Dailyhive.com has a story about Disney entering and winning the 2016 Honda Celebration of Lights Fireworks competition in Vancouver this past weekend. It says that the Disneyland Forever fireworks are thought to cost $80,000 a night. Does anyone know if that is true, and what does Wishes cost?:fworks:
First visit 1976
Offsite 1982/1985/2000
Disneyland July 1996
AKL 2002/Sept 2011
Paradise Pier-DL July 2005
Contemporary Sept 2006/Nov 2014
Port Orleans-Riverside Sept 2008/July 2014/Nov 2018
Port Orleans-FQ-Nov 2012
Paradise Pier-DLH DL 2013/2015/2017 and D-23 Expo
That is probably in the ballpark. I know that the 4th of July fireworks at Ft. Vancouver, WA cost upwards of $250,000 as a once a year event (but that also includes some live music). Disney is supposed to be the world's largest consumer of fireworks. I suspect, but I don't really know, that Wishes is not as expensive as Disneyland Forever. DF has some firework technology that I've never seen before, and certainly is not used in Wishes.
When we were at Epcot for the 30th birthday, they did an additional tag show to Illuminations. I had a couple of different CMs tell me that day not to miss it (it was pretty forgettable actually) and that it cost $35K.
If that 5-7 minute tag cost $35K, I can certainly believe that Disneyland Forever costs $80K.
Steve
First visit: Disneyland, July 17, 1955 (well, somebody had to be there on opening day!)
Most Recent Visit:
Disneyland - June 21-25, 2017
WDW - Sep 22 - Oct 5, 2019
Next up: WDW - May 9 - 16, 2020 at Riviera!
Dec 5 - 16, 2020 at Poly
