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{{Infobox attraction
| name = Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
| park = [[Disneyland Park]]
| land = Fantasyland
| type = Dark ride
| opened = July 17, 1955
| designer = WED Enterprises
| height = None
| status = Operating
}}

'''Mr. Toad's Wild Ride''' is a dark ride in Fantasyland at [[Disneyland Park]] in the [[Disneyland Resort]], California. Opened with the park on July 17, 1955, it is loosely based on the ''Wind in the Willows'' segment of Disney's 1949 animated package film ''The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad'', itself adapted from Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel. Riders take the role of J. Thaddeus Toad on a reckless motorcar drive through the English countryside. The attraction is one of the few remaining rides in operation since Disneyland's opening day, although the present version dates from the Fantasyland reconstruction of 1983.

== Design ==
Unlike the other early Fantasyland dark rides, which restage their films, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride does not retell a story in sequence. Designed principally by Ken Anderson and Claude Coats under art director Bill Martin, the original 1955 version was built largely from painted plywood flats and simple effects, and ran for about ninety seconds. It cast the rider as Toad himself, an approach shared with the opening-day versions of [[Snow White's Enchanted Wish]] and [[Peter Pan's Flight]], in which the title characters did not initially appear.

The 1983 rebuild gave the attraction a new façade styled as Toad Hall, the character's stately home, with a weathervane figure of Toad above the entrance and a Latin motto in the queue. Inside, the rebuilt ride lengthened the route, added dimensional sets and figures, and gave each vehicle its own name drawn from the film's characters, painted on the motorcars guests board.

== Experience ==
The drive begins inside Toad Hall, bursts through its library and out into the countryside, scattering farm animals and narrowly missing a hay cart. In London the motorcar weaves through traffic, crashes into a pub, is pursued by police through a courtroom scene in which a judge sentences Toad, and escapes onto railway tracks. The ride's most discussed moment follows: the car is struck by an oncoming train, the scene goes black, and riders find themselves in a stylised hell, complete with a grinning devil figure resembling the judge, before the ride ends. This conclusion appears in neither Grahame's novel nor the film and was devised for the attraction. The ride lasts about two minutes.

== The Florida version ==
A second Mr. Toad's Wild Ride opened with the [[Magic Kingdom]] at Walt Disney World on October 1, 1971, unusual in having two separate tracks with different scene sequences. Its closure on September 7, 1998, prompted organised protests by fans, including a campaign to save the ride that drew press attention; the building was replaced by The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1999. A portrait of Toad handing over a deed appears inside the replacement ride as a tribute, and a statue of Toad stands in the pet cemetery of the Magic Kingdom's Haunted Mansion. The Disneyland version is now the only one operating.

== See also ==
* [[Snow White's Enchanted Wish]]
* [[Pinocchio's Daring Journey]]
* [[Disneyland Park]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Attractions]]
[[Category:Disneyland Park]]
[[Category:Dark rides]]
[[Category:1955 establishments in California]]

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride - Revision history

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