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| name = Alice's Curious Labyrinth<br />
| park = [[Disneyland Park (Paris)]]<br />
| land = Fantasyland<br />
| type = Hedge maze (walk-through)<br />
| opened = April 12, 1992<br />
| designer = [[Walt Disney Imagineering]]<br />
| height = None<br />
| status = Operating<br />
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'''Alice's Curious Labyrinth''' is a hedge maze walk-through attraction in Fantasyland at [[Disneyland Park (Paris)]] at [[Disneyland Paris]]. It opened with the park on April 12, 1992, and sits in the British corner of Fantasyland, near the Mad Hatter's Tea Cups. It is themed to Disney's 1951 animated film ''Alice in Wonderland'', adapted from the stories by Lewis Carroll, and it remains one of the most distinctive opening-day attractions in Paris: a full-scale maze that guests explore entirely on foot, at their own pace.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alice's Curious Labyrinth |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Curious_Labyrinth |website=Wikipedia |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Alice's Curious Labyrinth |url=https://www.dlpguide.com/guidebook/disneyland-park/fantasyland/alices-curious-labyrinth/ |website=DLP Guide |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
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The labyrinth was created for the Paris park and had no equivalent at the American parks when it opened. Where California's Fantasyland told Alice's story in a short dark ride, Paris gave its British-themed section a garden attraction in the English tradition — a real hedge maze, planted with hedges grown in northern France and brought to the site by truck, and populated with figures and scenes from the film.<br />
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The concept proved exportable a generation later. Shanghai Disneyland opened on June 16, 2016 with its own version, the Alice in Wonderland Maze, drawing on both the 1951 animated film and the 2010 live-action film. The Paris original, however, remains the version tied purely to the animated classic, and it has operated continuously since opening day, with periodic refurbishments of its planting, figures and water features.<br />
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== Experience ==<br />
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The maze is built in two distinct halves, and its paths are laid out, seen from above, in the shape of the Cheshire Cat's body, with a floral recreation of the Cat's grinning face planted beside the attraction.<br />
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The first half follows Alice's wanderings before she meets the Queen of Hearts. Guests pass the White Rabbit's burrow, walk beneath arched fountains that spray streams of water overhead, and find the Caterpillar in his mushroom lair, smoking his hookah and reciting lines from the film. The Dodo leads a Caucus Race tableau, and the first section ends with a small Cheshire Cat Walk maze and the card soldiers caught painting the white roses red.<br />
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Guests who want a shorter visit can leave at this point. Those who continue enter the second, more challenging half: the Queen of Hearts' own maze, as in the film. Here the Queen and her card soldiers pop up among the hedges, and the paths deliberately mislead, with dead ends and confusing signs in the spirit of Wonderland.<br />
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The goal of the whole labyrinth is the Queen of Hearts' Castle, which stands at its centre. Guests who reach it can climb to the top for an aerial view out over Fantasyland — one of the best vantage points in the land. A small slide once offered children a quicker way down from the castle, but it was removed for safety reasons during the park's first year of operation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alice's Curious Labyrinth |url=https://disneyparks.fandom.com/wiki/Alice%27s_Curious_Labyrinth |website=Disney Parks Wiki |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref><br />
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Because there are no vehicles, no height requirement and no set duration, the labyrinth works differently from almost everything around it: families linger, children run ahead and double back, and the hedges keep the noise of Fantasyland at bay a few steps inside.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Alice in Wonderland (ride)]]<br />
* [[Mad Tea Party]]<br />
* [[Fantasyland]]<br />
* [[Disneyland Park (Paris)]]<br />
* [[Disneyland Paris]]<br />
* [[Shanghai Disneyland]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Attractions]]<br />
[[Category:Disneyland Paris]]<br />
[[Category:Walk-through attractions]]</div>Admin