ANAHEIM, Calif. — Throughout the 1960s and 1990s, visitors to Disneyland were able to explore, walk and jump in an 80-foot "Swiss Family Robinson"-themed treehouse in Adventureland.
The Robinson family theme fell to the wayside in 1999 when Disney Imagineers re-themed the bulking treehouse after the Disney animated movie "Tarzan."
Well, the "Swiss Family Robinson" theme and the family's ingenuity are back again.
What's old is now new at Disneyland.
Disneyland officials Thursday announced that the former Tarzan's Treehouse is being re-themed again and inspired by the 1960 movie about a shipwrecked family who builds a new life and home on a deserted island.
Disneyland officials in their official parks blog said they are "paying tribute to the original treehouse that Walt Disney and his Imagineers built in 1962 for the hit movie, 'Swiss Family Robinson.'"
The name will be the Adventureland Treehouse, inspired by Walt Disney's "Swiss Family Robinson."
Officials said the Adventureland Treehouse would showcase a new design and newly themed rooms and environment created among the giant tree's branches on the Jungle River's shores.
Visitors would again enter by a giant waterwheel and follow a rope stairway into the central area of the treehouse. Disney officials said they'd see newly themed rooms such as the mother's music den, the young son's nature room and a teenage daughter's astronomer's loft.
On the bottom floor, visitors could explore a kitchen and dining room, the father's art studio with hand-drawn sketches and paintings on the wall of each of the rooms.
Disney officials said the backstory is the family was able to decorate the treehouse rooms by scavenging and finding objects and other natural resources in their new surroundings.
Disney closed the treehouse earlier this year and announced it would be re-themed in April.
Disney didn't provide a specific date on when the newly themed treehouse would open, only that it would be sometime in 2023.