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Peter Pan's Flight

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/* Attraction History */
In early 1955, Imagineers and artists Ken Anderson and Claude Coats were charged with painting the attraction and getting it ready in time for Disneyland's opening day. 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"/>.}}
[[Image:Peterconstruction.jpg|thumb|400px|A Disney Imagineer working on the Tick-Tok Crocodile and Michael figures for Peter Pan's Flight]]
{{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's Flight (as the attraction was eventually named) 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 create a version of the attraction for the unbuilt Walt Disney World. Instead, Peter Pan's Flight was to be replaced by a Mary Poppins ride that took guests “flying” through various scenes from the movie <ref name= "Korkis"> https://www.mouseplanet.com/10436/Mary_Poppins_Fun_Facts </ref>. Eventually however, due to either the cost of creating the new attraction, or guest expectations for a Fantasyland that was similar to Disneyland, it was decided to include an expanded version of Disneyland's Peter Pan's Flight in Walt Disney World <ref name= Korkis/>.