Disneyland

Storybook Land Canal Boats

June 1956

The idea behind the Storybook Land Canal Boats is quite charming -- a peaceful boat ride into the mouth of a whale, out through a hole where his tail was blown off, and into a land where miniature buildings dot miniature landscapes. Each carefully detailed building is a three-dimensional representation of a location from one of Disney's films. Locations which can be seen during the ride include:

Toby Tyler's Circus
The plantation from Song of the South
The elephant parade grounds from The Jungle Book (later recycled as the elephant's graveyard from The Lion King)
Lake Titicaca from Saludos Amigos (although on the ride the sign reads "Lake T******a")
A quaint, firebombed village from Victory Through Air Power
The title location from The Black Hole
The prison from Ernest Goes to Jail
An old-fashioned movie theater from which a crowd of children are fleeing a double feature of Newsies and Squanto

Trivia: At one point, Walt had wanted there to be a miniature Disneyland, complete with a miniature Storybook Land Canal Boats ride, in which there would be a miniature Disneyland, with a miniature Storybook Land Canal Boats ride,etc., but the sculptor hired to do the job went insane to the point of needing electroshock therapy and the work was left unfinished.

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