The Pinocchio ride in Dumbo's Circusland

[mharrington]

The themes are what makes Disney so unique for so many years. It isn't just rides, they are stories and experiences grouped by a theme or feeling. Its why Princess and the Frog would feel weird going into Fantasyland despite being a fantasy story and animated.

Some would argue that "The Princess and the Frog" would feel even weirder in Frontierland, where Splash Mountain is found in Florida.

If the land was different, I'm sure the show building and queue would fit the altered theme. The story ending at his home isn't an issue as its the end of the story they are telling. Toad ends in Hell, Pan ends in Neverland, Alice ends at the Tea Party and nobody has minded that the story doesn't transport us back to a medieval courtyard. That's what the unload station is for, a liminal space to transition us from the ride's story to the land again.

I don't know what "liminal" means.

 

[Professortango1]

Some would argue that "The Princess and the Frog" would feel even weirder in Frontierland, where Splash Mountain is found in Florida.



I don't know what "liminal" means.

I agree. I am opposed to Frog Mountain for a variety of reasons. WDW's Splash wasn't a perfect fit for Frontierland to begin with, now with it fits even worse that the mountain will be themed around a mountain in the bayous of LA (an area with no elevation by nature).

Liminal - https://www.google.com/search?q=lim...512j0i512l2.5321j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[mharrington]

Liminal - https://www.google.com/search?q=lim...512j0i512l2.5321j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

If the Pinocchio ride was put in Fantasyland, that would be one thing, and maybe it could be liminal there. But Storybook Circus is different, and everything there should tie back into the circus in some fashion.

 

[Professortango1]

If the Pinocchio ride was put in Fantasyland, that would be one thing, and maybe it could be liminal there. But Storybook Circus is different, and everything there should tie back into the circus in some fashion.

The ride does tie into the circus....he runs away to Pleasure Island.

 

[Dear Prudence]

I would like some information on the never-built Dumbo's Circusland, in particular this one ride themed Pinocchio that would have been built there before that ride ultimately did come into being as part of the Fantasyland overhaul of 1983. I have here a piece of concept art for the ride had it been built in Dumbo's Circusland:

Can anyone explain how it would have been different from the Pinocchio ride that did get built? We know that the ride (the actual ride) ends in Geppetto's village and workshop, but how would that have worked in Dumbo's Circusland?

I have searched everywhere for it online, but found nothing, except for a blurb about how it would have had Stromboli's puppet theater in the queue. In addition, according to David Koenig in his book "Mouse Under Glass", the Pinocchio ride supposedly would have been set in a Pleasure Island-themed subsection of the land. But again, that's all I know. Does anyone else have any other information on this ride in this area?

Just so you know, I had asked around on the Disney History Institute fanpage on Facebook, but either got nothing or musings on the land as a whole, in particular the unrelated Circus Disney attraction. I don't want that. I want information on the Pinocchio ride, if there is any at all.

The problem with a lot of the unauthorized books, though, is the lack of citations. Like this is a great idea, but so many of them....have no receipts to back it up. I haven read this particular one in a while, but I remember others being really bad.