Editing Main Street Electrical Parade (section)

===Early years===
The first rehearsal was a "disaster";<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/travel/themeparks/la-tr-disneyland-main-street-electrical-parade-20161212-story.html|title=How the returning Disneyland Electrical Parade went from 'absolute disaster' to beloved attraction|last=MacDonald|first=Brady|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=January 24, 2019}}</ref> a float crashed into a building on [[Main Street, U.S.A.]], and some performers' costumes emitted sparks. Despite these obstacles, the parade successfully debuted on schedule on June 17, 1972.<ref name="MacDonald" /> The original parade floats featured the Blue Fairy, a large drum pulled by the [[Dumbo|Casey Jr.]] Engine, [[Cinderella (Disney franchise)|Cinderella]], a [[Chinese dragon]], and a [[Calliope (music)|circus calliope]]. Until 1977, some of the floats, such as the elephant train and the American flag finale, were flat screens on manually-pushed rolling platforms similar to the Electrical Water Pageant.

The Main Street Electrical Parade had counterparts of the same name and layout at [[Magic Kingdom]] in the [[Walt Disney World Resort]], which ran from June 11, 1977, to September 14, 1991. It was replaced by a similar parade called ''[[SpectroMagic]]'', which ran from October 1, 1991, to May 20, 1999, reopened on April 2, 2001, and ended on June 4, 2010. On April 12, 1992, the version from [[Magic Kingdom]] went to Disneyland Park at [[Disneyland Paris]] and ran there until March 23, 2003. It was then replaced by [[Fantillusion]], a nighttime parade from [[Tokyo Disneyland]] that had earlier replaced the Tokyo version of the Main Street Electrical Parade, which ran from March 9, 1985, to June 21, 1995.

On June 14, 1997, a presentation of the Electrical Parade called the "Hercules Electrical Parade", ran on [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]], [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]] for the opening of Disney's [[New Amsterdam Theater]] and the film ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]''. Disney arranged for the lights to be all turned off on about eight blocks of Broadway up to the theater. All businesses complied, with the exception of Disney rival [[Warner Brothers]]. It was led by a custom Hercules title unit made for this one time only use. It was shown on national television on a one-hour promotional program featuring the music and making of Hercules.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gest |first=Emily |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1997/06/10/1997-06-10_disney_s_ready_to_roll_with_.html |title=Disney's ready to roll with Herculean labor |work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]] |date=June 10, 1997 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090510213158/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1997/06/10/1997-06-10_disney_s_ready_to_roll_with_.html |archive-date=May 10, 2009 |access-date=August 2, 2014 }}</ref>