toad's wild ride disney former rides the wind in the willows the legend of sleepy hollow forgotten disney rides disney throw back thursday disney TBT disney throw-back-thursday magic kingdom TBT magic kingdom throw-back-thursday magic kingdom throw back thursday Mr toad's wild ride magic kingdom lost rides magic kingdom mr. Toad and Ichabod are sorely missed, in the Magic Kingdom and on the Disney Channels. You can still go to Disneyland if you want to experience it in person. I found a video of the ride for those that never got the opportunity to do so (this video is actually of the ride in California, but close enough). (I don’t agree with the popularity thing) And even though you can’t get close enough to see it, there is allegedly an epitaph that reads: In the upper most left corner, you’ll see a familiar face. TRIVIA!! When you come out of the Haunted Mansion at the Magic Kingdom, there is a small pet cemetery on the left. They ripped and gutted the whole thing in the early 80′s and gave it a new facade as well. Unlike the Magic Kingdom, Disneyland still has a working Mr. But I have ridden it at Disneyland several times since. You can’t see anything but that light and you hear the train sounds and whistles as you go under it. And it was the simplest effect: A bright, round light that looked like you would imagine a light on the front of a train would, “ran over” you as you left the ride. I was just sure we were going to get flattened by the train every time. The one part of the ride that used to scare the crap out of me, regardless of how many times we went on it, was the train. Numerous characters and scenes came out of the movie, of course. A lot of the ride was basically flat art work stacked to give it dimension and painted with florescent colors which glowed under a black light as you road through the ride (and you glowed if you were wearing white). Oh, and of course he let me drive! (The ride was on a track, but you could spin that wheel as much as you wanted) The passenger cars were similar to a Model T (I believe the story takes place around 1910?), brightly painted, with ‘leather’ seats and each car had a character’s name on the front. Once again, my grandpa and bestest Disney buddy always took me on the ride. Although the outside of the ride changed a couple of times over the years, the inside stayed the same, although I read somewhere that whichever track you wound up on (left or right) there were a few variations. That could have been really cool.īack to the ride. I always wished they had done a ride for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Maybe if they had diligently continued to play it every year, perhaps the newer generations would have enjoyed it as well and then maybe they wouldn’t have closed the ride for freakin’ Winnie the Pooh! If you haven’t seen it at least once, see if you can get it on Netflix. To this day, I still look for it at Halloween time, but truthfully, finding it now is really difficult. The animated duo came out in 1949 and featured Bing Crosby (singing and narrating) and Basil Rathbone. Toad portion) and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The “double-feature” (sort of) consisted of The Wind in the Willows (the Mr. One of the traditions I looked forward to each year was watching The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. I was born in 1971 and Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. I think one of the causes for the demise of this ride was generational. I do not like Winnie the Pooh and have boycotted that ride for, basically, ever. This was one of my favorite rides, and even though many fans like me were unhappy, it closed in 1998 to make room for It was considered a “dark ride” and was rated as a “C” ticket ride. Toad’s was one of the opening attractions at Disneyland, and due to it’s popularity, it was also an original ride at the Magic Kingdom in 1971. Today’s Throw-Back-Thursday goes out to Mr. I did actually try to do a post on Saturday or Sunday, but Tumblr was not cooperating for some reason. After being on the road for 10 day, I just wanted to sit around and catch up on my DVR for a couple of days. Hi, everybody! I know I’ve been slacking this week a bit, and I have a ton of excuses I could give, but basically it boils down to laziness.
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