Dragon at Disneyland's Fantasmic! destroyed by massive fire

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Fire at Disneyland Fantasmic!

Posted: Sunday April 23, 2023 10:08am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

A massive fire at Disneyland Fantasmic! last night resulted in the total loss of the Maleficent dragon that is featured in the finale of the show.

Fire at Disneyland Fantasmic!

During the second showing of Fantasmic! last night, the show appeared to be running as normal, with Melficent shooting fire out to ignite the water between the audience and the stage.

Just after the planned fireball, fuel could be seen leaking from the head of the dragon, which soon ignited. The fire continued uncontrolled and quickly accelerated, engulfing the entire dragon in flames.

The show was halted, and all cast and crew were safely removed from the area. Disneyland reports that there were no injuries to cast or guests.

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Performances of Fantasmic! have been halted, and the show is likely to be unavailable for the foreseeable future.

You can see the full sequence of events in the video below.

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PiratesMansion2 days ago

Doesn't it typically run nightly during Spring Break?

Disneyprince222 days ago

Fantasmic will remain running weekends only next year until May.

AJFireman2 days ago

The rest of the article describes the inconsistency between show times and dining packages being available until February 16. I confirmed the Dining packages are listed for weekends up until Feb 16(Presidents Weekend). Looks like the Calendar still needs some updating to either remove dining packages or add show times. "The calendar for Fantasmic! Dining Packages in the Disneyland app lists more performances — but not a very consistent schedule. Firstly, it doesn’t show availability on Monday, January 6, even though the online calendar states “Fantasmic!” will perform that day. As for the rest of the month and February, performances are scheduled for January 17-19, 24-25, January 31, February 1, February 7-8, and February 14-16. In other words, all Fridays and Saturdays, and three Sundays. The dining packages calendar currently ends after February 16."

Touchdown2 days ago

Perhaps they don’t want APs to flood the park opening night. Makes me wonder if they are targeting a holiday weekend (Presidents Day or Easter)

TheCoasterNerd2 days ago

Good question, maybe they plan to keep it secret as a surprise, or maybe they'll announce it closer to installation. It just doesn't make sense to have that long of a pause unless something is happening.

Starship8242 days ago

Why hasn't it been announced yet then?

TheCoasterNerd2 days ago

I would assume this is for a dragon, no?

jrhwdw2 days ago

Apparently, F! is off for NYE....Odd

jrhwdw16 days ago

No F! News for the 70th yet.....

jrhwdwNov 11, 2024

On X, New Dining Package for F! announced starting Jan 2025. If F! has no Referb, New Dragon still on the way?

TheCoasterNerdNov 04, 2024

Confirmed it was rain, full pyro has returned tonight. There is still a good amount of stage pyro missing during the Malificent section though, plus no water fire

Nland316Nov 03, 2024

So is the new dragon already supposedly installed? Or being installed currently? I remember some mentioned it would occur during some past downtime for the island.

jrhwdwNov 03, 2024

True that!!!! I was just talking about now. Believe Holiday returns in 2 Weeks. Is it me or is DLR's Christmas Start a little late this year?

PiratesMansionNov 03, 2024

It's been WELL OVER a weekend of Mix Magic this year. Honestly, I'd be fine with a 70th where they just run Wondrous Journeys, Paint the Night, do another WOC show, bring back the dragon, and call it a day. I imagine there's a zero percent chance they improve on WJ if they were to attempt to right now.