#but i made a nice post for them on cohost and wanted to crosspost here

[owlsong74]

Snow White's Enchanted Wish

Year: 1955 (as Snow White's Adventures)

Remodels: 1983 (into Snow White's Scary Adventures), 2021

Designer: W.E.D. (Walt Disney Imagineering)

Park: Disneyland, California, USA

Dark Ride Database Entry

For most of it's existence, this ride was one showdown after another with the Evil Queen. This veritable witch hunt (in the sense that you are being hunted by the witch) has been scaring park-goers for over 68 years now, albeit with some significant changes over the years. The 1955 version of ride, designed by some of the same artists who worked on the original 1937 movie, included no Snow White (the idea was that the guest was seeing things from her point of view), but did include scenes of woodland creatures, the dwarfs at the mine, and four different appearances from the Evil Queen.

During the New Fantasyland redevelopment in the early 80s, the attraction got a new queue, new figures and backdrops, and new scenes, including one at the beginning featuring the title character. The most recent iteration of the attraction debuted in 2021 and is very toned down in atmosphere, replacing the final third of the attraction to give the ride a happy ending modeled after the movie, removing two witch figures, and making the queue more cheerful.

While, in my opinion, the recent refurbishment to make the ride less scary also made the ride less interesting, the attraction is still full of beautiful black-lit sets, spooky scenes, special effects from across the decades, and something interesting to look at around each corner. It contains elements from all historical versions of the attraction in every park it has opened in, and is still one of the highlights of Disneyland's traditional dark ride collection.

You can find out more about the ride by following this Wayback link to KenNetti's old website tribute. It has sections on every version of the attraction up through the early 2010s including the best article I've found about the 1955 original. The website also has a general Snow White page, and I recommend browsing Ken's home page, as well, for other theme park and horror-related fanpages.

Filmic Light is another blog that archives everything related to Disney's Snow White, including the ride.