Mickey's Once Upon a Christmastime Parade (previously known as Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Parade) is the annual holiday parade that performs at the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World in Florida during the Christmas season, as part of Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party.
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It debuted in 2007, as a replacement for the very similar Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Parade; the prior parade had been running since 1989. The current Christmas parade consists of elves, toy soldiers, reindeer, gingerbread men, and Disney characters in their holiday finery.
The music in this parade is very catchy, and is available online. It is not the same as the parade that is shown on ABC on Christmas Day, which is filmed at Walt Disney World the first weekend of December each year.
In 2021, following Walt Disney World's reopening, Magic Kingdom announced that an updated version of the parade would return for the new holiday event, Disney Very Merriest After Hours, as part of Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary celebration, but Goofy’s Gumball Machine Float, the festive ballroom dancers, and Santa’s Workshop, as well as several other segments, were removed. Those parts were later restored and the parade returned to full strength by the time of the parade's 40th anniversary in 2023 with the Disney Parks Magical Christmas Celebration and Disney 100 Years of Wonder festivities to ring out the end of the company's Centennial Anniversary year.