It's a Small World | |
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Disneyland | |
Area | Fantasyland |
Coordinates | 33°48′53″N117°55′04″W / 33.8147°N 117.9178°W |
Status | Operating |
Cost | US$1.5 million |
Opening date | May 28, 1966 |
Website | Official website |
Magic Kingdom | |
Area | Fantasyland |
Coordinates | 28°25′15″N81°34′55″W / 28.4208°N 81.5820°W |
Status | Operating |
Opening date | October 1, 1971 |
Website | Official website |
Tokyo Disneyland | |
Area | Fantasyland |
Coordinates | 35°37′49″N139°52′52″E / 35.6304°N 139.8812°E |
Status | Operating |
Opening date | April 15, 1983 |
Replaced by | it's a small world with Groot |
Website | Official website |
Disneyland Park (Paris) | |
Area | Fantasyland |
Coordinates | 48°52′31″N2°46′34″E / 48.8753°N 2.7761°E |
Status | Operating |
Opening date | April 12, 1992 |
Website | Official website |
Disney Premier Access available | |
Hong Kong Disneyland | |
Area | Fantasyland |
Coordinates | 22°18′49″N114°02′21″E / 22.3137°N 114.0391°E |
Status | Operating |
Opening date | April 28, 2008 |
Website | Official website |
Disney Premier Access available | |
1964 New York World's Fair | |
Status | Removed |
Opening date | April 22, 1964 |
Closing date | October 17, 1965 |
Ride statistics | |
Attraction type | Old Mill |
Designer | WED Enterprises/Walt Disney Imagineering |
Theme | World peace and unity |
Music | "It's a Small World (After All)", written by the Sherman Brothers |
Vehicle type | Boats |
Riders per vehicle | 16 |
Rows | 4 |
Riders per row | 4 |
Duration | 12–15 minutes |
Propulsion method | Water jets, electric turbine |
Number of lifts | 0 |
Premier Access (outside USA) available | |
Disney Genie+ Lightning Lane available | |
Single rider line sometimes | |
"It's a Small World" (stylized in all lowercase) is an Old Mill boat ride located in the Fantasyland area at various Disney theme parks around the world, including Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California; Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida; Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland. The inaugural version of the ride premiered at the 1964 New York World's Fair before permanently moving to Disneyland in 1966. [1]
The ride features over 300 audio-animatronic dolls [2] in traditional costumes from cultures around the world, frolicking in a spirit of international unity, and singing the attraction's title song, which has a theme of global peace. According to TIME.com , the Sherman Brothers' song "It's a Small World" is the most publicly performed song of all time. [3] [4] In recent years, the Small World attractions at the various Disney parks have been updated to include depictions of Disney characters—in a design compatible with the original 1960s design of Mary Blair—alongside the original characters.
The ride was fabricated at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank as Children of the World, and created by WED Enterprises. It was shipped to the 1964 New York World's Fair, where it was housed at the UNICEF pavilion (sponsored by Pepsi), which featured at its entrance a kinetic sculpture, The Tower of the Four Winds, a 120-foot perpetually spinning mobile created by WED designer Rolly Crump. The ride joined four other attractions—Magic Skyway (Ford pavilion), Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln (Illinois pavilion), The Carousel of Progress (General Electric pavilion), and CircleVision 360 (Kodak pavilion)—already under development, which were used by Disney to sponsor, fund, and test concepts and to develop ride systems and innovative entertainment, all intended to be dismantled and rebuilt at Disneyland after the World's Fair had closed in 1966. [5]
Mary Blair was responsible for the attraction's whimsical design and color styling. Blair had been an art director on several Disney animated features, including Cinderella (1950), Alice In Wonderland (1951), and Peter Pan (1953). Like many Disneyland attractions, the scenes and characters were designed by animator Marc Davis, whose wife Alice Davis designed the costumes for the dolls, while Crump designed the toys and other supplemental figures on display. The animated dolls were designed and sculpted by Blaine Gibson, and the dolls' facial designs were developed by Gibson and Greg S. Marinello. Walt Disney was personally involved with the design of the animated dolls' faces, each being completely identical in shape.
Arrow Development was heavily involved in the design of the passenger-carrying boats and propulsion system of the attraction. Two patents that were filed by Arrow Development staff and assigned to The Walt Disney Company illustrate passenger boats and vehicle guidance systems with features very similar to those later utilized on the Disneyland installation of the attraction. [6] [7] The firm is credited with manufacturing the Disneyland installation. [8]
"Children of the World" was the working title of the attraction. Its tentative soundtrack featured the national anthems of every country represented throughout the ride, all playing at once, which resulted in a disharmonic cacophony. Walt conducted a walk-through of the attraction scale model with his staff songwriters Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman, saying, "I need one song that can be easily translated into many languages and be played as a round." [9] The Sherman brothers then wrote "It's a Small World (After All)" [10] in the wake of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which influenced the song's message of peace and brotherhood. When they first presented it to Walt, they played it as a slow ballad. Walt requested something more cheerful, so they increased the tempo and sang in counterpoint. Walt was so delighted with the final result that he renamed the attraction "It's a Small World" after the Sherman Brothers' song. [11]
Robert B. Sherman's youngest son, Robert J. Sherman, has said that this song is the single most-performed and most-translated piece of music ever produced. [9] In 2014, it was estimated that the song had played nearly 50 million times worldwide on the attractions alone, beating the radio and TV estimates for "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and "Yesterday", which were believed to have been played at least eight and seven million times, respectively. [3] [12]
A third verse celebrating the attraction's 45th anniversary was written and popularized, but not incorporated into the ride. [13]
In 2022, a 1964 recording of "It's a Small World (After All)" performed by the Disneyland Boys Choir was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". [14]
The song's repetitiveness has made it a popular subject of parody. During a scene in the original The Lion King film, Zazu is singing "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen". However, Scar asks him to sing something bouncier. Zazu then goes into "It's a Small World", which Scar immediately rejects.
The first incarnation of It's a Small World, which debuted at the 1964 New York World's Fair, was an afterthought and nearly did not happen. Ford and General Electric had engaged Disney early on to create their pavilions for the 1964 New York World's Fair. WED Enterprises had already long been at work developing a "dancing-doll" designed to reproduce human movement resulting in a crude early audio-animatronics fashioned as Abraham Lincoln when the State of Illinois approached Disney to create the Illinois Pavilion, representatives of the state instantly approved after being "introduced" to the robotic figurehead. A nine wide-screen CircleVision 360° exhibit for Kodak's pavilion was also being planned as an improvement over the existing Disneyland eleven 4:3 format screen Circarama (which later failed the installation deadline for opening) when Pepsi approached Disney with a plan to tribute UNICEF.
Disney seemed to be the showman to give us the package we want ... He's terrific. He's got his hands in more bowls than anyone I've ever seen, but he accomplishes what he sets out to do. — J. G. Mullaly, Ford's World's Fair program manager [15]
A salute to the children of the world, designed by Walt Disney, presents animated figures frolicking in miniature settings of many lands. Visitors are carried past the scenes in small boats. In an adjoining building Pepsi sponsors exhibits by the U.S. Committee for the United Nations Children's Fund. Above the pavilion rises the 120-foot Tower of the Four Winds, a fanciful creation of coloured shapes that dance and twist in the breeze. – 1965 Official Guide Book to the New York World's Fair [16]
The attraction was incredibly successful. Ten million 60¢ and 95¢ tickets for children and adults, respectively, were collected in two half-year seasons and the proceeds were donated to UNICEF. [16] While other attractions had lines out the doors, there seemed to always be a seat available aboard It's a Small World. Its high rider-per-hour capacity was recognized as a valuable innovation and was incorporated indirectly and directly into future attractions. Pirates of the Caribbean had been under construction at Disneyland as a subterranean walk-through. That design was scrapped as concrete was broken out so similar boats could sail past scenes that (because the original walk-through scene length was not shortened) were now different each voyage, another concept that forever influenced attraction design and popularity.[ citation needed ]
The boats enter the show building through a tunnel under the Small World clock and emerge from the attraction fifteen minutes later. The show building interior is larger than the façade. Voyagers see animatronic dolls in traditional local costumes singing "It's a Small World (After All)" together, each in their native language. Boats carry voyagers as they visit the regions of the world.
Other Disney park installations wind the flume around one large room, emphasizing its theme that the world is small and interconnected. Each installation may vary the countries that are represented and the order in which they appear. The boats are stored behind the facade and go in and out backstage in between the Spanish room.
The ride was originally sponsored by Bank of America from when it opened until 1992. [17] The ride was then sponsored by Mattel from 1992 to 1999.
The Tower of the Four Winds was not relocated to Disneyland's It's a Small World after the New York World's Fair; in its place is an outdoor oval flume and boarding queue decorated with topiary backed by a large, flat facade with stylized cutout turrets, towers and minarets that are reminiscent of 2 iconic, international world landmarks: the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The façade was designed by Disney Imagineer Rolly Crump, who was inspired by Mary Blair's styling. Walt Disney asked Crump to design a large 30-foot clock, a central feature of the exterior façade, with a smiling face that rocks back and forth to a ticking sound.
A parade of wooden dolls in native culture costumes dance out from doors at the base of the Small World clock to an instrumental toy soldier version of "It's a Small World (After All)" in preparation for each quarter-hour, reminiscent of a European automaton clock. As the last doll returns into the clock, the parade doors close and the large central pair of doors open to reveal two giant toy blocks—the large block displays stylized numerals of the hour, the small one displays the minutes, while large and small bells toll to count the hours and quarters.
The exterior has been repainted over the years, first as all-white with a gold/silver trim (1966), then in various shades of blue (1977), then in pink and white with pastel accents (1992). Portions of the left side of the original façade were removed in 1991 to make room for the entrance to Mickey's Toontown. As of 2020, the façade is white with a gold trim as it was in 1966, except the original gold and silver paint of the clock; the smiling clock face is now entirely gold leaf. The façade was repainted back to its original color scheme in 2002. The gardens around the building are decorated with topiary animals.
During the 2005–2006 holiday season, an elaborate multimedia presentation was projected on the outdoor façade that registered colored patterns matched to the façade each quarter-hour after dusk. Guests were encouraged to view the popular Remember... Dreams Come True fireworks presentation from the It's a Small World Mall and nearby parade viewing platform built for Light Magic (which had included a smoking area that was relocated under the Monorail track between the Matterhorn Bobsleds and Autopia before it was removed in 2019) to decrease overwhelming crowds gathered for viewing the fireworks spectacular in Plaza and Main Street.
When the ride was moved to Disneyland in 1966, a scene representing Oceania was added to the ride, which was not included at the World's Fair due to time and budget constraints. At the same time, hello and goodbye rooms were added to the attraction, which have also seen several changes over the years. In the 1960s–’70s there were stylized cutouts of flowers saying hello and goodbye in different languages; these were then changed to stylized rainbows with cutout butterflies in the 1980s–’90s, before changing to a nautical theme with stylized boats with different greetings at the turn of the millennium. When Bank of America sponsored the ride, there was also a message in the goodbye room that read:
Wherever you go
Around the World You're never far
From Bank of America.
The finale scene also received changes, as originally the color palette was white with colored pastels, such as pink, yellow, and light blue, and in the early 1980s this would be changed to a darker color palette of black, as well as purple and blue. There also used to be a large stylized sun at the end of the finale scene, which would be removed circa 1990 for unknown reasons. In addition, many other scenes also saw subtle changes through the years.
Disneyland's "It's a Small World" was closed from January to November 2008 (closed and reopening in a holiday version, skipping the summer season) to receive a major refurbishment. [18] [19] [20] The building's structure was improved, permanent attachments created for the "It's a Small World Holiday" overlay, the water flume replaced and its propulsion upgraded to electric water jet turbines, and the attraction's aging fiberglass boats redesigned in durable plastic. The refurbishment added 29 new Disney characters, each in their native land in a similar manner to the Hong Kong Disneyland version. The refurbishment also restored the original white and pastel colors in the finale, as well as the farewell sun and tapestry, the latter of which had not been seen since the 1964-’65 World's Fair.
Osram Sylvania agreed to a twelve-year sponsorship. In 2014, the sponsor logo at the attraction's entrance changed to that of Siemens AG, the parent company of Sylvania. The sponsorship ended its run after the 2017 Christmas season.
As part of Disney's "Let the Memories Begin" campaign for 2011, a nighttime projection show premiered at the Disneyland version of It's a Small World on January 27, 2011. [21] The Magic, the Memories, and You show projected sequences of Disney attractions and characters set to Disney music onto the exterior façade of It's a Small World to fill its architectural features, personalized with exclusive photographs and videos of park guests taken that day by Disney's PhotoPass cast members. The show also existed in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, but was projected onto Cinderella Castle. As the Let the Memories Begin campaign drew to a close, the show ended its run on Labor Day, September 3, 2012, at both locations. The Florida version was eventually replaced by Celebrate the Magic in fall 2012 and later by Once Upon a Time in 2016. The Magic, The Memories, and You theme song was later used for Celebrate! Tokyo Disneyland as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort 35th Anniversary celebration that premiered at Tokyo Disneyland on July 10, 2018, which also created as nod and tribute for the former nighttime projection show along with Remember Dreams Come True, which is a show using the Wishes: A Magical Gathering of Disney Dreams soundtrack.
On October 1, 1971, a version of the ride opened in Florida's Walt Disney World Fantasyland within Magic Kingdom. The boarding queue was built inside the Enchanted Hall (which is an alleyway that transitions from Fantasyland to Liberty Square). In 2005, the attraction's load area was redesigned to feature an indoor version of the three-dimensional facade and clock that are seen outdoors in the other Disney parks. This clock lacks the parade of wooden dolls and instead goes straight to opening the central pair of doors to reveal the time. In 2021, for the park's 50th anniversary, its facade was repainted in bright colors.
Kodak sponsored the attraction for a period of time in the early 1980s. The toy company Mattel sponsored the attraction from 1991 until 1998, when it transferred its sponsorship to another Magic Kingdom attraction, Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, in nearby Tomorrowland from that attraction's opening in 1998 until 1999, when it also dropped its sponsorship of that attraction, thus ending Mattel's history as a Walt Disney World/Disneyland sponsor. Mattel continued to sponsor the Disneyland version from 1992 to 1999.
The Tokyo Disneyland version of the attraction is identical in layout to the Magic Kingdom version except for these differences:
On March 1, 2017, Tokyo Disneyland's version of "It's a Small World" closed down for refurbishment for its first major update since the park's opening in 1983. Reopened in April 2018, [22] to coincide with Tokyo Disneyland's 35th anniversary, the attraction featured 40 characters from Disney properties including Cinderella , Alice in Wonderland , Peter Pan , The Aristocats , Brave , The Little Mermaid , Aladdin , Pinocchio , The Jungle Book , The Lion King , Hercules , The Three Caballeros , Mulan , Tangled , Lilo & Stitch , Frozen , Finding Nemo , and Moana similar to its counterparts in California and Hong Kong. [23] [24]
The attraction was initially set to be relocated to another area in Fantasyland with a new facade similar to the California counterpart as part of original expansion plans announced in October 2014 for the resort within the next ten years, before being revised and updated. [25] The transformed version of the attraction soft-opened on April 15, 2018, revealing an updated color scheme for the façade, a new tick-tock sound and parade music (similar to the ones used in Hong Kong and Anaheim), an entirely reconstructed loading area dubbed "Small World Station," a new Welcome room, an extended Goodbye room, rebuilt set pieces, and music tracks new to the ride including a Mandarin language track added to the China scene formerly exclusive to the Hong Kong version along with the aforementioned Disney characters. [26]
"it's a small world with Groot" overlay
On March 27, 2024, Tokyo Disneyland announced that "It's a Small World" will receive a Marvel themed overlay, called "it's a small world with Groot", closing in fall 2024 for installation. [27] The park stated in a press release:
Tokyo Disney Resort announced that “it’s a small world with Groot” will premiere in winter 2025 (the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024) featuring characters from across the Marvel Cinematic Universe designed in the endearing style of the Tokyo Disneyland attraction “it’s a small world” for a limited period, marking the first appearance of Marvel characters in an attraction at Tokyo Disney Resort.
In the attraction “it’s a small world,” guests board boats for the “happiest cruise that ever sailed ’round the world” and are welcomed by Walt Disney Animation Studios’ characters, as well as children and animals from around the world. In “it’s a small world with Groot,” Groot from the Guardians of the Galaxy film trilogy and his friends from Marvel Studios films are visiting Earth for vacation. Groot encounters his friends in various locations on Earth and experiences their regional cultures and music with them as well as with children from all over the world. Enjoy all the fun moments Groot has spending his vacation with his friends. Guests will continue to see their favorite characters from Disney Animation films throughout the world.
Don’t miss “it’s a small world with Groot” where, for the first time, characters from Marvel Studios will be featured in an attraction at Tokyo Disney Resort.
The attraction at Disneyland Paris is a departure from other versions of the attraction. The façade features rearranged and slightly redesigned landmarks with a completely different clock tower. The exterior clock face features a wide-awake sun on its left half and a sleeping moon on its right half. Unlike all other versions of the ride, every scene is housed in one room with arches being used to define sections of the ride. The scenery design is a complete departure from Mary Blair's distinctive style, though the dolls used remain identical to all other versions. The ride also uses a completely different soundtrack composed by John Debney (which was also used for roughly a decade at the Californian version from 1992 to 2002, before switching back to the original 1966 soundtrack), which can be described as more ornate compared to the original soundtrack. This is the first version of the ride to incorporate a scene for North America with dolls representing Canada and the United States, and a distinct Middle Eastern section with dolls singing in Arabic and Hebrew. In the Finale room, in addition to the song being sung in English, it is also sung in French and German. Also, the attraction had a post-show area called World Chorus that was sponsored by Orange S.A., which opened with the park in 1992 and then closed in 2010 to make way for the Princess Pavilion meet and greet area. [28]
As part of an ongoing plan to refurbish several attractions for the park's 25th anniversary, this version went under an extensive refurbishment for six months before it reopened on December 19, 2015. The refurbishment included a different color scheme for the façade that is identical to the color scheme when it first opened, restored assets and special effects, refurbished boats, new LED lighting to replace the old stage lighting, and all 176 dolls in the ride being progressively replaced through 2017. The entrance and exit rooms have been completely revamped, being identical to the entrance scene in Hong Kong Disneyland's version and the exit scene in the Magic Kingdom and Hong Kong Disneyland versions (rendered in the Mary Blair style similar to the other parks). The soundtrack has been completely remastered with the base instrumental removed from the majority of the ride's audio except for the finale, making the soundtrack more similar to the original version. Additionally, new audio tracks are added including a new recording of someone yodeling to the tune of the song in the Switzerland scene. [29]
Disneyland Paris' "It's a Small World" was scheduled to be closed for extensive refurbishments from November 2021 until November 2022. [30] After an additional six-month delay and during Disneyland Paris' 30th anniversary celebration and the Walt Disney Company's 100th anniversary celebration, the ride was officially reopened on May 5, 2023 and featured 3 new, added, handicapped, Wheelchair accessible dolls in 3 scenes: a German doll in the Germany scene, an Arabian doll in the Arabia scene and another German doll in the Finale scene. It is similar 3 other dolls that are added to 3 scenes on the US versions of the original, classic attraction: a Mexican doll in the Mexico scene and another Mexican doll in the Finale scene in the Disneyland version in California and a Swedish doll in the Sweden scene in the Magic Kingdom version in Florida. [31]
The Hong Kong Disneyland version of the attraction is mostly modeled after the original Disneyland counterpart, using a canal for the boats to travel through instead of the open-ended water track found in the Magic Kingdom, Tokyo, and Paris versions. Some of this version's prominent and unique characteristics include:
The attraction is the largest indoor attraction at Hong Kong Disneyland. It is situated beyond the Hong Kong Disneyland Railroad, next to Disney's Storybook Theater where Mickey and the Wondrous Book is performed daily.
It's a Small World Holiday | |
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Disneyland | |
Area | Fantasyland |
Coordinates | 33°48′53″N117°55′04″W / 33.8147°N 117.9178°W |
Status | Operating |
Opening date | November 25, 1997 |
Tokyo Disneyland | |
Name | "It's a Small World" Very Merry Holidays |
Area | Fantasyland |
Coordinates | 35°37′49″N139°52′52″E / 35.6304°N 139.8812°E |
Status | Removed |
Opening date | 2003 |
Closing date | 2018 |
Disneyland Park (Paris) | |
Name | "It's a Small World Celebration" |
Area | Fantasyland |
Coordinates | 48°52′31″N2°46′34″E / 48.8753°N 2.7761°E |
Status | Removed |
Opening date | 1999, 2009, 2017 |
Closing date | 2002, 2015, 2019 |
Hong Kong Disneyland | |
Name | "It's a Small World" Christmas |
Area | Fantasyland |
Coordinates | 22°18′49″N114°02′21″E / 22.3137°N 114.0391°E |
Status | Removed |
Opening date | 2009 |
Closing date | January 1, 2010 |
Ride statistics | |
Attraction type | Old Mill |
Designer | WED Enterprises/Walt Disney Imagineering |
Theme | Worldwide winter holidays |
Music | Jingle Bells and/or Deck The Halls (finale only) featuring "It's a Small World (After All)", written by the Sherman Brothers |
Vehicle type | Boats |
Riders per vehicle | 16 |
Rows | 4 |
Riders per row | 4 |
Duration | 12–15 minutes |
Propulsion method | Water jets, electric turbine |
Number of lifts | 0 |
Premier Access (outside USA) available | |
Disney Genie+ Lightning Lane available | |
Single rider line sometimes | |
Since 1997, Disneyland has featured "It's a Small World Holiday" during the end-of-the-year Christmas and holiday season. The attraction is closed in late October to receive temporary holiday decorations inside and outside and reopens in early November before the start of the busy holiday tourist season. After the holiday season, "It's a Small World Holiday" stays open until late January where it closes to remove the holiday overlay and return to classic "It's a Small World" in early February. Almost one million lights are included during the holidays. [34] The overlay has proved very popular and has led to the installation of Fastpass machines. The attraction is the same boat voyage through many regions of the world, though the main theme song is not played in full. Instead, the children sing "Jingle Bells" and a bridge of "Deck the Halls" in addition to the main theme. Other versions of this overlay have been implemented at different international versions of the ride since. Since the holiday 2009 season, the Disney characters and The Spirit of America room (formerly the covered transition room) have joined in the "It's a Small World Holiday" at Disneyland. During the 2019 holiday season, Disney Imagineering added 3 new scents on "It's a Small World" Holiday. Since 1997, the European room has implemented a peppermint gingerbread scent, now accompanied by 3 new scents such as cherry blossoms in Asia, cinnamon in South America, and coconuts in the South Seas. For the 2020–2021 season, the overlay didn't take place due to COVID-19 and the ongoing closure of Disneyland Park.[ citation needed ]
Prior to the 2018 refurbishment, Tokyo Disneyland had a version of "It's a Small World Holiday" called "It's a Small World Very Merry Holidays". [35]
Disneyland Paris had a version of the overlay in which the full holiday soundtrack was not used. For the 2009 winter season, it received an overhaul with an official name of "It's a Small World Celebration". The overhaul included new lighting and decorations throughout the ride, and the entire ride now uses the full "It's a Small World Holiday" soundtrack. [36] Following a 2015 renovation, "It's a Small World Celebration" was planned to use an updated soundtrack originally set for winter 2016. [37] However, it was delayed for unknown reasons. "It's a Small World Celebration" returned for the 2017–2018 holiday season, featuring an updated soundtrack.
Hong Kong Disneyland implemented its own version called "It's a Small World Christmas" that highlights the Disney character scenes in Christmas fashion with an appearance of Santa Claus in the North Pole scene. [38]
The Magic Kingdom does not have its own holiday edition of "It's a Small World", and the regular ride operates continuously through the holiday season.
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Stitch Encounter is an interactive show located in Walt Disney Studios Park, and in Tomorrowland at Tokyo Disneyland and Shanghai Disneyland Park. The first edition of the show at Hong Kong Disneyland was closed on May 2, 2016, to make room for Star Wars: Command Post, although it temporarily returned to Hong Kong in 2019 for a limited time as a "Magic Access Members"-exclusive event.
Mad Tea Party is a spinning tea cup ride at five of the six Disneyland-style theme parks around the world. The ride theme is inspired by the Unbirthday Party scene in Walt Disney's Alice In Wonderland, and plays a carousel version of the film's "Unbirthday Song". It was one of the opening day attractions operating at Disneyland on July 17, 1955.
Prince Charming Regal Carrousel is a carousel in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort. A similar attraction under a different name can be found at Tokyo Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland. It plays organ-based versions of Disney music during the two-minute ride period. Hand-painted scenes from Cinderella can be seen on the top; hence the name "Prince Charming".
Dumbo the Flying Elephant is an aerial carousel-style ride located in Fantasyland at six Disney theme parks around the world. It is based on Disney's 1941 animated feature film, Dumbo. The original attraction opened at Disneyland on August 16, 1955. The five other versions of the attraction were opening-day attractions at their respective parks. It is the only attraction that can be found at all six Disney castle parks worldwide.
Space Mountain is an indoor, space-themed roller coaster in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Opened on May 27, 1977, it was the second roller coaster built at Disneyland, and was the second of the five versions of Space Mountain built by The Walt Disney Company. Its exterior façade is one of Disneyland's three "mountain" structures that serve as park landmarks.
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure is a ride attraction based on the 1989 Disney animated film The Little Mermaid, located in Paradise Gardens Park at Disney California Adventure and in Fantasyland at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom Park, where it is titled Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid. The ride opened on June 3, 2011 at Disney California Adventure, and on December 6, 2012 at Magic Kingdom.
Frozen Ever After is a musical reversing Shoot the Chute dark ride in Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort. Part of the Norway Pavilion of the Epcot's World Showcase section, the attraction features scenes inspired by Disney's animated film Frozen as well as the 2015 animated short Frozen Fever. It opened on June 21, 2016, using the ride vehicles and track layout of the former Maelstrom attraction. A version of the attraction opened at Hong Kong Disneyland on November 20, 2023, as part of The Walt Disney Company's centennial celebration, with two more scheduled to open at Tokyo DisneySea on June 6, 2024 and Walt Disney Studios Park in the second half of 2025.