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Swiss Family Treehouse Review
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Swiss Family Treehouse
- Category: Amusement Parks
- Location: Magic Kingdom
Fodor's Review:
Inspired by the classic novel by Johann Wyss about the adventures of the Robinson family, who were shipwrecked on the way to America, the tree house shows what you can do with a big faux tree and a lot of imagination. The rooms are furnished with patchwork quilts and mahogany furniture. Disney detail abounds: the kitchen sink is a giant clamshell; the boys' room, strewn with clothing, has two hammocks instead of beds; and an ingenious system of rain barrels and bamboo pipes provides running water in every room. As you clamber around the narrow wooden steps and rope bridges that connect the rooms in this split-level dwelling, take a look at the Spanish moss. It's real, but the tree itself -- some 90 feet in diameter, with more than 1,000 branches -- was constructed by the props department. The 300,000 leaves are vinyl. It all adds up to a species of tree unofficially called Disneyodendron eximus, or "out-of-the-ordinary Disney tree."
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