An extended version of Paint the Night premiered at Disneyland on May 22, 2015, as part of the park's 60th anniversary celebration, and moved to Disney California Adventure on April 12, 2018.

[10][11] Disney confirmed on February 22, 2022, that the parade would return on April 22, 2022, as well as revealing a reimagined To Honor America finale float that is more inclusive.

The parade's 50th anniversary run began on April 20, 2022, during a soft opening that was live streamed on the Disney Parks Blog and had its "final performance of the season" on September 1, 2022.

[12] The parade's design used nickel–cadmium batteries, which the Disney movie studio had recently started using, and Italian-made miniature bulbs that Disneyland staff had seen in light displays along Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

[12] The original parade floats featured the Blue Fairy, a large drum pulled by the Casey Jr. Engine, Cinderella, a Chinese dragon, and a 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.

[16] 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.

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.

[citation needed] 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.

[17] 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.

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.

[9] 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.

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.

Disney also revealed that the "To Honor America" finale had been redesigned to be more inclusive and now features dolls from "it's a small world" that represent movies such as: Brave, Hercules, Mulan, Coco, The Princess and the Frog, Moana, Pocahontas, Frozen, Raya and the Last Dragon, The Jungle Book, Aladdin, and Encanto, as well as the return of the Blue Fairy.

The Halloween finale pays tribute to Disney villains, including Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog, Mother Gothel from Tangled, Ursula from The Little Mermaid, The Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Jafar from Aladdin.

The finale ends with a tribute to the Disneyland Paris attraction Phantom Manor, including an electronic version of Grim Grinning Ghosts.

These include The Casey Jr. train from Dumbo carrying Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Goofy and subsequent floats based on Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Pete's Dragon and a patriotic American float titled "To Honor America".

[20] In 2022, Disney revealed that the "To Honor America" finale had been redesigned to be more inclusive and now features dolls as seen from the returning "it's a small world" that represent movies such as Brave, Hercules, Mulan, Coco, The Princess and the Frog, Moana, Pocahontas, Frozen, Raya and the Last Dragon, The Jungle Book, Aladdin and Encanto, as well as the return of the Blue Fairy.

As of the 2023 renewal, the new floats are Blue Fairy, Knights of Light, Mickey's Dreamlights Train, Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Disney Fairies, Pirates of the Caribbean', Zootopia, Pete's Dragon, Brother Bear, Peter Pan, Hercules, 101 Dalmatians, The Lion King, The Muppets, Wreck-It Ralph, The Incredibles, Brave, Inside Out, Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story, Ratatouille, Up, Coco, Lilo & Stitch, Cars, WALL-E, Onward, Aladdin, Tangled, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, The Princess and the Frog, Moana, Pocahontas, Sleeping Beauty, Frozen and It's a Small World (see below).

One year later, one of the spinning snails from the Alice in Wonderland unit made a live TV appearance on Dancing with the Stars on September 28, 2020, confirming the parade was on another hiatus.

A year later on October 26, 2021, the Disney Parks TikTok released a video teasing the parade's return yet again, with the same snail being loaded onto a truck bound for Disneyland.

Also for its 2022 return, Disney revealed that the "To Honor America" finale float had been redesigned to be more inclusive and now featured dolls from "it's a small world" that represent movies such as Brave, Hercules, Mulan, Coco, The Princess and the Frog, Moana, Pocahontas, Frozen, Raya and the Last Dragon, The Jungle Book, Aladdin, and Encanto, as well as the return of the Blue Fairy.

[21] A new inclusive opening fanfare that honor's the parade's legacy and Walt Disney's dedication of Disneyland in 1955 was also introduced for the 2022 return.

The original version was created in 1967 by early synthesizer pioneers Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley and appeared first on the album Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Electronic Pop Music from Way Out.

The soundtrack to the parade has been released numerous times: Dorsey used 11 synthesizers to create the soundtrack: Moog Model III, Minimoog, Steiner-Parker Synthacon, Oberheim Eight Voice, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Fender Rhodes Piano, New England Digital Synclavier II, Bode 7702 Vocoder, Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter, Yamaha DX7 and Yamaha TX7.

The score also features themes from Aladdin, Brave, The Princess and the Frog, Coco, Moana, Mulan, Encanto, Raya and the Last Dragon, Hercules, and Toy Story.