Check out today's 
Al's Update for a photo essay on how 
it's a small world originally looked.
 
OMG, THE COLORS!!!!
 
 
Wow, I don't recall EVER seeing the attraction look that vibrant.  Perhaps it's even a little too tacky ... but if that was the original Mary Blair color design, I want it back.
 
 
Maybe things were toned down when it moved to Disneyland.  Or maybe years of decreptitude have simply dulled things down to a bland shadow of the former glory.