Fantasmic, Murphy
Strikes Again!!!
Several
years ago Disneyland upgraded their Maleficent Dragon in Fantasmic. The new
dragon is magnificent and beautiful to watch. She towers over Tom Sawyers
Island and the Rivers of America while battling with Mickey Mouse. I love
watching Fantasmic and seeing Maleficent in dragon form lights the river on
fire! Sad to say with such a technologically advanced piece of equipment things
fail . . . often. Maleficent’s Dragon fails so often she has gained the nick
name of Murphy from Cast Members and frequent park visitors. If something can
go wrong it will go wrong.
Maleficent
stands on a small platform and she grows/rises to the sky transforming into her
dragon form. At that point the battle is on and for a time it looks like Mickey
Mouse will lose! Friends of mine have been at DL watching Fantasmic when the
dragon had one of her epic fails. She expanded and started to roar then quickly
slumped, deflated on the ground. This failure ended the show for that night and
a few nights after while they tried to get Murphy working again.
Last
night we had special reserved seating for Fantasmic and I was looking forward
to seeing Maleficent transform from this wonderful viewing spot. Alas, Murphy
struck again! This time no dragon showed at all. It seems to me Disney knew
Murphy was cranky that night and kept her locked in her cage. The point is
Disney adapted. Instead of canceling the show they chose another way to tell
the story. Instead of Maleficent transforming to her dragon self she stood on
top of her platform with a glowing wand throwing bolts down at the hapless
Mickey Mouse. Mickey returned blow for blow and still won! (Kind of knew he
would LOL)
The
point is Disney adapted the show. Murphy was missed but still the battle was
done and won and the show went on. Props to Disney for making adaptions and I
hope they get Murphy trained better soon. Murphy is very impressive and they
need to make her work better. They need to get her back on track and working
right.
Here is video of the show without Murphy.
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