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10 years ago today...
...Mr. Toad took his last wild ride.
R.I.P.
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
(October 1, 1971 to September 7, 1998)
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RIP Mr. Toad. I miss you!
Kathy șoș
LET'S GO BUCS!
Next trip - June '14
Past trips:
6/13, 4/13, 7/12, 7/11, 1/11, 8/10, 7/09, 3/09, 8/08, 8/07, 12/06, 9/05, 7/03, 7/98, 5/96, 8/93, '70's X 2
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I still miss that ride.
July'05 - Offsite
July '06 - AKl
April '07 - offsite
July 08 ~ AKV!
April 09 - SSR 1st time as DVC Member!
July 09 - AKL-Kadani Village/SSR...
Dec.'09- AKV
May '10- Beach Club
June '11- AKL
July '13- AKL
Feb 14 - Wilderness Lodge/Bay Lake Towers
October 15-AKL
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YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST TO PASS THIS VAY, NOR SHALL YOU BE THE LAST.
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I wouldn't mind taking another spin on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Next WDW Trip: July 13 - 22, 2016 Wilderness Lodge
"There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow shining at the end of every day!"
"Let's Don't be Silly..." - The Mad Hatter
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Sad, but I miss some other rides much more.
1975-2000 Family Trips, FW
Nov 2005- FW
June 2006- FW
Feb 2007- FW
Dec 2007- POFQ
Feb 2008- POR
July 2008- WL
Dec 2008- FW
Feb 2012- POFQ
Herb
Proud Passholder
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I wouldn't mind taking another spin on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Just another reason to take a trip to Disneyland. Mr. Toad is alive and kicking there.
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"Here You Leave Today and Enter the World of Yesterday, Tomorrow and Fantasy!"
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Originally Posted by PolyGirl40
Just another reason to take a trip to Disneyland. Mr. Toad is alive and kicking there.
Yeah Guys, head to the left coast, and you will be able to experience Mr. Toad and his ride through purgatory...
Sad that it's gone in WDW, but Pooh is not a terrible ride. I always try to keep it in perspective - Walt welcomed changes. He wanted his parks to expand and reinvent themselves. Numerous rides have been taken away from Florida (some for the better, some not).
Sure I miss Mr. Toad, but I'm spoiled, I get to ride it each summer...
Frank
DVC Owner
BWV, BCV, SSR
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at least we can ride it in CA...he lives on there
Countless Disneyland trips
May 2000 Honeymoon 1st DW Trip
April 2001 AS Music
May 2003 Off-site
December 2003 AS Movies
July 2004 Disneyland
December 2005 AS Movies
September 2007 Pop
March 2009 Pop
Christmas 2010 Movies
June 2011 off-site
Christmas 2012 Caribbean Beach
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I would much rather ride Toad than Pooh
Guess I need to schedule another trip to Disneyland
Jeff (aka JPL)
Former VMK alias figgiefig
Intercot Staff
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"Remember it all started with a Mouse"
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Originally Posted by brianlw71
good riddance.
LOL! Not a response I was expecting!
Too many trips to keep track of now! Vacation WDW twice a year so any questions ask freely ☺️
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Originally Posted by brianlw71
good riddance.
I've never understood the love affair with this ride. We rode this on our honeymoon when we were there in 1994 and didn't care for it and skipped it in 1997. My kids love Pooh and can relate to it a lot better than Mr. Toad so I treat this as a day to celebrate a new beginning.
'94 & '97 Off Site
'98, '04 & '07 PO - Riverside
'00 Polynesian I '01 Contemporary
'02 Animal Kingdom Lodge I '03 All Star Movies
'05, '08 & '09 Pop Century I '06 Wilderness Lodge
Next 9/18 PO - French Quarter
"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." ~ Walt Disney
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Originally Posted by Jeff G
I've never understood the love affair with this ride. We rode this on our honeymoon when we were there in 1994 and didn't care for it and skipped it in 1997. My kids love Pooh and can relate to it a lot better than Mr. Toad so I treat this as a day to celebrate a new beginning.
If you have the time, I highly recommend reading Mike Lee's article on the ride located at widenyourworld.net. It's one of the few articles I've read that does the ride justice and provides some insight as to why it was so beloved.
Winnie the Pooh is indeed a good attraction, but when one takes away the special effects and glossy sets, it is basically a recapitulation of the film. Despite it's technological limitations, I thought Toad was a more genuine and involving experience. It didn't follow the narrative of it's source film at all, but instead was like some absurd dream that defied all constructs reason and rationality. The plywood visuals were very simple, abstract, yet as kinetic as the fiberglass figures in Peter Pan's Flight or Snow White's Adventures (the 1993 incarnation). While those rides tried to replicate the three-dimensionality of live-action film, Toad embraced the flat, two-dimensionality of hand drawn animation to support it's outlandish premise. In this respect, riding Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was very much like riding through a cartoon. In addition to it's style, the ambigous "narrative" left a lot of room for guests to transpose their own interpretation and imagination upon the ride. With this in consideration, few attractions have been as attuned to the spirit of children's imagination as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and ultimately I think that's what made the ride really special.
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RIP Mr Toad. Sorry we never knew you
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Stephanie șoș
Next up:
11/11/11
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'the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love & duty are one, then grace is in you & you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
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Originally Posted by Toad
If you have the time, I highly recommend reading Mike Lee's article on the ride located at widenyourworld.net. It's one of the few articles I've read that does the ride justice and provides some insight as to why it was so beloved.
Thanks for the website info. It is now in my favorites.
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One of the reasons we made a trip out to DLR this summer was to try any ride that WDW doesn't have anymore or never had.
RIP Mr. Toad.
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I seems like yesterday DSis and I were riding it! RIP Mr Toad - someday we will visit you in DLR!
#35 - SSR 05/16
34 trips
2015 SSR
2014 GFV & CBR/ToT 10mi!
2013 DWL & POFQ
2012 Bdwlk & SSR
2010, 2011 OKW
2009 BLT & SSR
2008 SSR & AKV
2007 SSR 2x
2006 SSR 2x
'05 DVC!SSR/DCL
'03,'04, '07 POP
'98, '99 ASMo
'95, '96 2x, '97, '98 ASMu
'89-'94 Off
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Someone should go see him at HM, put flowers down or something
1999 -2005 Former CM at Space Mtn and Caricature artist at AK and Resorts
Jan 06 BC/Cruise/ASM
Sept 06 Pop
April 07 Pop
Dec. 07 Caribbean Beach
Aug 09 Pop
May 10 Pop
Jan 12 - Dolphin - WDW Half Marathon 1:44:45
Sept 12 - ToT run and MNSSHP - Pop
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Originally Posted by Toad
If you have the time, I highly recommend reading Mike Lee's article on the ride located at widenyourworld.net. It's one of the few articles I've read that does the ride justice and provides some insight as to why it was so beloved.
Winnie the Pooh is indeed a good attraction, but when one takes away the special effects and glossy sets, it is basically a recapitulation of the film. Despite it's technological limitations, I thought Toad was a more genuine and involving experience. It didn't follow the narrative of it's source film at all, but instead was like some absurd dream that defied all constructs reason and rationality. The plywood visuals were very simple, abstract, yet as kinetic as the fiberglass figures in Peter Pan's Flight or Snow White's Adventures (the 1993 incarnation). While those rides tried to replicate the three-dimensionality of live-action film, Toad embraced the flat, two-dimensionality of hand drawn animation to support it's outlandish premise. In this respect, riding Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was very much like riding through a cartoon. In addition to it's style, the ambigous "narrative" left a lot of room for guests to transpose their own interpretation and imagination upon the ride. With this in consideration, few attractions have been as attuned to the spirit of children's imagination as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and ultimately I think that's what made the ride really special.
I wasn't intending to offend anyone with my reply. We have no nostalgic connection to this ride and the time we did it we found it outdated and boring. I can understand though that this ride could be missed by many in a similar way that many of us miss Horizons.
'94 & '97 Off Site
'98, '04 & '07 PO - Riverside
'00 Polynesian I '01 Contemporary
'02 Animal Kingdom Lodge I '03 All Star Movies
'05, '08 & '09 Pop Century I '06 Wilderness Lodge
Next 9/18 PO - French Quarter
"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." ~ Walt Disney
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