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<!--INDIVIDUAL PARK STATISTICS-->
| location = Disneyland
| location2 = Magic Kingdom
| location3 = Tokyo Disneyland
| location4 = Disneyland Park (Paris)
| location5 = Hong Kong Disneyland
| location6 = Shanghai Disneyland
| altname3 = 空飛ぶダンボ{{in lang|ja}}
| altname5 = {{zh|s=小飛象旋轉世界|labels=no}}
| altname6 = {{zh|s=小飞象|labels=no}}
| section = [[Fantasyland]]
| section2 = [[Fantasyland]]<br /> (Storybook Circus)
| section3 = [[Fantasyland]]
| section4 = [[Fantasyland]]
| section5 = [[Fantasyland#Hong Kong Disneyland|Fantasyland]]
| section6 = [[Gardens of Imagination]]
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| status = Operating
| status2 = Operating
| status3 = Operating
| status4 = Operating
| status5 = Operating
| status6 = Operating
| cost =
| soft_opened =
| opened = August 16, 1955
 
| location2 = Magic Kingdom
| section2 = [[Fantasyland]] (Storybook Circus; 2012–present)
| coordinates2 = {{coord|28.42036|N|81.5810|W|region:US-FL_type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline}}
| status2 = Operating
| cost2 =
| soft_opened2 = March 12, 2012 {{small|(relocation)}}
| opened2 = October 1, 1971 {{small|(original)}}<br>March 21, 2012 {{small|(relocation)}}
 
| location3 = Tokyo Disneyland
| section3 = [[Fantasyland]]
| altname3 = 空飛ぶダンボ{{in lang|ja}}
| coordinates3 = {{coord|35.63147|N|139.8817|E|region:JP_type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline}}
| status3 = Operating
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| soft_opened2 = March 12, 2012<br />June 22, 2012
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| soft_opened6 = May 7, 2016
| opened = August 16, 1955 (Original)<br />May 23, 1983 (reopening)
| opened2 = October 1, 1971 (Original)<br />December 6, 2012 (reopening)
| opened3 = April 15, 1983
 
| location4 = Disneyland Park (Paris)
| section4 = [[Fantasyland]]
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| status4 = Operating
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| opened4 = April 12, 1992
 
| location5 = Hong Kong Disneyland
| section5 = [[Fantasyland]]
| altname5 = {{zh|s=小飛象旋轉世界|labels=no}}
| coordinates5 = {{coord|22.31236|N|114.0402|E|region:HK_type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline}}
| status5 = Operating
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| opened5 = September 12, 2005
 
| location6 = Shanghai Disneyland
| section6 = [[Gardens of Imagination]]
| altname6 = {{zh|s=小飞象|labels=no}}
| coordinates6 =
| status6 = Operating
| cost6 =
| soft_opened6 = May 7, 2016
| opened6 = June 16, 2016
| closed = 1982 (Original)
| closed2 = January 8, 2012 (Original)
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<!--GENERAL STATISTICS-->
| type = [[Red Baron (ride)|Aerial carousel]]
| manufacturers = [[Arrow Development]] {{small|(Disneyland)}}<br>[[Zamperla]]
| designer = [[Walt Disney Imagineering]]
| model =
| theme = ''[[Dumbo]]''
| music = Compositions by [[Frank Churchill]] and [[Oliver Wallace]], and [[Circus Music]] ([[Magic Kingdom|Florida]] and [[Shanghai Disneyland|Shanghai]])<br />[[Screamer (march)|Whip and Spur & Other Circus Marches]] ([[Disneyland Park (Paris)|Paris]])
| music = From Dumbo Songs to Circus Screamers
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| vehicle_type = Flying Dumbo elephants
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'''Dumbo the Flying Elephant''' is an [[aerial carousel]]-style ride located in [[Fantasyland]] at six Disney theme parks around the world. It is based on theDisney's 1941 animated feature film, ''[[Dumbo]]''. The original attraction opened at [[Disneyland]] on August 16, 1955.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://d23.com/this-day/dumbo-the-flying-elephant-attraction-opens-at-disneyland/|title = Dumbo the Flying Elephant Attraction Opens at Disneyland}}</ref> The fourfive other versions of the attraction were opening-day attractions at their respective parks. It is the only attraction that can be found at all six Disney castle parks worldwide.<ref>[[List of Disney theme park attractions]]</ref>{{Circular reference|date=October 2020}}
 
One elephant from the ride is in the collection of the [[Smithsonian]] [[National Museum of American History]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], donated in 2005, on the occasion of Disneyland's 50th anniversary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Landmark Object: Dumbo the Flying Elephant |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/news/factsheet.cfm?key=30&newskey=712 |work=National Museum of American History |publisher=The Smithsonian Institution |access-date=July 18, 2011 |location=Washington DC |year=2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630185112/http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/news/factsheet.cfm?key=30&newskey=712 |archive-date=June 30, 2011 }}</ref>
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The ride was scheduled to be one of Disneyland's opening-day attractions, but instead opened a month after the park's grand opening, due to flawed prototypes.<ref name=encyc/> For the first two years, the hub of the original Dumbo ride lacked the ball with the Timothy Mouse figure. Also, the original Dumbos has hinged ears that were supposed to flap, but failed, due to a number of mechanical problems.<ref name=encyc/> (Contrary to this, an original Dumbo vehicle with functioning flapping ears was featured in a scene during the first-season opening song to Wednesday's "Anything Can Happen Day" of the original ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club|Mickey Mouse Club]]'' series.) So, the ears remained stationary until sometime between 1963 and 1964, when new Dumbos were given casts with no hinges for movement. The new vehicles also featured eyes with big black pupils instead of small black pupils with blue irises. This lasted until 1998, when it was switched back to the former blue-iris design.
 
During his 1957 visit to Disneyland, former United States President [[Harry S. Truman]] politely declined a ride on Dumbo the Flying Elephant, due to the elephant being a Republican symbol.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dumbo the Flying Elephant Celebrates 55th Anniversary|url=https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/08/dumbo-the-flying-elephant-celebrates-55th-anniversary/|access-date=2020-09-04|website=Disney Parks Blog|language=en-US}}</ref>
 
During the 1970s, the attraction was planned to be expanded and renamed "Dumbo's Circusland" and was displayed in "Disneyland Presents a Preview of Coming Attractions", but was cancelled. The attraction was given another update around April 1978, with the ride's center having a slight redesign, and the color of the elephants' clothing changing to a matching pale 3-color palette.
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In 1990, the attraction was updated with the 16 rainbow-colored vehicles (and Timothy's magic feather) originally intended for installation at [[Disneyland Paris]],<ref name=story>{{cite book |last1=Gennawey |first1=Sam |title=The Disneyland Story: The Unofficial Guide to the Evolution of Walt Disney's Dream |date=2014 |publisher=Keen Communications |isbn=978-1-62809-012-3 |page=284}}</ref> after an incident during which a bracket support broke. The elephants' clothing also changed for the third time to a full 8-color rainbow palette.
 
During the 1992 [[Disneyana]] convention, one of the original ride vehicles sold for US$16,000. Like other remaining 1955 attractions, one of Disneyland's Dumbos was painted gold in honor of the park's [[Happiest Homecoming on Earth|50th anniversary]] in 2005. DuringAround that same time, Timothy's magic feather was replaced by the whip. {{Citation needed|date=May 2007}}
 
At Disneyland, a ''circa'' 1915 [[band organ]] occasionally provides background music for the attraction. This powerful instrument can be heard more than a mile away, so it is rarely played.
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[[Category:Amusement rides introduced in 2016]]
[[Category:Amusement rides manufactured by Arrow Dynamics]]
[[Category:Fictional elephants]]
[[Category:Amusement rides that closed in 2012]]
[[Category:Dumbo]]
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[[Category:Hong Kong Disneyland]]
[[Category:Shanghai Disneyland]]
[[Category:Artifacts in the collectionCollection of the Smithsonian Institution]]
[[Category:Fantasyland]]
[[Category:Gardens of Imagination]]
[[Category:1955 establishments in California]]
[[Category:1983 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:1992 establishments in France]]
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