Swiss Family Treehouse
attraction at Disney theme parks
Swiss Family Treehouse is a walk-through attraction featured at Magic Kingdom, Disneyland Park (Paris). It was formerly located at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland. The attraction is centered on a large treehouse based on the 1960 Disney film Swiss Family Robinson.
History
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; Disney animator Wolfgang Reitherman, who designed the treehouse for the movie, contributed. At 70 feet (21 m) tall and 80 ft (24 m) wide, constructed of concrete and reinforced steel, the attraction weighed 150 short tons (140 t). The tree species was dubbed "Disneyodendron semperflorens grandis -- large, everblooming Disney tree."
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 68 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.
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