This Day in Disney Parks and Resorts History - Disneyland

May 25, 1983 - Disneyland

As part of the New Fantasyland renovations, Disneyland adds Pinocchio's Daring Journey, which officially opens to guests.  It is the first Disneyland attraction added to the park that first debuted at Tokyo Disneyland (opening a month earlier in April 1983) and the first attraction created by the Imagineers to use holographic material. The dark ride is based on Walt Disney’s 1940 animated classic, and Jiminy Cricket guides guests through various scenes from the film.

May 25, 2007 - Disneyland

In conjunction with the continued success of Walt Disney Pictures “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy (the newest film, “At World’s End” recently had its World Premiere on the Rivers of America at Disneyland), the long-time Frontierland attraction Tom Sawyer Island is rededicated as Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island.  An artificial island surrounded by the Rivers of America, originally left vacant during the park’s opening year, became Tom Sawyer Island in the summer of 1956. The network of intricate caves and caverns now contain to the Pirates of the Caribbean films, as well as the traditional Mark Twain characters from the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.