| Fantasmic! show at Disney's Hollywood Studios - June 4th 2011 - Part One Lightning, giant puppets, fountains, mist screens, flames, and pyrotechnics are impressively incorporated into this spectacular production. Some facts: - The lagoon where the Fantasmic show takes place is only 1.5 feet deep! - The island stage is surrounded by a 1.9 million gallon moat--enough water to fill every bathtub in the more than 24000 rooms on Walt Disney World Resort property--twice. - Animated sequences are projected on three water screens stretching 50-feet high and 100-feet wide providing an excellent view no matter where you sit. In comparison, the water screens are more than twice the size of an average 20-foot-by-40-foot movie screen. - To create a surface on which animation can be projected, water screens pump 2400 gallons of water into the air every minute, and if called upon, call fill the 500000-gallon Disney-Hollywood Studios landmark Earffel Tower in less than three hours. - During his battle against evil, Mickey encounters the villainous Jafar in the form of a 100-foot long and 16-foot high cobra that could fit more than 8000 average size King Cobras in its coils. - The mechanical Maleficent dragon in the climactic good vs. evil scene weighs an astonishing 32000 lbs. To move the dragon's enormous body and wings takes more than 2000 PSI of hydraulic pressure. - If stretched out, the river of fire during the Maleficent dragon scene would circle the entire one-mile tri-oval ... |
