About this ride
The motorcar hurls through escalating disasters ending in the underworld complete with pitchfork-wielding demons and flames. It's a genuinely bizarre ending for a family ride and it's completely intentional. Frenetic, strange, hilarious, and irreplaceable.
Best time to ride
Any time — waits are short. Good as a 15-minute filler between priority rides.
Insider tips
- Read Mr. Toad's epitaph in the Haunted Mansion queue — there's a cross-ride joke between the two attractions.
- The macabre ending (sent to Hell) is completely intentional and original to the 1955 design.
- Disney World demolished their version in 1998 — that made this version even more precious.
What to know before you ride
- Mild darkness.
- A few startling pop-out moments.
- The Hell finale scene includes fire, demons, and a devil — can alarm very young children.
Good for
Mateo's Take
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is irreplaceable, and I use that word carefully. When Disney World built their version in 1971 and then demolished it in 1998 to make room for Winnie the Pooh, Disneyland's version became the only Mr. Toad's Wild Ride on earth. That alone gives it a significance that transcends whether a wild motorcar ride through 1955 England is the most technically impressive thing in the park. The ride is chaotic, strange, and deliberately absurd. You get hit by a train and sent to Hell, which is a genuinely bizarre ending for a family-friendly attraction, and that irreverence was completely intentional in 1955 and has aged better than most things from that era. Every time I walk through Fantasyland I make a point of riding this. It takes 3 minutes. The line is almost never long. There is no other Mr. Toad's Wild Ride anywhere in the world. That is the entire argument.
— Mateo, Lead Disney Parks Specialist
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