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Fantasmic! is the night-time fireworks and visual hydrotechnic show. It originated at Disneyland in 1992 when Disneyland Entertainment was asked to create a night-time spectacular involving water and fireworks to fill the space at the Rivers of America. Disneyland Entertainment employed the resources of Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Imagineering as collaborators. In 1996, Walt Disney Entertainment in Florida, partnering with Imagineering and Feature Animation as well, worked to adapt the show for performing at the Disney's Hollywood Studios, featuring brand new animated and live action scenes.
At Disneyland, the Rivers of America had to be drained in order to install the extensive lighting, effects and sound equipment in addition to a new track for the S.S. Columbia and the Mark Twain to travel for the show. The walkways in New Orleans Square were also modified, but were already considered one of the benefits of building the show in that location.
When Team Disney Orlando commissioned a Fantasmic! of its own in 1996, a purpose-built 8,000 seat amphitheater was built at the Disney's Hollywood Studios, which was suffering from low attendance and wanted a replacement for Sorcery in the Sky, the night-time entertainment fireworks show that the park opened in 1992. The Rivers of America at the Magic Kingdom was not conducive to a replication of the layout at Disneyland.
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