Originally Posted By TDLFAN Some posters at wdwmagic confirmed the fire barge from Reflections on Earth came back on tonight and performed flawlessly!! Pics if you scroll down this wdwmagic topic. <a href="http://forums.wdwmagic.com/showthread.php?p=1447089#post1447089" target="_blank">http://forums.wdwmagic.com/sho wthread.php?p=1447089#post1447089</a>
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Quick reporting, TDLFAN! I was at Epcot on Weds night and heard about the return of the Inferno Barge at about 7:30pm. I was working up at SSE though and couldn't be there personally to see the show at 9pm. Friends told me that it was back as good as ever, maybe better. I know they adjusted the fireworks to accomodate the missing fire. It will be interesting to see if the fireworks have been changed again.
Originally Posted By stitchcrazy Yea! That is great news, thanks for passing it along TDLFAN. It was a bummer when I was there in December to see the show with out the fire barge.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 I've never seen this, what do they do? It looked pretty neat though.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN The barge should be better than ever, as I am sure they cleaned out all that grime and residue from som many years of use. >>I've never seen this, what do they do? << The barge performs during the firs act of Reflections on Earth, and within the context of the show..it is supposed to be a metaphore of the creating of the Universe and the BIG BANG!!! (Go see Universe of Energy to learn of this scientific theory) When the fire goes..there are ball sof fire in every direction, sideways and upwards. On a night like last night when it was cool weather, the heat generated from the barge must have been quite comforting and nice Everytime I see the barge blow the fire, makes me want to have marshmellows roasted on a stick! Hehehe!!
Originally Posted By WDWtechie Im not gald its back. Since it was gone that show become less popular and Wishes was the popular one. I liked it because more people watched the castle at night and saw the cool lighting effects I helped program.
Originally Posted By alisserae ^^^Wishes is overrated, it felt tired after the first time I watched it. DL's is infinitely better than WDWs. Yay for Illuminations' barges!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN You know?? I am beginning to believe this as well... Last time I saw Wishes, from the balcony of the train station overlooking Main Street, I was appalled at the number of guests that would stop watching half way thru the show and leave. One woman next to me said.." this (show) is too long, let's go.." and off they went their way to the exit. Seems to me Wishes is enjoyable throughout when watched from the hub, or else. As for the DL pyro show...a resouding YES. MUCH better over Wishes. But then again, everything they do at DL is better than WDW for the most part.
Originally Posted By alisserae ^^^Amen to that TDL. Just a pity that the Mr. has to finish his MBA before we can move back to the West Coast.
Originally Posted By danyoung >Since it was gone that show become less popular and Wishes was the popular one.< Sorry, but I just can't believe this. I don't think the average guest has any clue about the fire barge, one way or the other. It's only us super geeks that know the difference. I just don't see it affecting more than a handful of people.
Originally Posted By WDWtechie You must really love DL AND TDL a lot. I have only been to DL AND TDL once. I have been to DLP 9 times. I really love it there. Well I should since my family is from there.
Originally Posted By WDWtechie I really think differently. I have known people who saw the show without the barge who have seen it before and said that it sucked without the barge. So "us super geeks" really arent the only ones who notice these things.
Originally Posted By danyoung Well, I agree with you, techie, that the show wasn't as good without the barge. I just don't see that many people saying "oh, there's no fire barge in IllumiNations - let's go see the MK show." But I still can't see many people thinking that the entire show sucked. It only impacted the first 2 or 3 minutes - the rest of the show was exactly the same (well, with some fireworks coming from slightly different launch points).
