Neverland

**Neverland** is a fictional location from the play *Peter Pan*.

## Description

Neverland is a magical island realm located in the sky at the Second Star to the Right and straight on till morning. It serves as a personification of children's dreams while being filled with magical properties such as preventing its inhabitants from aging.

### Features

* **Cannibal Cove:**
* **Crocodile Creek:**
* **Hangman's Tree:**
* **Indigenous Camp:**
* **Mermaid Lagoon:**
* **Peg-leg Point:**
* **Pixie Hollow:**
* **Skull Island:**

## Appearances and allusions

### Disney Springs

An airline arrival from Neverland in the town of Disney Springs is mentioned in the Co-Op Marketplace. During the holiday season, a poster can be found promoting the, "Second Star to the Right Travel Agency".

### Oceaneer Lab

There is a large amount of artwork within the RV Oceaneer Lab of Neverland. A book on Pixie Hollow also appears within the Oceaneer Club library.

## Connections

### Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

Outside of Peter Pan's Flight in the Magic Kingdom there is a barrel identifying one Richard LePere, Jr. as fire-chief of the Lost Boys Fire Brigade". Richard LePete is also referenced as fire-chief of Tumbleweed, Arizona outside of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in Walt Disney World.

### Disney Springs

Tinker Bell is shown to inhabit the old animation studio of Disney Springs, Florida.

### The Little Mermaid

Ariel makes a cameo in the Magic Kingdom version of this attraction where she sits on a rock in Neverland's Mermaid Lagoon alongside the much more malicious mermaids of Neverland. This is not true in Disneyland where the mermaid resembles one of the original mermaids from Peter Pan though there is a popular myth/rumour that this Neverland mermaid is Ariel's mother (named Athena in the direct-to-DVD Disney sequels).

### Pirates of the Caribbean

Captain Hook is referenced existing the book *Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom* where he is referred to as begin a past affiliate of the Brethren Court. He is mentioned to have previously gone by the moniker of of **James the Mysterious** before disappearing in the early 18th century. He then reappeared years later having not aged a day while also with his hand being replaced by a hook. It is unknown if this is inferring Hook travelled back to Earth after having lost his hand before returning to Neverland or if it is set after the main story of Peter Pan when Hook was chased off the island and Neverland exists outside of normal time.

Additionally on the pirate half of Adventure Isle, one of the caverns of Pirate's Grotto is called Davy Jones' Locker. Davy Jones being a prominent figure of nautical folklore who was notably featured in the *Pirates of the Caribbean* franchise. In the Magic Kingdom's Tortuga Tavern, a lantern resembling that used by Hook to capture Tinkerbell can be found in Arabella Smith's possession along with assorted paraphernalia of other pirates.

### Soarin'

Tinkerbell makes an appearance at the climax of the EPCOT and Disney's California Adventure variants of this attraction.

### Swiss Family Treehouse

Adventure Isle is most heavily themed to the pirates of Peter Pan. There are messages from Captain Hook to guests, a beach which is home to the Neverland crocodile, a rock formation resembling (but not identical to) Neverland's *Skull Rock*, a location called Peg Leg Point which shares its name with a Neverland peninsula, and Captain Hook's pirate-ship situated on the island's coast.

Hook's pirate ship however does not appear to be heavily modelled after the Jolly Roger from the film (having a different colour-scheme, mermaid figurehead instead of a skull, etc) and is never referred to be name. The ship closer resembles the pirate-ship *The Chicken of the Sea* which was one of the original park icons for Disneyland's Fantasyland before it was torn down; said ship having also been recycled for the restaurant *Captain Hook's Galley*. It would make sense that this was not the *Jolly Roger* given that at the end of *Peter Pan*, it is commandeered by Pan himself.

## Trivia

* A common joke made at the unload dock of the Jungle Cruise has skippers asking, "Why does Peter Pan fly? Because he can never land".

## References

1. ↑ http://www.mainstgazette.com/2017/10/gate-change.html
2. ↑ https://allears.net/2019/11/09/check-out-the-2019-christmas-tree-trail-posters/
3. ↑ https://chipandco.com/take-a-tour-of-the-oceaneer-club-and-lab-aboard-the-disney-magic-336898/
4. ↑ http://www.imaginerding.com/2015/12/12/reedy-creek-fire-department/
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnkG9LHFb9g
6. ↑ http://www.fromscreentotheme.com/FunFindFriday.aspx