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I don't see any mention of the following in this thread but Bluecoats were one of the first corps to have a WGI type costume in their show.

Does anyone remember the cloud people at the end of their 2009 show? The WGI inspired tops were under their uniform. At the same time they ditched the helmuts for the last piece of music they played.

I also remember some of the reaction to their effort back in 2009 and it wasn't very positive. 7 years later and suddenly it's being discussed as a game changer.

Here's a short clip from the end of their 2009 show.

https://youtu.be/vLyyOuHnLCA

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I don't see any mention of the following in this thread but Bluecoats were one of the first corps to have a WGI type costume in their show.

Does anyone remember the cloud people at the end of their 2009 show? The WGI inspired tops were under their uniform. At the same time they ditched the helmuts for the last piece of music they played.

I also remember some of the reaction to their effort back in 2009 and it wasn't very positive. 7 years later and suddenly it's being discussed as a game changer.

Here's a short clip from the end of their 2009 show.

https://youtu.be/vLyyOuHnLCA

you're right -- there weren't too many of us who liked it.

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This is the new direction of show design

https://youtu.be/JOdqD7cs1OE

awesome because its true

DCP is such a strange place and part of the Pavlovian is to be the first to proclaim something as an innovation or the next Star 93

If you combine the Coats rolling bleachers from 2013 with the Tilt ramps from 2014, what do you get? That’s right, 2016 and to utilize them as such demands new uniforms. That’s all, you should have seen this one coming

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This is the new direction of show design

https://youtu.be/JOdqD7cs1OE

That's it! Exactly! +1 for the tick

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It's interesting that Bluecoats visual impact on the activity corresponds to when they hired Mike Fanning away from Cadets and he took with him several techs and a number of recent Cadet age-outs to work as visual techs including a a couple who made a short pit stop on the staff of Oregon Crusaders.

This is probably all true, but I also caution people from thinking that somehow George Hopkins left the door open and all his best talent ran away to play with Bluecoats. Unless you are a caption head in drum corps (brass, percussion, drill, show coordinator, guard, etc) it is doubtful you make much money in this activity. Every drum corps has plenty of young staff, techs, who are filled with talent, and who help immensely with the corps they presently represent. But they, too, will have to look elsewhere if they wish to move up the ranks. In this case, some of those former marchers and staff members for Cadets have found a place to grow even more.

No doubt that some former Cadets and Star of Indiana staff/former marchers found their way to Carolina Crown. It's not an accident that they are really good.

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But as Corpsband pointed out previously, The Cadets were the ones to initiate sliding in the most recent years with the color guard members sliding down the props of the Christmas show as if they were kids sliding down a snow covered hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLBkOjpoW8&feature=youtu.be&t=8m30s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLBkOjpoW8 Bluecoats took the image several levels further with Tilt, last year, and especially this year.

I agree with this, and there is no doubt the slide idea has been somewhat introduced in DCI. But I don't think Bluecoats really consulted those shows for what they are doing now. Not even TILT. I think they saw a Cirque show or a Circus/Carnival like show and I believe that is where the idea came from. Who knows, perhaps they got the idea from a water park. Those slides are huge and remind me much more of a water park slide than say a ramp, which is what Cadets 2012 used and what TILT incorporated.

Often we can look back into DCI's past and find similar ideas that were incorporated, but it doesn't mean the design team even consulted that history. So many of the ideas being floated around in DCI today are coming from WGI (as many have noted), BOA, to a much lesser extent, and outside forces like Cirque, Broadway, Carnival, Motion Picture, Dance, and more.

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I can't (?) wait until there is a massive pileup on those ramps when people start falling down, or the ramp breaks or what have you.

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I can't (?) wait until there is a massive pileup on those ramps when people start falling down, or the ramp breaks or what have you.

It looks like someone loves schadenfreude! (?)

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