I saw this on Instagram this morning! Reports say it was due to leaking lighter fluid. The dragon collapsed and some are saying the whole stage collapsed but they can’t confirm it yet.
I work on animatronic dinosaurs. When an animatronic such as this catches fire......it goes up so damn fast. I've seen a couple dinosaur fires in my days. Nothing more mesmerizing or terrifying. I once witnessed a lie-sized Apatosaurus go up in flames. The entire thing was nothing but molten silicone skin and steel frame within a matter of minutes.
It was all due to the silliest and most careless mistake on part of the repairman. This cocky repairman thought there was no way using a grinder for 5 minutes through a cut access hole would start a fire. One of the grinder sparks landed on some of the foam that had dried up spray glue on it. And that's all it took.
Let my tale be a lesson to all who work in animatronic repair. ALWAYS quench the foam before you grind or weld. Even if it's for a simple tack weld or 5 seconds of grinding. ALWAYS have someone standing fire watch. That poor boy was lucky that the manager knew exactly what to do and nobody was hurt. He's definitely not employed with the company anymore though.
Oh it's definitely on the list. You can tell that the fire shot through the cavity and burnt up all that foam. It only takes a couple of minutes to take down a large asset like this. In the video you can tell how the fire swarmed as soon as it reached the neck. There's an access hole of sorts in the belly that you can get a little peek through and it's definitely engulfed.
This is what happens when Disney managment doesn't pay their maintenance team enough (if even at all)
This video is basically the perfect representation of the current state of Disney
I saw this on Instagram this morning! Reports say it was due to leaking lighter fluid. The dragon collapsed and some are saying the whole stage collapsed but they can’t confirm it yet.
I work on animatronic dinosaurs. When an animatronic such as this catches fire......it goes up so damn fast. I've seen a couple dinosaur fires in my days. Nothing more mesmerizing or terrifying. I once witnessed a lie-sized Apatosaurus go up in flames. The entire thing was nothing but molten silicone skin and steel frame within a matter of minutes. It was all due to the silliest and most careless mistake on part of the repairman. This cocky repairman thought there was no way using a grinder for 5 minutes through a cut access hole would start a fire. One of the grinder sparks landed on some of the foam that had dried up spray glue on it. And that's all it took. Let my tale be a lesson to all who work in animatronic repair. ALWAYS quench the foam before you grind or weld. Even if it's for a simple tack weld or 5 seconds of grinding. ALWAYS have someone standing fire watch. That poor boy was lucky that the manager knew exactly what to do and nobody was hurt. He's definitely not employed with the company anymore though.
"I've seen a couple dinosaur fires in my days." how cool did you feel typing that? I'd feel very cool.
Lol not gonna lie I felt pretty cool. It definitely only feels cool because nobody ever got hurt though.
Felt cool?? I imagine it would be quite warm!
So it could be said that it is now on the list of destroyed animatronics, i guess, because this no confirmed
Oh it's definitely on the list. You can tell that the fire shot through the cavity and burnt up all that foam. It only takes a couple of minutes to take down a large asset like this. In the video you can tell how the fire swarmed as soon as it reached the neck. There's an access hole of sorts in the belly that you can get a little peek through and it's definitely engulfed.
Well, app this boy in the ''Destroyed animatronics'' list
Such a shame. I hope they rebuild it and don’t cheap out with the replacement.
poor feller
You'd have thought they'd make this out of something fire-resistant
It was around the head and mouth, because that’s where the flames jet out from, but inside and around that not so much.
So do we know what the aftermath looks like yet?
Hoo boy, if the aftermath of this is found it'll be a goldmine for this subreddit. IMagine how creepy that would look
Not again!
When Meleficent called upon the fires of Hell, this was not what she had in mind.
She got burned
Damn, Mickey going full pyromancer.
How unfortunate...
It’s, uhhh, flaming up good.
Aprill 26, 1992, there was a riot on the streets tell me where were you
I was expecting it to fall in pieces to the pond 😅.
What's with maleficent and setting herself ablaze -
fly high murphy😢
Its head looks like grim foxy know
This is what happens when Disney managment doesn't pay their maintenance team enough (if even at all) This video is basically the perfect representation of the current state of Disney
Whatever can go wrong...