Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away

Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away
"Whimsy", the penultimate float of the new parade, featuring Mickey and Friends.
Magic Kingdom
Status	Operating
Soft opening date	July 18, 2025
Opening date	July 20, 2025
Replaced	Main Street Electrical Parade (2016)
Ride statistics
Attraction type	Parade
Music	Roger Butterfly & Various Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Soundtracks
Wheelchair accessible

Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away is a nighttime parade at Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida. The parade is the first nighttime at the Magic Kingdom since the Main Street Electrical Parade had its last performance on October 9, 2016. The parade soft opened with a performance on July 18, 2025 and officially opened on July 20, 2025.

The parade pays homage to the park's previous nighttime parades, the aforementioned Main Street Electrical Parade and SpectroMagic.

Development

On August 11, 2024, it was announced at the D23 Expo in Anahiem, California that the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort would receive a brand new nighttime parade in the summer of 2025, marking the first time the park has had a dedicated night parade since the departure of the Main Street Electrical Parade in 2016. ^[1]

On May 27, 2025, Disney announced the parade would debut on July 20, 2025.

The parade debuted with soft openings on July 18^th and 19^th, before officially debuting on July 20^th. ^[2]

Units ^[3]

• Blue Fairy, featuring Pinocchio and Geppetto
• Wish, featuring Asha, Valentino, and Star
• Encanto, featuring Maribel, Isabela, and Bruno Madrigal
• Frozen, based on the 2019 animated movie, Frozen 2, featuring Elsa
• The Royal Court, featuring the Disney Princesses and their respective Princes, with Cinderella and Prince Charming, Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen, Belle and Beast, and Aurora and Prince Phillip
• Coco, featuring Miguel
• Moana, featuring, Pua, Gramma Tala (in her manta ray form),
• Peter Pan, featuring Tinkerbell, Wendy, and Peter Pan.
• Whimsy, the finale float, featuring Goofy, Pluto, Donald and Daisy Duck, Snow White, Dopey, Rapunzel, Flynn Rider, Aladdin, Jasmine, and Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
• Disney Starlight title float, featuring an animation of Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio, in a tributary nod to SpectroMagic. ^[4]

Soundtrack

On July 25, 2025, Walt Disney Records ^[5] released the complete soundtrack on all streaming platforms. The musical score for the parade was composed by Jedha and Tim Heintz, and it features a tracklist of 11 songs from the designated floats of the parade, including the opening and closing fanfares.

References

1. Shahan, Lauren (February 21, 2025). "Photo Op for New Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away Parade at runDisney Expo in Walt Disney World". WDWNT. Retrieved July 21, 2025.
2. Bricker, Tom (July 18, 2025). "Disney World Soft Opens Starlight Night Parade (July 19 Update)". Disney Tourist Blog. Retrieved July 26, 2025.
3. "REVIEW: Disney Starlight Parade - Good Enough Isn't Good Enough". WDW News Today. July 24, 2025. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
4. Walt Disney Imagineering (July 11, 2025). We Call It Imagineering | On With The Show! | Disney Live Entertainment . Retrieved July 31, 2025– via YouTube.
5. "Disney Starlight Soundtrack Now Available on Streaming Platforms". www.wdwmagic.com. Retrieved July 31, 2025.

External links

• Official website