Walt Disney was supposed to make his first filmAlice which was supposed to starMary Pickford as Alice, but he chose not to do the film and instead didSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). However, the idea was eventually revived in the 1940s, following the success ofSnow White. The film was originally intended to be alive-action/animated film, but Disney decided it would be a fully animated feature film. During its production, many sequences adapted from Carroll's books were later omitted, such asJabberwocky, theWhite Knight, theDuchess,Mock Turtle and theGryphon.
Alice in Wonderland premiered at theLeicester Square Theatre in London on July 26, 1951, and was released in New York City on July 28. The film was also shown on television as one of the first episodes ofDisneyland. It was initially considered abox-office bomb, grossing $2.4 million domestically, and received negative reviews from critics. However, its 1974 theatrical re-release achieved greater success, leading to additional reissues, merchandising, and home video releases as critical reception improved over time.
On 4 May, 1865, in a park inOxford,England, a young girl namedAlice listens distractedly to her sister's history lesson, and begins daydreaming of a nonsensical world. She spots a passingWhite Rabbit in a waistcoat, who complains of being late. Alice chases him into a burrow and plummets down a deep hole. Upon landing, she finds herself facing a tiny door, whose handle advises drinking from a bottle on a nearby table. Sheshrinks to an appropriate height, but has forgotten the key on the table. She then eats a cookie that causes her to grow excessively. Exasperated by these changes of state, she begins to cry and floods the room. She takes another sip from the bottle to shrink again, and rides the empty bottle through the keyhole.
As Alice continues to follow the Rabbit, she encountersTweedledum and Tweedledee, who recount the tale of "The Walrus and the Carpenter". Alice tracks the Rabbit to his house; he mistakes her for his housemaid and sends her inside to retrieve his gloves. While searching for the gloves, Alice finds and eats a cookie and grows giant, getting stuck in the house. Thinking her a monster, the Rabbit asks theDodo to help expel her. Before the Dodo can burn the house down, Alice escapes by eating a carrot from the Rabbit's garden and shrinking to three inches tall.
Alice meets a garden of talking flowers who initially welcome her witha song, but then banish her, accusing her of being a weed. Alice then encounters aCaterpillar, who becomes enraged at Alice after she laments her small size (which is the same as the Caterpillar's). The Caterpillar turns into a butterfly and flies away after advising Alice to eat a piece from different sides of a mushroom to alter her size. Following a period of trial and error, she returns to her original height and keeps the remaining pieces on hand. In the woods, Alice gets stuck between multiple paths and encounters theCheshire Cat, who suggests questioning theMad Hatter or theMarch Hare. Taking her own path, Alice encounters both, along with theDormouse, in the midst of an "unbirthday" celebration. Alice attempts to explain her predicament, but becomes frustrated by the Hatter and Hare's interruptions and absurd logic. The Rabbit appears and the Hatter attempts to repair hispocket watch, which results in its destruction, and the Rabbit is thrown out of the party. Alice abandons her pursuit and decides to go home, but gets lost in the Tulgey Wood.
The Cheshire Cat appears to the despondent Alice and offers a path to theQueen of Hearts. In the Queen's labyrinthine garden, Alice witnesses the Queen – whom the Rabbit serves as achamberlain – sentencing a trio of playing cards to execution for painting mistakenly-planted white rosebushes red. The Queen invites Alice to acroquet match, in which live flamingos, card guards, and hedgehogs are used as equipment, but the equipment rig the game in favor of the Queen. The Cheshire Cat reappears and plays a trick on the Queen, setting up Alice to be framed. TheKing spares Alice by suggesting a formal trial, in which the Cheshire Cat invokes more chaos by having Alice point him out, causing one of the witnesses – the Dormouse – to panic. As the Queen orders Alice's execution, Alice eats the mushroom pieces to grow large, momentarily intimidating the court. However, the mushroom's effect is short-lived, forcing Alice to flee the deteriorating realm and its pursuing denizens. When Alice reaches the small door she encountered, she sees herself sleeping through the keyhole. Alice emerges from her dream, and she returns home for tea with her sister.
Kathryn Beaumont asAlice,[3] a curious and imaginative little girl who gets tired of the ordinary world and dreams of living in her own nonsensical world.[4]
Ed Wynn asMad Hatter, an elderly man that Alice encounters in Wonderland. The Hatter and his best friend, the March Hare, are known for throwing frequent tea parties in celebration of their "unbirthdays".[5]
Richard Haydn asCaterpillar, a resident of Wonderland, known for smoking a hookah from which colorful smoke rises, forming letters, words, and even images that he refers to while speaking.
Sterling Holloway asCheshire Cat, a mysterious, pink-and-purple-striped cat with a permanent grin. Mischievous and unpredictable in nature, the Cheshire Cat acts as a guide for Alice during her adventures in Wonderland, but also takes pleasure in causing her trouble.[6]
Jerry Colonna asMarch Hare, a wacky, mallet-carryinghare, he is a resident of Wonderland and the best friend of the Mad Hatter, with whom the Hare regularly engages in tea and "unbirthday" parties.[6]
Verna Felton asQueen of Hearts, the tyrannical and deranged ruler of Wonderland with a sadistic penchant for beheadings. When Alice arrives in the kingdom and inadvertently humiliates the monarch, the Queen of Hearts becomes obsessed with decapitating the little girl.[6]
J. Pat O'Malley asTweedledum and Tweedledee, two fat identical twin brothers dressed in schoolboy uniforms and wearing red propeller caps. They take particular delight in reciting poems and songs.[7]
O'Malley also voicedWalrus and Carpenter, two jobless travelers whose story was told to Alice by Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.[7]
Bill Thompson asWhite Rabbit, ananthropomorphicrabbit that serves as the Queen of Hearts's royal herald, an obligation to which he is often late. While hurrying to work one day, the White Rabbit catches the attention of a little girl named Alice, who follows the rabbit into Wonderland to find out why he was late.[6]
Thompson also voicedDodo, adodo in charge of handling the Caucus Race, an event in which everyone runs at an equal pace and in a circle in an attempt to get dry.
By June 1932, Roy Disney was first interested in acquiring the film rights to theAlice books, which, as he learned, were in thepublic domain.[18] In March 1933,[19]Mary Pickford approached Walt with a proposal for a feature-length adaptation ofAlice in Wonderland, which would combine Pickford's live-action performance of the title role with an animated Wonderland supplied by the Disney studio.[20] Disney was hesitant about the idea,[21] and the project was quickly scrapped, afterParamount Pictures secured the film rights for their ownlive-action version.[18] In 1936, Disney produced theMickey Mouse short filmThru the Mirror, which was based on Carroll's secondAlice novel,Through the Looking-Glass, featuringMickey Mouse going through a mirror into a world where all the items in his house become alive.[22]
David Hall created over four hundred paintings and story sketches for the 1939 version of the film.[23]
After the enormous success of his first full-length animated featureSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937),[23] Disney acquired the film rights to theAlice books withJohn Tenniel's illustrations from theMacmillan Company by May 1938[24][a] and officially registered the title with theMotion Picture Association of America.[25] He then hiredstoryboard artist Al Perkins to develop the story;[26] on September 6, 1938, Perkins compiled a detailed 161-page "analysis" of Carroll's book, which included preliminary ideas of the story treatment and summarized descriptions for each scene.[27] On March 1, 1939, British illustratorDavid Hall joined the Disney studio and was immediately assigned to create the concept artwork for the film.[28] Aleica reel, featuring Hall's paintings,[11] was completed on September 20, 1939,[29] but Disney was not pleased; he felt that Hall's drawings resembled Tenniel's illustrations too closely, making them too difficult to animate, and that the overall tone of Perkins' script was too grotesque and dark.[26] Disney also expressed a bit of disinterest in the project,[30] stating that "there would be any harm in letting this thing sit for a while. Everyone is stale now. You'll look at it again and maybe have another idea on it. That's the way it works for me. I still feel that we can stick close toAlice in Wonderland and make it look like it and feel like it, you know".[31] By February 1940, the project was still in the development, albeit slowly,[32] with an additional story meeting held on April 2 of that year.[33] After finishing his work onFantasia, concept artist Gordon Legg created new inspirational sketches for the film, but eventually left the studio the following year.[34] By the fall of 1940, the animation work onAlice in Wonderland was planned to be completed within the next two years,[35] but Disney himself was rather unenthusiastic about the project.[36]
Disney brought upAlice in Wonderland again at a meeting on April 8, 1941,[37] offering to produce it as an animated film starring a live-action actress,[30] similar to his earlierAlice Comedies series;[38] at the same meeting,Gloria Jean was suggested for the role of Alice.[31]In October of that year, given the box-office underperformance ofPinocchio (1940) andFantasia (1940), as well as theWorld War II cutting off the foreign cinema market,[39]Joseph Rosenberg ofBank of America issued an ultimatum, ordering Disney to restrict himself to producing animated shorts and to finish features already in production; no other feature film would begin work until they had been released and earned back their costs.[40] In response, the production ofAlice in Wonderland was heavily scaled back and eventually shelved.[11][b]
Disney first attempted to reviveAlice in Wonderland in mid-1943; new storyboards were developed throughout much of that year, but the project did not move forward.[42]Ginger Rogers was briefly considered to portray the role of Alice on alive-action/animated feature, but she only voiced the character for a record album of the story which was released byDecca Records on October 21, 1944.[43] In the fall of 1945,[44] Disney hired British authorAldous Huxley to work on alive-action/animated feature, titledAlice and the Mysterious Mr. Carroll, which would revolve around Lewis Carroll andAlice Liddell (who was the inspiration for Alice).[45] Huxley delivered a fourteen-page treatment on November 23, 1945, followed by the first draft of the script, written on December 5 of that year.[46] He devised a story in which Carroll and Liddell were misunderstood and persecuted following the publication ofAlice in Wonderland, while stage actressEllen Terry was sympathetic to both Carroll and Liddell, andQueen Victoria served as thedeus ex machina, validating Carroll due to her appreciation for the book.[44] Disney considered child actressMargaret O'Brien for the title role,[47] but felt that Huxley's version was too literal an adaptation of Carroll's book.[11]Background artistMary Blair submitted some concept drawings forAlice in Wonderland. Blair's paintings moved away from Tenniel's detailed illustrations by taking amodernist stance, using bold and unreal colors. Walt liked Blair's designs, and the script was re-written to focus on comedy, music, and the whimsical side of Carroll's books.[11]Lisa Davis (who later voiced Anita Radcliffe inOne Hundred and One Dalmatians) andLuana Patten were also considered for the role of Alice.[11][48]
However, Disney soon realized that he could only do justice to the book by making an all-animated feature and, in 1946, work began onAlice in Wonderland.[26] With the film tentatively scheduled for release in 1950,[49] animation crews onAlice in Wonderland andCinderella effectively competed against each other to see which film would finish first.[47] By early 1948,Cinderella had progressed further thanAlice in Wonderland.[50]
A legal dispute withDallas Bower's1949 film version was also under way.[51][52] Disney sued to prevent release of the British version in the U.S., and the case was extensively covered inTime magazine.[53] The company that released the British version accused Disney of trying to exploit their film by releasing its version at virtually the same time.[53]
The first story meetings onAlice in Wonderland were held as early as in December 1938.[29] Through various drafts of the script, many sequences that were present in Carroll's book drifted in and out of the story. However, Disney insisted that the scenes themselves keep close to those in the novel since most of its humor is in the writing.[26]
Oneomitted scene from the 1939 treatment of the film occurred outside theDuchess' manor, where theFish Footman is giving a message to theFrog Footman to take to the Duchess, saying that she is invited to play croquet with the Queen of Hearts. Alice overhears this and sneaks into the kitchen of the manor, where she findsthe Duchess' Cook maniacally cooking and the Duchess nursing her baby. The cook is spraying pepper all over the room, causing the Duchess and Alice to sneeze and the baby to cry. After a quick conversation between Alice and the Duchess, the hot-tempered Cook starts throwing pots and pans at the noisy baby. Alice rescues the baby, but as she leaves the house the baby turns into a pig and runs away.[54] The scene was scrapped for pacing reasons.
The Walrus and the Carpenter as seen in the film's trailer
Another scene that was deleted from a later draft occurred in Tulgey Wood, where Alice encountered what appeared to be a sinister-lookingJabberwocky hiding in the dark, before revealing himself as a comical-looking dragon-like beast with bells and factory whistles on his head. A song, "Beware the Jabberwock", was also written, but the scene was scrapped in favor ofThe Walrus and the Carpenter poem.[26] Out of a desire to keep the Jabberwocky poem in the film, it was made to replace an original song for the Cheshire Cat, "I'm Odd".
Another deleted scene in Tulgey Wood shows Alice consulting withThe White Knight, who was meant to be somewhat a caricature of Walt Disney. Although Disney liked the scene, he felt it was better if Alice learned her lesson by herself, hence the song "Very Good Advice". The Trial scene at the end of the film was edited with Alice being accused of teasing the Queen during a game of croquet rather than theKnave of Hearts being accused for stealing tarts the Queen made.[26]
Other characters, such asMock Turtle and theGryphon were discarded for pacing reasons, though they would later appear alongside Alice in some commercials.
In an effort to retain some of Carroll's imaginative poems, Disney commissioned top songwriters to compose songs built around them for use in the film. Over 30 potential songs were written, and many of them were included in the film—some for only a few seconds—the greatest number of songs of any Disney film. In 1939,Frank Churchill was assigned to compose songs, and they were accompanied by a story reel featuring artwork from David S. Hall. Although none of his songs were used in the finished film, the melody for "Lobster Quadrille" was used for the song "Never Smile at a Crocodile" inPeter Pan which came out two years after film's release. When work onAlice resumed in 1946,Tin Pan Alley songwritersMack David,Al Hoffman andJerry Livingston began composing songs for it after working onCinderella. However, the only song by the trio that made it into the film was "The Unbirthday Song".[55]
While he was composing songs in New York,Sammy Fain had heard that the Disney studios wanted him to compose songs forAlice in Wonderland. He also suggested lyricistBob Hilliard as his collaborator.[56] The two wrote two unused songs for the film, "Beyond the Laughing Sky" and "I'm Odd". The music for the former song was kept but the lyrics were changed, and it later became the title song forPeter Pan, "The Second Star to the Right".[55][57] By April 1950, Fain and Hilliard had finished composing songs for the film.[58]
There was no soundtrack album available when the film was released in 1951. RCA Victor released a story album and single records with Kathryn Beaumont and several cast members that re-created the story, but it was not the soundtrack. In 1944,Decca Records had released aGinger Rogers dramatization of Lewis Carroll's book with Disney cover art (perhaps tying in with earlier discussions of her being cast as a live-action Disney "Alice"),[60] Decca did indeed license the rights to release the 1951 Alice soundtrack from Disney, but later decided against it and never produced one. When Disney started its own record company,Disneyland Records, in Spring 1956, it was found to be economically unfeasible at the time to take on the fees and other costs to produce a soundtrack album.[61]
In 1957,Tutti Camarata arranged and conducted an elaborate original production of the Alice score withDarlene Gillespie, who had shown great promise among theMickey Mouse Club cast as a singer. Camarata assembled a new orchestra and chorus (possibly with the cooperation ofNorman Luboff, as Betty Mulliner (Luboff) and choir memberThurl Ravenscroft can be heard) in theCapitol studios in Hollywood. The resulting album became one of the most influential and acclaimed studio versions of a score, garnering praise from within the industry as well as the public.[62] The original issue (WDL-4025), depicting Alice seated in a tree with characters beneath her, is highly collectible. The album was so popular it was reissued in 1959, 1963 and 1968 with different covers, including story albums with books and single records, all featuring music from this album, as well as translated versions of the CamarataAlice music for international recordings.
Selections from this album are still heard in the queue for theAlice In Wonderland dark ride at Disneyland in California and during theStorybook Land Canal Boats ride. Tokyo Disneyland incorporated musical arrangements from the Camarata version for live shows and CD releases.
To date, the only soundtrack material ever made available on vinyl records was released outside the United States. In the late nineties, over 45 years after the film's original release, a soundtrack album ofAlice in Wonderland was finally released in the U.S. onAudio CD byWalt Disney Records.[63]
Alice in Wonderland’s world premiere took place at theLeicester Square Theatre inLondon on July 26, 1951.[64] During the film's initial theatrical run, the film was released as adouble feature with theTrue-Life Adventures documentary short,Nature's Half Acre.[65] Following the film's initial lukewarm reception, it was never re-released theatrically in Disney's lifetime, instead being shown occasionally on television.Alice in Wonderland aired as the second episode of theWalt Disney's Disneyland television series onABC on November 3, 1954,[66] in a severely edited version cut down to less than an hour.
Beginning in 1971, the film was screened in several sold-out venues at college campuses, becoming the most rented film in some cities. Then, in 1974, Disney gaveAlice in Wonderland its first theatrical re-release. The company even promoted it as a film in tune with the "psychedelic times", using radio commercials featuring allusions to the song "White Rabbit" performed byJefferson Airplane.[67] This release was so successful that it warranted a subsequent re-release in 1981.[68] It was re-released in the UK on December 22, 1969 and on July 26, 1979.
Disney sought to use the new medium oftelevision to help advertiseAlice in Wonderland. In March 1950, he spoke to his brotherRoy about launching a television program featuring the studio's animated shorts. Roy agreed, and later that summer they spoke to theCoca-Cola Company about sponsoring an hour-long Christmas broadcast featuring Disney hosting several cartoons and a scene from the upcoming film. The program becameOne Hour in Wonderland, which was aired onNBC on Christmas Day 1950.[69] At the same time, a ten-minute featurette about the making of the film,Operation: Wonderland, was produced and screened in theaters and on television stations. Additionally, Disney, Kathryn Beaumont, and Sterling Holloway appeared onThe Fred Waring Show on March 18, 1951, to promote the film.[66]
Alice in Wonderland was one of the first titles available for therental market onVHS andBeta and for retail sale on RCA's short-lived CED Videodisc format. The film was released on October 15, 1981, on VHS,CED Videodisc, andBetamax for its 30th anniversary.[citation needed] Five years later, it was re-issued in the "Wonderland Sale" promotion on May 28, 1986 on VHS, Betamax, andLaserDisc for its 35th anniversary, the other re-issues like from October 14, 1986, October 6, 1987, October 4, 1988, and September 28, 1989, and then it was re-promoted on July 12, 1991 for its 40th anniversary, surrounding the video re-issue ofRobin Hood and the re-issue like from February 14, 1992.[70][71] The film would later receive a third release on VHS and LaserDisc as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection on October 28, 1994, with the VHS cassette of the film being re-released multiple times: from March 3, 1995 to July 13, 1999.
In January 2000, Walt Disney Home Video launched the Gold Classic Collection, and thenAlice in Wonderland was re-issued on VHS and DVD in the line on July 4, 2000.[72] The DVD contained theOperation: Wonderland featurette, several sing-a-long videos, a storybook, a trivia game, and its theatrical trailer.[73]
A fully restored two-disc "Masterpiece Edition" DVD was released on January 27, 2004, including the full hour-long episode of the Disney television show with Kathryn Beaumont,Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd,Bobby Driscoll and others that promoted the film, computer games, deleted scenes, songs and related materials, and went into moratorium in January 2009. A year and two months later, Disney released a 2-disc special "Un-Anniversary" edition DVD on March 30, 2010 to promotethe recent Tim Burton version.[74] The film was released in a Blu-ray and DVD set on February 1, 2011, to celebrate its 60th anniversary,[75] featuring a new HD restoration of the film and many bonus features. Disney re-released the film on Blu-ray and DVD on April 26, 2016, to celebrate the film's 65th anniversary (a reprint of the anniversary release from five years earlier).
The film was released onDisney+ on November 12, 2019.[76]
During its initial theatrical run, the film grossed $2.4 million in domestic rentals.[77] Because of the film's production budget of $3 million, the studiowrote off a million-dollar loss.[2] During its theatrical re-release in 1974, the film grossed $3.5 million in domestic rentals.[78]
Initial reviews forAlice in Wonderland were negative,[79] particularly from theBritish press.[80]Bosley Crowther, reviewing forThe New York Times, complimented that "...if you are not too particular about the images of Carroll and Tenniel, if you are high on Disney whimsey and if you'll take a somewhat slow, uneven pace, you should find this picture entertaining. Especially should it be for the kids, who are not so demanding of fidelity as are their moms and dads. A few of the episodes are dandy, such as the mad tea party and the caucus race; the music is tuneful and sugary and the color is excellent."[65]Variety wrote that the film "has an earnest charm and a chimerical beauty that best shows off the Carroll fantasy. However, it has not been able to add any real heart or warmth, ingredients missing from the two tomes and which have always been an integral part of the previous Disney feature cartoons."[81]
Mae Tinee of theChicago Tribune wrote that "While the Disney figures do resemble John Tenniel's famous sketches, they abound in energy but are utterly lacking in enchantment, and seem more closely related toPluto, the clumsy pup, than the products of Carroll's imagination. Youngsters probably will find it a likable cartoon, full of lively characters, with Alice's dream bedecked with just a touch of nightmare—those who cherish the old story as I have probably will be distinctly disappointed."[82]Time stated that "Judged simply as the latest in the long, popular line of Disney cartoons,Alice lacks a developed story line, which the studio's continuity experts, for all their freedom with scissors and paste, have been unable to put together out of the episodic books. Much of it is familiar stuff; Carroll's garden of live flowers prompts Disney to revive the style of hisSilly Symphonies. Yet there is plenty to delight youngsters, and there are flashes of cartooning ingenuity that should appeal to grownups."[83] Writing for/Film, Miyako Pleines says "Unlike the other Disney princesses before her, Alice seemed to have no real purpose (even if that purpose is simply to be a damsel in distress). People saw her as lacking ambition and drive, a lazy girl who daydreamed during her studies and wandered into a magical world."[84]
Alice in Wonderland was met with great criticism from Carroll fans, as well as fromBritish film andliterary critics, who accused Disney of "Americanizing" a great work ofEnglish literature.[85] Walt Disney was not surprised by the critical reception toAlice in Wonderland as his version ofAlice was intended for large family audiences, not literary critics. Additionally, the film was met with a lukewarm response at the box office.[86] Additionally, he remarked that the film failed because it lacked heart.[87] InThe Disney Films,Leonard Maltin says that animatorWard Kimball felt the film failed because "it suffered from too many cooks—directors. Here was a case of five directors each trying to top the other guy and make his sequence the biggest and craziest in the show. This had a self-canceling effect on the final product."[88] AnimatorsFrank Thomas andOllie Johnston also considered the film a failure and stated on their website that they felt "none of us could fully capture the characters of Lewis Carrol's imagination."[89]
/Film reported that the film is "now considered to be a beloved Disney classic."[84] On the film aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes,Alice in Wonderland received an approval rating of 84% from 32 critical reviews with an average rating of 6.6/10. The consensus states, "A good introduction to Lewis Carroll's classic,Alice in Wonderland boasts some of the Disney canon's most surreal and twisted images."[90] Another film review aggregator,Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 based on top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 68 based on 10 reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[91]
Alice in Wonderland has been condensed into a one-act stage version entitled,Alice in Wonderland, Jr. The stage version is solely meant for middle and high school productions and includes the majority of the film's songs and others includingSong of the South's "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", two new reprises of "I'm Late!", and three new numbers entitled "Ocean of Tears", "Simon Says", and "Who Are You?" respectively. This 60–80 minute version is licensed byMusic Theatre International in the Broadway, Jr. Collection along with other Disney Theatrical shows such asDisney's Aladdin, Jr.,Disney's Mulan, Jr.,Beauty and the Beast, Disney'sHigh School Musical: On Stage!,Elton John andTim Rice'sAida, and many more. It was not available to license from 2018 to 2023,[94] but is available again, now with some new songs from the 2010 filmAlice in Wonderland, as of 2024.[95]
InDonald in Mathmagic Land,Donald Duck wears Alice's dress and has her hairstyle, except it's brown and not blond. A larger pencil bird is in the film as well.
Weebo shows clips of the film on her screen inFlubber.
An episode ofMickey Mouse Clubhouse, entitled "Mickey's Adventures in Wonderland", is based on the film.
During the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" in Disney'sPinocchio, theAlice in Wonderland book can be seen on the bookshelf whereJiminy Cricket is singing from. This reference can be considered indirect as the film was released 11 years prior toAlice in Wonderland.
An undetermined animated project focused on theCheshire Cat was in development for Disney's subscription video on-demand streaming serviceDisney+ since 2019.[97]
In 2022, a CGI-animated TV series calledAlice's Wonderland Bakery was released onDisney Junior. The series centers on Alice, the great-granddaughter of the original heroine.[98]
Costumed versions of Alice, The Mad Hatter, The White Rabbit, The Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee make regular appearances at the Disney theme parks and resorts, and other characters from the film (including the Walrus and the March Hare) have featured in the theme parks, although quite rarely. Disneyland features aride-through visit to Wonderland on board a Caterpillar-shaped ride vehicle; this adventure is unique to Disneyland and has not been reproduced at Disney's other parks. More famously, five of the six Disneyland-style theme parks featureMad Tea Party, ateacups ride based on Disney's adaptation ofAlice in Wonderland. TheDisneyland andTokyo Disneyland versions ofIt's a Small World also featured Alice and White Rabbit in the England scene since 2009 (in Disneyland) and 2018 (in Tokyo Disneyland)[99].
On 25 May 2024, a limited-run stage showAlice and the Queen of Hearts: Back to Wonderland opened in the Theater of the Stars inWalt Disney Studios Park atDisneyland Paris. It will be presented until 29 September 2024.[102]
InDisney's Villains' Revenge, the Queen of Hearts is one of the villains who tries to turn the ending to her story to where she finally cuts off Alice's head.
Mickey Mousecapade features various characters from the film. The Japanese version, in fact, is based very heavily on the film, with almost every reference in the game coming from the film.
TheKingdom Hearts video game series includes Wonderland as a playable world in the titlesKingdom Hearts,Chain of Memories,358/2 Days,Coded, andKingdom Hearts χ. In the games, Alice is one of seven "Princesses of Heart", a group of maidens who are a major part of the plot in the series. Other characters from the film that appear in the games include the Queen of Hearts and the Card Soldiers (alsoenemies in the games), Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit, Doorknob, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, and the Caterpillar (this last in the non-officialKingdom Hearts V Cast game only).[103]
InKinect Disneyland Adventures, Alice, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, and the Queen of Hearts make appearances, while the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat and the March Hare only appear in specific sections of theAlice in Wonderland attraction located inFantasyland. The player can also acquire either Alice's blue dress and white pinafore apron or the Mad Hatter's olive green hat and mustard tailcoat with a blue bow tie as costumes to wear (depending on theavatar's gender) in several different stores located around the park.
InDisney Infinity, there are Power Discs based onAlice in Wonderland.
Several characters of the movie make appearances throughout the Epic Mickey-games. For example, the cards are seen throughout Mickeyjunk Mountain in the originalEpic Mickey, Alice appears as a statue carrying a projector screen inEpic Mickey 2 and Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the Cheshire Cat appear as unlockable characters inEpic Mickey: Power of Illusion.
Alice, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts and the Caterpillar appear as playable characters inDisney Magic Kingdoms, along with some attractions based on locations of the film or real attractions from Disney Parks, as content to unlock for a limited time.[104]
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^"Big Rental Films of 1974".Variety. January 8, 1975. p. 24.
^Fowler, Matt (March 26, 2019)."The 25 Best Disney Animated Movies".IGN. RetrievedJanuary 29, 2025.951's Alice in Wonderland wasn't received well by critics when it was first released, but has since been hailed a triumph of animation far ahead of its time.
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