Editing Main Street Electrical Parade (section)

===Later years===
The Main Street Electrical Parade closed at Disneyland on November 25, 1996, after a 24-year run. Light bulbs certified as having been part of the show were sold to collectors. The show's replacement, the [[Light Magic]] parade, opened in 1997 to disappointing results.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Korkis |first1=Jim |title=Secret Stories of Extinct Disneyland: Memories of the Original Park |date=2019 |publisher=Theme Park Press |isbn=978-1683902041 |chapter=Main Street, U.S.A.}}</ref> Disney quickly cancelled Light Magic but held off in bringing back the popular Main Street Electrical Parade. However, the parade was refurbished and appeared at [[Magic Kingdom]] on May 21, 1999, for a limited engagement, just in time for [[Walt Disney World Millennium Celebration]]. The parade ended its run at Magic Kingdom on April 1, 2001, and [[SpectroMagic]] was brought back the following day.{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}

Back in Japan, the Tokyo version of the show would return as Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade - DreamLights on June 17, 2001, with much larger floats, more than 1 million lights, and a new G-major and orchestral version of Baroque Hoedown arranged by Gregory Smith, replacing the classic A-minor version of the song. This version of the parade gets updated with new units regularly and still performs at Tokyo Disneyland today, aside from a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Main Street Electrical Parade floats were then sent back to California for the parade's return to Disneyland. These plans changed after Anaheim management saw the poor attendance figures for the spring break season at Disney California Adventure and feared that the park would fail to attract large crowds during the crucial summer season unless they had a big draw. So Disney announced that the popular Main Street Electrical Parade would be coming to [[Disney California Adventure Park]] on July 2, 2001, in honor of the park's first summer. The name of the show was changed from the Main Street Electrical Parade to Disney's Electrical Parade, as Disney California Adventure has no Main Street. All of the 1996 parade floats returned, except for the Snow White diamond mine float and the Pinocchio unit, as they were sent to Disneyland Paris in 1997.{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}

During the 2008 ''[[Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade]]'' special, Disney announced a new Tinker Bell float would join the parade to replace the Blue Fairy as the parade's leader. This would also mark the first new float in 20 years to be added to the parade.{{citation needed|date=June 2014}} It was also announced in early 2009 that the Snow White diamond mine float and Pinocchio unit would be returning to the California version as well.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lighting Up The Night With New Shows And A New Glow! Disneyland Resort Celebrates Summer Nightastic!|url=http://www.disneylandnews.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=407| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20090429011647/http://www.disneylandnews.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=407|archive-date=April 29, 2009|website=disneylandnews.com|publisher=Disneyland|access-date=October 7, 2015}}</ref> The parade then held its final performance in its original form on January 5, 2009, and closed for six months as it underwent a massive refurbishment. The parade then returned on June 12, 2009 with the Tinker Bell, Snow White Diamond mine, and Pinocchio units joining the show. The parade also saw an update to the lights, as they were all replaced with LEDs, and the introduction of the G-major version of Baroque Hoedown that was first used in DreamLights in 2001 at Tokyo Disneyland, but less orchestral. This update was done for Disneyland's "Summer Nightastic!" 2009 promotional package.

Disney's Electrical Parade then ended is run at Disney California Adventure on April 18, 2010, and was sent to [[Magic Kingdom]] as part of the [[Walt Disney World]] 2010 promotional package "Summer Nightastic!"  The parade was not modified from its Disney California Adventure run, with the drum still saying "Disney's Electrical Parade", but the name of the parade itself was changed back to The Main Street Electrical Parade. The parade returned to Magic Kingdom on June 5, 2010. While it was initially announced that the parade would run through August 14, 2010, Disney later announced in July 2010 that the parade would stay in Florida for the time being, and that it was on an "open-ended" run.{{Citation needed|date=February 2018}} 

Six years later, the parade would finally end its run at Magic Kingdom on October 9, 2016, in preparation for a limited-time return to Disneyland Park in California, which was scheduled to run from January 20 to June 18, 2017,<ref name="Heading to Disneyland for a Limited Time" /><ref name="August 11, 2016">{{cite news|title=Main Street Electrical Parade Moving Westward|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2016-08-11/walt-disney-world-pulling-plug-on-famed-electrical-parade|access-date=August 12, 2016|work=U.S. News & World Report|agency=Associated Press|date=August 11, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812182334/http://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2016-08-11/walt-disney-world-pulling-plug-on-famed-electrical-parade|archive-date=August 12, 2016}}</ref> before being extended to August 20, 2017. A special ticketed premiere event, costing {{USD|95}}, occurred on January 19, 2017.<ref name="January 19, 2017">{{cite news|last1=Pimentel|first1=Joseph|title=Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade returns Thursday with iconic tune|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/parade-741299-music-disney.html|access-date=January 19, 2017|work=The Orange County Register|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170119170034/http://www.ocregister.com/articles/parade-741299-music-disney.html|archive-date=January 19, 2017}}</ref> Disneyland restored the drum float to once again read "Main Street Electrical Parade" as well as "Disneyland Presents". Tinker Bell's float, added in 2009, was moved back to the Peter Pan unit and was altered for the 2017 run, making Casey Junior the new leader of the parade. On February 24, 2017, the pixie dust swooshes added to the floats in 2009 were removed, except on Tinker Bell's float, since Tinker Bell was no longer the parade's leader. On June 28, 2019, Disney announced that the Main Street Electrical Parade would return to Disneyland for a third run on August 2, 2019, and would run through September 30, 2019.<ref name="2019 Return" />
On July 22, 2019, to advertise the parade's new run, the official Disneyland Resort YouTube channel posted a slightly edited version of a commercial from two years prior.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8t_WHSwW4M A Disneyland Icon Is Back | Main Street Electrical Parade - YouTube<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The parade ran at Disneyland from August 2 through September 30 for its 2019 seasonal run. On September 28, 2020, one of the spinning snails of the Alice In Wonderland unit made a special live appearance for ''[[Tyra Banks]]''' opening entrance for the 2020 Disney Night of ''[[Dancing With The Stars]]''.