Fantasmic's Ursula Barge

The Ursula barge debuted with Disneyland (CA) Fantasmic's May 13, 1992 opening. But was later dropped after a couple years. There are different stories as to the reason why this barge was dropped. One was the driver of the Crocodile barge or a pirate from the ship had to make their way to the Ursula barge to operate it. It became time consuming and the Ursula barge stopped operating. Another story, which I find more truth to, the inflatable tentacles had wear and tear and leaked air out. Disney didn't want to spend the money to repair or get new tentacles, so the barge is just sitting in the Fantasmic dock along Rivers of America. This was recorded by my dad around May 1993(?).

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[STEProductions]

Can you post more of the show, like the finale?

[filmfreak11]

Why? There's plenty of other youtube videos of it. And new and old version.

[imileamsi]

that one of the things i prefer from MGM's rendition, they involved more villains than just the 3 disney bitches...er i mean withches

[filmfreak11]

To me, even though I really like the villains, the DHS version seemed to be overkill. The original intent for DL's version was Princess vs their villians. Snow White=Witch, Ariel=Ursula, Auroa=Maleificent. But Belle came around, and they replaced Auroa with Belle. Chernabog was in more relation to Fantasia. The DHS version just put villains everywhere.

[skellington15]

Why didn't your dad record the rest of the thing? I wanted to see the old dragon.

[filmfreak11]

He did record the entire show. There was just no point to post more. The dragon is the same today as it was back then. The dragon seen in the commericals was only a puppet. There was never really a full body dragon.

[boobylandmaster]

I swear to you that Ursula looks just like my aunt. Acts kind of like her too.

[SteffBatgirl]

I remember when I first saw the Ursula barge, I was maybe about 7 years old. And I remember thinking " Crap she's huge! Almost scary huge!!"

[HighonBoots]

@filmfreak11 yeah, as in like surround sound, only in villany!

[kingtigertank]

She isnt FAT ENOUGH!!!! She needs to be fatter on that barge!!!

[SOSBrigadeLDR]

It's because "she" kept having problems and they were going to update her with the barges in 2007, but the barges went way over budget so they stopped using it.

[KODfreak]

@imileamsi and chernabog

[dylantiger2]

i used to work at disney orlando. the reason they no longer have ursula is because one of the legs was torn and all of the air flew out. they also took it out because it took to much time in the show and they felt they needed more villans.

[CHARMEDLAVEL]

thay should of keep her

[littleaskater137]

ooh sorry bout that haha should have waited and gone on september

[littleaskater137]

yeah its true she was supposed to make her debut in which summer nightastic came out but the dragon had a rehersal and it seemed fine at the time search fantasmic dragon its the first vid of the rehersal

[SoCalGuy20]

It would have been cool to bring this back, but I guess they did add the eels! They're pretty cool!!!