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Its colorful appeal and synthesized music inspired the same show designers to create a whole new nighttime presentation for Disneyland Park and later the Walt Disney World Resort: the "Main Street Electrical Parade." Floats representing many Disney images tell several stories along the park’s parade route. There is a circus, a walk-through Wonderland, a pirate ship, a royal procession for Cinderella, and so forth. Synthesized music accompanies each segment, and is tied together with an overall score called "Baroque Hoedown."
The floats themselves are small, battery-powered vehicles covered in wire mesh frames. The frames were fashioned into many shapes, like animals, bugs, and clock towers, then covered in dark or reflective cloth to hide drivers, speakers, and equipment. Tiny colored light bulbs were attached to the frames in massive strands, creating lighted outlines of these fantasy characters.
The "Main Street Electrical Parade" made its Disneyland debut in 1972 and continued until 1996. The Walt Disney World version premiered June 11, 1977, and continued until 1991.
The first hotels in Lake Buena Vistad in 1972 and early 1973. The hotels of Dutch Inn (10/72), Royal Inn (10/72), Travelodge (11/72), and Howard Johnson Hotel (2/73) formed the Motor Inn Plaza, which later became the Hotel Plaza. These hotels were not owned by the Disney company. The entire complex eventually became part of the Disney Village Resort.
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