13-Year-Old Girl Injured On Dumbo

Guest Said She Injured Her Back While Riding.

The original name for this attraction (before the attraction was built) was The Pink Elephant Ride!

The first Dumbo Elephants weighed 700 pounds each.

A figure of Timothy Mouse rides atop the central hub. The figure originally held a training whip, later replaced with the "magic feather." It has since been changed back to the whip.

During his 1957 visit, Former US President Harry S Truman politely declined a ride on Dumbo Flying Elephants. Elephants are the symbol of America's Republican Party; Truman was a Democrat.

At the 1992 Disneyana convention, one of the original ride vehicles sold for US$16,000.

Required a "B" ticket in 1955-1957

Required a "C" ticket in 1959

Required a "C" ticket in 1964-1965

From WED Disneyland Dictionary 1968
Prove that in this fantasy world of "dreams come true" anything is possible. That's why elephants really "fly" in Fantasyland, as Timothy, the mouse cracks the whip and Dumbos soar high carrying happy passengers

Required a "C" ticket in 1970's

From Steve Birnbaum brings you the best of Disneyland 1982:
When Harry Truman came to Disneyland in 1957, he and his wife visited almost every attraction in the park except this one "a Republican symbol," he proclaimed. A more plausible explanation is that it has always been something of a kiddie ride, an experience especially loved by youngsters in the two- through-seven age group (and their parents, who happily go along to watch their kids' smiles). The all-new design, however, a vital part of the Fantasyland renovation, has made the ride a showpiece of the area, a mechanical marvel that can hold even the most blasé grown-up's attention. Dumbo was the flying elephant character in the 1941 film about a baby elephant who discovers, on falling into a bucketful of champagne, that his inordinately large ears, which have previously been such a source of embarrassment, can actually help him to fly. Timothy Mouse, who becomes his friend's manager after the flying elephant is hired as a star (by after the flying el the same circus folk who once scoffed at him), stands in command at the center of the attraction.