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Plywood Hurts if You Hit it Hard Enough — Mr Toad’s Wild Ride: The Lowdown on the Plus-Up, Episode 14
Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride (1955) is a beloved Fantasyland attraction that is so chaotic that it actually escapes the boundaries of the film’s own story.
Packed into the smallest space of any opening day Disneyland dark ride, it serves as a callback to a nineteenth century Parisian entertainment, a model for the creative use of black lights and fluorescent paints, and the launch of the career of, arguably, the most important Imagineer of all time.
Put on your driving gloves and embrace a healthy disrespect for authority as Pete and Kelly discuss, Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride!
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Kelly McCubbin is a columnist for Boardwalk Times