Storybook Land Canal Boats, Miniature boat ride in Disneyland, US

Storybook Land Canal Boats is a miniature boat ride at Disneyland that takes visitors through artificial waterways lined with small landscapes from animated films. The route winds around replicas of villages, castles, and scenes from different fairy tales.

The attraction opened in 1956 as a replacement for an earlier canal concept that operated for only two months in 1955. The new approach added fairy tale scenes and became part of Fantasyland.

The scenes are accompanied by music and recordings of characters singing, though no characters appear in person. The central north bank is called "The Giant's patchwork quilt", geometric flowerbeds referring to the Silly Symphony Lullaby Land. The miniature buildings are 1/12 scale, and some are models for never-built lands such as Lilliputianland and Land of Oz.

Boats carry 12 passengers, and the ride lasts about 7 minutes. A costumed guide sits at the stern above the engine housing and narrates the trip. Children are sometimes allowed to ride on the flat front part of the boat. The queue winds in front of the loading dock past a lighthouse that once served as a ticket booth.

Each boat carries the name of a female Disney character, except one named after Flower, the male skunk from Bambi. The miniature landscapes require regular pruning to keep the proportions right.