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Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway is a new attraction in Disney World’s Hollywood Studios, and it is slated to open in Disneyland park in 2023!

Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway Sign

The ride — which is the first ride-through attraction starring Mickey Mouse himself — features an original storyline and an original song. In Walt Disney World, it operates in the Chinese Theatre that serves as the Park’s centerpiece in Hollywood Studios. (Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway has replaced The Great Movie Ride, which closed in August 2017.)

Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway sign

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway utilizes what Disney is calling 2½D (as opposed to 2D or 3D) technology that brings the ride’s two-dimensional cartoons to life in a brand new way in a trackless dark ride.

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway celebrated its Grand Opening in Hollywood Studios on March 4th, 2020. The attraction was originally slated to open in 2022 in Disneyland park; however, the opening is now anticipated for 2023 in Mickey’s Toontown.

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In fact, Toontown will close in March of 2022. The area will be reimagined and will reopen in 2023 with Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway! Disney has shared that Imagineers are working to create new, interactive experiences in this space so “families and young children can have more opportunities to play together inside Disneyland park.”

Click HERE to read more about the changes coming to Toontown!

All Aboard Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway (Spoilers Ahead)

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway begins with a pre-show which lets guests know they’re seeing the premiere of “Perfect Picnic,” a Mickey cartoon short featuring Mickey and Minnie out for a leisurely drive to Runnamuck Park. They’re singing the attraction’s original song, “Nothing Can Stop Us Now.”

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway

Suddenly, Engineer Goofy shows up in his train! As Mickey and Minnie cross over the railroad tracks, Pluto and their picnic basket fly out of their convertible and subsequently, a cream pie lands in the steam engine’s smokestack. This causes Goofy to lose control of the powerful locomotive and the train comes crashing into the station… AND into the pre-show room!

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway

And with that, Engineer Goofy brings YOU into the Mickey Short, “Perfect Picnic,” by way of the train car ride vehicles.

Runaway Railway Ride Vehicles

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway

Not only do you follow Mickey and Minnie into the zany cartoon world, but you truly become immersed and feel like part of the cartoon yourself.

Runaway Railway

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway

And it’s here — on Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway — that anything can happen!

Read our full review of Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway here!

Walt Disney World Location: Disney’s Hollywood Studios; Opening in Disneyland in 2023

Attraction Access: In Disney’s Hollywood Studios, a Standy Line is available for all guests. Guests may also opt to utilize Individual Attraction Selection, Disney’s pay-per-ride option. You can read more about it here.

Height Requirement: Any height

Restriction Information: Guests must transfer from Wheelchair/ECV and children under age 7 years must be accompanied by a person aged 14 years or older.

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