The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure
| The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel's Undersea Adventure | |
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The entrance for The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel's Undersea Adventure at Disney California Adventure.
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| Disney California Adventure | |
| Area | Paradise Pier |
| Coordinates | 33°48′21″N 117°55′19″W / 33.8058064°N 117.9220354°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Soft opening date | May 26, 2011 |
| Opening date | June 3, 2011 |
| Replaced | Golden Dreams |
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| Name | Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid |
| Area | Fantasyland |
| Coordinates | 28°25′10″N 81°34′45″W / 28.4194705°N 81.5792776°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Soft opening date | October 12, 2012 |
| Opening date | December 6, 2012 |
| General statistics | |
| Attraction type | Dark ride |
| Manufacturer | Sansei Yusoki |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Theme | The Little Mermaid |
| Music |
Alan Menken (music) Howard Ashman (lyrics) Danny Troob (transitional and queue arrangements) |
| Length | 624 ft (190 m) |
| Vehicle type | Omnimover |
| Riders per vehicle | 2 to 3 |
| Duration | 6:15 |
 FastPass+ available |
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 Wheelchair accessible |
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 Assistive listening available |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure (stylized The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel's Undersea Adventure) is a dark ride attraction based on the 1989 Disney animated film The Little Mermaid, located in Paradise Pier at Disney California Adventure and in Fantasyland at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, where it is titled Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid (stylized Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid). The ride opened on June 3, 2011 at Disney California Adventure, and on December 6, 2012 at Magic Kingdom.
In the early-to-mid-1990s, Walt Disney Imagineering attempted to develop a Little Mermaid dark ride for Disneyland Paris and Magic Kingdom parks. Early plans for Tokyo DisneySea and Hong Kong Disneyland also included this ride. None of these versions were actually built, although a computer-generated ride-through animatic was included on the Platinum Edition DVD of The Little Mermaid in 2006.
Disney later went on to design and build a different version of the attraction for Disney California Adventure, as part of an effort to revitalize that park in the 2000s. The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure opened on June 3, 2011 in an area of Paradise Pier formerly occupied by Golden Dreams.
In September 2009, Disney announced that Mickey's Toontown Fair at the Magic Kingdom would be demolished to make room for an expansion of Fantasyland. One of the new elements would be a Little Mermaid dark ride, much like the one slated for construction in California. Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid opened on December 6, 2012.
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