Fairy Tale Forest
| Fairy Tale Forest | |
|---|---|
| Park | Hong Kong Disneyland |
| Land / area | Fantasyland |
| Type | Walk-through garden |
| Opened | December 17, 2015 |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering
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| Status | Operating |
Fairy Tale Forest is a walk-through garden in Fantasyland at Hong Kong Disneyland, on Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Presented by Pandora, it is laid out as a winding, living storybook: a landscaped maze of paths connecting miniature, animated scenes from five Disney fairy-tale films — Tangled, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and The Little Mermaid. It opened on December 17, 2015, as part of the park's tenth-anniversary celebrations, and it also contains Pixie Hollow, where guests can meet Tinker Bell.[1]
History
Hong Kong Disneyland opened in 2005 with a compact Fantasyland, and the plot behind Mickey's PhilharMagic, next to the Fantasyland station of the Disneyland Railroad, long remained open grassland. Construction fencing went up around the site in August 2014 as an earlier Pixie Hollow setting was moved closer to Adventureland to clear the ground.[2] The garden took more than two years to design and build, according to Kelly Willis, director of creative development and show quality at Walt Disney Imagineering, who described it at the announcement as an intricately designed maze set in a beautiful garden, presenting scenes and music from the five fairy tales.[3]
Fairy Tale Forest opened on December 17, 2015, in the middle of the park's "Happily Ever After" tenth-anniversary year, with the jewellery company Pandora as presenting sponsor — the attraction is billed in full as "Fairy Tale Forest – presented by PANDORA".[4] It remains unique to Hong Kong Disneyland among the Disney parks.
Experience
Each of the five tales is given its own garden, and each garden is built around the same three interactive devices. An open storybook on a pedestal introduces the scene; a bronze crank beside it sets the miniature scene in motion; and a music box plays a song from the film while a small diorama performs inside it. Framed photo spots are placed at the best view of each scene.[5]
The walk begins in the Garden of Tangled, where Rapunzel's tower rises from a cliff with a waterfall, among purple flowers. Turning the crank raises Rapunzel at her window, hauling up her long braid — with Flynn Rider tangled in it — before she lets him drop. Its music box plays "I See the Light" over the lantern-lit boat scene. Next, the Garden of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sets the Dwarfs' Mine into a fern-filled mountainside: the crank sends Dopey out in a jewel-laden mine cart, across a bridge and through the mountain, while the music box performs "Heigh-Ho" with the other six dwarfs at work among the gems.[6]
In Belle's Rose Garden, a rose mosaic marks the viewpoint for the Beast's Castle on its snow-dusted mountain; the crank rotates the castle's ballroom to reveal Belle and the Beast waltzing to "Beauty and the Beast", and the music box stages "Be Our Guest" with Lumière conducting the enchanted household. Cinderella's Forecourt Gardens, hedged like castle walls, hold a shimmering blue castle whose clock hands sweep to midnight at the turn of the crank, chiming as the drawbridge closes; its music box, topped by a pumpkin coach, plays "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" over Cinderella's transformation. The final garden, for The Little Mermaid, is a seashell-lined shore beneath Prince Eric's Castle, where the crank parts a willow to reveal Ariel and Eric in their rowboat to "Kiss the Girl", and a second scene parts a waterfall to show King Triton's Atlantica while Sebastian conducts "Under the Sea".[7]
Woven through the gardens is Pixie Hollow, an oversized thicket of mushrooms and clover where Tinker Bell greets guests at fairy scale. With no vehicles, no queue and no set times, the Forest is one of the park's calmest corners, and its scenes are lit after dark.
See also
- Hong Kong Disneyland
- Hong Kong Disneyland Resort
- Storybook Land Canal Boats
- List of Hong Kong Disneyland attractions
References
- ↑ Fairy Tale Forest. Disney Wiki. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Fairy Tale Forest. Disney Wiki. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ 8 Reasons To Celebrate Hong Kong Disneyland 10th Anniversary. AspirantSG. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Fairy Tale Forest – presented by PANDORA. Thrill-Data. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Fairy Tale Forest. Disney Wiki. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Fairy Tale Forest. Disney Wiki. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Fairy Tale Forest. Disney Wiki. Retrieved 2026-11-14.