Disneyland last night
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They are extremely lucky that no one was hurt or killed. You can't really see it in this clip, but in this scene the dragon lowers its head and swings it around to "look" at Mickey Mouse - and at that point some kind of liquid was dripping and running down the dragon's chin.
They should have e-stopped the show right then, but they didn't. So, the actor playing Mickey was right under the dragon's nose when the fire first appeared up inside the head. The actor can't see much in that costume and got out of there just in time.
I saw another vid that ran for about another ten minutes and there was still no sign of the fire department. There are techs and stagehands in the pit under the dragon, too. And if that thing had exploded more than it did and sent shrapnel into the crowd - this could have been very, very bad.
Fans and employees have both been complaining for months about cutbacks made in ride and show maintenance, and here we are. They let that 45-foot tall flamethrower operate with ?hydraulic fluid clearly leaking out of it during the show and here we are.
Diversity hires won't know how to respond in such an incident as we've seen.
HAHAHAHAHAAH! Great comment.
I'm really wondering if that will prove to be the case. When the initial "breathe fire on the river" effect barely worked at all, and your 45-foot tall flamethrowing dragon prop has hydraulic fluid pouring off of it, that's when you hit the E-Stop (Emergency Stop) button, immediately halt the whole show, and get the actors and technicians and stagehands and spectators out of there.
But that didn't happen until after the dragon's head was fully engulfed in flame. Would really like to know who was in the control booth that night.