When Behind the Attraction Season 2 debuts on Disney Plus on November 1, among the finest episodes is the ultimate one, devoted to the epic Nighttime Spectaculars at Disney Parks. From fireworks to parades, there are some unbelievable reveals when the solar goes down. However although Behind the Attraction is a present devoted to present, and never former, park sights there’s a key factor from the episode you gained’t discover at Disneyland proper now, Maleficent the Dragon from Fantasmic!
Fastasmic! has been a present on prolonged hiatus following an epic hearth throughout a present earlier this yr. Maleficent the dragon, a large animatronic, was utterly destroyed in a fireball. And based mostly on what we’re being advised, is not going to be returning when Fantasmic! finally comes again. Figuring out that, I requested Behind the Attraction producers Brian Volk-Weiss and Dany Garcia if there was any dialogue about altering the episode of the present following the fireplace, to both reduce the concentrate on the dragon or make reference to the accident. Volk-Weiss advised me that whereas, sure, there was a dialog, there was by no means any severe consideration given to creating adjustments. He defined…
You recognize I might be mendacity if I mentioned we did not speak about it. We did speak about it, however we discuss. We have now a weekly Zoom, two-year weekly Zoom only for season 2, by the way in which. It got here up on one Zoom. We mentioned it. Couple of jokes have been made, after which we moved on. In order that was the extent of it.
Fantasmic! takes up a not-inconsiderate portion of the Nighttime Spectacular episode. This isn’t that massive a shock contemplating the present has been operating for 3 many years, longer than another nighttime present mentioned apart from the enduring Most important Avenue Electrical Parade. A newly up to date Fantasmic! at Disney’s Hollywood Studios exists as effectively, although with a special dragon design. It’s a significant manufacturing and one which a number of individuals love. Whereas Murphy (the dragon’s unofficial nickname) could also be gone, lots of people have fond recollections of Fantasmic! Dany Garcia advised me that’s why leaving the episode because it was made sense. She mentioned…
And that is the appropriate choice. You recognize it is iconic. Persons are conscious of that. I imply, the second was the second, proper? However the people have skilled it for thus lengthy, and the significance of it, it’s what it’s.
At this level, we nonetheless don’t know precisely after we’ll see Fantasmic! once more. Disneyland has mentioned the present will return within the Spring of 2024, although it would accomplish that with out the large animatronic dragon. Nevertheless, Fantasmic! has at all times had a B-mode, that used a projected dragon on a water display every time the animatronic wasn’t working, (which was removed from unusual). So the truth that the present hasn’t come again already utilizing that possibility would trace that one thing else could also be deliberate.
Regardless of the future holds for Fantasmic!, it would at all times be among the finest sights at Disneyland, and Behind the Attraction will no less than give followers a possibility to look again on the enduring present. When it returns, in no matter kind, it would start to make new recollections for a brand new technology of followers. Behind the Attraction Season 2 arrives on Disney Plus on November 1.
