| La Tanière du Dragon | |
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| Location: | Disneyland Park (Paris) |
| Section: | Fantasyland |
| Status: | Open |
| Opened: | April 12, 1992 |
| Type: | Walk through with audio-animatronics |
| Designer: | Walt Disney Imagineering |
La Tanière du Dragon ("The Lair of the Dragon") is a walk-through attraction located beneath Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant, at Disneyland Park in Disneyland Paris, and is unique to that park.[1] [2] [3] It opened with Euro Disneyland on April 12, 1992.[4]
The attraction features an audio-animatronic dragon, which at 27 metres (89 ft) from head to tail, was the largest Animatronic figure ever built when the park opened in April 1992. The walkthrough consists of a dimly lit cavern with a large dragon sleeping silently. Occasionally it will 'wake up', puffing smoke and growling.
In 1987, Imagineer Terri Hardin headed up the project; she was the sole Imagineer from Walt Disney Imagineering who created it. Hardin intended to have the skeleton of Maleficent's dragon in the lair because it was under the Sleeping Beauty Castle, but Disney didn't go for it.[5]