Disney Parks shared a full nighttime tour of the new Adventureland Treehouse attraction at Disneyland Park before the attraction’s official opening next week.
Adventureland Treehouse Full Tour
Adventureland Treehouse inspired by Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson will open on November 10, 2023, after Magic Key previews on November 9.
Watch the full tour of Adventureland Treehouse:
Treehouse Attraction History
The treehouse attraction at Disneyland was originally the Swiss Family Treehouse, based on the 1960 film “Swiss Family Robinson.” It opened at Disneyland on November 18, 1962, and was an opening day attraction at Magic Kingdom and Disneyland Paris. It opened at Tokyo Disneyland in 1993 and remains the Swiss Family Treehouse at Magic Kingdom, Disneyland Paris, and Tokyo Disneyland.
Swiss Family Treehouse closed at Disneyland Park in 1999 and reopened as Tarzan’s Treehouse later that year. After another 22 years of operation, it suddenly closed in September 2021. Disney eventually announced in April 2022 that it would be rethemed. There were rumors of an “Encanto” takeover or S.E.A. theming, but Disney finally announced in November 2022 that the treehouse would have its own story, partially inspired by “Swiss Family Robinson.”
While Adventureland Treehouse may not be a fully S.E.A. attraction, there is a Society of Explorers and Adventurers banner in the concept art.
The new attraction’s story revolves around a family living in a treehouse on Jungle River. Each member of the family has their own unique gift and a themed room, featuring found objects and natural resources that they have repurposed for home use, not unlike previous iterations of the treehouse.
The father has created a kitchen where the meals his family enjoys can cook themselves on the stove. He has also managed to build an icebox in the jungle. All of this is possible thanks to the water wheel that brings the “magical” water out of the creek below and into the tree. The water wheel is a returning element of the original attraction.
To make the attraction more accessible for guests unable to climb stairs, or who simply don’t want to go up high, the bottom floor has been expanded. It will include the kitchen, as well as the dining room, and an art studio displaying sketches and paintings of each of the rooms.
The mother is a musician and her room will see the return of the player organ from the Swiss Family Treehouse that will play the Swisskapolka.
The children of this new family are a teenage daughter and two twin boys. The daughter is a gifted astronomer and astrologer, who studies the moon and stars from the treehouse’s loft. Her room will feature graphs and models of the universe that she has put together during her studies.
The twin boys are naturalists, with one loving plants and the other loving animals. Their room will be filled with monkeys, toucans, and other kinds of plants, both man-eating and otherwise.
There will be a moving ostrich figure, which a guest caught on video testing this week.
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