it's a small world Disneyland Full Ride June 2, 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- This is my most recent video of it's a small world, my favorite ride at Disneyland from June 2, 2024. In addition to the whole ride, I filmed the façade in the queue, and the start & end of the boat ride. The ride was made by Walt Disney and Unicef to provide a better understanding of the many cultures of the world and their children. Originally designed for the 1964-65 World's Fair, where it opened nearly 60 years ago on April 22, it was enlarged & relocated to Fantasyland on May 28, 1966. The Happiest Cruise that ever sailed is a world of fun, laughter, & unity, featuring many audio animatronic children from every continent. During the voyage they serenade guests with their meaningful song, it's a small world. Walt's favorite composers, Richard & Robert Sherman, were asked to create this simple but powerful song for the first version in 1963, and their talent, combined with the compositions of Bobby Hammack and Buddy Baker, as well as the artistic direction of many other great minds, including Mary Blair, Rolly Crump, Alice & Marc Davis, made this cruise unlike any other in Disneyland, or the world itself. Although other versions exist in Florida, Tokyo, Paris, & Hong Kong, this is the only version to have been personally overseen by Walt Disney himself. Throughout the ride, there are 5 different languages, which are sung in various portions of the ride in their respective regions. Swedish and British English in Northern Europe, Italian in Southern Europe, Japanese in East Asia, English in Africa, Spanish in Latin America, and English again in the Finale, alongside 35 unique instrumentals native to these, and many other countries and regions around every continent of the globe, in addition to the main instrumentals in the Welcome, Finale, & Goodbye rooms, and the multicultural queue music. The message of Peace on Earth is portrayed through the many children all having similar kinds of fun in their native regions, followed by a Grand Finale where, with all borders removed, the message of it's a small world and Peace on Earth is reinforced for many guests, giving them a better perspective of the world around them. This Finale is actually my personal favorite scene for these reasons, and many more. The impressive symphony and children/adult chorus audio, beautiful array of many colors that flash back and forth creating a vibrant symphony of light, the one moon & golden sun above, and the amazing quantity of audio animatronic dolls. One of my favorite improvements to this ride in many years was in late 2022, when two similar dolls in wheelchairs were added to the Finale and Central America scenes. The huge, white & gold façade is also a big draw for many including myself, with its numerous spinning flowers, world landmarks, & central clock tower that goes off with a fun parade every 15 minutes. The great area music is also very well composed, by Buddy Baker in 1966. Actually, much of the soundtrack dates back 2 years further, to the original version at the 1964-65 World's Fair. The South Pacific, North Pole, Welcome/Goodbye rooms, & façade were added when the ride moved to Disneyland. There were some changes over the first 4 decades, with the façade changing colors from white & gold (1966-77, much like today), white, gold, and blue accents on the clock tower (1977-92), multicolored pastels (1992-2002), and back to basically the original white & gold since 2002. The Welcome and Goodbye rooms also changed drastically four times between 1968 or 69 through 1999, and so did the Finale colors, around 1979, and 2008. In November 1997, it's a small world Holiday overlay was introduced, and has been a yearly hit ever since. For most of 2008, the ride was closed for a major refurbishment. This was to repair the flume, lots of relatively worn down sets and lighting, as well what I consider the pointless decisions of adding the Disney IP characters and Spirit of America room. I feel this way because the America room goes against Walt's wish of not including a major America scene in the ride, and the room isn't as well done or detailed as the rest of the ride either, while the IP characters feel tacked on, as if their only purpose is to make even more synergy between unrelated films and this ride. However, it remains my favorite ride in Disneyland because of the absolutely amazing way that it gets its wonderful message across to audiences, through extreme levels of color, energy, and happiness. I am so glad this absolute masterpiece of Imagineering has entertained guests for 60 years now. I hope it continues to do so centuries into the future, ideally until the sun swallows the Earth in a few billion years. This is my highest quality video of this ride that I've posted so far. I hope you enjoy it!
I do not own any audio used in this video. All audio is owned by Disney. Video taken by me, feel free to use it in your own content if you wish. - บันเทิง
Nice! I was actually there about 2.5 weeks later on June 19th.
I don't know about you guys, but I might use the "Ahoy Matey" (said at 2:18) as a Sound Effect.
Also I love your videos, man!
Glad you enjoy my videos! I enjoy your videos too. You have done a wonderful job recreating the Holiday audio.
@@benjaminroberson1924 Thanks! Do you have any suggestions for future audios?
@@pizzakiddo I'm sorry it took longer than expected to get back. There are a few Holiday audios that I would love to see you make when and if you have the time. These include the Asia Middle East, East Asia English & fireworks audio (both since 1997), and the old Transition room audio (1997-2008). Don't feel obligated if you don't want to, but these are my suggestions.
hey bro, great video as always. i've been watching your "small world through the years" videos and i've been wondering about two things - one, do you know when they added the filipino doll to the south seas room? i've been looking all over the internet and on youtube, even going through all the old pictorial souvenir books, but i couldn't get a precise answer. my guess is that they added it when tokyo disneyland opened 1983, as that is the earliest footage i've seen the filipino doll was in 1986 in both your south sea videos in disneyland and in tokyo disneyland. i think i might've seen the filipino doll in the 1984 footage in the tokyo video, but it was too dark and blurry to tell. i do also remember reading somewhere in one of your video descriptions that they introduced the filipino doll during the 70s, but i could be wrong.
as for my second question, do you know when they changed the original 1964 ny worlds fair faces of the dolls? i've been wondering this for quite a while now. as you know the dolls used to have very red and rosy cheeks, and the lighter-skinned dolls were pretty pale compared to today, the eyebrows and lips had different shapes, etc.
based on the footage i've seen from your videos, the mouth shape of the singing dolls changed from a more narrow shape to a more wider mouth shape (kinda like from ▽ to ) i would presume between 1974-1976, again based on your videos. however, as for the actual appearance of the faces of the non-singing dolls, i would have to guess around when they added the john debney soundtrack to the ride, so around 1992. however, from what i;ve seen, in your 1991 audio mix, the face of the uk doll still resembles the ny worlds fair original doll face, but the indian dancers resemble more of today's doll face. i did hear from another youtuber that they changed the faces in 2008 when they added the disney characters to the ride, however i dont think this is true, again based on older footage courtesy to your videos.
sorry for asking these oddly specific questions, and i do have a lot of other questions but i don't want to bombard you with millions of words to read lmao. but i've been trying to figure them out for a while now to no avail and i wanted to ask you directly and get your input on them as you have an incredible amount of knowledge on iasw. anyways sorry for the long read and thank you for your time bro!
I'm glad that you love my videos! I enjoy making them when I can. 1. The Filipino doll was added around 1979. This update also brought the first Korean and Israeli Dolls. All three of these countries were designed by Rolly Crump, one of the Imagineers essential to the creation of the original small world, such as designing the Clock tower at Disneyland. However, the Korean scene there today was mostly installed in late 1986. Searching for videos from 1982, 1985, or 1986 and going to that scene will show what I mean. The fans were there from 1966 as Japan and they remained the same until late 1986, just with the Korean dolls added between them around 1979. 2. I really don't know as much about the faces, but I do have a basic idea. The 1964 faces were replaced with the 1971 Magic Kingdom version at Disneyland around 1972/73, but as you said the non-singers might have had their original faces until the fall 1992 pastel refurb, as that UK doll pic is from 1986. I think it was a transition in the 80’s-90’s, because the Indian dolls pic is from 1988. I need to look at this more closely now. Thank you for suggesting it! I believe some, but not all of the faces have slowly been replaced with a newer mold from Hong Kong since 2008.
@@benjaminroberson1924 this is amazing information, i didn't know rolly crump himself designed those dolls! and i was going to ask about both the israeli and korean dolls so thank you for giving your insight on them as well. and i never would've thought that the indian scene picture was from 1988. knowing that, i would have to agree with you with the original faces being replaced between the 80's and 90's. i also think a decent amount of faces have been replaced with the hk mold, as i can see small differences between some of the dolls. and i didn't know about the singing faces being replaced with mk's version, i was going to also ask if the dolls from magic kingdom had that same mouth shape when isaw opened in 1971 but that answered that question. but thank you so much for answering my questions and giving your insight! i've been wondering about the faces and the filipino doll for a while now. thank you for your time keep up the great work brotha!
They should have replaced the Russian dolls with some Eastern Europe dolls 🇨🇿🇵🇱🇭🇺🇸🇰🇸🇮🇧🇬🇷🇸🇲🇪 😢😢😢
I also think that they need to add Eastern European dolls, especially after the current tragedies over there. I think they should be in a new scene next to Russia as a symbol of a better future.
@@benjaminroberson1924 Or maybe Russian Countries in the Country, those ones who wanted to be independent, like Bashkortostan, Adygea, Buryatia, Tatarstan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Udmurtia, Komi Republic, Dagestan, maybe if Karelia added, it will be on Scandinavia