Disneyland on Friday added two new characters in wheelchairs to its “It’s a Small World” attraction, saying it wanted a “more accurate representation of diversity around the world.”
Damian Dovarganes / AP fileANAHEIM, Calif. — Disneyland on Friday added two new characters in wheelchairs to its iconic “It’s a Small World” attraction, saying it wanted a “more accurate representation of diversity around the world.”The dolls were unveiled on the first day of Disneyland’s Christmas season. Each year, the park adds special holiday decor and Christmas carols to the ride, which opened at the Anaheim park in 1966 after appearing at the 1964-65 World’s Fair in New York.
It took more than six months to design and create the dolls, with collaboration by a Disney unit in charge of park accessibility. The chairs have details such as a push rim “so that the doll would be able to move through the story in a way that I move through the world,” he said, according to CNN.
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