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Current Discussion

Today's discussion is Illuminations: Reflections Of Earth the nightly show at Epcot in WDW. Held on the World Showcase lagoon every night at 9:00PM, Illuminations lights up the night sky with fireworks, fire, lasers and fountians. The show is divided into 3 parts:

Chaos
Order
Meaning

Let's go through this section by section, with pictures.

Chaos

The show starts off with Jim Cummings (voice of Tigger, and many other Disney characters) welcoming us to the show with a quick narration.

"Good evening and welcome. We've gathered here tonight, around the fire as people of all lands have gathered for thousands and thousands of years before us... to share the light, and to share a story. An amazing story, as old as time itself, but still being written. And though each of us has our own individual stories to tell, a true adventure emerges... when we bring them all together as one. I hope you enjoy our story tonight. Reflections Of Earth."

After he's done, he "blows out" all the torches and lights around the lagoon. Then, a drumbeat starts. It gets faster and faster and once it hits the peak, a comet streaks across the lagoon, and explodes, symbolising the big bang.

The Inferno barge in the middle flares up (as of right now, the barge is out of order) shooting flames high into the night sky.

Fireworks shoot off with the flames creating a smokescreen, yet you can still see the FX.

Everything calms down as we transition into

Order

The Earth barge slowly moves to the center of the lagoon. Images of humans, monuments from around the world and other stuff shows as fountians dance to the music.

After all is said and done, some white fireworks shoot off, and we go into the section where Disney made 4 new colors just for the show.

Then, the music calms down, and a ring of white comets shoot off around the lake. Once the comets make their 3 round, the music goes into sort of a drumroll, as the music hits the peak, high fireworks explode in the air, along with palms that gently flow down. Once this happens a few times, the fun begins! The music goes faster with comets from all around the lake and blue bursts.

Then, finally we transition into

Meaning

Everything calms down, and we focus on the Earth Barge agian. "We Go On" a song by Kellie Coffey is sung, pictures of people carrying torches and candles are on the Barge.

As the song gets sung, the torches around the lake light agian, lights in the lake light up, and the Earth Barge starts opening up. If you thought the Earth Barge was useless, you were wrong!

Once it fully opens, a torch in the center starts rising, it gets lit, symbolising the new millennium (there are 19 torches around the lagoon, each symbolising 100 years, the 20th is the one in the Earth Barge). 2 Bursts of white comets shoot from the middle of the torch.

As the corus and Kellie Coffey say "We Go On...", they hold that last note, and 1,000 fireworks shoot off from the lagoon, lighting the lagoon up. Another term used for this is the "Thousand Points of Light". This part deserves a few pictures from various points around the lagoon.

And there you have it. Now, if this was the Holiday/4th Of July/New Years Eve Editions, everything above would be the same, only after the "Thousand Points of Light", they add another finalie. And guess what? We have pictures of those too! Please note, these are as recent as possible.

4th Of July Ending

In the most recent video I have seen of the Fourth Of July Ending, the show adds two songs. "Yankee Doodle" (without singing, of course) and "Stars and Stripes Forever".

The extra ending starts with "Yankee Doodle". Lasers dance across the lagoon to the starting drumbeat. Then, fireworks shoot off from behind American Adventure!

Then focus shifts back to the lagoon, where the music gets upbeat, and it looks like the fireworks are marching to the drumbeat!

Then after the song ends, we transition into "Stars and Stripes Forever". This part gives lots of cheers, and provides lots of good pictures too! This picture is of the flute solo, where sparklers across the lagoon start sparking.

Fireworks start going crazy as the music falls into the finalie.

Then, as the music hits it's final part, tons of fireworks shoot off and explode, creating such a smokescreen and such loud noise, that you'd think a bomb was going off! This, just like the "Thousand Points of Light", deserves a few pictures!