Overview
- An official Walt Disney Imagineering Instagram video shows the Special Effects team testing a floating storm cloud with lightning, a high-pressure water blast, and an animated flame using holographic material and fiber optics.
- The presenter’s mention of the target project for the flame effect was bleeped, a redaction that outlets note has intensified guesses about its destination.
- Reporters widely suggest the flame effect could suit the planned Villains Land in Magic Kingdom, though Disney has not identified any specific installation.
- Coverage links the storm-cloud prototype to Animal Kingdom’s Encanto attraction concept, citing Pepa Madrigal’s weather motif as a possible thematic match, which remains unconfirmed.
- The instantaneous water effect is being tied by some outlets to geyser features shown in concept art for the Piston Peak National Park expansion near Big Thunder Mountain, without official validation.