After the sword went missing from the stone and anvil in front of King Arthur's Carrousel, speculation ran rampant until a visitor claimed credit for the mythic task.
The King Arthur Carrousel was originally constructed in 1922 for the Sunnyside Beach Park in Toronto. When that park was slated to close in 1955, Disney purchased the ride and transported it to California, where they refurbished it to add another course of horses., park management constructed a display that consists of a replica sword buried in an anvil.
The sword was held into the anvil by a remotely-operated locking device controlled by a cast member. Until the ceremony was canceled, the weapon was secured by a mechanism inside. Typically, the Merlin actor would let a full-grown male volunteer struggle with the sword before calling a young child up and releasing the lock to allow them to extract it.
The weapon was never intended to come completely out of the anvil, as it would stop after rising about eight inches. That makes the mysterious knight who pulled it all the way out even more impressive.
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