continue.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "“Once Upon a Time” to Premiere on May 29, 2014" (PDF). http://www.olc.co.jp/. Oriental Land Co., Ltd. Retrieved 13 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  2. ↑ "Once Upon a Time". http://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en. Tokyo Disney Resort. Retrieved 13 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  3. ↑ Tororoimo, Mountain. "Once Upon a Time @Tokyo DisneyLAND 20140526". https://www.youtube.com. Retrieved 13 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  4. ↑ Smith, Thomas. "‘Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Fantasy’ Coming to Tokyo Disney Resort". http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/. Disney Parks. Retrieved 13 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  5. ↑ "Tokyo Disney Resort Announces 2015-2016 Celebrations and Events". http://www.stitchkingdom.com. Stitch Kingdom. Retrieved 13 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
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