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Swiss Family Treehouse- November 18, 1962 to March 8, 1999
Lost Disneyland Attractions
Oh holy crap!
It's been awhile since I talked about Lost attractions!
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Swiss Family Treehouse is an attraction that features at several Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. The remaining versions based on the original are located at Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland and at Disneyland Park in Disneyland Paris. The walk-through attraction is centered on a giant treehouse where everyone can hear and see various scenes based on the Disney film Swiss Family Robinson.
Now I'm one of those people who never seen Swiss Faimily Robinson and I missed my chance when it aired on TCM "Treasures from the Disney Vault." Dang it, but replacing it with an another jungle movie because of its popularity is a new low Disney...just like "Finding Nemo" replacing 20000 Leagues Under the Sea Ride in Disney.
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Anyway, The Swiss Family Treehouse opened November 18, 1962 in Adventureland at Disneyland, two years after the Disney film Swiss Family Robinson (1960). Imagineer Bill Martin worked out the treehouse's design; he was one of the original team gathered to create Disneyland, and the art director of Fantasyland. Disney animator Wolfgang Reitherman, who designed the treehouse for the movie, contributed. At 70 feet tall and 80 feet wide, constructed of concrete and reinforced steel, the attraction weighed 150 tons. John Mills, who played Father Robinson in the movie, and his daughter Hayley appeared at the attraction's opening. The attraction was a walk-through rather than a ride, in which visitors walked up steps in the trunk of the tree through various "rooms" designed on the theme of the movie, with items and structures made to appear salvaged from a 19th-century shipwreck and desert island finds. When it opened, the attraction required a C ticket. The attraction originally opened with reddish brown leaves. However, the red leaves faded very easily in the sun and were eventually switched to green leaves sometime during the early 1960's.
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In March 1999, the original attraction at Disneyland was closed. Refurbished and remodeled on a new theme, it reopened in June the same year as Tarzan's Treehouse.
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When the Magic Kingdom opened at Walt Disney World Resort on October 1, 1971, the Swiss Family Treehouse was one of the original attractions of Adventureland. The tree, while intended to look real, is actually made up of steel, concrete, and stucco, stretching 60 feet tall and 90 feet wide.
Similarly, when Euro Disneyland (now Disneyland Park) opened on April 12, 1992, it featured a version of the attraction located in Adventureland, named La Cabane des Robinson.
Tokyo Disneyland also has a Swiss Family Treehouse which opened in 1993, ten years after the park's debut.
Remember though, until an official announcement comes directly from Disney...things are always possible of changing.
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