Snails (Main Street Electrical Parade)

The Snails are characters from the Main Street Electrical Parade at the Disney Parks. They are one of the most recognizable characters from the Electrical Parade, alongside the turtles and Elliott.
==Background==
The snails are comprised of two snails featured in Electrical Parade. They are consistently featured in the Alice in Wonderland-themed unit of every version of Electrical Parade and have since become one of the most recognizable characters from the parade, often appearing in merchandise inspired by the parade. Rather than just moving like standard parade floats in any typical parade, they would occasionally rotate to impress the guests during the parade. At least two types of snails were featured in the Electrical Parade, such as one which has a purple mantle around its body with a green shell while the other has a red mantle around its body which has a red shell.
Due to the popularity of Main Street Electrical Parade over the years, the snails often appeared in merchandise inspired by the parade such as trading pins or in other merchandise.
===Effects===
The snails were designed with a mix between iridescent and LED lights to illuminate the parade floats to give illusion of how the glowing effect works on Main Street Electrical Parade. Said lights are efficient than incandescent bulbs, making them combinable in different ways to make color combinations for the snails. In addition to the colors, the snails featured were actually driven by a person inside the float to give illusion of it being driven across the street and occasionally rotating to impress the guests.
==Appearances==
===Main Street Electrical Parade===
The snails have been featured in the Alice in Wonderland-themed unit in every version of the Main Street Electrical Parade in the Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, Disneyland Paris, and Disney California Adventure versions of the Electrical Parade respectively. While parading down the street, they would occasionally spin to impress guests with the parade continuing throughout the night with guests enjoying their visit at the parks. In addition to spinning and parading across the street, they would stop for a while such as bowing to the crowd to impress them.
In the Tokyo Disneyland version, the snails featured within the parade were named Mr. Snail and Mrs. Snail respectively in the Alice-themed unit of the parade. They functioned similar to what they did in the California and Florida versions of the parade, except with a different design. These snails were retired from the Tokyo version of the parade as of 2015.
The Electrical Sky Parade version features a snail as one of the elements recreated through the use of drones during the nighttime show in Paris featured in the Alice in Wonderland-themed sequence. Unlike in the standard version of the parade, no turnaround effects were used for the snail.
==Gallery==
Electrical Parade Red Snail.png
Disney Emoji Blitz - Item Emoji - Electrical Parade - Snail.png|The snail as a collectible item in Disney Emoji Blitz
Electrical Parade Purple Snail Glow in the Dark Magnet.jpg
==Trivia==
*During the parade's 2017 run at Disneyland, snacks themed after elements from the Electrical Parade were sold at the Candy Palace with one of them being cake pops modeled after the snail from the Electrical Parade which were made to promote the parade, alongside other snacks themed after the ladybug, the turtle, the Cheshire Cat, and the centipede respectively.
*During the 50th anniversary of the Electrical Parade at Disneyland, caramel apples in designed after the purple snail were sold at the Candy Palace emporium and were used to promote the parade's return for its 50th anniversary.
*On September 28, 2020, the purple snail was featured in Tyra Banks' introduction of , where it made a special live appearance in the show, making it the first time the snail drove around stage as a special character.
*In Disney Emoji Blitz, the purple snail was featured as a collectible item in certain item collections, but its shell is colored blue instead of green.
==References==
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