5 Hidden Details Inside Adventureland Treehouse You Do Not Want To Miss
Dateline: November 13, 2023
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Keep an eye out for these little hidden details sprinkled throughout the Adventureland Treehouse that pay homage to other Disneyland attractions, stories, and more.
A staple in Disneyland Park since it first opened in 1962, the Adventureland Treehouse has quite a long history. In fact, while it reopened with a new name and a fresh reimagining on November
Disneyland Keeps Options Open With Adventureland Treehouse Original Backstory
Dateline: November 13, 2023
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Source: Orange County Register
The new Adventureland Treehouse introduces an original storyline to Disneyland not tied to any film, and that provides Walt Disney Imagineering with the flexibility to someday tell any potential story in the 80-foot-tall man-made tree - from Encanto to Jungle Book to Pandora.
The Adventureland Treehouse inspired by Walt Disney 's Swiss Family Robinson
Your Guide To The Holidays At The Disneyland Resort 2023
Dateline: November 10, 2023
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Source: Orange Coast
Now through Jan. 7, the Disneyland Resort celebrates the holidays with festive decor, new food and beverage items, and the return of seasonal spectaculars.
Merry Treats
Disney Festival of Holidays at Disney California Adventure Park offers flavors and traditions from around the world, inspired by an array of cultural celebrations including
Reopening Date For Adventureland Treehouse
Dateline: October 25, 2023
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Source: Orange County Register
Work is finally finished on the transformation of Tarzan 's Treehouse into the what 's-old-is-new-again Adventureland Treehouse that has taken twice as long to complete as the original creation of Disneyland.
Disneyland will reopen the Adventureland Treehouse inspired by Walt Disney 's “Swiss Family Robinson” on Nov. 10 after a refurbishment project
Disneyland To Reopen Adventureland Treehouse This Fall After 2 Year Refurbishment
Dateline: September 7, 2023
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Source: Orange County Register
Work on the retheming of Tarzan 's Treehouse that has taken twice as long as the original creation of Disneyland is nearing completion as the final set pieces are being installed and tested in the what 's old is new again Adventureland Treehouse.
Disneyland will reopen the Adventureland Treehouse this fall after a refurbishment project that has stretched
Disneyland Reveals New Details About The Adventureland Treehouse
Dateline: July 18, 2023
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Source: Orange County Register
A family of five who possess magical and unique gifts that help them survive life in the jungle will soon be moving into the Adventureland Treehouse once Disneyland completes a two-year makeover of the 80-foot-tall man-made tree.
Walt Disney Imagineer Kim Irvine revealed new details about the Adventureland Treehouse backstory during a presentation to an
8 Magical New Reasons To Visit This Year
Dateline: February 1, 2023
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In my humble opinion, there's always a reason to go to Disneyland. You just got paid? Go to Disneyland. There's a new churro flavor? Go to Disneyland. It's Tuesday ... well, you get the idea.
You don't necessarily need a special reason to visit The Happiest Place on Earth. However, there are quite a few new attractions and special events coming
5 Lightning Lane Attractions Closing In January For Refurbishment
Dateline: December 20, 2022
Status: Current
Source: Orange County Register
It 's just about that time of year again when some of Disneyland 's most popular attractions go out of commission for a few weeks or several months to get a little TLC.
The end of the Christmas holiday season always brings a flurry of seasonal refurbishments at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure in January - with nine attractions getting a refresh
Reimagined Mickeys Toontown Set To Reopen On March 8
Dateline: November 18, 2022
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Mickey 's Toontown will reopen at Disneyland park on March 8, 2023, Disneyland officials announced on Friday.
The updated Toontown area will feature “new experiences for families and young children to have more opportunities to play together,” Disneyland said in a news release. Disney says the area will be greener and more spacious, but still offer more
My Delight And Surprise Over Adventureland Treehouse
Dateline: November 15, 2022
Status: Current
Source: attractionsmagazine.com
In 1962, just five years after Disneyland opened, the Swiss Family Treehouse was added to Adventureland. This new Disneyland attraction was themed after the hit 1960 Disney movie, “Swiss Family Robinson.” The original version of the treehouse remained until 1999, when it was changed over to Tarzan 's Treehouse based on the 1999 Walt Disney Animation feature, “Tarzan.” In
Disneyland Announces New Theming For Tarzans Treehouse
Dateline: November 10, 2022
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Disneyland 's Tarzan 's treehouse will be re-themed to pay homage to its original theming, The Swiss Family Robinson treehouse, the park announced on Tuesday.
The attraction, now called the Adventureland Treehouse, will include new rooms based on different family members.
The new areas will be the “mother 's music den, the young sons '
Do You Remember These Phased Out Rides And Attractions
Dateline: September 25, 2022
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Source: ktla.com
The Disneyland magic seems to stand the test of time even though the park has undergone several renovations since its opening on July 17, 1955. Since then, a few fan-favorite rides and attractions got a facelift or were cut by the big mouse himself.
However, the internet and Disney 's ever-growing fanbase won 't let the rides ' memories fade, even if the
Work Continues On Mysterious Retheme Project
Dateline: September 14, 2022
Status: Current
Source: insidethemagic.net
As we reported a few months ago, Disneyland announced that it would be closing Tarzan 's Treehouse in order to retheme the attraction. Over the last few weeks and months, we have seen parts of the attraction be completely dismantled and destroyed as a part of the project.
Tarzan 's Treehouse has been closed to Guests as it has been undergoing construction
My Trip To Disneyland The Year It Opened 1955
Dateline: June 28, 2022
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Source: beaconseniornews.com
The jungle hung low over the green-gray waters, thick and humid. Exotic bird calls sounded around us. Something slithered and splashed into the river as the captain guided his boat downstream, pointing out beasts only seen in comic books and tropical art.
Suddenly the water surged as a gigantic beast broke the surface, its huge mouth opening wide in a
Along With Splash Mountain Another Longtime Attraction Is Getting A Retheme
Dateline: April 18, 2022
Status: Current
Source: cinemablend.com
Disneyland and Disney World are constantly making changes to the parks, and when those changes happen, sometimes that means a re-theme is on the way. For example, Splash Mountain will be re-themed to a Princess and The Frog ride coming up and now another longtime attraction is set to get its own re-theme. That attraction would be none other than Tarzan 's Treehouse.
Disneyland To Give Tarzans Treehouse A New Theme
Dateline: April 18, 2022
Status: Current
Source: Orange County Register
Tarzan will soon be swinging out of his treehouse at Disneyland to make room for a re-themed attraction that will see a new Disney character move into the 80-foot-tall man-made tree in Adventureland.
Disneyland will reimagine Tarzan 's Treehouse in Adventureland with a new theme and backstory, according to Disneyland officials.
The treehouse
Tarzans Treehouse Reopens After Visitor Reportedly Snaps Plank On Bridge
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Dateline: November 11, 2019
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A group of Disneyland guests received a little more adventure than they bargained for Sunday night when they had to be escorted out of Tarzan 's Treehouse after a man apparently broke a wooden slat on the attraction 's suspension bridge.
A visitor who witnessed the incident shortly before 5 p.m. wrote on Twitter that a father was jumping on the bridge in
Tarzans Treehouse Closes After Slat Breaks On Rope Suspension Bridge
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Dateline: November 10, 2019
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Source: Orange County Register
Disneyland closed Tarzan 's Treehouse on Sunday afternoon after a wooden slat broke on one of the Adventureland attraction 's rope bridges suspended three stories above the ground.
Nobody was injured on Tarzan 's Treehouse, according to Disneyland officials. The attraction is closed for the evening, officials said.
A Disneyland visitor who
12 Fun Things You May Not Know About Disneyland
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Dateline: December 26, 2017
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Test your Disney trivia mojo here. How many of these items do you already know?
1. King Arthur Carousel. The lead horse on the iconic Fantasyland carousel is named Jingles. Walt Disney wanted all horses on the carousel, and he wanted them all to be leaping, so when a classic carousel was purchased, it was supplemented with other horses and those that had straight
More Progress On Star Wars Land Halloween Arrives
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Dateline: September 8, 2017
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Source: Orange County Register
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge topped out, and Halloween is making its presence known around the Disneyland Resort as the weather finally cools in September.
The heat wave's back finally broken, and many kids have returned to school, making the first few weeks of September less crowded at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
Of course, with the end of the
Adventure Awaits
Dateline: February 11, 2017
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Source: MickeyMousePark.com
When "Adventureland" was first conceived, it was to be based on Walt's award winning documentaries on Africa and Asia. "Jungle Cruise" was the star attraction until "Swiss Family Treehouse" opened in 1962. The inspiration for the "Jungle Cruise" includes the True-Life Adventure documentary, "The African Lion" and the film, "The African Queen" (the name for the Land was
This Is How Disneyland Changed In The 1990s
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Dateline: July 15, 2016
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It was a "Fantasmic!" start for Disneyland in the 1990s, and the decade ended with a new Tomorrowland and the disappearance of the parking lot.
1990-92
Not much happened for the first two years in terms of changes or additions of new attractions until 1992. Mission to Mars had its last flight and was grounded. In New Orleans Square, something new was coming to
This Is How Disneyland Looked And Changed In The 1960s
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Dateline: July 12, 2016
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Source: Orange County Register
It was the '60s, a decade of change. And just like society, Disneyland would change too - in dramatic fashion.
1960
Just like previous years, Walt Disney was constantly tinkering with Disneyland as the decade started. The first year of the decade, he added more scenes to the Rainbow Ridge Mine Train, and changed its name to the Mine Train Through Nature's
Lunch With Disney Legend Marty Sklar In Disneyland's Club 33
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Dateline: December 23, 2013
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I have to admit, I was getting a little nervous.
It was 1:20 in the afternoon of Nov. 22. I was standing -- actually, pacing back and forth - near the steps of City Hall in Town Square at Disneyland.
Rain was falling pretty steadily, as it had been since daybreak, and it was downright chilly, a far cry from the "warm California sun" we've been hearing about for
Still Returning After 36 Years
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Dateline: September 3, 2012
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Source: Stuff.co.nz
Having first visited Disneyland as a 2-year-old, Fairfax journalist James Croot reflects after his recent sixth visit.
"To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savour the challenge and promise of the future."
Walter E Disney's words when he opened his theme park in
California vs. Paris: The Treehouses
Dateline: June 1, 2012
Status: Current
Source: MickeyMousePark.com
This month, I shall be comparing the treehouses found in the Disneyland parks closest to my heart (California and Paris).
Both treehouses can be found in Adventureland and are walk-around attractions with a set path to follow. They both feature beautiful views (including of their parks' respective Indiana Jones attractions), hand-painted leafs and more steps than
California vs. Paris: Adventureland
Dateline: March 29, 2012
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Source: MickeyMousePark.com
This month, I shall be comparing the Adventurelands found in the two Disneyland parks closest to my heart (California and Paris).
Standing in front of the castle, with your back to Main Street, U.S.A./World Bazaar, the first land you encounter clockwise in four of the five Magic Kingdoms is Adventureland. Internet rumors abound that in Shanghai, Adventureland will
Reflections On My Trip To Disneyland
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Dateline: October 12, 2011
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I was a little worried about our trip to Disneyland, which took place last week.
Last time I went with my older son, then 4 years old, and misjudged the scariness of Pirates of the Caribbean by a factor of about 10. He didn't want to go on rides after that, pegged me as a complete liar (it was going to happen some time ) and stayed in the fetal position for the
Disneyland Memories
Dateline: July 1, 2011
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Source: MickeyMousePark.com
Two months ago, I was warned that my article for the July issue would be about my first memories of Disneyland.
I knew from the outset how hard this would be.
If I had been asked about my first visit to Florida's Magic Kingdom this would be easy. It was November 18th 1988, which was Mickey's 60th birthday. I could write reams about my memories: the parades; my
A 6-Year-Old's First Visit To Disneyland Hits Some Attractions, Misses Others
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Dateline: November 14, 2010
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You can't do it all, and truth be told, a child doesn't miss what she doesn't know about. A look back at what we saw and did -- and didn't do -- in one day.
Don't miss the Toontown roller coaster, somebody said. Don't bother with Toontown, somebody else said. Don't risk the Matterhorn with a first-grader, somebody said. Don't miss the Matterhorn with a first-grader,
Will I Love Disneyland As Much As Disneyworld?
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Dateline: November 12, 2008
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Source: Times Online
Some years ago, we took our two young boys to Disneyworld in Florida. They are grown up and my wife and I are going to California next year. Should we visit Disneyland, or is it a squib after the Florida park?
It's true that the Disneyland complex in Anaheim is smaller than the newer Disneyworld in Orlando, even the iconic Disneyland Castle and the peaks of Big
Gone But Not Forgotten The Disneyland E Ticket
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Dateline: May 30, 2008
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I've been working on a Chronicle magazine article about Bay Area roller coasters, which doesn't suck as far as assignments go. You can expect a lot of coaster-themed posts when it comes out in July.
While conducting my research, I ran into an article about the Disneyland ticketing system, which I remember from when I went to the park in 1978. Up until 1982,
Walt Disney Pictures Chairman Dick Cook
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Dateline: November 15, 2007
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Reflecting the American sense of informality widely associated with the movie studio's namesake and founder, people know the chairman of the Walt Disney Studios as Dick, not Richard, Cook. The former Disneyland cast member, who was asked during an event at the Anaheim theme park to be interviewed at his Burbank office, is in charge of development, production, distribution
Disney Fairy Tale Isn't For Everyone
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Dateline: March 4, 2007
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The job description is simple: Make the customers believe that Disneyland is "a magic kingdom where life is a fairy tale and dreams really do come true."
But at the end of the workday, many of the people who work at the "Happiest Place on Earth" sleep on air mattresses, in by-the-week motel rooms and in apartments shared with other families.
"I've been at this
Don Edgrren, 83 Engineer Helped Create Disney Parks
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Dateline: January 20, 2007
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Pirates of the Caribbean was already being built as a walk-through attraction at Disneyland when Walt Disney decided to transform it into a boat ride that would open in 1967. Suddenly, Don Edgren and his engineering crew had to figure out a way to take the expanded ride deeper underground.
"Don knew it was an engineering challenge, but he had that can-do spirit.
A Considerable Town
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Dateline: May 13, 2005
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Pam Wells has been to Disneyland, she estimates, 50 times in her 43 years. In fact, she's going again this weekend, for her 44th birthday. She can still remember being too excited to sleep the night before a Disneyland outing. And she can list all the places you used to be able to make out and/or smoke pot (Monsanto, the Sky Buckets) back in her teenage days. She talks of
Magical Memories
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Dateline: April 30, 2005
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Disneyland was built on a dream. And it was Walt Disney's dream that has made millions of wishes come true during the past 50 years.
Hundreds of millions of wishes, really. And also special moments - first dates and honeymoons, birthdays and anniversaries, and fun days spent with kids and later with grandkids.
Several weeks ago, we asked readers to recall their
Disneyland Turning 50
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Dateline: September 26, 2004
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Source: Knight-Ridder
Here's the deal with Disneyland. The two women ahead of me in line were Elizabeth and Lexi, twins fromWinnetka, Ill. Elizabeth is a communications and political science major at the University of Southern California. Lexi is a philosophy major atYale.
They knew the words to ''We Can Fly,'' a song from Walt Disney's ''PeterPan.'' It's the song the chorus sings when
Disneyland In One Day
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Dateline: March 1, 2000
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The First Hint that my mission will be daunting: I tell the cast member in Guest Relations the title of the article I'm researching, and she starts to giggle. Disneyland in a day? Who am I kidding? "It might be a little hard," she says, handing me my tickets, "to do it all in a day."
Disneyland has its own special feel, and nostalgia is only part of it. Yes, it's
Tarzan's Treehouse
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Dateline: June 1, 1999
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A Disneyland landmark welcomes new tenants this July, when the 70-foot-tall tree that once housed the Swiss Family Treehouse reopens with a Tarzan theme. Visit the home of the Lord of the Jungle by scaling a staircase made of items salvaged from a shipwreck, then crossing a rickety suspension bridge. Nestled high among the leaves, vine-covered huts are filled with the
A Bear Necessity
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Dateline: January 27, 1999
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The Country Bear Jamboree, a 17-minute show made up of more than 20 audio-animatronic bears, originally opened as an "E" ticket ride in Walt Disney World Florida, as one of the premier attractions for the park's opening in 1971. Just one short year later, it opened here in our very own Anaheim Disneyland, in Bear Country to be exact, on March 24, 1972. It's been there
Fathers Treehouse
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Dateline: September 1, 1997
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I believe this: When we begin to lose those closest to us, we receive an aura, like the forewarning of an illness, just before it happens. One day my father started building a treehouse -- an elaborate Disney-inspired fantasy -- in our backyard. That was the day I knew our family would eventually shatter like a hot marble dropped in ice water.
A third-generation
For Disneyland's New Indiana Jones Adventure, Waiting Is Half The Fun
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Dateline: March 13, 1995
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Source: Orange County Register
Imagine you run a theater and you're faced with 21,000 people in line every day expecting nothing but the best. There are 2,400 eager customers queued at any given time waiting to get in. Your venue seats 180 people for each performance.
Those impossible numbers would make most producers with any sense throw in the towel.
But not Disneyland. The Magic Kingdom has
Do You Believe In Magic?
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Dateline: April 25, 1988
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Source: Time
Once upon a time in a popular tourist destination called the Magic Kingdom, there lived some very prosperous characters. They were happy all the time (except for Grumpy, but it was his job to be that way). They produced souvenirs, cartoons and movies that were the delight of families around the world. But one day a great disenchantment fell over the kingdom, for the magic
New Fun For The Whole Family At Disneyland
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Dateline: January 1, 1969
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Imagine it's 200 years ago and you're a passenger on a small boat picking its way carefully along a dark and treacherous stretch of coastline on the Spanish Main. Suddenly pandemonium breaks loose. The air resounds with the roar of cannons and the crack of muskets. A band of pirates is attacking a town and you're right in the middle! The rogues are everywhere-taunting the
Swiss Family Treehouse A Storybook Classic Relived
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Dateline: October 1, 1968
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Disneyland's Swiss Family Treehouse is another romantic adventure that has been re-created in the Magic Kingdom from Johann Wyss's classic novel, "The Swiss Family Robinson."
The, story of the Robinson family dates back to the early 1800's when they were shipwrecked on a deserted South Sea island. Resigned to their fate, the family, Mr. Robinson, a
Swiss Family Tree Burns At Disneyland
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Dateline: October 24, 1965
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A portion of the Swiss Family Tree House at Disneyland received minor damage from fire Saturday.
Flames broke out about 7:50 p.m. near the Crows nest at the top of the tree located in Adventureland.
Three units from the Anaheim fire Department controlled the blaze within 20 minutes, a. spokesman for Disneyland said.
There were 12 persons in the lower part
Walt Disney King Of Fantasy
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Dateline: July 1, 1965
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Walt Disney and friends.
Walt Disney, whose Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck brought laughter to the world and whose Disneyland is a playground for the world's people, calls his home at Smoke Tree Ranch, "my laughing place."
Whimsical, as always, he refers to the Uncle Remus story where Brer Rabbit oh-so-casually mentions his "laughing place" and makes it sound so
African Veldt
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Dateline: September 6, 1964
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Way down in Jungleland, below the Amazin' Disney line, there's news among the gnus. "The Trapped Safari" is the new headline feature and a bit of bright fun in Disneyland's far-famed Adventureland and the Jungle River Cruise. Jackals, hyenas and buzzards lay siege to a comical hunter and his retinue treed by the wild beasts. Disneyland adventurers drift safely past as
Onward And Upward With The Arts
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Dateline: September 7, 1963
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One day last year in Los Angeles, as I was about to step aboard a helicopter that would take me to Disneyland with my teen-aged son and daughter, these two, smiling wanly, nodded toward a tourist poster that gave equal billing to our destination and to Forest Lawn cemetery. Their gesture reminded me that in earlier years they had wasted hundreds of child-hours vainly
Magic Worlds Of Walt Disney
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Dateline: August 1, 1963
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Source: National Geographic
Disneyland really started more than 20 years ago, when Walt got the idea for an amusement park that grownups as well as children would enjoy.
"I had all my drawing things laid out at home, and I'd work on plans for the park, as a hobby, at night."
At the time, amusement parks were dying all over the country, "I talked Disneyland but no one could see it," Walt
Dazzled In Disneyland
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Dateline: July 1, 1963
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In the third decade of this century America produced a young man of genius. He drew pictures with pen and ink and wash. Like other geniuses, such as Michelangelo, Leonardo and Bernini, he had a mechanical turn of mind; and, by means of all sorts of devices, he made his drawings into motion pictures which were works of art. He drew animals to perfection. With care and his
Disneyland Houses Giant 70-Foot Tree
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Dateline: November 23, 1962
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Walt Disney advised visitors today to go climb a tree his latest addition to the magic kingdom.
Disney and his magicians have built the first high-rise treehouse in the world, towering 70 feet over the jungleland area of Disneyland. To build the treehouse it was necessary to build a 150 ton tree to hold it.
"The poem says 'only God can make a tree,'"' Disney
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Dateline: June 10, 1962
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If you're tired of freeways, or looking for something really different to do, Walt Disney has come up with the solution: a "trip far from civilization."
The password is"Safari," and summertime visitors at Disneyland will be validating their passports, stepping aboard steamers and sailing off on a grand new tropical adventure that may set jungle exploration back to
Disneyland Announces 7 Million Dollar Expansion
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Dateline: February 8, 1962
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A two-year expansion program involving an expenditure of $7 million for new attractions at Disneyland -- including a complete new Adventureland area opening next summer -- has been announced by officials at Walt Disney's Anaheim park.
The development, one or the biggest projects undertaken at Disneyland since its opening in 1955, is now underway in the
The tree in which the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse resides is called a Disneyodendron Exiums, which means: out of the ordinary Disney tree, so dubbed by the Imagineers who built her. It is classified as a building, so is subject to the same safety and building codes as all of the other structures in Disneyland. Also, the tree contains 300,000 fabricated leaves, which each cost $1 to produce! The tree has concrete roots that stick 42 feet into the ground, and a steel superstructure.
Statistics:
Opening Day: December, 1962 (ground breaking January 17,1962)
Number of Leaves: 300,000 (hand made vinyl)
Number of Blooms: 50,000
Number of Steps: 137 total - 68 going up, 69 going down
Tree Height: Approx. 70 feet
Tree Width: 80 feet (at its widest point)
Tree Weight: 150 tons
Root Depth: 40 feet
Amount of Water Circulated by Bamboo Buckets: Approx. 200 gallons per hour
Amount of Water Circulated in the Treehouse: 4,000 gallons per minute.
Stream Length: 160 feet
Hand painted sign in the Jungle Lookout: "In this compound we often pause to contemplate our small world. Here adventure beckons with every view & every sound, the jungle & its river call out their mystery invite us to new discovery"
Cost $254,000 (in 2021 dollars it would cost over $2.3 million) to build
Required a "C" ticket in 1964-1965
From WED Disneyland Dictionary 1968
Rises 70 feet above the jungle. The tree spreads more than 300,000 brilliant leaves and 50,000 blooms on its 40-foot branches. As guests climb steps rough-hewn by island castaways, they visit the primitive kitchen, salon and bedrooms to become a part of the fabled adventures of the shipwrecked family. Rare antique furnishings, a jungle water circulation system and a spectacular view of the "Magic Kingdom" are other features of the visit in the ingenious island home, devised and constructed by the world's most famous family of castaways --the Robinsons.
Required a "B" ticket in 1970's
From Steve Birnbaum brings you the best of Disneyland 1982:
The Disney studios' 1960 remake of the 1813 Johann David Wyss classic novel, The Swiss Family Robinson, provided the inspiration for what must be one of the two best treehouses on earth (the other being this same attraction at Walt Disney World in Florida). It's well fitted out with real antiques (muskets, an 18th-century barometer, a ship's wheel and gimbal lights, and a sewing basket), and with an organ, beds, tables, and bookshelves built by Disney arti- sans. It even has running water in all the rooms- thanks to a waterwheel at the base of the tree, a rushing brook, and a series of bamboo buckets on pulleys capable of bringing up about 200 gallons an hour. "Everything we need right at our fingertips," was how John Mills, who played the father in the film, described the prototype for this arboreal home, which he and two of his three sons had built after the wreck of the Titus on its way to America. It's such an ingenious construction that it's not hard to understand why, several adventures later when they got the chance to leave the island, all the family members except one son decided to stay on. Unofficially christened Disneyodendron semperflorens grandis (that is, "large everblooming Disney tree"), the tree itself is another intriguing bit of Disney artifice. The 62 roots, which reach 42 feet into the ground, are made of concrete; the limbs, which extend 80 feet across, are of steel; and the more than 300,000 leaves, shaped like those of a ban- yan tree and hand-grafted onto 1,000 manzanita branches ranging in length from 2 to 6 feet, are pure plastic. The whole assemblage weighs some 150 tons (6 tons of it steel); uses 110 cubic yards of concrete; and towers 70 feet in the air, high above the rest of Adventureland. Fluttering at the top-visible from almost everywhere in the park- is the Swiss national flag.
