It's a Small World
| It's a Small World | |
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It's a Small World at Disneyland in 1983
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| Disneyland | |
| Area | Fantasyland |
| Coordinates | 33°48′53″N 117°55′04″W / 33.8147°N 117.9178°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | May 28, 1966 |
| Website | Official website |
| Magic Kingdom | |
| Area | Fantasyland |
| Coordinates | 28°25′15″N 81°34′55″W / 28.4208°N 81.5820°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | October 1, 1971 |
| Website | Official website |
 FastPass+ available |
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| Tokyo Disneyland | |
| Area | Fantasyland |
| Coordinates | 35°37′49″N 139°52′52″E / 35.6304°N 139.8812°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | April 15, 1983 |
| Website | Official website |
| Disneyland Park (Paris) | |
| Area | Fantasyland |
| Coordinates | 48°52′31″N 2°46′34″E / 48.8753°N 2.7761°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | April 12, 1992 |
| Website | Official website |
| Hong Kong Disneyland | |
| Area | Fantasyland |
| Coordinates | 22°18′49″N 114°02′21″E / 22.3137°N 114.0391°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | April 28, 2008 |
| Website | Official website |
| 1964 New York World's Fair | |
| Status | Relocated to Disneyland |
| Opening date | April 22, 1964 |
| Closing date | October 17, 1965 |
| General statistics | |
| Attraction type | Old Mill |
| Designer | WED Enterprises/Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Theme | World peace and unity |
| Music | "It's a Small World (After All)", written by the Sherman Brothers |
| Vehicle type | Boats |
| Riders per vehicle | 16 |
| Rows | 4 |
| Riders per row | 4 |
| Duration | 12–15 minutes |
| Propulsion method | Water jets, electric turbine |
| Number of lifts | 0 |
 Wheelchair accessible |
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It's a Small World (currently styled it's a small world) is a water-based dark ride located in the Fantasyland area at each of the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts worldwide: Disneyland Park in California, the Magic Kingdom in Florida, Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland. The ride features over 300 audio-animatronic dolls in traditional costumes from cultures around the world, frolicking in a spirit of international unity and singing the attraction's title song, which has a theme of global peace.
Fabricated at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank as Children of the World, it was created by WED Enterprises, then shipped to the 1964 New York World's Fair's UNICEF pavilion, sponsored by Pepsi, where it featured at its entrance a kinetic sculpture, The Tower of the Four Winds, a 120-foot perpetually spinning mobile created by WED designer Rolly Crump. It was added to four attractions — Magic Skyway (Ford), Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln (Illinois), The Carousel of Progress (General Electric), and CircleVision 360 (Kodak)—already under development, which were used by Disney to sponsor, fund, and test concepts and develop ride systems and innovative entertainment intended to be moved and re-built at Disneyland after the World's Fair closed in 1966.
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