The Alice in Wonderland ride has always been one of my favorites. I loved the movie a lot, and I was constantly crawling into small spaces hoping to fall down a hole and get to run around in Wonderland. The ride is another classic dark ride, so climbing into the caterpillar shaped carts and heading inside is a meant to be just like falling down the rabbit hole.
The film seems to lend itself to this type of ride, with lots of mysterious imagery and figures lurking in the dark. You would think that a ride like this would have scared me silly as a kid, especially the part where you swing dangerously close to the Red Queen as she screams "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!" But because I was such a fan of the film, this ride was easy to get me on. The only slightly unnerving part was the feeling that your caterpillar is going to run off the track at every moment, especially when you are on the leaves up high.
A Glimpse Behind the Magic
I never had a chance to ride this attraction before the refurbishment of Fantasyland (it happened the year I was born) But when they did, they had Kathryn Beaumont record the voice over...which makes me wonder, why did they wait until then to get the girl who actually voiced Alice in the movie to do it? AND Who was doing it before?
What REALLY scares me is the other Alice ride...the Mad Hatter's Tea party. Oh I hate this ride. It seems fun when you get close; the music is cheery and inviting, people are smiling as they stand in line and there are joyful screams coming from the people in the teacups...but its all a lie.
As someone who gets sick on spinning rides, the teacups are my most hated attraction. My brothers and cousins can get on the teacups over and over again but they are definitely not for me. I'm usually game for pretty much anything at Disney, but the Teacups are one place I put my foot down.
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