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'''Fantasyland''' is one of the five original lands of [[Disneyland Park]] at the [[Disneyland Resort]] in Anaheim, California, opened with the park on July 17, 1955. It occupies the northern side of the Central Plaza, entered through Sleeping Beauty Castle, the park's icon, and it gathers attractions drawn from Disney's animated fairy tales and family films. In his dedication Walt Disney addressed the land to the young and the young at heart, and to those who believe that wishing on a star makes dreams come true. Fantasyland holds more attractions than any other land in the park, most of them the small-scale dark rides that became a Disney signature.

== The 1955 land ==
The original Fantasyland was dressed as a medieval tournament fair, its ride entrances fronted by brightly coloured tents and heraldic banners — a treatment adopted largely because time and money ran short before opening day. Even so, its opening line-up contained attractions that still operate. Peter Pan's Flight sent guests in suspended galleons over London and Never Land; Mr. Toad's Wild Ride raced motorcars through the story of ''The Wind in the Willows''; and Snow White's Adventures retold the studio's first animated feature, to the confusion of some early riders because Snow White herself did not appear in it — the ride was designed so that guests saw events from her viewpoint. Around them stood the King Arthur Carrousel, a machine built in 1922 and brought from a park in Toronto, its horses all jumpers; Dumbo the Flying Elephant; the Mad Tea Party; Casey Jr. Circus Train; and the Storybook Land Canal Boats, which cruise past miniature settings from the films.

Two landmarks arrived soon after. The Matterhorn, a 147-foot replica of the Swiss peak containing the Matterhorn Bobsleds, opened in 1959 as the world's first tubular steel roller coaster; it straddles the boundary with [[Tomorrowland (Disneyland)|Tomorrowland]] and is generally counted a Fantasyland attraction. [[It's a small world|"it's a small world"]] opened in 1966 after its debut at the 1964 New York World's Fair, its facade of stylised landmarks standing at the land's northern end. Alice in Wonderland, a dark ride unique to Disneyland, had joined the land in 1958, and the Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough, a series of story dioramas inside the castle, dates in its first form to 1957.

== New Fantasyland, 1983 ==
In 1982 the courtyard portion of the land closed for the largest reworking in its history. The tournament tents were replaced by a storybook village of modelled facades, each ride building redesigned to evoke its film's setting — Toad Hall for Mr. Toad, a Bavarian street for the new Pinocchio's Daring Journey, which opened with the rebuilt land. The King Arthur Carrousel was moved back from the castle to open up the courtyard, Dumbo was relocated, and the Mad Tea Party was shifted beside Alice in Wonderland. The redesigned land, promoted as New Fantasyland, was dedicated on May 25, 1983; for the ceremony the castle drawbridge — a working drawbridge — was lowered for only the second time, the first having been on opening day in 1955.

== Later changes ==
A stage and dining area at the land's western edge has passed through several identities, from the Fantasyland Theatre to the Princess Fantasy Faire and, since 2013, Fantasy Faire, a village square for meeting the Disney princesses, adjoining the Royal Theatre. Snow White's ride was reworked in 2021 as Snow White's Enchanted Wish, softening the frightening emphasis of its earlier versions, and Peter Pan's Flight received updated effects in later refurbishments. The land's edges meet Frontierland along the Big Thunder Trail and Mickey's Toontown, which opened in 1993 behind Fantasyland's northern boundary.

== See also ==
* [[Disneyland Park]]
* [[It's a small world]]
* [[Main Street, U.S.A. (Disneyland)]]
* [[Tomorrowland (Disneyland)]]

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