The floating candles did look real, and how they did it was still beyond me. The only shame of it is that they replaced a very nice set of original theming in the Dragon's queue to make room for even more candles. It was a little bit of overkill in my eyes.
The Dueling Dragons queue had the best theming! I remember they had all these frozen knights in suits of armor. I was like being in a haunted house kind of, it made the wait worthwhile. Too bad candles are the only thing they added to the main queue portion...sounds kind of boring now. So did the candles look like real flames, or were they little light bulbs? Did each candle seem to move and float a bit, or were they still? I saw one pic in another forum, and it looked like each candle was hanging from a very thin black wire. It was barely visible in the photograph, I'm sure you couldn't see it in person with the dim lighting. I haven't been to IOA since 2000, I really need to go back now!