Video: dragon animatronic loses its head at English theme park
At Dragon's Fury, Chessington's Frazzle animatronic lost its head while the mechanism kept moving. The dragon was switched off shortly after the incident and covered up.
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Chessington World of Adventures faced a striking incident in June 2023 involving Frazzle, the angry dragon that had stood for almost twenty years in a cave near Dragon's Fury. During a weekend, the animatronic lost its head: only the lower jaw and eyes remained visible while the mechanism continued moving. For passing guests, it must have been an odd sight, especially because Frazzle normally works as a playful scare moment beside the treasure in his cave. Looopings reported that the detached part ended up on the ground against a fence. Shortly after the incident, Chessington switched off the dragon and covered the figure with a cloth. The story did not concern the coaster hardware itself, but it did affect the themed surroundings that make Dragon's Fury recognizable. Frazzle is part of the experience around the attraction: claws, tail and head are meant to bring the dragon story around the spinning coaster to life. That turned a broken animatronic into a small but memorable chapter in the history of Dragon's Fury.