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As it is now Christmas, the Angry Dad will go easier on the Christmas Fantasy Parade at Disneyland.

But it is overwhelming, of course. Here is the bland, generic description from the Wikipedia page on this subject:

• Aladdin and Jasmine ride on the Magic Carpet, driven by The Genie.

• 8 Snowflake performers skate down the parade route on roller skates.

• A snowy Christmas Tree rolls down the parade route.

• 8 Snowpeople scurry along, 4 male, 4 female.

• Mickey and Minnie ice skate atop the Ice Rink float.

This is only one “unit” of seven such units (I imagine if the “Snowpeople” were to scamper instead of scurry, the whole production might be blown to hell). But here is the peculiar feature, from the Angry Dad point of view: just when you want to leave, they do something surprising, something that leaves you thinking, “That’s pretty cool.” For me, it was the ballerina on top of the music box, an actual human doing actual ballet on an oversized music box twenty feet up on the top of the float. Like guys all up and down the parade route, I thought, “Impressive…and she’s pretty hot.”

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