Disney's Block Party Bash

At Disney’s Hollywood Studios (formerly Disney-MGM Studios) near Orlando, Florida, a new Block Party Bash blasts through the theme park each afternoon at 3:00 p.m. in an interactive parade.

Animated Characters Come to Life

The show features more than 114 dancers, acrobats, and other performers, including 20 different Disney Pixar characters from both Toy Story films, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc., and The Incredibles. Under the direction of Green Army Men, performers depicting colorful bugs, superheroes, and colorful toys flip from trampolines, walk on stilts, ride electric scooters, sing, dance, and interact with the crowd while upbeat rock, disco, Motown, and party songs fill the air.

Though meticulously rehearsed, this high-energy parade projects the appearance of an impromptu performance as characters jump off brightly colored blocks and platforms, then transform the vehicles into elaborate set pieces within seconds. Smaller floats that look like stacks of toy blocks double as dance stages and prop boxes, and some of the rolling stages hide telescoping towers that reveal characters from The Incredibles during the finale.

Toy Story and Toy Story 2 characters play a large part in this show, which opened this March, as well as in the new interactive arcade ride Toy Story Mania (opening May 31 at Walt Disney World), also at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Although Block Party Bash appears only at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, a similarly themed Pixar Play! Parade at Disneyland Resort in California, is a parade based on these same films, in addition to Finding Nemo, Cars, and Ratatouille.

The Featured Films of Block Party Bash

• Toy Story (1995) – When a boy gets a new Buzz Lightyear spaceman toy (Tim Allen), his previous favorite toy, an old cowboy doll named Woody (Tom Hanks), suffers from extreme jealousy and depression.

• A Bug’s Life (1998) – An outcast ant (Dave Foley), trying to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers that steal the ants’ hard-earned food, enlists the help of a group of rowdy circus bugs for the job.

• Toy Story 2 (1999) – Woody (Tom Hanks) gets stolen by a crazed toy collector, and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles), Slinky Dog (Jim Varney), and other toys come to the rescue.

• Monsters, Inc. (2001) – John Goodman (Sulley) and Billy Crystal (Mike Wazowksi) are among many monsters in the night that produce enough fear in children to generate power for their entire city to thrive, until one day a child is brought back to the city with “monstrous” results.

• The Incredibles (2004) – Two married (and long-retired) superheroes (Craig T. Nelson and Holly Hunter) attempt to raise their children in the suburbs living a regular, everyday life without superpowers.

To learn more about Disney animation, read Cinderella in the Movies and Snow White in the Movies.

Disney's Block Party Bash

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