Taking the Mickey: is a Melbourne Disneyland anything more than a fantasy?
by Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6N99Y)
Many locations - from Frankston to Fishermans Bend - have been proposed as sites for the famous theme park. But will the dream ever become reality?
In what has become a recurring theme in many Disney films, Jiminy Cricket sang When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true" in the 1940 film of Pinocchio.
Pinocchio wishes to be a real boy, Peter Pan wishes to never grow up, Ariel, the Little Mermaid, wishes to become human. And - in what can also be described as a fairytale desire - Melbourne, Australia, wishes to host the next Disney theme park.
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