Disney Facts: A look at World of Color-Winter Dreams

The California Adventure has added a new version of the World of Color featuring the characters from the upcoming Disney animated movie “Frozen.”

Disneyland publicity photo.

Programming for the “World of Color-Winter Dreams,” which is in seven sequences, took three months, according to a Disney press release.

The new show is also coming from a new system with more than 17 million pixels in the screen. More than 700 high-power, color, LED strobe lights were installed along the side of the California Screamin’ coaster.

The holiday show starts off with a season’s greetings featuring the “World of Color” Honor Choir singing “Glow,” written especially for this new show. Then Tinker Bell’s traditional greeting from “Wonderful World of Color” summons Old Man Winter and the skating Frost Fairies.

In the next part of the show Olaf takes guests on a winter sleigh ride, encountering Bambi, Thumper and, from “Frozen,” sisters Anna and Elsa. Images of holiday cards follow with “The Toy Story” characters performing the Nutccracker.

Olaf returns and imagines himself enjoying the sunshine, then leads the audience in a holiday sing-along. In the finale Olaf welcomes a surprising Santa.

• The “World of Color – Winter Dreams” features more than a dozen songs, including  “Jingle Bells,” “Feliz Navidad” and “The Dreidel Song.” 
• The voices of more than 500 singers representing all 50 states in the U.S. appear in the pre-show.
• More than 1,400 submissions from around the country were received for the Honor Choir.
• Other Disney fans designed holiday cards and submitted them online to appear in the “Glow-A Season of Light” sequence.