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DISNEYLAND RESORT · ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA

Disneyland Park

“the one walt walked”

The one Walt walked. Smaller, denser, and stranger than its Florida descendants — a 77-foot castle, a mountain with a basketball court inside, and seventy years of ghosts who clock in happily.

Sleeping Beauty Castle
Icon · Fantasyland

✦ the lamp above the main street firehouse stays lit — walt's apartment, walt's light

THE ANIMATED COLLECTION · 37 PIECES

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Main Street U.S.A.

2
Disneyland Railroad
Landmark
Steam around the park Walt drove himself.
Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln
Show
The 1964 audio-animatronic that started it all.

Adventureland

4
Indiana Jones Adventure
Dark ride
The Temple of the Forbidden Eye. Do not look at Mara.
Jungle Cruise
Boat ride
The original skipper act, since opening day.
Adventureland Treehouse
Walkthrough
The Swiss Family's place, restored.
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
Show
The birds sing words and the flowers croon.

New Orleans Square

2
Pirates of the Caribbean
Boat ride
The 1967 masterpiece — the longest and best one anywhere.
Haunted Mansion
Dark ride
999 happy haunts in antebellum drag.

Bayou Country

3
Tiana's Bayou Adventure
Log flume
The bayou drop, west-coast edition.
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Dark ride
Heffalumps, woozles, mild peril.
Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes
Boat ride
You are the engine.

Frontierland

3
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Runaway coaster
The wildest ride in the wilderness, original recipe.
Mark Twain Riverboat
Riverboat
Paddle-wheeling the Rivers of America.
Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island
Landmark
Rafts out, caves in.

Fantasyland

11
Matterhorn Bobsleds
Coaster
The first tubular steel coaster on Earth, 1959. Harold lives inside.
Peter Pan's Flight
Dark ride
The pirate ship over London — the queue is the tax.
Dumbo the Flying Elephant
Spinner
The gentlest flight in the fleet.
it's a small world
Boat ride
The facade is the show — wait for the clock.
Alice in Wonderland
Dark ride
A caterpillar-back tumble down the rabbit hole.
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Dark ride
Motoring, merrily, to a surprising destination.
King Arthur Carrousel
Spinner
Jingles, the lead horse, was Julie Andrews' favorite.
Mad Tea Party
Spinner
The unhinged original.
Casey Jr. Circus Train
Landmark
I think I can, since 1955.
Storybook Land Canal Boats
Boat ride
Through Monstro, into the miniature world.
Snow White's Enchanted Wish
Dark ride
Less scary than it used to be. Slightly.

Mickey's Toontown

3
Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway
Dark ride
Into the cartoon, Toontown edition.
Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin
Dark ride
Spinning through Toontown in a runaway cab.
Chip 'n' Dale's GADGETcoaster
Coaster
A coaster made of found objects.

Tomorrowland

6
Space Mountain
Space coaster
Tighter, faster, and louder than Florida's.
Astro Orbitor
Spinner
Rockets over the gates of Tomorrowland.
Autopia
Race track
Freeway driving lessons since 1955.
Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters
Dark ride
Z-blasting with a joystick spin.
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage
Boat ride
Real submarines, animated reef.
Star Tours: The Adventures Continue
Dark ride
The Starspeeder's west-coast route.

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

2
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
Dark ride
The First Order captures Batuu West too.
Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
Dark ride
Hondo's got a job for you.
opened
July 17, 1955
lands
Nine
the icon
Sleeping Beauty Castle
my headliners
Indiana · Matterhorn · Rise

Disneyland is the master tape every other castle park is a copy of — smaller and denser, with the rides stacked so close the lands lean on each other. Nothing in Florida walks like this.

Do the originals here even if you know them from elsewhere: Pirates is longer, Space Mountain is meaner, and the Matterhorn exists nowhere else. Then ride Indiana Jones twice.

Every piece above is hand-drawn and animated — the 1955 castle throws fireworks, the bobsleds thread the mountain, the temple jeep rattles past Mara, and the elephants fly in formation.

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