Disneyland: Smaller changes

The addition of two new lands and major revision of an existing one is a lot of change. There are always other changes happening, with little tweaks and improvements.

Fantasyland is literally the heart of Disneyland, central, and the most closely tied to its animation history. That central location means there is not really room to expand. Even though the Royal Theater and Picie Hollow kind of relate to Fantasyland, they are outside of it.

Still, things happen. Disney characters were added to appropriate sections of It's A Small World (like Lilo and Stitch in the South Pacific) or an Arendelle section to the Storybook Land Canal Boats. I noticed the most changes with Snow White's Scary Adventure.

Some are minor changes, like that shaft of sunlight shining on the cottage.

I loved these bird-adorned light fixtures. I can't swear to how new they are, because it had been about eight years since I had last been on the ride, but I really liked them. Of course, Disney is always good for creatures.

I don't have a great photo of it, but see that shadow in the window? Shadows reflecting the dancing inside the cottage were moving back and forth. I knew the dancing would be the first scene, but there it was while we were still waiting in line.

I think the birds and butterflies and chipmunk on the outside were new, and the barrel of tools definitely was.

Again, so much effort goes into the queue... though to be fair you could spend a lot of time there.

What was most interesting to me was that they changed the castle interior from the Evil Queen's dungeon to Snow White's garret. At first I thought maybe they were trying to make it less scary, though they had not changed the name.

The movie does show her with doves at the window, and then you get to see her closet... many visitors to Disneyland love the princess dresses.

Then I realized what they were doing is giving you the lead-in to the story: this is who she is and why she fled into the woods, thus meeting up with all the woodland creatures and the dwarfs.

It's not like we don't know the story, but it's a nice touch. 

These are minor things, but one of the joys of visiting the parks is that combination of the familiar with the novel, and they do a great job with it.

COVID: This is an indoor ride, and the line is mostly indoors. I put on the mask early.

Accessibility: This is one of the rides that has what they call "Transfer Access Vehicles", and you do have to transfer. Enter at the exit to board.

This is a great place to point out that if you look at individual rides you can bring up accessibility information. That tells us that for this ride you can also pick up a receiver for audio descriptions at Guest Services for visual disabilities, or you can pick up a handheld captioning device.

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