Meh.
Much better than Harmonious from a musical standpoint - it had transitions! It mashed up multiple songs successfully! My bar is so low! (But whyyy could they not fix how flat the singer was on Into the Unknown?).
I expected a lot more from the Main Street projections considering what
Disneyland did with them like 7 years ago. These seemed dim
I felt like the projections on the castle, though brighter than previous shows, were a lot harder to see because there was so much going on on the castle itself in terms of patterns/medallion/gold-wrapped roofs/etc. Maybe this wasn't the case in person?
It didn't seem like there was much of a 'storyline' and the whole 'enchantment' thing was shoehorned in, but I'm also not a huge fan of the MK shows in general so maybe I'm missing the point and nitpicking.
Mostly I just don't get where Disney is going with stuff for the 50th. With the exception of one small line of merchandise (out of a half-dozen lines), there's just no nostalgia. I don't mean they're not succeeding at making me nostalgic, I mean they don't even seem to be trying for nostalgia. From the ads to Harmonious to this. Almost nothing older than 5 years (except Night on Bald Mountain out of nowhere?). No references to in-park music, attractions, etc. Disneyland managed to get every Californian nostalgic for one parade with a single ad 5 years ago...and WDW doesn't seem to care about that particular emotion even though it's like 80% of their business model (e.g. parents taking kids for a trip like they had when they were little). Help me understand.