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See Block Party Bash Pictures, the fun Disney parade that's full of Disney/Pixar characters and dancing! Updated June 1, 2008. Related info--- HOME :: Latest News :: Disneyland Park Entertainment: Disney Christmas Parade :: Christmas Parade, pt 2 :: Disney Christmas Fireworks & Snow :: Disney Princess Fantasy Faire :: Jedi Training Academy Pics :: Pirate's Lair :: Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams :: Disneyland Entertainment Schedules :: Disney California Adventure Entertainment: Disney's Electrical Parade :: High School Musical 2 Parade :: Mickeys Halloween Parade :: Santa's Beach Blast :: California Adventure Entertainment Schedules :: Walt Disney World: Block Party Bash Block Party Bash PicturesThis fun, interactive parade has left Anaheim...but arrives at Walt Disney World in Florida!The Block Party Bash is a fun, interactive parade that'll give your kids a chance to dance with Disney/Pixar characters! How can it do that? It's a parade; isn't it always in motion? The answer is, "It's only in motion PART of the time." Disney's Block Party Bash makes several stops along the parade route...and that's when characters hop off of floats; trampolines come out of hiding; and all sorts of fun begins! WHERE CAN YOU FIND DISNEY'S BLOCK PARTY BASH PARADE? Is it in Anaheim, CA or in Orlando, FL...or both? The answer to this question is both a happy and sad one. The popular Block Party Bash parade has LEFT the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim...but the good news is that Block Party Bash now appears at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida! When and where can you see the Block Party Bash parade? Block Party Bash is performed every day at 3 pm in the Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park at the WDW Resort! If you're a Disneyland enthusiast, you can use the Block Party Bash pictures on this page to reminisce about the good times you've enjoyed while watching the parade in Anaheim, California. Or, if you're headed to Florida's Disney World, you can tell from these pictures what the parade will be like when you arrive at Disney's Hollywood Studios (formerly called the MGM Studios theme park.) WHAT CHARACTERS WILL YOU SEE IN THE BLOCK PARTY BASH PARADE? Block Party Bash showcases Disney/Pixar characters from the following movies: Toy Story & Toy Story 2; Monsters, Inc; A Bug's Life; and The Incredibles. In addition, you'll see a large cast of supporting dancers and acrobats, whose lively gyrations ensure that there's never a dull moment! WHAT PARADE REPLACES BLOCK PARTY BASH IN ANAHEIM? As of Spring 2008, a new parade called the Pixar Play Parade will begin at Disney's California Adventure Park in Anaheim. It features characters from the same movies as the Block Party Bash does...PLUS characters from the Disney-Pixar "Cars," "Ratatouille" and "Finding Nemo" movies, as well! Block Party Bash fun!You're hereby ordered to get up and dance!
Disney's Block Party Bash is an interactive parade...in which YOU join the fun!
A serious-faced soldier barks orders to the crowd as the parade begins. There's no mistaking that it's time to GET UP AND DANCE! It hardly seems necessary these days to be reminded to join the fun at a Disney parade. After all, it's 2008, and we've now had a number of interactive Disney experiences. We're USED to them! There have been the High School Musical interactive parades where children from the crowd join the parade cast in dancing, clapping, and playing. Then, there's been the Mickey's Trick or Treat on the Street Parade, (part of an extra-ticket after-hours Halloween party) in which kids join in with costumed characters to sway and dance. And, what about Santa's Beach Blast? It may not be a parade...but it's still another attraction where the kids get right into the middle of the action. Interactivity is still relatively new: Really, though, it's only been a few years that the words "Disney parade" also meant "join the action." For decades, we visitors have been merely WATCHING the action...just like we would if we were attending the Rose Parade, the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade...or nearly any other parade in the USA. For the history of parades, people have been on either one side or the other: the marchers or the watchers. Block Party Bash led the way for interactivity: Several years ago when the Block Party Bash opened at Disney's California Adventure, a tough-guy soldier made it nearly a COMMAND to get up and dance! And, we visitors needed that---we'd been accustomed to many years of sitting and staring. We needed a shove. Nowadays, it almost seems like "overkill" to be prodded into the action. But...the green soldiers are now a familiar part of the act, and visitors who have seen the parade wouldn't even THINK of sending them away!
Block Party Bash showcases Disney-Pixar Characters!See Sully, Mike and Boo from "Monsters, Inc!"
Who's everyone's favorite cuddly blue monster? James P. Sullivan from Monsters, Inc, of course!
The picture of Sulley (Monster, Inc's "star") to your left shows how this great big bundle of fur looks ready to hug the Block Party Bash onlookers! Sully has never looked so lovable as during the parade when he waves and poses for the crowd. Though Sulley's sidekick, Mike Wazowski, stays atop the Monsters, Inc float throughout its march along the parade route, Sully gets off the float and mingles with the crowd during the Block Party Bash performance stops.
Boo joins in, too! Another member of the Monsters, Inc float who mingles with the kids along the parade route is little Boo. Boo is the toddler-aged "human" girl that the residents of Monstropolis fear so badly in the Disney-Pixar animated movie, "Monsters, Inc." For her march along the parade route, you'll see her wearing her "monster costume," which helps Sully and Mike hide her & keep her from being detected by the fearsome CDA. As you can see from the pictures of monsters in the slide show above, several other minor Monsters, Inc characters from the film also join the parade and interact with the crowds lining the streets of the Disney theme park. Maybe your favorites are among them!
Block Party Bash---Toy Story CharactersCowboy Woody, Cowgirl Jessie and Buzz Lightyear greet you!
The Toy Story movies are represented by 2 floats in the Block Party Bash parade. One float showcases Cowboy Woody and his friend, Cowgirl Jessie. The other float is space-themed, and features Buzz Lightyear and a number of little space aliens.
In the picture of Cowgirl Jessie to your right, you can see that she thoroughly enjoys waving to her young fans in the crowd. During parade stops, she hops off of her float to greet children, dance with them...and pose for a photo or two!
In the picture of Cowboy Woody to your left, you can see that he, too, loves to ham it up with the crowd of onlookers. Like Jessie, Cowboy Woody leaves the Block Party Bash float at every stop in order to greet young Toy Story fans.
Buzz lightyear waves from his parade float: As you can see from the picture of Buzz Lightyear to your right, this Toy Story superstar shows up at the Block Party Bash looking his dapper best. Clad in his now-familiar space suit, Buzz Lightyear rides aboard a whimsical space-themed float...which appears to be assembled, in part, out of colorful giant-sized Tinker Toys! As you can see in the Block Party Bash picture slide show above, you'll also get a good glimpes of the little 3-eyed aliens that were a humorous part of the Toy Story movies.
Block Party Bash "Bugs Life" floatFlik, Princess Atta, Heimlich and friends join the fun!
The picture of Heimlich from "A Bug's Life" (to your left) gives you an idea of the whimsical humor that went into building this movie's Block Party Bash float.
Not only is Heimlich on hand to wave to Disney-Pixar film fans, but other members of the "Bug's Life" cast march along the parade route...to the delight of numerous young fans. You may have noticed pictures of Princess Atta and Flick in the photo slide show above. Both Flik and Princess Atta stay quite busy dancing and hob-nobbing with members of the audience.
HOW DO YOU LEARN THE SPOT WHERE YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTERS WILL BE STOPPING? Before the Block Party Bash parade begins, there will be Disney employees stationed at the parade stops to get the crowd shaped up and ready for the parade to come by (without running over anyone.) Ask one of these "crowd control" employees which general area your favorite characters are most likely to be stopping. These people see the parade on a regular basis; they can give some good tips to guests who will be watching the spectacle for the first time.
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