Originally Posted By Hista98 so i know that they are having dragon problems and are doing the fantasmic show w/o it. But i have yet to hear what is the dragons replacment. It's a pretty big part of the show and I don't imagine they can do it without it. so i'm wondering what they are doing as a replacment. are they just skiping that part of the show, is maleficent just staing human and mickey kills her that way, or do they use mist to project a dragon, anyone know???
Originally Posted By irishfan From my understanding Malificent (in non dragon form) rises up and ignites the Rivers.
Originally Posted By gadzuux With what? Sounds risky for the performer. I imagine it would involve some kind of big black hose with a nozzle that squirts out flammable liquid mixed with some kind of propellant. Not something you want the maleficent character to be anywhere close to.
Originally Posted By monorailblue Meleficent stays up right where she rises. She sits there quietly in the darkness while the dragon/flame video is shown--then, when the lights would come up on the dragon, they just light her up again and she flails around. She does indeed "ignite" the river with her staff, and Mickey picks up the sword, declares it is "his dream", and zaps her. She quickly fades to black, drops out of place, and the show ends as normal. It is pretty funny, though, because Mickey and Maleficent are so far apart, you wonder if you are supposed to be watching the Cider Mill. You can see a complete video of it at another website--which sounds like "Louse Flanet Dot Com" in today's Disneyland Update.
Originally Posted By monorailblue Oh--to clarify--the igniting is magical only--no shooting flames. Maleficent with a flamethrower would be FABULOUS!!!!! For the record, the dragon's flame never ignited the river, either. It is not nearly that big. With good timing it just looks sort of that way. The river flames are ignited totally separately.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Fantasmic! has been running for 17 years, so they have contingency plans for almost anything. Maleficent the dragon has been AWOL in the past, and as described above, this is how it has been handled. The river never was actually lit by the flame shooting from the dragon's mouth. The Peter Pan section has been performed without the Columbia. They simply send the characters onto the island, and have the fight staged there. Even the grand finale has been staged while the Mark Twain is in dry dock. The island stage is filled with characters performing their same routine. They then dance off just before Mickey appears in a burst of pyro. It is not as spectacular, but for audiences that do not know the show, it is still a great one. After Friday's opening, many people in our immediate vicinity commented that if one didn't know there was supposed to be a dragon, they would never know something was missing.
Originally Posted By danyoung I saw the show once without the dragon a couple years ago. And while it's probably a good thing that Disney has these contingencies, it really isn't a very good altrnative, IMO. It just seems like she's up there screaming and waving for freakin' EVER with nothing else going on. It was a huge hole in the show for me.
Originally Posted By Disneydanny I kinda figured they'd have a backup plan if Columbia was down. are there any videos w/ thhhe Peter/Hook sequence sans Columbia?
