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** The 2022 reopening of the Hollywood Studios incarnation of the show should be able to line up with the original show's 30th anniversary.

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** The 2022 reopening update of the Hollywood Studios incarnation of the show should be able to line up with debuted during Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary celebration. It also debuted 30 years after the original Disneyland show's 30th anniversary.opening.
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** The Pink Elephants sequence was originally going to include live actors in "flexible, glow-in-the-dark elephant costumes", while the Bald Mountain scene was planned to implement performers in glowing skeleton suits. Both of these ideas were scrapped, resulting in the scenes merely using projections of the characters.

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** The Pink Elephants sequence was originally going to include live actors in "flexible, glow-in-the-dark elephant costumes", while the Bald Mountain scene was planned to implement performers in glowing skeleton suits. Both of these ideas were scrapped, resulting in the scenes merely using projections of the footage for those characters.
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** The 50-foot dragon animatronic that had been used in the Disneyland version [note: this dragon, with the FanNickname of Murphy, burned up on 4/22/23 due to a technical malfunction during the second show] was actually how the character was envisioned during early development (a stop motion test dating back to 1991 can be found [[http://miehana.blogspot.com/2012/05/designing-fantasmic-dragon.html here]]). However, it proved to be too difficult to bring to life (presumably due to the limited technology of the time), and to quote designer Kevin Kidney, she was "'hacked away' until she was virtually just a dragon's mechanical head on a boom lift... concealed in thick fog to encourage the viewer's own imagination to fill in the details." It took a lengthy 13 years before the intended model for the beast was finally implemented.

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** The 50-foot dragon animatronic that had been used in the Disneyland version [note: [[note]] this dragon, with the FanNickname of Murphy, Murphy a la MurphysLaw, burned up on 4/22/23 due to a technical malfunction during the second show] show[[/note]] was actually how the character was envisioned during early development (a stop motion test dating back to 1991 can be found [[http://miehana.blogspot.com/2012/05/designing-fantasmic-dragon.html here]]). However, it proved to be too difficult to bring to life (presumably due to the limited technology of the time), and to quote designer Kevin Kidney, she was "'hacked away' until she was virtually just a dragon's mechanical head on a boom lift... concealed in thick fog to encourage the viewer's own imagination to fill in the details." It took a lengthy 13 years before the intended model for the beast was finally implemented.
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** The 50-foot dragon animatronic that had been used in the Disneyland version [[note: this dragon, with the FanNickname of Murphy, burned up on 4/22/23 due to a technical malfunction during the second show]] was actually how the character was envisioned during early development (a stop motion test dating back to 1991 can be found [[http://miehana.blogspot.com/2012/05/designing-fantasmic-dragon.html here]]). However, it proved to be too difficult to bring to life (presumably due to the limited technology of the time), and to quote designer Kevin Kidney, she was "'hacked away' until she was virtually just a dragon's mechanical head on a boom lift... concealed in thick fog to encourage the viewer's own imagination to fill in the details." It took a lengthy 13 years before the intended model for the beast was finally implemented.

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** The 50-foot dragon animatronic that had been used in the Disneyland version [[note: [note: this dragon, with the FanNickname of Murphy, burned up on 4/22/23 due to a technical malfunction during the second show]] show] was actually how the character was envisioned during early development (a stop motion test dating back to 1991 can be found [[http://miehana.blogspot.com/2012/05/designing-fantasmic-dragon.html here]]). However, it proved to be too difficult to bring to life (presumably due to the limited technology of the time), and to quote designer Kevin Kidney, she was "'hacked away' until she was virtually just a dragon's mechanical head on a boom lift... concealed in thick fog to encourage the viewer's own imagination to fill in the details." It took a lengthy 13 years before the intended model for the beast was finally implemented.

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