==Attraction History==
Like many of Walt Disney World's opening day attractions, the history of Peter Pan's Flight began in the early 1950s as an idea for a Disneyland attraction. In 1964 Disney artist Herb Ryman created concept art for some of the attraction's major scenes. These included the Mermaid Lagoon scene, as well as a large rainbow that was never used. <ref name= "avenue"> http://www.disneyavenue.com/2014/07/making-of-peter-pans-flight.html </ref> In August 1954, Imagineer Marvin Davis completed a design for the "Peter Pan Fly Thru", which now included scenes showing Hangman's Tree and Crocodile Creek. This ride plan also had guests flying through openings in the face of Skull Rock. <ref name="walt" > http://www.waltdisney.org/sites/default/files/Pan_2.jpg </ref>. Of note is the fact that in both Davis and Ryman's plans, the ships moved counterclockwise. This is the opposite direction that the ships would move when the ride was actually constructed <ref name= "avenue"/>.
Although Peter Pan's Flight was not an opening day attraction in Walt Disney World's Fantasyland, it did open two days later on October 3, 1971. The Besides coming up with the ride was an expanded version of Disneyland's Peter Pan attraction which had opened in 1955. Unlike other dark rides, Peter Pan's Flight let guests "fly". To give guests this feelinggeneral layout, Imagineer Marvin Davis came up with a new was also responsible for the unique ride systemthat the attraction used. Instead of having the vehicles run on a ground track, the ride vehicles are connected by a large rod to a track on the ceiling. The original Disneyland version of the ride was made so that guests would see the story of Peter PanBy late 1954, through his eyes. Because of this, Peter Pan himself was nowhere to be seen on the attraction. Guests would board a test track and ride vehicles mockup were created by Bob Mattey and go through the story as if they were Peter Pan. Despite other Imagineers best efforts, many guests did not understand in the rides premise, and they were confused as to why Peter Pan was not in an attraction which was named after himSpecial Effects shop building at the Walt Disney Studio <ref name= "walt"/.
When Walt Disney World was originally being designedIn early 1955, there Imagineers and artists Ken Anderson and Claude Coats were no plans charged with painting the attraction. According to Anderson" {{Quotation| There wasn't time for a lot of preliminary planning, we just went in there and did them! We had already done the feature films, so the look, the story, even the key scenes were already thought out. We knew the theme and we knew how much space we had, so we just started in<ref name= "walt"/>.}} Peter Pan attraction 's Flight opened in Disneyland on July 17, 1955 <ref name= "allears"> http://allears.net/tp/mk/pan.htm </ref>. Although very popular, initially Disney did not want to be builtcreate a version of the attraction for the unbuilt Walt Disney World. Instead, the attraction would have been was to be replaced by a Mary Poppins ride that took guests “flying” through various scenes from the movie. Eventually however, due to either the coast cost of creating the new attraction, or guest expectations for a similar Fantasyland, it was decided to include an expanded version of Disneyland's Peter Pan's Flight in Walt Disney World. Although With this task in mind, in February 1971 Imagineers Bill Justice and Bill Martin completed drawings for the basic idea Magic Kingdom version of the attraction <ref name= "walt"/>. Unlike the original Disneyland version of the attraction where guests flying played the role of Peter Pan, i Walt Disney World's version of the attraction guests flew over various scenes from the movie. To this end, Audio Animatronics of Peter Pan was kept intact, the storyline was changedLost Boys, so that it included Peter Pan as a main charactervarious Pirates and Indians. Other changes Scenes featuring: Wendy reading to the attraction included boys in the addition of Audio Animatronicsnursery, which were not present Indians in the Disneyland version of the attraction. Scenes depicting Peter fighting with their camp, and a climatic duel between Captain Hook (aboard his 48 foot long ship) and then Peter celebrating with the Darling children Pan were also all added to the Disney World versionattraction. The final difference between Also added to the two attractions Florida version was Captain Hook's 48 foot pirate shop where the way that guests loaded into their ride vehiclesduel takes place <ref name= "walt"/>. Instead of stopping the ride vehicles to load and unload guests, Peter Pan's Flight in Disney World uses an Omnimover systemeventually opened on October 3, similar to 1971, two days after the one used in the [[Haunted Mansion]]Magic Kingdom's grand opening <ref name= "allears"/.
[[Image:Peterconstruction.jpg|thumb|300px|A Disney Imagineer working on the Tick-Tok Crocodile and Michael Audio Animatronics.]]
