Nothing sucks the life out of a good dragon drama better than a lame dragon.
The first glimpse of the title character comes when one of his gigantic claws swoops in out of the darkness and lands in front of one of the human characters. Then the other claw swoops in, trapping this figure. Finally, from behind a mountain his gargantuan flame-colored head emerges, with its thick, ridged forehead, its long, bumpy snout and high, flared nostrils, its flashing eyes, tall, sharp teeth, and thick golden whiskers dangling from its mouth and chin. The puppets Liu appears before are fully half the size of humans, but still he dwarfs them. If its entire body were shown, Liu would stretch to a whopping 300 feet.