Upon boarding a fiberglass replica of a 1900s-era one-seat roadster (manufactured by Arrow Development), guests 'crashed' through the front doors of Toad Hall (the extravagant Tudor-style estate of Mr. Guests boarded their vehicles directly adjacent to a huge, elaborately painted mural spanning the entire front wall of the space housing the interior scenes this mural depicted both the cast of the film on which the ride was based as well as the scenarios encountered within the attraction. Toad's Wild Ride was fashioned to resemble a colorful medieval tournament tent, and its loading queue was located within a large opening in the front wall of the show building. More three-dimensional gags and scene details would be added in later updates, although the attraction has always remained overwhelmingly 'flat' in appearance, despite the other Fantasyland dark rides having become considerably less so over the decades.Īs with the 1955 incarnations of the Snow White and Peter Pan dark rides, the exterior facade of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride were rendered predominantly by means of two-dimensional flats, with only a scarce presence of three-dimensional sculpts. Whereas its contemporary opening-day Fantasyland dark rides Snow White and her Adventures and Peter Pan's Flight employed three-dimensional figures and sculpts for either the majority or at least a significant quantity of their interior scenery and characters, the various scenes of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride that was especially prevalent during its earliest years was the liberal use of painted plywood 'flats' in its interior sets. Mattey, the version of the attraction that opened to the public along with the rest of Disneyland in July 1955 contained the simplest gags, the least setpieces and characters, and with a duration of 98 seconds, was the shortest in length.

Designed by Imagineers Bill Martin, Ken Anderson, Claude Coats, and Robert A. Toad's Wild Ride was the least complex out of all three. Corey Burton performs every voice in the current version of the attraction, except for the usage of audio from the film. Toad's Wild Ride was realized as a dark ride because Walt Disney felt as though a roller coaster might not have been appropriate for young children and the elderly. Originally envisioned as a roller coaster, Mr. Toad, recklessly careening through the English countryside and streets of London in a period motorcar before ultimately meeting demise in a railway tunnel and ending up in a tongue-in-cheek depiction of Hell the ride's ending has no significance to the events of either the animated film or the original novel. In any variation of the attraction, guests assume the role of the titular Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is located in Fantasyland, and a variation of the attraction also existed at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida, from the park's opening in 1971 until September 1998. The ride is one of the few remaining attractions operational since the park's opening in July 1955, although the current iteration of the ride opened in 1983. It is loosely based on Disney's adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of two segments comprising the animated package film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is a theme park attraction and dark ride at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California. Toad, Toady, Ratty, Moley, MacBadger, Cyril, Winkie and Weasel For the 1996 British film, see The Wind in the Willows (1996 film). For the 1949 Disney film on which the ride was based, see The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr.

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