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Silly Symphony Swings

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name	Silly Symphony Swings
logo
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image	Silly Symphony Swings.jpg
imagedimensions	250px
caption	View of the attraction as seen from Paradise Park
location	Disney California Adventure
section	Paradise Pier (2010-2018)
Paradise Gardens Park (2018-present)
status	Operating
soft_opened
opened
replacement
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type	Wave Swinger
manufacturer	Zierer
designer	Walt Disney Imagineering
theme
music	William Tell Overture
height_ft	40
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vehicle_type	Chairs
vehicles	48
riders_per_vehicle	1
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duration	1:30
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restriction_in	40
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single_rider	available
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custom_label_1	Previously known as
custom_value_1	Orange Stinger (2001–2009)

Paradise Gardens Park (2018-present) | speed_km/h = Silly Symphony Swings is a wave swinger attraction in Paradise Gardens Park at the Disneyland Resort in California. Themed to Disney's 1935 short film The Band Concert, Mickey Mouse conducts from high atop the attraction, synchronized with the music. Although The Band Concert was not part of the Silly Symphony film series, the name was applied to the attraction as a result of its symphony storyline. Closely following the plot of The Band Concert the main column of the ride rises, revealing a tornado which spins the riders to the tune of the William Tell Overture and William Tell's "Storm". Once the tornado safely passes, the music comes to an end and the ride slows and lowers riders to the ground. The Silly Symphony Swings update was part of the multi-year, $1.1 billion (US) expansion plan for Disney's California Adventure Park. Previews of the attraction were offered at California Adventure's Walt Disney Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar.

The attraction soft-opened on May 28, 2010, an official grand opening on June 11, 2010.

Previous attraction history

The Orange Stinger, the predecessor of Silly Symphony Swings, is a Zierer Wave Swinger enclosed in a large orange themed as bees. The ride opened to the public on February 8, 2001, and operated until August 14, 2009. Riders swung on suspended seats inside the enclosure which offered views of nearby Paradise Pier and Paradise Bay through large openings in the walls. These openings were made to look like peeled sections of an orange peel. The original bumblebee seats were removed on February 10, 2001, due to damage during use. After removal, the seats were unthemed swing seats. Initially an orange scent effect was introduced into the attraction giving it the smell of a "real" orange, but was later removed because it attracted real bees.

The giant orange was a tribute to the orange fields that Disneyland was built on, as well as Orange County, where the Disneyland Resort is located.

References

"Silly Symphony Swings".
"The Encyclopedia of Disney animated shorts". Index - B.
(17 July 2014). "2007-2012 California Adventure Expansion and Renovation".
"Silly Symphony Swings Grand Opening". MouseInfo.com.
"Orange Stinger - Yesterland".

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