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| rdfs:label | - The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure
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| rdfs:comment | - The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure is a dark ride at Disney's California Adventure that opened on June 3, 2011. It is based on the Little Mermaid classic. The attraction recently opened under the name Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid as part of Magic Kingdom's 2012 New Fantasyland expansion.
- A dark ride based on The Little Mermaid was supposed to open at the Disneyland Paris and Magic Kingdom parks in the early to mid 1990's. Early plans for Tokyo DisneySea and Hong Kong Disneyland also included this ride. The ride was scrapped, but a virtual recreation was included on the Platinum Edition DVD of The Little Mermaid in 2006.
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| Theme | - The Little Mermaid
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| Name | - The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure
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| abstract | - The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure is a dark ride at Disney's California Adventure that opened on June 3, 2011. It is based on the Little Mermaid classic. The attraction recently opened under the name Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid as part of Magic Kingdom's 2012 New Fantasyland expansion.
- A dark ride based on The Little Mermaid was supposed to open at the Disneyland Paris and Magic Kingdom parks in the early to mid 1990's. Early plans for Tokyo DisneySea and Hong Kong Disneyland also included this ride. The ride was scrapped, but a virtual recreation was included on the Platinum Edition DVD of The Little Mermaid in 2006. A different version opened on June 3, 2011 at Disney California Adventure. The ride building is located on the site that was previously occupied by the theater that played host to the Golden Dreams movie hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. The theater itself was torn down. The restrooms nearby were relocated across the way to the San Francisco buildings, due to their previous location being torn down to make room for the ride's show building. In September 2009, Disney officials announced that Mickey's Toontown Fair at the Magic Kingdom would be demolished to make way for a huge expansion of Fantasyland, which was planned to include a copy of this ride. This expansion would also fill the space left behind when 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage was demolished. WDW's Little Mermaid attraction has been built in the space that the show building for the submarines previously occupied, even incorporating some of the walls left behind from the demolition. The Magic Kingdom incarnation features two nods to the previous attraction, with the Nautilus being included amongst the rockwork in the exterior queue and the song "A Whale of a Tale" being included in the queue's music loop. Since the attraction opened in California, several modifications took place. These included changing the projection screen scenes from CGI to hand-drawn animated segments. The hair for the Ariel animatronic in the Under the Sea sequence was also redone after various criticisms compared it to "an ice cream swirl" or "Dole Whip hair" (named for the confectionary sold outside Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room across the way) and instead her hair is now down and swaying in the current. These changes were completed May 4, 2012. On March 20, 2014, the attraction in California closed for an extended refurbishment. It reopened May 10, 2014 with several new enhancements. New sea creature figures were added throughout the ride, a view of King Triton's castle was added, the "Under the Sea" scene was converted to a blacklight scene and the Ariel and Prince Eric figures in the Kiss the Girl" and "Finale" scenes were given real hair.
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