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Ride Profile: it's a small world

Located in Fantasyland on the far side of the park, “it’s a small world” was originally created for the 1964 world’s Fair, to raise money for UNICEF. Passengers of all ages and heights board a boat and visit South America, Central America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the South Pacific Islands in a ten-minute voyage.  The famous, catchy song is repeated over and over in the language of the area you are in. Dolls dance and show off attire of that area, and even some Disney character dolls join the fun throughout the ride. Even though it’s a slow, easy going ride, it is a good break to take in the summer as the whole ride is air conditioned and gives your legs a chance to take a break. Every 15 minutes, a parade of dolls in various culture costumes comes out from the base of the iconic clock. As the last doll returns into the clock, the parade doors close and the large central doors open to reveal two giant toy blocks—the large block displays the hour, the small one ...

Ride Profile: Pirates of the Caribbean

Ahoy Matey! Get on board and take a voyage through the Caribbean, witnessing pirates pillage and plunder. A pirate ride would not be complete without cannons firing and a good tune like “Yo ho, a Pirates Life for Me”. The beginning of the ride does have a decent drop as leaving the bayou, but otherwise its smooth and gentle sailing the rest of the ride. This is one of the few rides that had a movie based upon it, not the other way around. To add to the fun, character Jack Sparrow, Barbossa and Blackbeard have been added to the attraction. The movie explains that at night the pirates are cursed and turn into skeletons, so decide for yourself if the skeletons on the ride are cursed or not. This is one of the very last rides Walt Disney worked on and helped designed himself, before passing away three months before is opened.   Hidden Mickey’s:   -In the treasure room, look at the lamps on the left side   -before going up the large hill at the end of the ride, ...

Ride Profile: Splash Mountain

As you walk past Haunted Past it is hard to miss the sounds of screams and water splashing from Splash Mountain! This flume takes guests through more than half a mile through caves, swamps, and backwoods to return Br’er Rabbit safe and sound to his home. Obviously the biggest feature that stands out on this ride is the 52- foot plunge at the end of the ride, getting passengers wet, possibly drenched. Generally, the front seat gets the most wet, but all seats can expect to get at least a little wet at some point throughout the ride. Passengers ride aboard six-to-seven-seater logs with six single-file seats. The last seat in each log is larger and allows room for larger guests or an adult and a small child, thus allowing the capacity to be seven in each log.  The ride is filled with over 100 audio-animatronic characters singing catchy tunes, most famous “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah”. Although there are Mickey heads all over the ride, the main one can be seen from the ...