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Scheduled to open this summer, it promises to be as much fun for camera-toting parents as for their offspring. A gleam in Walt Disney’s imagination for twenty years, Disneyland is now close to being a completed reality. This fabulous playground on the outskirts of Los Angeles is divided into four realms – Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, Frontierland and Adventureland. In Tomorrowland you may board a rocket ship for a flight to the moon, pilot miniature racing cars on a Freeway of the Future or guide streamlined speedboats around a water run. The beloved characters of Disney movies are brought to mechanical life in Fantasyland. Visitors can ascend the interior of Monstro the Whale to enjoy a breath-taking slide down his tongue into a pond, take a ride on the Peter Pan Fly-Thru or a trip through the Seven Dwarfs' diamond mines. Frontierland's shooting gallery supplies buffalo guns and wild animal targets. Buckboards and Conestoga wagons carry visitors to a Wells Fargo station for a stage-coach trip through the Painted Desert. In Adventureland you'll get into an explorer's boat like the ones that chug up the Amazon, for a voyage over tropical waters. Lifelike animals and real-life natives threaten the vessel at every river bend. Disneyland is so mapped that visitors need walk only a mile and a half to cover it. Every foot of the way brings its own reward in family fun. Don't forget your camera – you'll run out of film before you exhaust picture-making opportunities here. […]