Fire Dragon

More than a year after the Feuerdrache accident, the cause and legal aftermath became clearer. In January 2024, Looopings reported that two Legoland Deutschland employees accepted fines for negligent bodily injury. As a result, a planned court case in Guenzburg was dropped and there were no other suspects. The reconstruction makes the incident especially relevant to the history of Fire Dragon. The coaster had stopped because of a technical defect. With no mechanics available, a 56-year-old employee tried to resolve the fault himself, assisted by a 34-year-old colleague. They switched the ride to manual operation, which meant the computer system could no longer locate one of the trains. When automatic control was later reactivated, a second train ran into the first. For visitors, this explained how a family coaster with multiple trains could suffer such a serious incident without the story being about a new layout or major rebuild. The article also noted that Feuerdrache had been operational again since early October 2022. That makes this report part of both the accident file and the period in which the attraction returned to Legoland Deutschland s regular line-up.

On 11 August 2022, Feuerdrache suddenly became the focus of major news from Legoland Deutschland. In the station of the family coaster, two trains collided. According to Looopings, 31 visitors were injured, two of them seriously. Fourteen people were taken to hospital for observation, while emergency services arrived in force, including ambulances and trauma helicopters. The park closed the area around the attraction, although the rest of Legoland remained open that day. At the time, the cause was still unknown, so the impact for guests was immediate and practical: Fire Dragon was unavailable and its surroundings were sealed off. For enthusiasts and editors, the incident stood out because it involved a long-running family coaster from the park s opening year in 2002. Built by Zierer, the ride is 16 metres high and 450 metres long, combining a dark ride section inside a castle with a coaster section reaching around 60 kilometres per hour. A train collision on such an accessible family attraction became a defining safety moment in the ride s history.