The other day I was going through my old home videos from previous Disney trips, and I was watching my WDW trip from March 2005 with Amy.
I came to the SpectroMagic section. I was interested to see if had been any changes since then that I couldn't remember. So the SpectroMen were different, but I knew that - you can see that on our SpectroMen page. But other than that, it was all pretty much the same - with one notable exception...
This is the current Fantasia crocodile unit (2 pictures):
Here is a screenshot (sorry for the quality), from that March 2005 trip:
Hyacinth Hippo! So sometime between March 2005 and June 2008 (when I made a Disney trip and it was as it is now), this changed. They removed her as a character and made her into a giant glowing ball on the top of the float. What is more curious is that they now feature Mme. Upanova on this float... even though this unit is followed by another Fantasia float - with more ostriches on it! One does wonder why these decisions are made, and by whom...