Peter Pan ride at Disneyland is being redesigned to eliminate clichés
Insensitive racial stereotypes and caricatures of indigenous peoples will be removed from Disneyland’s Peter Pan ride and replaced with another scene featuring the Neverland Tribe, park officials said.
The change to Peter Pan’s Flight in Fantasyland is in line with a recent upgrade to its sister attraction at the Magic Kingdom in Florida.
According to Disneyland officials, this is the latest in a series of updates aimed at keeping the park’s attractions “authentic, relatable and relevant.”
A disclaimer on Disney+ for the 1953 animated film “Peter Pan” points out the negative and hurtful portrayal of indigenous people.
“These stereotypes were wrong then and they are wrong today,” the disclaimer states.
The new Never Land Tribe scene in “Peter Pan’s Flight” at the Magic Kingdom theme park near Orlando, Florida, features a harvest festival with animatronic figures of Tiger Lily and her great-grandmother on a spinning turntable, according to Attractions Magazine.
“The change in Orlando is intended to give Tiger Lily more power while also portraying the other members of the tribe with a dignity that was missing in the previous version of the scene,” said Theme Park Insider.
The scene to be replaced shows tribe members sitting around a campfire, the chief with his arms crossed in front of his chest.
“Peter Pan’s Flight” was an opening attraction at the Anaheim theme park in 1955.
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