Christmas Parade on ABC

I think we had a similar post last year. They need to just drop the word "Parade" from this show.

We did (and it may have been mine!)

I really, really want to see the parade. Maybe it can be like Macy's ... a bunch of presentations and then the parade?

Although, this year was a bit better than last year ...

I thought this year was better than last year. And it seems that they have stopped calling it the Parade. What was this year's title - The Disney Parks Unforgettable Christmas Celebration or something like that. This year they seemed to spend more time on the musical acts and I was surprised at little time they spent showing the rides, etc but I thought but like I said I thought it was better than last year.

Those were musical acts? A bunch of no names and never will be "performers" for the preteen done deaf set... And parade? Far from one.. Oh look here is, well another bogus scripted family "unforgettable" moment... Well this year, much like last year, was very forgettable... What the heck did Arianna Grande have on? She is a disgrace... And they cater to that little brat.... Holds them up for 3 hours during taping and they STILL put her on? I would have dumped her in a heart beat... Not tuning in next year... I'll keep the 24 hours of A Christmas Story on instead.. or just play Christmas music... Disney lost yet another view of their pathetically put together Christmas parade...

I wouldn't call Reba McEntire or Seal "no names" or "non-performers." Yes, a lot of preteen/teen music but, hello, that's their target audience with this thing. I'm glad they dropped "parade" from the name because it isn't a parade. It wasn't as much of a commercial as last year.

Sadly, the entire broadcast is nothing more than a commercial.

This just gets less worth watching every year and this year we commented to each other it wasn't even a good commercial. Other than a couple of names the musical acts were uniformly forgettable. They showed little of the parade and little of the parks that showed them well. Won't be looking forward to next year's.

I liked this year better in that the focus wasn't on advertising so much. Last year's parade was "Aulani this and Aulani that" and I was getting sick of it. Maybe it's just me, but I didn't feel like they were trying to sell Disney on me this time around which I liked. On the other hand, I agree 100% the parade was non-existent. I did enjoy the family stories, though. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas regardless :tree:

While we were watching, I thought about the thread on last year's parade and how bad it was. This year wasn't quite as bad but it was still pathetic. We want to watch the parade and see the parks not a 2 hour long infomercial with horrible singing acts every 5 minutes. Arianna Grande was awful.....AGAIN! It would be a vast improvement just not having her on the show.

It was so bad yet again, I realized about 20 minutes in that I was once again the only one in the room watching. The wife and kids had all lost interest and were off doing other things leaving me to watch the mess by myself. News flash Disney, my kids are teenagers and they won't even watch the show.

I suggest as an experiment next year Disney do 2 shows. One is a one hour show featuring nothing but the parade and the parks. The other show can be their over-produced, infomercial, bad singing act, garbage and see which one gets the better ratings.

My first year watching was 2013. '14 and '15 were downhill from there. Such a shame. Same here, wife and kids weren't interested and my daughter loves parades. They did a buildup to Santa in 2013 and they practically opened with Santa in '15.

It is just too much other stuff & not enough park or parade & characters for my family. After last year we didn't even tune in this year. We actually watched the Macys parade twice & bits feom the Chicago one instead.

It was better than last year. At least they showed a lot more WDW footage. As for the acts... Reba and Seal are definitely not no-names. I actually thought the musical acts were pretty good (I just can't stand Arianna). But I agree about the parade... would love to see a lot more. Also, was bummed I didn't see any Stitch on the special!!

Anyone remember Drum Major Mike? Back in those days it was almost all parade. :(

paragon;2475779 wrote: Sadly, the entire broadcast is nothing more than a commercial.

I have jokingly called the "Very Merry Christmas Commercial" for years.