My friends tempted me onto it, and while I was leaning over the inside edge, trying to see the arms raise and lower us, with my foot on the edge of the door (well.sort of way over) and my friend was raising us up and down like wild, then before you knew it, my foot slipped off the edge (sort of shot out into space!) and at that exact moment my penny loafer flew off, and like it had eyes, fell into the space where the gears were visible! I thought to myself, “That's not going to end well,” and my dad says when he saw a shoe flying through the air he had a bad feeling (I’ve always had weird shoe luck!). My 11th birthday party was the one and only time I'd ever been on Dumbo. I have often parted company with my shoes in various ways. Poor Dumbo, I don’t blame him it wasn’t his was probably mine. At the 1992 Disneyana convention, one of the original ride vehicles sold for $16,000. A circa 1915 band organ occasionally provides background music, capable of being heard more than a mile away it is operated at only a fraction of its potential. At this time, Timothy Mouse’s training whip was changed to a “magic” feather (it was changed back to the whip in 2005). Fortunately, a sixteen-arm Dumbo was simultaneously being readied for the EuroDisney project, so it was purchased by Disneyland and another Dumbo was put on fast-track production for Paris. Due to the potential for future arm failures caused by age and fatigue, the ride was removed. When it dropped, the ear hit the load platform and broke off and the guests inside that particular Dumbo suffered minor injuries.
In 1990, a few years after the Fantasyland 1983 remodel, there was a malfunction which caused one of the arms to fail.
Timothy Mouse was added to the top the central hub in 1957. During his 1957 visit, Democratic President Harry S Truman turned down Dumbo since elephants are the symbol of the Republican Party. Chris Mueller Jr., created new casts with no hinges for movement of the ears. The original sculptor was Rudolph Parducci.
The original Dumbos’ ears moved, which quickly caused a number of mechanical problems. Disney objected, not wanting Disneyland’s guests to ride vehicles themed to a hallucination and ordered them painted gray. The working title of the attraction was “10 Pink Elephants On Parade” and the elephants were pink on installation. Originally built with ten ride vehicles which were intended to represent the alcohol-induced “pink elephants” scene from the film. The ride itself rotates counterclockwise at a constant rate. Guests maneuver Dumbo up & down with a joystick. BACKSTORY (August 1955-Present): Based on the character from the 1941 animated feature, the sixteen ride vehicles are each shaped like Dumbo and mounted on articulated armatures connected to a rotating hub.
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