{"id":174369,"date":"2026-02-12T02:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174369\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:21:20","slug":"is-disneyland-planning-a-luminaria-version-of-world-of-color-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174369\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Disneyland planning a \u2018LuminAria\u2019 version of \u2018World of Color\u2019? \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A holiday spectacular featuring low-level fireworks that hasn\u2019t been seen in 25 years could make a comeback at Disney California Adventure as part of \u201cWorld of Color,\u201d according to the Disney executive in charge of staging nighttime shows around the globe.<\/p>\n

Walt Disney Imagineering Vice President of Parades and Spectaculars Steven Davison teased the return of the \u201cLuminAria\u201d nighttime spectacular at Disney California Adventure during a D23 event, according to LaughingPlace<\/a> and DapsMagic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Davison spoke as part of the D23 Spotlight Series: Disney California Adventure\u2019s 25th Anniversary Celebration panel on Saturday, Feb. 7 at the Disneyland Hotel.<\/p>\n

Disneyland has not announced any plans for a \u201cLuminAria\u201d version of the \u201cWorld of Color\u201d nighttime spectacular.<\/p>\n

\"WorldWorld of Color Happiness inside California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen\/MediaNews Group\/Orange County Register via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The short-lived \u201cLuminAria\u201d winter holiday nighttime spectacular ran on Paradise Bay for only one season during the opening year of Disney California Adventure in 2001.<\/p>\n

The show featured a 60-foot-tall fiber optic Christmas tree, choreographed water fountains, low-level pyrotechnics and video screens displaying interactive holiday cards drawn during the day by theme park visitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuminAria\u201d never returned in part because pyrotechnic smoke would often blow into the crowd watching the nighttime show along Paradise Bay depending on the direction of the wind.<\/p>\n

The \u201cWorld of Color\u201d nighttime spectacular debuted in 2010 \u2014 taking over the Paradise Bay infrastructure once used by \u201cLuminAria.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davison developed \u201cLuminAria\u201d and a series of \u201cWorld of Color<\/a>\u201d shows that have been staged on Paradise Bay over the past 15 years.<\/p>\n

\"WorldWorld of Color Happiness! inside California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen\/MediaNews Group\/Orange County Register via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Davison has been teasing a potential return of \u201cLuminAria\u201d ever since 2009 when he was interviewed by D23 about the upcoming debut of the first \u201cWorld of Color\u201d show, according to WDW News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I think we can bring \u2018LuminAria\u2019 back,\u201d Davison told D23 in 2009. \u201cI was listening to the track the other day and thinking if you put \u2018LuminAria\u2019 into the \u2018World of Color\u2019 infrastructure, it would do everything it ever wanted to do and more. I\u2019m not saying we are doing that, but we could.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Davison has created fireworks shows, nighttime spectaculars and parades that have appeared at all six Disney theme park resorts around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A holiday spectacular featuring low-level fireworks that hasn\u2019t been seen in 25 years could make a comeback at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2223,163,165,164,7,2222,1341,611,420],"class_list":["post-174369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-amusement-parks","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-disney-california-adventure","tag-disneyland","tag-orange-county","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}