Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

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Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

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Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is a dark ride at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim. It is one of the few remaining attractions that was operational on the park's opening day in 1955. The ride's story is based on Disney's adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, one of the two segments of the film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. It was once an attraction at the Magic Kingdom park in Walt Disney World, but after a long protest against its closure, Mr. Toad's journeys to nowhere in particular were put to an end in 1998 and the ride was replaced the following year with The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

Disneyland Version Ride Summary

Guests enter a recreation of Toad Hall, passing by artistic works commemorating both the characters of the Wind in the Willows and warning visitors of the trip they are about to undertake. A large mural shows the progress of Toad's car, which will be mirrored in the ride, yet this version is not accurate to the slower movie.

Guests board old-fashioned multi-colored cars with the names of characters beneath the safety bar and begin their tour by crashing into the library and back out through the fireplace, where fiber optic effects are employed to simulate the spreading of dispersed, yet still flaming, ashes. After nearly avoiding a falling knight statue, they break through a set of doors to find the interior of Toad Hall in disarray, as weasels swing from chandeliers and Mr. Mole eats (and gets knocked aside) in the middle of the hallway.

Leaving Toad Hall, guests then travel across the countryside, aggravating policemen and sheep farmers, before entering the city where their cars wreak further havoc. A statue of Lady Justice peeking out from under her blindfold precipitates the hasty trial of Mr. Toad, who is proclaimed guilty by a jury-less judge in a courtroom.

The cars enter what is presumed to be a dark prison cell before abruptly turning right and landing on railroad tracks. The vehicles bounce up and down on the tracks before colliding with an oncoming train, whereafter they are sent to one of the ride's most famous scenes, the ending scene in "Hell." Created specifically for the ride by Disney Imagineers and not inspired by any scene in the movie or book, "Hell" features small devils who bounce up and down while a devillish Judge-looking Satan points them to the left. The entire room is heated, but soon enough guests escape back into the real world; a popular prank for Disneyland cast members is to jump out and scare guests immediately after they arrive back in the "safer" environment.

Magic Kingdom Version Ride Summary

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride had two separate boarding areas. The vehicles (in the form of jalopies) in each boarding area were on separate tracks which followed different paths, so riders would get a slightly different ride, depending on where they boarded.

The ride takes visitors through scenes from The Wind in the Willows. It begins inside Toad Hall where visitors, among other things, smash through the library fireplace and narrowly avoids getting hit by a falling suit of armor. Then the jalopy hurtles through a farmyard, a town street and then a courtroom.

It was not a thrill ride, but it was not slow and quiet like most dark rides. It made sudden turns and often the vehicle would move at full speed towards an obstacle, which would move out of the way at the last second. At one point the vehicles on different tracks would head directly towards each other, appearing to be about to collide with each other.

The ride is well known for its ending, where the vehicle collides with an oncoming train, taking passengers to the "Inferno," actually a scene in which little devils appear.

A 3D virtual recreation of the ride is currently underway. [Virtual Toad]

Attraction facts

Mr. Toad in Disneyland queue

Disneyland

• Grand opening: July 17, 1955 (Opened with Disneyland Park)
• * Re-dedication: May 23, 1983
• Show length: 2:01
• Required ticket: "C"
• Ride System: Dark Ride with moving vehicles

Magic Kingdom

• Grand opening: October 1, 1971 (Opened with the Magic Kingdom)
• Closing date: October 7, 1998
• Current attraction: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

External links

• [Mr. Toad's Wild Ride] from GoSleepGo

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