http://www.atlantisthepalm.com/grandopening.aspx
Check out this video of the opening
Phoenix, Horses, Palm Tree shaped island, dragons, floating eyeball pretty wild stuff
This video shows how they built the Palm shaped island it was just water ther so they did in a sense bring atlantis out of the water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ykZ2...eature=related
the event was on Nov 20, 2008
the fireworks were somewhere between 12:22am and over by 12:48am that is
the best I can find out so far