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Mickey's Toontown Fair Closing
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Lord Pheonix
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ok, pics of dl's toontown please
sponono88
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Geomorph at MiceChat has a good photo overview of the land, click here to see the full post.
The fun thing about Mickey's ToonTown is the many interactive elements and hidden gags found throughout. The Power House with the door that shocks you, the fireworks at the Fireworks Warehouse, City Hall with its music playing every hour - it also makes an announcement every time a character comes out of the building.
Wilt Dasney
Well-Known Member
I pointed this out in another post, but the whole place has had a temporary feel since it was built up. It started out celebrating Mickey's birthday, then became a promotion for The Disney Afternoon, and finally settled for the weird country fair vibe when it became Toontown. No sense of permanence in any of that. It was cute, but it needs to go.
The Barnstormer will still be there with a different theme, and there's been talk around here of reviving the Mouse Houses over at DHS — but I think that's just a fan rumor at this point.
The Barnstormer will still be there with a different theme, and there's been talk around here of reviving the Mouse Houses over at DHS — but I think that's just a fan rumor at this point.
imagineer boy
Well-Known Member
I really, really, wish they were building a Toon Town similar to the one in DL instead of replacing it with a stupid fairy land based off of a failing franchise.
I've been to the DL Toon Town, and pictures just don't do the justice. Almost everything talks, everything is interactive, there's gags every where (think the Muppets waiting room x10), its just amazing! Why can't we friggin have it?!!?! :brick:
I've been to the DL Toon Town, and pictures just don't do the justice. Almost everything talks, everything is interactive, there's gags every where (think the Muppets waiting room x10), its just amazing! Why can't we friggin have it?!!?! :brick:
Wilt Dasney
Well-Known Member
Space, maybe? :shrug:
TTF really is in a tiny area. (Of course, DL went outside the railroad tracks with theirs.)
Remember that this was set up as a temporary land. It slowly grew as Disney Mgmt. realized that people liked the new meet & greet locations. I see here that some people don't like it, but that's ok because you don't have to walk through it to get anywhere else. It's a great place for kids to meet the mouse himself (when I say kids, I mean us cool adults too who love the mouse) and a fun place to look around.
CA toontown is their permanent home. Florida is a summer home (thus the fair) where they are just visiting.
Anyway, I am on the list of those who will miss it. Maybe some day they'll have new vacation homes in another area of MK.
:wave:
CA toontown is their permanent home. Florida is a summer home (thus the fair) where they are just visiting.
Anyway, I am on the list of those who will miss it. Maybe some day they'll have new vacation homes in another area of MK.
:wave:
_Scar
Active Member
I like this expansion over the idea DL's Toontown for a few reasons:
1.) Mermaid > Roger Rabbit (huge fan of both, but I love all the songs from Mermaid)
2.) Cinderella's Chateau > Mickey's home (I feel if any character represents the MK it's Cinderella and knowing that her home is facing the castle just like in the movie makes me so happy)
3.) Beast's Restaurant... compares with nothing in Toontown, it looks like E-ticket dining
4.) I'd rather meet face characters than characters who are very common (the fab 6) around the world, more room for memorable experiences ratehr than awkward pantomiming
5.) Beautiful, realistic landscaping/architecture > cartoony landscape/architecture
6.) Toon Lagoon offers all of the silly photo ops I need... and then some
1.) Mermaid > Roger Rabbit (huge fan of both, but I love all the songs from Mermaid)
2.) Cinderella's Chateau > Mickey's home (I feel if any character represents the MK it's Cinderella and knowing that her home is facing the castle just like in the movie makes me so happy)
3.) Beast's Restaurant... compares with nothing in Toontown, it looks like E-ticket dining
4.) I'd rather meet face characters than characters who are very common (the fab 6) around the world, more room for memorable experiences ratehr than awkward pantomiming
5.) Beautiful, realistic landscaping/architecture > cartoony landscape/architecture
6.) Toon Lagoon offers all of the silly photo ops I need... and then some
Dancing Queen
New Member
Wow, the DL Toontown does look amazing and so much fun. Then again, I'm a WDW CM so I'll just settle for our Toontown until it's closed then make a trek up to Anaheim.
SirGoofy
Member
Get rid of the meet and gre-ahem-Experiences in FLE, keeping only Mermaid and the BatB restaurant, and I think there's plenty of room for a proper Toontown with a Roger Rabbit sized D-ticket. Heck at least that would give 2 D-tickets.
Wilt Dasney
Well-Known Member
The place at IOA with the giant comics pages? No offense, man, but I don't think there's any comparison between that and DL's Toontown. I don't even think of Toontown as being about character meetings, like TTF is. It's just a fun place to explore in its own right.
rodserling27
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The only reason I have ever set foot in Toontown is to meet the Mouse himself when it was convenient (and his ladymouse, of course). To tell you the truth, I can count on one hand the number of times I've even gone NEAR Toontown, so I will not miss it. I have little use for it, and I'm excited for the Fantasyland expansion. Adios, Toontown Fair!!
_Scar
Active Member
There's much more than "giant comic pages". and I think I've seen all of the Toontown photo ops, and I've seen all of the Toon Lagoon ones. Toon Lagoon wins :animwink: I love the dog leash one!
imagineer boy
Well-Known Member
Well, the Toon Town in TDL is almost exactly like DL's so that throws that story line out the window. :lol: Seriously though, I really don't think Disney should take the story lines of their lands and attractions THAT seriously.
How do you know it will be preferable over Toon Town? It hasn't even been built yet.
I think they could easily reroute the reailroad tracks just a bit and there'd be plenty of room.
Too many meet and greets, lets get shows and attractions. Would love to see Roger Rabbit get an attraction
WishIwasThere
Active Member
Anything that started out as:
Mickey's Birthday Land
Just needs to go. Its a 22 year old temporary land. Can't wait for FL expansion.
Mickey's Birthday Land
Just needs to go. Its a 22 year old temporary land. Can't wait for FL expansion.
hammysammy59
New Member
What's that, no room for a DLR style Toon Town in the Magic Kingdom? Oh that's okay, I think it'd be a better fit for DHS anyway.
Wilt Dasney
Well-Known Member
I believe Disneyland's Toontown actually developed partially out of an idea to install a Roger Rabbit themed area at (what was then) Disney-MGM Studios.What's that, no room for a DLR style Toon Town in the Magic Kingdom? Oh that's okay, I think it'd be a better fit for DHS anyway.
Briefly, Roger was supposed to star in Hollywoodland behind Disneyland's Main Street and get several attractions at the Studios in Florida and in Tokyo. Those projects were all cancelled after the Paris park turned out to be a financial debacle in its early days.
Meanwhile, Mickey's Birthdayland was a hit at the Magic Kingdom, so the concept for a Roger Rabbit area was combined with the Birthdayland format to create Mickey's Toontown at Disneyland...and then later at Tokyo. Of course, Birthdayland was eventually re-tooled into Mickey's Toontown Fair.
In the end, Anaheim and Tokyo got full-fledged Toontowns, while Florida had to settle for a watered down version without the Roger Rabbit theme. The Studios never got anything it was originally supposed to.
Bottom line, a real Toontown at Disney's Hollywood Studios would be fitting. In a way, it would represent a coming full circle of the idea that helped lead to all the Toontowns.