Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Magic Kingdom · Fantasyland
Overview
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride sent guests careening through a series of chaotic dark-ride vignettes based on Disney's The Wind in the Willows, riding in open-topped motorcar vehicles through Mr. Toad's reckless driving misadventures, ending — famously — with a crash into a fiery underworld.
ParksLog verdict
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is a favorite reference point for Disney fans who like to point out how much stranger and edgier early Fantasyland could be. Its replacement, Winnie the Pooh, is a perfectly good family ride, but it never carried the cult devotion Mr. Toad still commands decades after closing.
About this experience
Chaotic dark ride through whimsical and reckless driving adventures.
Best for
- Classic Fantasyland dark ride fans
- Guests who remember its infamous ending
- Disney attraction history enthusiasts
Tips
- Its show building became The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which still occupies the site today
- It's remembered as one of the few Disney attractions to depict its own characters ending up somewhere fiery, a detail Disney fans still discuss
- The ride shared its Wind in the Willows theming lineage with Disneyland's Anaheim version of the same attraction
Details
History
The ride opened with the park in 1971 and closed in 1998, replaced by The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1999.
Fun facts
- The ride's ending famously depicted the vehicle crashing into a fiery underworld, an unusually dark note for a Fantasyland attraction
- It was based on Disney's 1949 film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
- Its closure to make way for Winnie the Pooh sparked one of the more vocal 'save our ride' fan campaigns in Disney history