Great Pictures of Fantasmic! Dragon by Armadillo 444 and new video by MintCrocodile with the Dragon's "breath of fire"

The Fantasmic! Dragon did his second performance last night and this time as you will see on the new great video of MintCrocodile his performance included the "breath of fire" that was missing on opening night!

Armadillo 444 who was at the opening performance tuesday evening shoot fantastic pictures of the Dragon. As you will see, the design of the Dragon is absolutely awesome. It's just like if he had jumped out of the Sleeping Beauty movie to arrive on the stage of Fantasmic!

The first picture is when the Dragon appear.



And then, of course, arrives Mickey to defeat the Dragon.



A closer shot of the Dragon's head...



Mickey is back for the final battle!...



The Dragon is defeat!



Great pictures, isn't it? And now, here is the second video that MintCrocodile shoot yesterday evening, this time from the side, which was a perfect location to film the Dragon's breath of fire. As always, MintCrocodile did a fantastic filming - he always do and i strongly suggest you to subscribe to his Youtube account so you won't miss his future productions!



All Pictures: copyright Armadillo 444
Video: copyright MintCrocodile

Many thanks to both of them for their great pictures and video!

Fantasmic Dragon first public appearance at Disneyland ! Videos by MintCrocodile and TopChefRemy

The Fantasmic Dragon did at last his first performance last night at Disneyland and Murphy's debut was acclaimed by thousands of Disneyland super-fans who were there. Many videos were shoot and i choose for you what seems to be the two best one.

Although "Murphy" didn't spit fire yesterday, the dragon looks awesome and its movements will probably be improved in the next days.

The first video is from the always excellent MintCrocodile who succeed again to shoot the video with the best definition.



The second very good video is from TopChefRemy and is a very interesting one as it is filmed from the side and offer a different view of the dragon.




Videos: copyright MintCrocodile or TopChefRemy whom i thanks and congratulate a lot for their video!

Screen capture: copyright MintCrocodile

Fantasmic Dragon, at last !

Wait. Yes, Disneyland released these pictures and the video below of the awaited Fantasmic Dragon so you'll be able to see him at last BUT they cancelled this morning press event as well as the dragon's performance tonight. Which means that you still will have to wait for a face to face with this huge WDI Audio-animatronic.

Mike Hyland, director of Disneyland Resort public relations released today this official statement about the dragon delays: "“The dragon in Fantasmic! is technically complex and the largest and most fully animated Disney character ever created for a live stage show. We want to make sure it’s perfect before adding it to the show”. Of course they want to make sure that everything works perfectly THIS time! The last time they announced it was at the beginning of the summer season and everything went awry, so...




But let's talk about the dragon itself, which is much more interesting, and after seeing the video below i must say that the result looks absolutely fantastic. Not only the dragon looks exactly like he just escaped from the beloved animated movie, but the AA animation is incredibly subtle. Obviously the head and the neck animation seems to be the most complex part, technically speaking, which may explain the problem they had.

Okay, enough talk, i let you have a look to the video, and please leave a comment to tell us what you think of this new WDI wonder!





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Pictures and Video: Copyright Disney - Many thanks to the O.C Register