It features fireworks, characters, live actors, water effects, pyrotechnics, lasers, music, audio-animatronics, searchlights, decorated boat floats, and mist screen projections.

originated at Disneyland in 1992 after Walt Disney Creative Entertainment was asked to create a nighttime spectacular involving water and fireworks to reinvigorate the space in front of the Rivers of America.

The area was reworked, including terracing the walkways to accommodate viewing and modifying part of Tom Sawyer Island to allow the show's staged live action segments.

debuted in 2017, featuring a re-recorded soundtrack in addition to new scenes, lighting, choreography and costumes.

A revamped version premiered at Disney's Hollywood Studios in 2022 with new scenes and special effects.

After a fire destroyed the animatronic dragon in April 2023, a fourth version premiered at Disneyland in May 2024 with a new Maleficent and Sorcerer Mickey battle sequence.

takes place on the waters of the Rivers of America at Disneyland and on a stage across the waterway on Tom Sawyer Island.

He dances and orchestrates various water fountain, pyrotechnic, projection, laser and lighting effects to the show's theme.

Mist screens rise from the water, acting as projection surfaces for various scenes from Disney movies.

A bubble floats by and Jiminy Cricket appears onscreen, searching underwater for Pinocchio.

An animated Monstro appears suddenly, accompanied by a heavy musical score as he crashes through water.

The magic mirror appears onscreen and tempts Mickey to enter the darker realms of his imagination.

Tink reappears with the Mark Twain Riverboat approaching with fireworks, and a black-and-white Mickey from Steamboat Willie appears.

The original Disneyland soft opening and press premiere were scheduled to begin on Wednesday, April 29, 1992, and continue through the weekend.

Promotional materials with the catchphrase "Be There When the Night Ignites" were quickly pulled from public circulation.

A new sound system debuted in the summer of 2007, along with new show barges featuring LED lighting arrays.

The three mainland lighting towers, which rise hydraulically from pits in the ground prior to the show, were rebuilt with pull-out slides for the new Clay Paky Alpha Spots and Washes and redesigned for the new Strong Gladiator IV followspots.

Refurbished pyrotechnic barges were given new technologies derived from Disneyland's Air-Launch Firework (ALF) system.

The new dragon was designed to be a full-bodied replica of Maleficent's final form in Sleeping Beauty, standing at 45 feet tall.

and other attractions were closed on January 11, 2016, due to the construction of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.

[14] The Florida version of the event and show takes place at the Hollywood Hills Amphitheater, with a rocky mountain and a façade of trees serving as the setting.

It is located off of Sunset Boulevard, between The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and the Theater of the Stars, where the Beauty and the Beast stage show takes place.

stage in Florida is significantly larger than Disneyland's, featuring a man-made, 50-foot-tall (15 m) mountain on which Sorcerer Mickey stands and from which the dragon emerges.

[20] The show was later remastered in 2022 featuring a new heroics sequence with segments from Pocahontas, Aladdin, Mulan, Moana and Frozen.

It is said that of the barges were reused from Tokyo DisneySea's former nighttime Christmas show "Candelight Reflections", but were reimagined.

Many don't know that the natural gas line was installed during the construction of the park for the original planned version of Fantasmic!

The show's score was recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, composed by Don L. Harper, featuring Bruce Healey's theme from the original Fantasmic!

was directed by Steven Davidson and because of this, he implemented technologies used in Disney California Adventure's World of Color nighttime spectacular.

A few months after the end of Fantasmic!, the former hat barge was lifted out of the water and placed on a small area of the original dry dock (behind Soaring A Fantastic Flight show building).

While it was thought that they would all be dismantled, in February 2021, it was discovered that Disneyland Paris had purchased a few of the barges for a future version of Fantasmic!