--- title: Game of Thrones Brought Dragons To the Bellagio Fountains description: Fans lined up around the landmark to watch as winter came to Las Vegas. canonical: https://time.com/5561872/game-of-thrones-show/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-01T15:26:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:27.978Z og:title: Game of Thrones Brought Dragons to the Bellagio Fountains og:description: It's enough to make your jaw drop og:url: https://time.com/5561872/game-of-thrones-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb027c14748c2614a/6989479897cdff034c6b796a/gameofthronesfountain.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: HBO, MGM Resorts And WET Design Debut Exclusive Game Of Thrones Production On The Fountains Of Bellagio Through April 13 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Game of Thrones Brought Dragons to the Bellagio Fountains twitter:description: It's enough to make your jaw drop twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb027c14748c2614a/6989479897cdff034c6b796a/gameofthronesfountain.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Game of Thrones_ Dragons to Setting Fountains on Fire Is Enough to Make Your Jaw Drop > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Denise Truscello/Getty Images for MGM Resorts) A view of The Fountains of Bellagio during HBO, MGM Resorts and WET Design debut of the exclusive Game of Thrones production, running twice nightly at 8 and 9:30 p.m. through April 13 at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino on March 31, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Denise Truscello/Getty Images for MGM Resorts)Denise Truscello&Getty Images for MGM Resorts by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 1, 2019 3:26 PM UTC While it is hard to imagine that [_Game of Thrones_ ](http://time.com/game-of-thrones-2017/)needs to remind people to tune in for its final season, the HBO series is not above sending a not-so-subtle reminder to fans to watch the show’s season premiere. That reminder? They set the Bellagio fountains on fire. To build some buzz for the show’s already [buzzworthy return](http://time.com/5501931/game-of-thrones-teaser-bran-stark/), _Game of Thrones_ left Westeros for the Las Vegas, taking over the world-famous Bellagio Fountains to put on a special show. Fans lined up around the landmark to watch as winter came to Las Vegas. As tourists gawked, Lake Bellagio transformed into an 800-foot-long water wall, rising up to remind fans of the wall that was meant to keep the White Walkers out of Westeros. The jaw-dropping wall of water became a canvas as the imaginative creators projected falling snow, the infamous _Game of Thrones_ logo, and filled the night with silhouettes of the dragons breathing orange and blue flames. The Night King even made an appearance and water jets formed the shape of a crown and throne, setting the stage for the final showdown for the Iron Throne. It was all set to a soundtrack created by the show’s award-winning composer Ramin Dhawadi. That wasn’t the end of the spectacle, though. For the first time in hotel history, the water was set on fire, [_The Associated Press_ reports.](https://apnews.com/9e167acf97e04d67899017460bdd2b45) The special fountain show will go off nightly through April 13, the night before the series premieres its [eighth and final season](http://time.com/4913247/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-date/) on April 14. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5561872/game-of-thrones-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5561872/game-of-thrones-show/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Dragons to Setting Fountains on Fire Is Enough to Make Your Jaw Drop","datePublished":"2019-04-01T15:26:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:27.978Z","description":"Fans lined up around the landmark to watch as winter came to Las Vegas.","url":"https://time.com/5561872/game-of-thrones-show/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb027c14748c2614a/6989479897cdff034c6b796a/gameofthronesfountain.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb027c14748c2614a/6989479897cdff034c6b796a/gameofthronesfountain.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"HBO, MGM Resorts And WET Design Debut Exclusive Game Of Thrones Production On The Fountains Of Bellagio Through April 13","caption":"Game of Thrones sets fountain","creditText":"Denise Truscello&Getty Images for MGM Resorts","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5561872/game-of-thrones-show/","name":"Game of Thrones Dragons to Setting Fountains on Fire Is Enough to Make Your Jaw Drop"}}]}] ```