It's a Small World ride through @ Disneyland Anaheim complete

Like several other Disneyland attractions, "It's a Small World" originated with the 1964 New York World's Fair (Pepsi's pavilion.) After the fair closed, the ride was transferred to Disneyland and officially opened in 1966.

The Ride was originally titled "Children of the World". When Walt Disney demonstrated it to songwriters Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, the ride's soundtrack featured numerous national anthems all playing at once, which resulted in a musical cacophony. Walt said, "I need one song."[1] In response, the brothers wrote It's a Small World (After All).[2] It is argued that the song is the most performed and most widely translated song on earth.[1]

The attraction's whimsical design was done by Mary Blair, who was also an art director on several Disney animated features (including Cinderella and Peter Pan). Like many Disneyland and Walt Disney World attractions, scenes and characters were designed by Marc Davis, while his wife, Alice Davis, designed the costumes for the dolls. Many of the dolls were created by Joyce Carlson who is honored with a shop window along the Magic Kingdom's Main Street U.S.A. The sign there reads "Dolls by Miss Joyce, Dollmaker for the World." The ride was completed in nine months, the shortest amount of time it has ever taken to create a Disneyland attraction.

Disneyland's version was closed from January to November, 2008, to receive a major refurbishment.[3][4][5] The building's structure was improved, and the attraction's boats and water flume were replaced. The refurbishment added 29 Disney characters, and the New Guinea Room was transformed into a North America Room, while the New Guinea scene's figures, props, and set pieces were relocated to the South Seas Room. Sylvania agreed to sponsor the ride for 12 years. Sylvania created a new marque for the ride.
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The outer façade of the building at Disneyland presents stylized cutout turrets, towers, and minarets vaguely reminiscent of world landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. A major feature is Rachels gigantic, three-dimensional clock with a happy face that swings back and forth. On the quarter-hour, a pair of doors at the base of the tower swing open and wooden dolls representing different cultures parade out of the clock. After the last doll exits the clock, another pair of doors are opened to reveal two large toy blocks — one block with the hour, and one block with the minutes, written in highly stylized numerals — and a bell tolls indicating the time.

The exterior has been slightly redesigned and repainted over the years. First as all-white with a gold trim, then in various shades of blue, then in pink and white with pastel accents. Currently it is all white with a gold trim as it was in the 1960s. The gardens around the building are decorated with topiary animals.
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The boats travel through a tunnel into the show building, which is much larger than the façade. This portion of the ride features animatronic dolls in national costumes singing the title song in numerous languages. At Disneyland, boats carrying the riders visit the regions of the world in separate rooms: * The Hello Room greets the guests to the attraction, showing different cultural greetings from around the world. * The Arctic/North Pole, with dolls representing Scandinavia, and the song sung in Swedish. * Europe, with the song sung in English with a Cockney accent and Italian, as well as having a yodeler in the section representing Switzerland. * Asia, with the song sung in Japanese. * Africa, with the rhythm of the song marked with drums and then sung in English. * South America, with the song sung in Spanish. * South Seas, with the song sung in an underwater gurgling sound by the mermaids in the first section of the room, a rainforest scene with native dummers, and a Polynesian steeldrum version of the song throughout the rest of the room. * North America, with dolls representing the United States. (Up until the 2009 renovation, the North America Room housed the rainforest and tribal steeldrum scene). * The Finale Room, with representatives from all the cultures of the world dressed in white versions of their native costumes and singing in English in unison. The Finale Room was inspired by the final verse of the Christmas hymn, "Once In Royal David's City", which says, "When like stars, His children crowned/All in white, shall wait around."[citation needed] (Before the refurbishment, a cowboy and American Indian standing together were the only dolls during the ride that represented the United States.)

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[savage642]

is this in disney world or the original

[infaMOUSEproject]

@savage642 Disneyland

[sickkris]

how often do u go to disneyland?

[conker2756]

the Three Caballeros!! 6:28

[mariegrace341]

Cinderella!! 2:26

[CreepieHtf]

This morning, my friends sang this ...

I HAVE THIS SONG IN MY HEAD , AS NYAN CAT .

[CSItefla]

This ride was pure torture to sit through when I went to Disneyland.

[dskolenko]

I never been to disney land or world so this is actually new to me because I only seen parodies of this ride

[lvcarmel]

@Haloklok Disneyland seems to bring out the best in people. I know it sure does for me :)

[torta77777]

this ride needs some small drops to keep me entertained, otherwise its cool for children.

[KatieBunny13]

Wouldn't it be funny if everything sped up?! XD

[TwilightLink77]

@bassmonkey1962 Its a long story.

[Haloklok]

i want to go back to disneyland.....

[ljh619]

This ride scares me