Sit back and let your childhood memories take you for a peaceful cruise through Storybook Land, where the pages of the most famous storybook tales, from 'Peter and the Wolf' to 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty and the Beast', have been brought to life in a series of intricate miniature worlds.

Fun Facts

Le Pays de Contes de Fées pays tribute to some of Disney's often overlooked fairytale interpretations, offering a good guessing game to guests as they to name some of the more obscure scenes such as Return to Oz (The Wizard of Oz), Night on Bald Mountain (Fantasia) and Peter and the Wolf.  As your boat floats past each scene, instrumental excerpts from the famous soundtracks echo through the air.

All 20 canal boats are chained together and pulled through the canal using underwater turntables at each corner of the course.  Like many of Disney's waterways, dye has been added to hide the underwater winch systems in the surprisingly shallow canal.

Storybook Land features some of the park's most intricate and extravagant landscaping, with miniature fields, trees, beaches, snow, mountains and castles all mixing together in harmony.

History

Based on the 1955 Storybook Land Canal Boats at Disneyland in California, Le Pays des Contes de Fées features several enhancements and tweaks to suit its new location and times.  Rather than have guests guided by a Cast Member in the style of The Jungle Cruise, tethered boats guide guests slowly around the course, with music and images telling the story.  The miniatures are now far more detailed and the integration with Casey Jr. - Le Petit Train du Cirque above far grander.

The Paris attraction references more modern or often overlooked Disney tales, and especially those with a European setting.  Whilst guests in California enter the mouth of Monstro the Whale, guests in Paris enter the Cave of Wonders from Aladdin.  The boats themselves are similar in style, yet expanded to match nearer the dimensions of those from "it's a small world".

The attraction was added in 1994 as part of a rapid expansion programme to greatly increase the park's attraction capacity whilst keeping inside a workable budget.

Many of the scenes and scenery of the attraction were created by a French company later tasked with scenic work for Toon Studio in Walt Disney Studios Park.