Disneyland’s Popular Fantasmic! Show To Be Suspended For One Year After Animatronic Dragon Caught Fire
deadline.comDisneyland’s popular Fantasmic! show will return next spring after a one-year closure prompted by a fire that engulfed the show’s giant prop dragon. “With the goal of delivering the best possible show for our guests, performances of Fantasmic!
are currently paused until Spring 2024,” park officials announced this week. The new show will no longer feature the dragon, but will instead add new special effects during the climactic battle between Sorcerer Mickey and Maleficent.
No one was injured when the dragon caught fire in April, but park officials temporarily suspended fire effects similar to those used at Fantasmic!
at select shows worldwide. Fantastic Fantasmic fail – wow! #fantasmic #disneyland pic.twitter.com/MZhNJhEXrB Fantasmic! opened in Frontierland in 1992 and featured fireworks, various Disney characters, live actors, water effects, pyrotechnics, lasers, music, audio-animatronics, searchlights, decorated boat floats and mist screen projections.
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