Mickey's Toontown
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At the Magic Kingdom, Mickey's Toontown Fair initially opened as Mickey's Birthdayland on June 18, 1988. It became Mickey's Starland on May 26, 1990, and Mickey's Toontown Fair on October 1, 1996. Its storyline portrayed the land as the holiday home for the characters who reside at Mickey's Toontown in California.

Mickey's Toontown Fair closed permanently in February of 2011 in order to make way for the expansion of Magic Kingdom's
Magic Kingdom
Magic Kingdom Park is one of four theme parks at the Walt Disney World Resort located near Orlando, Florida. The first park built at the resort, Magic Kingdom opened Oct. 1, 1971. Designed and built by WED Enterprises, the park's layout and attractions are similar to Disneyland in Anaheim, California...

 Fantasyland. Some elements of Mickey's Toontown Fair will be demolished and others will be re-themed to a new Storybook Circus area. An expanded Dumbo the Flying Elephant
Dumbo the Flying Elephant (ride)
Dumbo the Flying Elephant is a carousel-style ride located in Fantasyland at five Disney parks around the world. The original attraction opened at Disneyland in October of 1955, three months after the park opened...

 ride will be built with an interactive queue. The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm will be re-themed to The Great Goofini.

Former Attractions and Entertainment

  • Mickey's Country House
  • Minnie's Country House
  • The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm
    The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm
    The Great Goofini is an upcoming junior roller coaster. It will be located in Storybook Circus at the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort...

  • Donald's Boat
  • Pixie Hollow
    Pixie Hollow
    Pixie Hollow is a character meet and greet attraction at Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, and Hong Kong Disneyland offering guests the opportunity to dine with Tinker Bell from the Disney Fairies franchise.-Disneyland:...

  • Judge's Tent
  • Toontown Hall of Fame
  • Walt Disney World Railroad
    Walt Disney World Railroad
    The Walt Disney World Railroad is a narrow gauge railroad circling the Magic Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World Resort. Operated by Main Street Operations, the gauge, 1.5-mile railroad circles the entire park with stations at Main Street, U.S.A. and Frontierland, and formerly at the...


Former Shopping

  • Cornelius Coot's County Bounty
  • Mickey's Toontown Fair Souvenirs
  • Toontown Farmer's Market

Disneyland

Mickey's Toontown opened in Disneyland on January 24, 1993. The area is themed to the Toontown seen in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters...

, and resembles a set from a Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer was an American animator. He was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios...

 cartoon. The buildings are stylized and colorful. There are several attractions involving classic cartoon characters, such as the houses of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and a small children's coaster. There are a few interactive gags. Compared to other Disneyland areas however, there are few large or technically complex rides or shows, and the houses themselves appeal primarily as playhouses for small children.

Early entry events are held here for guests booking travel with the American Automobile Association (AAA).

Attractions and Entertainment

  • Chip 'n Dale Treehouse
  • Disneyland Railroad
    Disneyland Railroad
    The Disneyland Railroad , originally the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad, is a narrow gauge railroad at Disneyland, Anaheim, California, United States, that was inaugurated on the park's live television preview on July 17, 1955. This live steam railway was constructed for $240,000; each of the...

  • Donald's Boat
  • Gadget's Go Coaster
    Gadget's Go Coaster
    Gadget's Go Coaster is a roller coaster at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California and Tokyo Disneyland theme park, located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, near Tokyo. The ride is based on the work of the popular character Gadget Hackwrench from the 1989 Walt Disney Television Animation cartoon,...

  • Goofy's Playhouse
  • Mickey's House and Meet Mickey
  • Minnie's House
  • Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin
    Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin
    Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin is a dark ride at the Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland theme parks. The ride is based on the 1988 Academy Award-winning film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Both versions of the attraction are located in Mickey's Toontown...


Former Attractions and Entertainment

  • Chip 'n Dale's Acorn Pit
  • Goofy's Bounce House (re-themed to Goofy's Playhouse)
  • Toon Park

Tokyo Disneyland

Toontown opened in Tokyo Disneyland on April 15, 1996. It is essentially a copy of Mickey's Toontown at Disneyland, with a mirror image of its layout.

Attractions and Entertainment

  • Mickey's House and Meet Mickey
  • Minnie's House
  • Goofy's Bounce House
  • Donald's Boat
  • Chip 'n Dale's Treehouse
  • Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin
    Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin
    Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin is a dark ride at the Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland theme parks. The ride is based on the 1988 Academy Award-winning film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Both versions of the attraction are located in Mickey's Toontown...

  • Gadget's Go Coaster
  • Toon Park

Restaurants

  • Dinghy Drinks
  • Toon Pop
  • Out of Bounds Ice Cream
  • Good Time Cafe
  • Daisy's Snack Wagon
  • Mickey's Trailer
  • Goofy's Drink Stand
  • Pop-A-Lot Popcorn

In popular culture

  • Mickey's Toontown inspired an online role-playing game
    Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
    Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....

     called Toontown Online
    Toontown Online
    Disney's Toontown Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by The Walt Disney Company and billed as the first such game intended for kids and families. Designed for children as young as seven, but teens and adults also play this, the depth of the game's content has drawn...

    , which was released in 2003. The online game is similar to Mickey's Toontown.

  • In the Wii game Epic Mickey, OsTown was inspired by Mickey's Toontown. However, OsTown features more "dog-faces", two pirates, an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
    Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
    Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an anthropomorphic rabbit and animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films distributed by Universal Pictures in the 1920s and 1930s...

     fountain, and Clarabelle Cow
    Clarabelle Cow
    Clarabelle Cow is a Disney fictional character within the Mickey Mouse universe of characters. Clarabelle Cow was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks in 1928. Clarabelle is one of Minnie Mouse's best friends and is usually depicted as the girlfriend of Horace Horsecollar, although she has also...

    .

  • In July 2011, for the television program Curb Appeal: The Block
    Curb Appeal
    Curb Appeal is a half-hour TV series that has aired on HGTV in the United States from 2002 to the present, exploring how a house's outside "curb appeal" will be updated. Various hosts over the years , talk the viewer through the planned improvements...

    , designer and host John Gidding
    John Gidding
    John Gidding is an American architect, television actor and former fashion model.-Biography:Gidding was born in Istanbul, Turkey to an American father and a Turkish mother. He lived in Turkey until moving to the United States for college after attending Leysin American School in Leysin, Switzerland...

    installed a comical Toontown-style railing on the front porch of an Alameda, California home. Despite the frequent chuckles it provided to friends and neighbors, it was quietly removed and replaced by a more appropriate railing.
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