You can spot my wife and I in a few of the still images. We are the ones wearing the Save Mr. Toad shirts with a Haunted Mansion style tombstone on the back. The epitaph reads "Here Lies Dear Old Mr. Toad. He Hit Some Pooh on The Road." The closing of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at WDW's Magic Kingdom was a sad day for me. Our family first visited WDW shortly after it opened. I was ten years old and Mr Toad's Wild Ride made quite an impression on me. That last day for the ride was bizarre. We could see and sense Disney's security all around us and the feeling of sadness among Toad's fans was palpable.
Another one I knew you might do soon. Though here's a fun fact: When Mr. Toad got replaced by Winnie the Pooh, it's a whole lot of irony since the authors of the books, A.A.Milne, and Kenneth Grahame were close friends, and in fact had the same illustrator, Ernest H Shephard.
@@ChristopherSobieniak do you know galya peeva she was still saved Disney company class starts at Disney movies and Disneyland hotel room I just I want Hippocampus for Christmas movie and the kids Disney company would be there in
My favorite Mr. Toad experience was when my brother was about ten and I was a teenager. Our family had early admission for Disneyland one morning of our trip, so I took my brother over to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride immediately. We were the first on the ride, and the cast members let us on and sent us on our way. Almost right away, we realized that they hadn't yet turned on the sound. So my brother and I were alone on the silent ride, listening to the set pieces clack. It truly did feel like hell at the end. 10/10, absolutely recommend
My wife and I rode Space Mountain many years ago and there were teenagers in the car ahead of us. Their arms and legs were hanging all out of the car during the chain lift. The automatic "keep all hands and feet inside the car" warning was repeated several times, then a real human repeated it much more sternly. Still no action from the teens. The ride stopped, lights came on and security appeared from nowhere and yanked the kids out. After about a 10 minute delay, we were finally sent, but with the lights still on. You know those steel bars that seem really close on some of the turns and drops? They ARE really close! I don't recommend putting your arms up on that ride. Since we had to ride it with the lights on, they whooshed us straight back to the front of the line for an immediate re-ride with the lights off!
If you want context stitch stole marks Mickey book when he was investigating Mickey's Toontown and ran for the hills then went on a carriage and sang his song you heard in the beginning of the episode
Dude that is so awesome. What a morbid treat. I've rode it repeatedly and can't believe Peter Pan was so occupied. It's physically harsher and the story is intense and relatable. Drunk driving Mr. toad getting caught then sentenced, hit by a train, then ends in hell. It's so dope and should be realized and ridden by all!
Kyle Morello I agree, they could of expand the park and put Winnie the Pooh ride somewhere else and still kept Mr. Toad. But sadly today kids probably never heard of Mr.Toad. I never saw the movie as well, I might have when I was a baby but I have to think long and hard that I did watch the movie. But I would love to go to the ride, it looks so fun. But seriously, are these people sick, why would you say Pooh go to hell. That is immature and just sick. It’s just going to make Disney not do it and listen.
Yeah, but WatW had more visually interesting set pieces for a dark ride. What does Sleepy Hollow have? A school house, a Halloween party, and getting chased through the woods until a Jack-o'-lantern burns you alive.
Yeah, and the story of this ride would fit much more for that short. Think about it! A crazy chase that ends with you dying, and since Ichabod was a golddigger, ending up in hell seems rather appropriate. That's my one problem with this ride. Did Toad really deserve this fate? Yes, he can be inconsiderate, and obsessive, but he's still honest and tries to do the right thing. I guess it just depends on your definition of morality.
It would be awesome now and perhaps even in the 80s probably not in the 50 and 60s. A shame that a modern Sleepy Hallow now wouldn't fare to well with the number of My god think of the children whiners.
I know I told my dad that at halloween and We have a Headless Horsemen Statue for halloween and it works and I said to my dad,Dad Shouldn’t they have put a sleepy hollow Ride in Disney-world/Disneyland? He replied yeah,So I think they should have
I will never understand why things are closed in the Magic Kingdom just to clear room for a new attraction.. Unlike the Anaheim park, Florida is BLESSED WITH ALMOST UNLIMITED ROOM...why they insist on closing popular rides when they can JUST EXPAND I just don’t get, especially since the park gets a Significantly larger attendance than even Disneyland, they can afford the extra attractions
Probably because it's cheaper and easier to close a ride down and replace it with another than expanding. Expansion means that you have to landscape the new section, pave it, add planters, lay in new plumbing and electric lines, etc. A lot of effort for just one ride, effort better saved for adding a new land or expanding an existing one. Plus, there's the fact that adding a new ride to an expanded area would also mean that unless the land actually directly abuts the unused area and not backstage facilities of some kind, the backstage facilities would have to be moved too, otherwise the new ride might not sit directly in the land it's supposed to be in.
Strangely enough, because I was a kid who was scared of EVERYTHING, my parents never complained to staff about rides or stuff scaring me. They just... ignored my quiet crying for the most part. lol Edit- And, when I went back a few years later a little older and less terrified, those rides that had previously scared me became wonderful personal tests of courage!
You and DefunctLand are such comfort viewing for me. It's hard not to be impatient but then I remember that you do this for free. Thanks for helping me manage the constant stress of my life with fun, unusual knowledge.
As of now there is no home video evidence of the original 1955 version of mr. Toad's wild Ride, except for some photos, 8mm souvenir film, and of course the movie 40 pounds of trouble.
I wouldn't doubt fans trying to film inside the ride with 8mm or 16mm home movie cameras probably wouldn't have gotten good shots given the poor lighting involved. Those cameras needed a good deal of light to work. If you see a lot of early videotaped ride sequences from the 80's, you'll not how the lighting still wasn't quite as good with those cameras as they may be today.
@@atsmithson They just didn't. I'm sure people then we're smart to know the lighting would be terrible to start with so nobody brought their cameras through the place. Don't forget the average home movie film only lasted a few minutes per roll as well, and not everyone may've had more than a few to go around.
I remember The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. I'm originally from Sleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman made the town famous. It put it on the map. It's a great place to visit on Halloween, about 40 minutes north from NYC
oh I didn t know that, now I'll make sure to visit someday, thanks for the information as much as I like johnny depp's sleepy hollow, the disney one will always be the best I watch it about every day during the holiday season and the songs are so good too
I remember being very, very young, in the mid ‘80s, in line for this ride for HOURS due to technical difficulties, and our family befriended a British family ahead of us in line. I got a crush on one of their daughters and we had a nice conversation while we waited, seemingly forever. The ride was fun, as was the Peter Pan ride that ultimately replaced it. But I’ll always think of that British family and the insanely long wait time whenever I think of this ride.
Marry Poppins would have been a fun ride. I bet it would have staid up too and remained popular. Maybe gotten a revamp for Poppins Returns. Don't know if the other options would have lasted. I went on the Mr Toad ride at Magic Kingdom. One of few we road twice I remember as a Kid thinking the Track A and Track B thing happened because I was in full control of the vehicle. I thought I was struggling with difficult controls, choosing a path and avoiding obstacles. I remember being convinced that because of the car and the Weasels that the Mr Toad replacement was Who Framed Rodger Rabbit.
All of the people posting about how you're sad that you never got to ride it: don't fret. You can still ride Mr Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland in California.
I never got to personally ride Magic Kingdom's versions, and while the updated Disneyland version still exists, I'm still bitter I'll never get to experience either side...nor MK's Snow White for that matter. Bah humbug.
You finally followed up on the Stitch book storyline! Really enjoyed this episode. Hearing that we could've had a Sleepy Hollow ride though makes me sad. It would've been interesting to have two parts of the same "movie" (the package film era is a strange one) on different coasts.
Glad you enjoyed the conclusion to the Stitch book storyline! Was afraid people would be confused who hadn't seen Alice/Toontown, but also thought it'd be fun for those who had :)
Fantastic job on this video and a beautiful tribute to the original dark ride! Very enchanting and surreal. This was one of my favorite rides at Disneyland when I visited there years ago! Truly a unique experience and overall story!
This video brought back so many memories! As a child, we often visited my great-aunt in Lake Wales, and went to Disney World while we were there. Mr. Toad was one of my favorite rides. Just seeing those beer mugs spinning made me smile! I was unhappy when I heard it was being replaced, but I now live on the West Coast, so Disneyland is my family’s park now...where we can still enjoy Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. Thanks for the wonderful video. Another great epic in the Stitch Saga as well!
@@pierrebegley2746 in Disneyland California we still have the Snow White ride, it’s just been changed from Snow White’s Scary Adventures to Snow White’s Enchanted Wish
I went on it in 2001 and 2006. I've never seen the movie, but I know how she trusts strangers with free food. I got to meet Snow and the queen in 2001. I asked Snow if she still had that brown dress from the start of the ride. I really liked that dress for some reason. And I asked the queen how she went back to normal after the dwarfs pushed her off the cliff as an ugly hag.
I love Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland (I was too young to ride it at WDW) and I've always been fascinated with the history of both versions -- so glad you made this video covering the whole thing!!
I only watched The Wind in the Willows animated movie for the first time a few years ago, after growing up with the ride at Disneyland. I was shocked that Mr. Toad never gets flattened by a train and goes to Hell in the film. Why did they make that choice for the ride?
My family participated in a few weekly “Toad-in”s when I was little, a lot of the people in those photos are my parents’ friends. (IRC chat rooms also played a sizeable part in spreading the word and organizing protests.) Then I grew up and I ended up working at Snow White’s Scary Adventures on the day it closed and seeing the other side of things. (There were a handful of protesters leading up to it, but day-of, it was mostly just a large crowd of people who spent the day just riding it over and over, including an autistic little boy who had ridden it thousands of times because it was his favorite ride.)
Mr Toads Wild Ride at Disneyland will always hold a place in my heart as the ride I puked in front of during the first trip to Disneyland that I remember. And remember literally nothing else from that trip.
My first time at Disney, i was so excited to ride Mr Toad, only to be told that they had closed the ride a week before. I was one truly disappointed little girl. Thank you for showing me what it looked like!
This brought back 15:24 childhood memories for me. We went to Disney World in Florida twice in my youth. I completely forgot about the 2 cars starting on 2 different tracks... and "crashing." I guess I was oblivious to the going to "heck" part.
The Magic Kingdom Wild Ride was one of my mom's favorites when she went as a little girl. She didn't keep up with the media buzz surrounding its closure, so you can imagine her disappointment when our family went to Disney World in '06 and found it was no longer there.
I love that this ride is so popular, because there isn't a big Mr Toad/Wind in the Willows fandom out there keeping it going, it's just an awesome ride. I'd still go on it as an older kid, one of the things you go to Magic Kingdom for. It's a just a descent into madness that ends in possibly jail but always hell. How many Disney rides freaking kill you and send you to hell?
This brings back childhood memories. I grew up in Orange County back in the 60s and went to Disneyland dozens of times ( Remember the old ticket books with A,B,C,D, and E tickets ??? ) Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was probably my favorite ride .
My first few rides on _Mr. Toad's Wild Ride_ were just fun, but a couple of years later, I found the train thing to be scary and would have to close my eyes. It wasn't until I looked for the effect (the light of the "train" had turned off and I could see that it was just a light hanging from a track in the ceiling as we went by) that I was comfortable with that part again. This simple effect was very well done. All-in-all I really enjoyed the ride (track B I felt was much better than track A) and I do miss it. I'll have to see about getting myself back to Disneyland (been there all of one time).
I treasure our Mr Toad’s in Anaheim. I would be heartbroken if we lost it. But at least Orlando still has the Country Bears & their PeopleMover. Great video🥂🌟
Growing up in Florida my first time at Disney was in 1973 & right away Mr.Toad was one of my favorites & was disappointed when they closed it. Though next year I'm going to California & we are planning on going to Disney Land for the first time so I'll be able to ride the original at least.
Tbh, most people these days mostly remember this film for The Sleepy Hollow segment and apparently that seems to be the segment EVERYONE tends to like positively than the Wind in the Willows segment due to the darker themes and the Headless Horseman, much like how The Mickey and the Beanstalk segment from Fun and Fancy Free was well known instead of Bongo.
@@EChacon As much as I love Mr. Toad and his wild and wacky antics.....the Headless Horseman had freaking Bing Crosby. How was he supposed to compete with that?
@@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf Like I said before MOST people only remember this movie for the Sleepy Hollow segment due to the dark themes, the Headless Horseman and Bing Crosby doing the singing and narration just like how many people only remember and talk about Fun and Fancy Free for the Mickey and the Beanstalk segment.
@@EChacon Maybe for those who have actually seen the movie, but for everyone else (which I assume is most people), I'd argue it's the opposite. Disney has done a good job of making sure Mr Toad hasn't been forgotten thanks to not only this dark ride but also cameos in stuff like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and House of Mouse. Meanwhile, Sleepy Hollow is a lot more difficult to market since the most memorable part of the short is a guy being chased through a forest to his death, not to mention there are other adaptations competing for its attention (such as the Tim Burton movie and the episode of Wishbone, the latter of which was how I was introduced to the tale)
@@otaking3582 To each their own. But as I said before, EVERYONE tends react positively on the Sleepy Hollow segment than the Wind in the Willows segment from the movie due to the darker themes, the Headless Horseman, and Bing Crosby's singing and narration on this short, much like how The Mickey and the Beanstalk segment from Fun and Fancy Free was more well known than of Bongo. Plus during the 70th anniversary of the film only released a CD audio book of Disney's Sleepy Hollow.
Toad is such a huge part of my childhood. It was the first ever Disney movie I saw and I always wanted to go on Mr Toad’s Wild Ride but I haven’t been able to get to Disneyland or The Magic Kingdom since they’re so far away from me 😢
I had a habit of taking tons of pictures while on almost every ride when my friends and I went to Disneyland in the 90's.While I'd never waste my time doing that now,I'm incredibly glad I did back then.☺️I have a fantastic collection of all these photos in a huge album.😁
I won’t lie.... I wish we had got to experience a Sleepy Hollow ride. That short always terrified me as a kid and I can only imagine given the Disney level of detail in their attractions just how immersive and spooky it would’ve been.
Very informative!!! That entrance to Hell where you go through the devil's mouth was removed at some point (maybe during the early '60s redo?) only to come back in three dimensions in '83 . I've always wondered why it was taken out? .......... I'm really sorry I never went on the WDW version with two tracks. I assumed it was a replica of the one at DL.
Good job, might be the first video I have ever seen you do, that Tim Tracker, the DIS or theme park history have not done, normally a week after the other sites
I grew up in Orlando and got to ride 20,000 Leagues a few times when I was REALLY young and Mr. Toad's a bunch of times throughout the 90s - I'm glad I got to ride them when I could! I'd like to check out Disneyland one day - among other things it'd be cool to ride their version of Mr. Toad
Yesterworld, it would be really cool if you could do an interview with the guy who spearheaded the protests and made the SaveToad website. It'd be very interesting to hear his thoughts on the whole experience: as well as on all the changes that have occurred at WDW since then.
I've heard so much about Mr. Toad' s Ride and the film with the fiddle playing and fast driving Toad. Another informative and entertaining video. Keep it up!
I vaguely remember WDW Toad ride, but am very glad Disneyland still has theirs and hopefully it is not going anywhere. It is a Walt opening day attraction there and iconic to that Park.
One of my greatest disappointments in visiting WDW (from the west coast) back in the day was that the two-track Toad attraction was already closed. THANK YOU for preserving the history of an almost-memory.
i remember my parents took me and my brother to disney world in the late 70's and got to ride this and some of the other rides and shows, like the the matterhorn, the jungle land safari, the tropical bird show, the race track ride( similar to a big go kart race) dont remember the name of the ride, the haunted mansion with the mirrors that showed ghost characters in between you and the other rider, dumbo, the country bears show not sure if that was the name of it either and in the late 80's got to ride on the 20,000 leagues under the sea ride again in florida and if i remember from my earlier trip they named the different lots and had trams to the park
WDW Magic Kingdom is low in the "classic" dark ride department these days. Peter Pan and Pooh are the only "classic" dark rides remaining. Little Mermaid doesn't count for this because it's in a totally different style. In my opinion, they need to bring back a reimagined version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (they could do so much with this idea) and maybe one other (Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, etc...). I think having at least 3 or 4 dark rides anchored in Disney's ultimate classic films is really what makes the Magic Kingdom or Disneyland park "magical."
You can spot my wife and I in a few of the still images. We are the ones wearing the Save Mr. Toad shirts with a Haunted Mansion style tombstone on the back. The epitaph reads "Here Lies Dear Old Mr. Toad. He Hit Some Pooh on The Road." The closing of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at WDW's Magic Kingdom was a sad day for me. Our family first visited WDW shortly after it opened. I was ten years old and Mr Toad's Wild Ride made quite an impression on me. That last day for the ride was bizarre. We could see and sense Disney's security all around us and the feeling of sadness among Toad's fans was palpable.
Thanks for sharing your memories! I imagine it was a pretty surreal experience that’s truly unique to Toads closure compared to others.
I heard sometime on that day, a kid threw a Pooh plush into the chicken coop during the ride!
“Grim” would be a better term.
@JustJoseph 🎩 • 101y ago I figure the design on the protestors' shirts may have inspired that particular gravestone.
man the story-line between stitch and yester is getting interesting.
Orange is the new Stitch
Yep
About yester his name is mark!
What can I say, we have a very complicated relationship...
I had no idea what on earth was going on and wanted to skip it a lot more than the short ad for NordVPN.
Dude I went on Mr Toad at Disneyland when I was like super young and I was not prepared for crashing into the train and going to hell
The_Hoagie Saaame 😶
I don't think any of us who went as kids were ready for that and slight trauma ensued
Phillip Miller Even now I get very uncomfortable going and I’m 25 lol, I feel like I’m being irrational about it but that ride always gets me anxious
My sister loved it, but I was terrified.
The_Hoagie me either. I cried
Another one I knew you might do soon. Though here's a fun fact: When Mr. Toad got replaced by Winnie the Pooh, it's a whole lot of irony since the authors of the books, A.A.Milne, and Kenneth Grahame were close friends, and in fact had the same illustrator, Ernest H Shephard.
Poetically ironic.
At least they knew who to turn to in bringing their creations to life. E. H. Shephard did wonders for both Pooh and Toad!
@@ChristopherSobieniak Yep.
That's adorable!
@@ChristopherSobieniak do you know galya peeva she was still saved Disney company class starts at Disney movies and Disneyland hotel room I just I want Hippocampus for Christmas movie and the kids Disney company would be there in
My favorite Mr. Toad experience was when my brother was about ten and I was a teenager. Our family had early admission for Disneyland one morning of our trip, so I took my brother over to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride immediately. We were the first on the ride, and the cast members let us on and sent us on our way. Almost right away, we realized that they hadn't yet turned on the sound. So my brother and I were alone on the silent ride, listening to the set pieces clack. It truly did feel like hell at the end. 10/10, absolutely recommend
My wife and I rode Space Mountain many years ago and there were teenagers in the car ahead of us. Their arms and legs were hanging all out of the car during the chain lift. The automatic "keep all hands and feet inside the car" warning was repeated several times, then a real human repeated it much more sternly. Still no action from the teens. The ride stopped, lights came on and security appeared from nowhere and yanked the kids out. After about a 10 minute delay, we were finally sent, but with the lights still on. You know those steel bars that seem really close on some of the turns and drops? They ARE really close! I don't recommend putting your arms up on that ride. Since we had to ride it with the lights on, they whooshed us straight back to the front of the line for an immediate re-ride with the lights off!
@@jagzrule1 so glad they payed attention and watched to make sure. Stupid teens being stupid ugh, they could a died
If you want context stitch stole marks Mickey book when he was investigating Mickey's Toontown and ran for the hills then went on a carriage and sang his song you heard in the beginning of the episode
Dude that is so awesome. What a morbid treat. I've rode it repeatedly and can't believe Peter Pan was so occupied. It's physically harsher and the story is intense and relatable. Drunk driving Mr. toad getting caught then sentenced, hit by a train, then ends in hell. It's so dope and should be realized and ridden by all!
@@jay5527He isn’t drunk, just a reckless driver.
Never thought id see the day where a group of people told Pooh to go to hell
Yeah, seriously. I love Mr. Toad, but I also like the Winnie the Pooh ride. Maybe it's because Pooh's one of my favorite Disney characters.
Kyle Morello I agree, they could of expand the park and put Winnie the Pooh ride somewhere else and still kept Mr. Toad. But sadly today kids probably never heard of Mr.Toad. I never saw the movie as well, I might have when I was a baby but I have to think long and hard that I did watch the movie. But I would love to go to the ride, it looks so fun. But seriously, are these people sick, why would you say Pooh go to hell. That is immature and just sick. It’s just going to make Disney not do it and listen.
No it's "heck" according to this guy.
@@puppyangel4346 or you can just go to Disneyland and ride both... 👀
Grey K There you go. That’s the correct way of doing it instead of protesting about it.
Actually surprised the Headless Horseman was never turned into a ride, it was a much more successful short.
Yeah, but WatW had more visually interesting set pieces for a dark ride. What does Sleepy Hollow have? A school house, a Halloween party, and getting chased through the woods until a Jack-o'-lantern burns you alive.
I was terrified of the Headless Horseman when I was a kid.
Yeah, and the story of this ride would fit much more for that short. Think about it! A crazy chase that ends with you dying, and since Ichabod was a golddigger, ending up in hell seems rather appropriate. That's my one problem with this ride. Did Toad really deserve this fate? Yes, he can be inconsiderate, and obsessive, but he's still honest and tries to do the right thing. I guess it just depends on your definition of morality.
I love that movie
It would’ve been fantastic if they made it
a sleepy hollow dark ride sounds like it would've been really cool...
It would be awesome now and perhaps even in the 80s probably not in the 50 and 60s. A shame that a modern Sleepy Hallow now wouldn't fare to well with the number of My god think of the children whiners.
I know I told my dad that at halloween and We have a Headless Horsemen Statue for halloween and it works and I said to my dad,Dad Shouldn’t they have put a sleepy hollow Ride in Disney-world/Disneyland? He replied yeah,So I think they should have
@@wickedlyg4linda 0:28 Poor Stitch
I always wanted to have seen it as a ride
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent *too
I will never understand why things are closed in the Magic Kingdom just to clear room for a new attraction..
Unlike the Anaheim park, Florida is BLESSED WITH ALMOST UNLIMITED ROOM...why they insist on closing popular rides when they can JUST EXPAND I just don’t get, especially since the park gets a Significantly larger attendance than even Disneyland, they can afford the extra attractions
* COUGH * * COUGH * the great movie ride * COUGH * * COUGH *
Probably because it's cheaper and easier to close a ride down and replace it with another than expanding. Expansion means that you have to landscape the new section, pave it, add planters, lay in new plumbing and electric lines, etc. A lot of effort for just one ride, effort better saved for adding a new land or expanding an existing one. Plus, there's the fact that adding a new ride to an expanded area would also mean that unless the land actually directly abuts the unused area and not backstage facilities of some kind, the backstage facilities would have to be moved too, otherwise the new ride might not sit directly in the land it's supposed to be in.
And with Disney World getting more and more crowded year after year, they SHOULD be expanding to accommodate the growing attendance.
They should tear down galaxy's edge and restore old rides there. All that money on building it was wasted. No one likes it.
@@TheItachiIshtar it's been more than half empty this summer.
Thank you for this. I'm the taller kid at 4:44 entering the ride. I did a Disneyland commercial back in the 80s. Great to see this footage! Thank you!
"Parents complained about it scaring children"
They die and go to Hell, I mean, Heck, I would HOPE they're scared xD
For real though, I was 4 or 5 years old when I went on the ride in Disneyland and it scared the crap out of me! But the adults had fun so 😂
Strangely enough, because I was a kid who was scared of EVERYTHING, my parents never complained to staff about rides or stuff scaring me. They just... ignored my quiet crying for the most part. lol
Edit- And, when I went back a few years later a little older and less terrified, those rides that had previously scared me became wonderful personal tests of courage!
Looking at you KAREN.
Meanwhile my mom likes to remind me that Hell scared the pants off me.
Thanks Mom
I cried for God to save me and I wasn't a sinner. My parents laughed because it was fake, but I thought faith had abandoned me at that point.
Dear Walt Disney Company,
Don’t even think about getting rid of Mr Toad in Disneyland.
Thanks,
Toad Fans
Damn right!
I agree! When I went to Disney World I notice they took it out. I was pissed I hate the Pooh it’s not as fun.
*Replaces Mr. Toad with Frozen ride*
@@rachelsilverstein7353 Try not to jynx it. They might listen.
@@katiebutler9927 Honestly, I think that's what they should do. Disneyland needs a Frozen ride desperately.
*Here Lies Toad, it's sad but true. Not nearly as marketable as Winnie the Pooh*
This saddening epitaph, is just a start. Thank you kindly, for your heart.
Poor Mr. Toad, he went and croaked.
Poor Mr. Toad, by Pooh he was chocked.
Haunted Mansion reference!
Bryce McKenzie true
His set was amazing and the story was cool,
But greed and money made Disney a tool.
You and DefunctLand are such comfort viewing for me. It's hard not to be impatient but then I remember that you do this for free. Thanks for helping me manage the constant stress of my life with fun, unusual knowledge.
Did anyone else read the headline below the Mr. Toad headline?
SAT scores point to possible grade inflation at high schools.
T G he’s got beef with SATs and so do I
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As of now there is no home video evidence of the original 1955 version of mr. Toad's wild Ride, except for some photos, 8mm souvenir film, and of course the movie 40 pounds of trouble.
I wouldn't doubt fans trying to film inside the ride with 8mm or 16mm home movie cameras probably wouldn't have gotten good shots given the poor lighting involved. Those cameras needed a good deal of light to work. If you see a lot of early videotaped ride sequences from the 80's, you'll not how the lighting still wasn't quite as good with those cameras as they may be today.
@@atsmithson They just didn't. I'm sure people then we're smart to know the lighting would be terrible to start with so nobody brought their cameras through the place. Don't forget the average home movie film only lasted a few minutes per roll as well, and not everyone may've had more than a few to go around.
@@ChristopherSobieniak what does the 1955 ride audio sound like?
@@atsmithson I don't know.
@@ChristopherSobieniak we all heard the 1983 version of mr.toad's wild ride audio
I remember The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. I'm originally from Sleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman made the town famous. It put it on the map. It's a great place to visit on Halloween, about 40 minutes north from NYC
I got married in Sleepy Hollow!
oh I didn t know that, now I'll make sure to visit someday, thanks for the information
as much as I like johnny depp's sleepy hollow, the disney one will always be the best
I watch it about every day during the holiday season and the songs are so good too
I've visited Sleepy Hallow. I wanted if I ever saw the Headless Horseman, to knock him off his horse and steal it.
8:41-8:48 - Flower and Thumper from Bambi waving at each other in Mr. Toad's motorcar, now that just made my day.
"The only Disneyland ride that would take you to Heck and back."
That should be the ride's motto, if it ever had...
Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride is a wild ride but it’s not the wildest ride in the wilderness
👏👏👏
(slow clap)
Michael Eisner I agree...
*hangs onto his hat & glasses*
Yeah though he wasn’t the best Disney hasn’t been making any attractions with original ideas it’s sad 😔
I remember being very, very young, in the mid ‘80s, in line for this ride for HOURS due to technical difficulties, and our family befriended a British family ahead of us in line. I got a crush on one of their daughters and we had a nice conversation while we waited, seemingly forever. The ride was fun, as was the Peter Pan ride that ultimately replaced it.
But I’ll always think of that British family and the insanely long wait time whenever I think of this ride.
That's so sweet. I love memories like that.
@@katelynbrown98 Thanks! :) Yeah, me too. Memories like that have a lovely way of staying with us.
Snow deserved more attention. At least they replaced Toad with another ride, they replaced Snow with a empty building.
Mr. Toad is my favorite ride in Fantasyland. Recently got to go on the ride again and all the nostalgia just came back
Marry Poppins would have been a fun ride. I bet it would have staid up too and remained popular. Maybe gotten a revamp for Poppins Returns. Don't know if the other options would have lasted.
I went on the Mr Toad ride at Magic Kingdom. One of few we road twice I remember as a Kid thinking the Track A and Track B thing happened because I was in full control of the vehicle. I thought I was struggling with difficult controls, choosing a path and avoiding obstacles.
I remember being convinced that because of the car and the Weasels that the Mr Toad replacement was Who Framed Rodger Rabbit.
sasamichan Agreed...
Along with a Sleeping Beauty dark ride!
This was the first Disneyland ride I ever went on. I was 3 years old and it made me cry.
At 6:06, that's Tony Curtis, who filmed "40 Pounds of Trouble" at Disneyland in 1962.
All of the people posting about how you're sad that you never got to ride it: don't fret. You can still ride Mr Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland in California.
At least that's still there.
I never got to personally ride Magic Kingdom's versions, and while the updated Disneyland version still exists, I'm still bitter I'll never get to experience either side...nor MK's Snow White for that matter. Bah humbug.
Yeah that's true. I know that's still there too. I love it a bunch!
Alexandre Phaneuf élève They never left!
Yes it does!
6:18
Hey look! Nixon's got a cameo in the video! Still an interesting ride documentary.
You finally followed up on the Stitch book storyline! Really enjoyed this episode. Hearing that we could've had a Sleepy Hollow ride though makes me sad. It would've been interesting to have two parts of the same "movie" (the package film era is a strange one) on different coasts.
Glad you enjoyed the conclusion to the Stitch book storyline! Was afraid people would be confused who hadn't seen Alice/Toontown, but also thought it'd be fun for those who had :)
Fantastic job on this video and a beautiful tribute to the original dark ride! Very enchanting and surreal. This was one of my favorite rides at Disneyland when I visited there years ago! Truly a unique experience and overall story!
This video brought back so many memories! As a child, we often visited my great-aunt in Lake Wales, and went to Disney World while we were there. Mr. Toad was one of my favorite rides. Just seeing those beer mugs spinning made me smile! I was unhappy when I heard it was being replaced, but I now live on the West Coast, so Disneyland is my family’s park now...where we can still enjoy Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.
Thanks for the wonderful video. Another great epic in the Stitch Saga as well!
The destruction of Snow White for a meet and greet has been the absolute worst
Magic Kingdom has enough meet and greets! They could’ve just refurbish the ride with new effects!
It's thankfully still in Disneyland Paris. Not sure if it's anywhere else. But hopefully so.
@@pierrebegley2746 in Disneyland California we still have the Snow White ride, it’s just been changed from Snow White’s Scary Adventures to Snow White’s Enchanted Wish
Yeah I fought hard for that ride.
I went on it in 2001 and 2006. I've never seen the movie, but I know how she trusts strangers with free food. I got to meet Snow and the queen in 2001. I asked Snow if she still had that brown dress from the start of the ride. I really liked that dress for some reason. And I asked the queen how she went back to normal after the dwarfs pushed her off the cliff as an ugly hag.
I love Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland (I was too young to ride it at WDW) and I've always been fascinated with the history of both versions -- so glad you made this video covering the whole thing!!
Love your channel, great content, keep up the great work!
I only watched The Wind in the Willows animated movie for the first time a few years ago, after growing up with the ride at Disneyland. I was shocked that Mr. Toad never gets flattened by a train and goes to Hell in the film. Why did they make that choice for the ride?
My family participated in a few weekly “Toad-in”s when I was little, a lot of the people in those photos are my parents’ friends. (IRC chat rooms also played a sizeable part in spreading the word and organizing protests.)
Then I grew up and I ended up working at Snow White’s Scary Adventures on the day it closed and seeing the other side of things. (There were a handful of protesters leading up to it, but day-of, it was mostly just a large crowd of people who spent the day just riding it over and over, including an autistic little boy who had ridden it thousands of times because it was his favorite ride.)
I know Ben's story! My favorite ride as an autistic girl was Space Mountain.
Mr Toads Wild Ride at Disneyland will always hold a place in my heart as the ride I puked in front of during the first trip to Disneyland that I remember. And remember literally nothing else from that trip.
My first time at Disney, i was so excited to ride Mr Toad, only to be told that they had closed the ride a week before. I was one truly disappointed little girl. Thank you for showing me what it looked like!
This brought back 15:24 childhood memories for me. We went to Disney World in Florida twice in my youth. I completely forgot about the 2 cars starting on 2 different tracks... and "crashing." I guess I was oblivious to the going to "heck" part.
The Magic Kingdom Wild Ride was one of my mom's favorites when she went as a little girl. She didn't keep up with the media buzz surrounding its closure, so you can imagine her disappointment when our family went to Disney World in '06 and found it was no longer there.
That plug at the end to Nord was so damn smooth
Toad is one of my favorite rides at Disneyland. It still scares me til this day
I love all these begining scenes with stitch they make the video that much better
I love that this ride is so popular, because there isn't a big Mr Toad/Wind in the Willows fandom out there keeping it going, it's just an awesome ride. I'd still go on it as an older kid, one of the things you go to Magic Kingdom for. It's a just a descent into madness that ends in possibly jail but always hell. How many Disney rides freaking kill you and send you to hell?
This brings back childhood memories. I grew up in Orange County back in the 60s and went to
Disneyland dozens of times ( Remember the old ticket books with A,B,C,D, and E tickets ??? )
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was probably my favorite ride .
I can't help but find this stuff so interesting!
I like the Beginning stitches grate escape that would make a great ride
Your intros are amazing and they are so creative! Keep up the good work!
Another splendid video!
I think it would be awesome to see a new Mr. Toad ride with a system similar to the famous "Wild Mouse" coaster model.
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Can you do a video on the history of The Little Mermaid attraction
White mermaids are so last millennium.
@@TiberianFiend Ginger mermaids.
Yeh that would be an interesting video I would wach it
I heard someone tried to that once, but got stopped by Chris Hanson and had to flee to Epcot
Your videos are always the best to watch!
Great video, as always. That train scene always had me ducking, when I was a kid. It's a pretty good effect.
My first few rides on _Mr. Toad's Wild Ride_ were just fun, but a couple of years later, I found the train thing to be scary and would have to close my eyes. It wasn't until I looked for the effect (the light of the "train" had turned off and I could see that it was just a light hanging from a track in the ceiling as we went by) that I was comfortable with that part again. This simple effect was very well done. All-in-all I really enjoyed the ride (track B I felt was much better than track A) and I do miss it. I'll have to see about getting myself back to Disneyland (been there all of one time).
I guess I should mention that all of my experience was in Walt Disney World.
I blame the weasels and their crooked contract.
Apparently Owl has a crooked contract too, if you know what I mean.
Your research and presentation is top notch. Great video!
Still bitter about Mr. Toad but at least I get to ride it once.... excellent transition into the Norred VPN sponsorship.
One of my favorite rides!! Sad it’s gone
I treasure our Mr Toad’s in Anaheim. I would be heartbroken if we lost it. But at least Orlando still has the Country Bears & their PeopleMover. Great video🥂🌟
Growing up in Florida my first time at Disney was in 1973 & right away Mr.Toad was one of my favorites & was disappointed when they closed it. Though next year I'm going to California & we are planning on going to Disney Land for the first time so I'll be able to ride the original at least.
At least it wasn't the Headless Horseman who stole Toad's spotlight.
Tbh, most people these days mostly remember this film for The Sleepy Hollow segment and apparently that seems to be the segment EVERYONE tends to like positively than the Wind in the Willows segment due to the darker themes and the Headless Horseman, much like how The Mickey and the Beanstalk segment from Fun and Fancy Free was well known instead of Bongo.
@@EChacon As much as I love Mr. Toad and his wild and wacky antics.....the Headless Horseman had freaking Bing Crosby. How was he supposed to compete with that?
@@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf Like I said before MOST people only remember this movie for the Sleepy Hollow segment due to the dark themes, the Headless Horseman and Bing Crosby doing the singing and narration just like how many people only remember and talk about Fun and Fancy Free for the Mickey and the Beanstalk segment.
@@EChacon Maybe for those who have actually seen the movie, but for everyone else (which I assume is most people), I'd argue it's the opposite. Disney has done a good job of making sure Mr Toad hasn't been forgotten thanks to not only this dark ride but also cameos in stuff like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and House of Mouse. Meanwhile, Sleepy Hollow is a lot more difficult to market since the most memorable part of the short is a guy being chased through a forest to his death, not to mention there are other adaptations competing for its attention (such as the Tim Burton movie and the episode of Wishbone, the latter of which was how I was introduced to the tale)
@@otaking3582 To each their own. But as I said before, EVERYONE tends react positively on the Sleepy Hollow segment than the Wind in the Willows segment from the movie due to the darker themes, the Headless Horseman, and Bing Crosby's singing and narration on this short, much like how The Mickey and the Beanstalk segment from Fun and Fancy Free was more well known than of Bongo.
Plus during the 70th anniversary of the film only released a CD audio book of Disney's Sleepy Hollow.
The quality of your videos are through the roof ! Another great one right here !!
I WANT TO GET OFF MR. TOAD'S WILD RIDE.
Come over to Disneyland California and see it yourself
Florida: I gotchu fam
YOU WILL STAY IM MR TOADS WILD RIDE FOREVER
Clever.
Mr.Toad is one of my favorite movies
“Disney was really emphasizing The Magic Kingdom as wholesome and politically correct”
*Splash Mountain has left the chat*
Now it's being replaced with Tiana.
Toad is such a huge part of my childhood. It was the first ever Disney movie I saw and I always wanted to go on Mr Toad’s Wild Ride but I haven’t been able to get to Disneyland or The Magic Kingdom since they’re so far away from me 😢
To all the disneylanders laughing at us without mr toad, just keep in mind.....
You have no peoplemover
Or Carousel of Progress.
Lol
Or The original Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
yotsubafanfan yea fr
damn that hit harddddddd, but you aint wrong
Yester's stich voice is epic
Floridians: *weep over Mr. Toad*
Me: *laughs in Californian*
The hell scene is better there anyway. More detail.
Floridians: laughs in peoplemover
I had a habit of taking tons of pictures while on almost every ride when my friends and I went to Disneyland in the 90's.While I'd never waste my time doing that now,I'm incredibly glad I did back then.☺️I have a fantastic collection of all these photos in a huge album.😁
I won’t lie.... I wish we had got to experience a Sleepy Hollow ride. That short always terrified me as a kid and I can only imagine given the Disney level of detail in their attractions just how immersive and spooky it would’ve been.
Very informative!!! That entrance to Hell where you go through the devil's mouth was removed at some point (maybe during the early '60s redo?) only to come back in three dimensions in '83 . I've always wondered why it was taken out? .......... I'm really sorry I never went on the WDW version with two tracks. I assumed it was a replica of the one at DL.
President Pooh is the reason Mr. Toad is gone....China is all over the place
Are you really Kim Jong-Un?
(I'm sorry I just want to know to be sure)
Juliana Esposito
Yeah he is. You can spot him in many youtube comment sections. He is about the only one in North Korea with access to the internet
@@thepepchannel7940
"About"
Not for long...
Kim Jong-un SHUT IT!
Good job, might be the first video I have ever seen you do, that Tim Tracker, the DIS or theme park history have not done, normally a week after the other sites
Tony Curtis and Suzanne Pleshette cool! "40 lbs of Trouble"
wonderful movie, I saw it at age 6 going to disneyland became my obsession, I had to wait two decades for the dream to come true
Great video, at 6:07 is that Tony Curtis? This and Peter Pan were my favorite Disneyland rides when I was a kid.
*"Hey, be fair. EVERYONE wants Mr. Toad's Wild Ride."*
-Brodie Bruce
I grew up in Orlando and got to ride 20,000 Leagues a few times when I was REALLY young and Mr. Toad's a bunch of times throughout the 90s - I'm glad I got to ride them when I could! I'd like to check out Disneyland one day - among other things it'd be cool to ride their version of Mr. Toad
I rode this when I was in second grade and loved it. I was also obsessed with the wind in the willows at that time.
This is a great, iconic dark ride. Cant we just appreciate it for what it is?
Also, some of the mounted heads from the trophy room were from It’s A Small World!
Yesterworld, it would be really cool if you could do an interview with the guy who spearheaded the protests and made the SaveToad website. It'd be very interesting to hear his thoughts on the whole experience: as well as on all the changes that have occurred at WDW since then.
What if we were to close an original fantasyland ride? Ha ha ha just kidding
Unless...
Wait, so the ride is set in England?
But the railway crossing reads "Railroad"?
I've heard so much about Mr. Toad' s Ride and the film with the fiddle playing and fast driving Toad. Another informative and entertaining video. Keep it up!
Love Mr Toad!!! Its in my top 3 favorite rides! I would love to see it get an upgrade but its okay if they don't as long as it stays
I vaguely remember WDW Toad ride, but am very glad Disneyland still has theirs and hopefully it is not going anywhere. It is a Walt opening day attraction there and iconic to that Park.
I went to Disneyland for the first time last year and it was the first time in 20 years that I got to ride Mr. Toad and it made me so purely happy
One of my greatest disappointments in visiting WDW (from the west coast) back in the day was that the two-track Toad attraction was already closed. THANK YOU for preserving the history of an almost-memory.
i remember my parents took me and my brother to disney world in the late 70's and got to ride this and some of the other rides and shows, like the the matterhorn, the jungle land safari, the tropical bird show, the race track ride( similar to a big go kart race) dont remember the name of the ride, the haunted mansion with the mirrors that showed ghost characters in between you and the other rider, dumbo, the country bears show not sure if that was the name of it either and in the late 80's got to ride on the 20,000 leagues under the sea ride again in florida and if i remember from my earlier trip they named the different lots and had trams to the park
Love the video and thanks for saving stitch!
The Stitch bits KILLED ME lolol
I would really want to see a full version of Stitch’s song
The sun has set on the Toad Era. 🙁
I so love The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Would have love for that ride to have been made.
You should do it's a small world next
I remember riding this as a kid. I’m sad it’s gone!
I still have the "motormania is not a crime" postcard on my fridge. RIP Toad Hall
I think the biggest improvement Disney made to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was removing Richard Nixon from the attraction 7:33
WDW Magic Kingdom is low in the "classic" dark ride department these days. Peter Pan and Pooh are the only "classic" dark rides remaining. Little Mermaid doesn't count for this because it's in a totally different style. In my opinion, they need to bring back a reimagined version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (they could do so much with this idea) and maybe one other (Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, etc...). I think having at least 3 or 4 dark rides anchored in Disney's ultimate classic films is really what makes the Magic Kingdom or Disneyland park "magical."
1:58 Wow for a second I thought Walt was Bela Lugosi 😂 they did look pretty similar (minus the mustache)