I'm sitting here, rewatching one of the documentary shows about the creation of Disneyland, and a thought just occurred to me…

Both the ride and the song "It's a Small World" is genuinely creepy.

When you think of It's a Small World, what first springs to mind?

The repetitive song? The seemingly neverending amount of smiling dolls?

As someone who's never been on the ride physically, I understand you can't have one without the other, heck, the song _literally_ renamed the ride.

Now, the main reason the song is as it is, is because Walt wanted something that could be on a neverending loop, and something that could be translated into multiple languages, since the ride goes through multiple cultures… totally understandable.

The creepy factor, for me, with the song… is the vocals themselves.

It's at most 10 different groups of children from multiple languages singing happily… without a care in the world…

I don't know about you, but having that on a constant loop in multiple languages… yeah, that's pretty creepy.

As for the ride itself, well, the dolls are just… creepy.

I get that their movements are limited because they're animatronics…

But I've always been creeped out by dolls, and these are no exception.

The way they're made to be singing the lyrics, as well as doing movements pertaining to whatever it is they're meant to be doing… it's just REALLY unsettling… and their hair LITERALLY grows… like a human's hair.

Plus the landscape, which is definitely whimsical like they're going for, being mixed with everything else on a neverending cycle… bobbing to a rhythm… Really unnerving to say the least…

All that is to say, while I do find it creepy, the inclusions they've put in over the years has been fantastic…

Still creepy as heck, but fantastic.