Disneyland Fantasmic Dragon Engulfed in Flames

PiratesMansion

Well-Known Member
Well, if I was running the park they would have saved hundreds of millions in costs by not building Galaxy's Edge in Anaheim, not changing Splash Mountain, not rebranding to Pixar Pier or Big Hero 6, and not changing to Guardians of the Galaxy. And the parks would be better for it.
And I would have done things differently too.

But still, there are so many people here who are *so sure* that if they were put in charge of running Disneyland Resort today, they would be able to quickly and easily fix every modern ill (or "modern ill", as the case may be) to the point that everyone visiting the park would bow to them in spontaneous wonderment, and I might suggest that the workings of a great many of these ills are a bit more complicated than that.

I also don't find it productive to continuously fixate on every single grievance I have with the parks at all times and repeat them ad nauseum here as many do. It just seems like a lot of negative energy to hold onto at any given moment for me. Clearly others disagree.

I'll say again what I've said before: some here have become so focused on their own Disney grievances, valid or otherwise, that they have become completely incapable of seeing the park (or company) through any other lens. They have lost focus on the macro in favor of the extreme, narrow, myopic micro. Which is, again, not to say there's never any validity there, but sometimes it seems to do little except further the tunnelvision some here display on a regular basis, in which that poster is of course always right and Disney is always an exceptionally inept corporation whose own and every action can only be malevolent, cheap, or actively harmful, and no due diligence was ever taken. As always, YMMV.
 

Figments Friend

Well-Known Member
Ya know….

I actually kinda like Maleficent’s ‘C mode’ for a temporary version.

The lifting Maleficent sequence, minus the change into the physical dragon, always struck me as a bit ‘silly’.
She trashes around on a pole, over the top as only she can…and then dissapears behind a projection on a water spray.


Having her on the stage like this ‘C Mode’, threatening Mickey like this as a free roaming character makes more ‘sense’ to me from a staging and story perspective.
I can dig this alternative option.
The stage pyro, lake of fire, etc all add to this nicely.

Of the two, I will take ‘C’ until we get her back in dragon form proper.
Nothing will ever beat the full sized dragon magically appearing on stage and doing her thing!

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gerarar

Premium Member
Tuxedo Mickey had a pyro malfunction on Friday night (7/6 10:30pm show).

Weird thing is that during the first show, the pyro didn't go off. Kinda similar eerie forshadowing of what happened to the Murphy dragon when it too malfunctioned during the first show of that night before the fire on the second show.


 

SuddenStorm

Well-Known Member
Tuxedo Mickey had a pyro malfunction on Friday night (7/6 10:30pm show).

Weird thing is that during the first show, the pyro didn't go off. Kinda similar eerie forshadowing of what happened to the Murphy dragon when it too malfunctioned during the first show of that night before the fire on the second show.




I'd love to learn the nuance of what triggers a show stop and what doesn't.
 

Tony the Tigger

Well-Known Member
And I would have done things differently too.

But still, there are so many people here who are *so sure* that if they were put in charge of running Disneyland Resort today, they would be able to quickly and easily fix every modern ill (or "modern ill", as the case may be) to the point that everyone visiting the park would bow to them in spontaneous wonderment, and I might suggest that the workings of a great many of these ills are a bit more complicated than that.

I also don't find it productive to continuously fixate on every single grievance I have with the parks at all times and repeat them ad nauseum here as many do. It just seems like a lot of negative energy to hold onto at any given moment for me. Clearly others disagree.

I'll say again what I've said before: some here have become so focused on their own Disney grievances, valid or otherwise, that they have become completely incapable of seeing the park (or company) through any other lens. They have lost focus on the macro in favor of the extreme, narrow, myopic micro. Which is, again, not to say there's never any validity there, but sometimes it seems to do little except further the tunnelvision some here display on a regular basis, in which that poster is of course always right and Disney is always an exceptionally inept corporation whose own and every action can only be malevolent, cheap, or actively harmful, and no due diligence was ever taken. As always, YMMV.
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gerarar

Premium Member
There were major pyro misfires so they took the barges off the show for a bit for a refurb
Ah yeah I know. I was questioning if the green flares were reconfigured to shoot from the island now with the barges out of the show.

Or were they always shot from the island. I could've sworn they came from the barges before..
 

TheCoasterNerd

Well-Known Member
In the Parks
No
Wouldn’t call it a refurb, more like they were taken offline to investigate what caused the pyro misfire. I’m sure some type of refurb will occur after to ensure it doesn’t happen again
Yes, that's a more appropriate description. They were removed from the show to investigate and fix whatever was causing the misfires, for guest and Cast safety. Of course, it couldn't happen during the year closure because they didn't have misfires then so they had no reason to investigate these barges.
 

gerarar

Premium Member
The flame pyro during Malificient's ascent had a slight misfire tonight. Another yikes.

Also, they should just do the B-mode pyro in the finale. When the cabin was under refurbishment back in early 2020, the pyro launchers were moved to on-stage in front of the cabin, but behind Mickey. This would be separate equipment (believed it was borrowed from the castle/FL launchers/equipment) than what's used in the barges, plus currently all stage pyro is still in use/safe for now.

The finale itself is so bare now with like 85% of the fireworks gone. Feels sad for the guests paying for dining packages just to see Mickey wave his hands to no effect.
It was already watered down when they changed up the spotlight and laser finale choreography (for the worst imo) from 2.0, but now it's just sad.

 

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