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{{Infobox attraction
| name = Alice in Wonderland
| park = [[Disneyland Park]]
| land = Fantasyland
| type = Dark ride
| opened = June 14, 1958
| designer = WED Enterprises
| status = Operating
}}

'''Alice in Wonderland''' is a dark ride in Fantasyland at [[Disneyland Park]] in the [[Disneyland Resort]], California. Based on Disney's 1951 animated film of the same name, the ride sends guests in caterpillar-shaped vehicles through scenes from Alice's journey, following the story in loose sequence from the fall down the rabbit hole to the Queen of Hearts' croquet ground and the unbirthday party. It opened on June 14, 1958, and is unique to Disneyland; no other Disney park has a ride-through Alice attraction in this form.

== History ==
An Alice attraction was planned for Disneyland's opening day in 1955, first as a walk-through that would have recreated the film's set pieces as special-effects vignettes. Time and money ran out, the idea was shelved, and its intended space was given over to the Fantasyland Theatre. The concept returned in late 1957, when Claude Coats — who had been a chief art director on the film, alongside Mary Blair — was assigned to design a dark ride version. He was joined by other film veterans including Ken Anderson, Collin Campbell and sculptor Blaine Gibson, while Bob Gurr engineered the ride system built by Arrow Development.

Space was so tight that the ride was stacked on two levels, its upper floor sitting directly above [[Mr. Toad's Wild Ride]] — the only two-storey dark ride in Fantasyland. It opened on June 14, 1958, with a televised ribbon-cutting at which Mouseketeer Karen Pendleton appeared dressed as Alice. Kathryn Beaumont, Alice's voice in the film, recorded narration and dialogue for the attraction.

The original ride relied heavily on painted flats and black-light effects. When Fantasyland was comprehensively rebuilt in 1982–83, Alice in Wonderland closed too, but its redo ran late: it reopened in 1984 with three-dimensional sculpted figures, animation and a reworked finale. In 2014 the ride closed for several months to receive digital projection effects, new animation and updated figures, and safety work on the outdoor track section. Years earlier, in 2010, state safety regulators had required temporary handrails along that exposed upper-level track, and the permanent fix formed part of the later refurbishment.

== Experience ==
Guests board caterpillar vehicles — among the longest of the Fantasyland dark ride cars, seating four — and descend into the rabbit hole. The ride passes the White Rabbit's house, the Caterpillar on his mushroom, the Cheshire Cat, the garden of live flowers, the Tulgey Wood and the Queen of Hearts' croquet match, where card soldiers and the Queen herself appear. The vehicle then climbs to the second level and emerges outdoors, travelling along a leaf-lined elevated track — the ride's signature open-air section — before descending past the Mad Hatter and March Hare's unbirthday party and a final encounter with the Cheshire Cat's grin.

The attraction sits beside the [[Mad Tea Party]], which is drawn from the same film's unbirthday sequence, making this corner of Fantasyland a double bill for a film Walt Disney himself publicly described as a disappointment on its first release.

== See also ==
* [[Mad Tea Party]]
* [[Mr. Toad's Wild Ride]]
* [[Disneyland Park]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Attractions]]
[[Category:Disneyland Park]]
[[Category:Fantasyland]]
[[Category:Dark rides]]
[[Category:1958 establishments in California]]

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