While a castle and carrousel were a given in the Magic Kingdom's Fantasyland the attractions that surrounded them were not.
Imagineering planned for Mary Poppins, Sleepy Hollow and Sleeping Beauty rides but then tragedy struck and everything changed.
A whole team grieving the loss of their leader chose the easier path led by budget conscious Roy reimagining the Disneyland dark rides instead of starting new leaving us to wonder what could have been while accepting what is.
This Fantasyland might not be what it could have been. But that doesn't mean it wasn't exactly what it was meant to be.
Where you are right now might not be what you had hoped for, either but that doesn't mean you aren't exactly where you're meant to be.
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This view could have been different.
While a castle and carrousel
were a given in the Magic Kingdom's Fantasyland the attractions that surrounded them were not.
Imagineering planned for Mary Poppins, Sleepy Hollow and Sleeping Beauty rides but then tragedy struck and everything changed.
A whole team grieving the loss of their leader chose the easier path led by budget conscious Roy
reimagining the Disneyland dark rides instead of starting new leaving us to wonder what could have been while accepting what is.
This Fantasyland might not be what it could have been.
But that doesn't mean it wasn't exactly what it was meant to be.
Where you are right now might not be what you had hoped for, either but that doesn't mean you aren't exactly where you're meant to be.
It's ok to be a land in progress.
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