Instead, this new version featured interactive elements and over-exaggerated cartoon pops that guest could play with. Thanks to its Roger Rabbit influences, the new land was much more cartoony than Starland, featuring a slew of interactive elements and attractions including Minnie Mouse’s House, Donald Duck’s boat, and a new version of Mickey’s house that did away with the velvet ropes and realistic props such as a grand piano. However, budget cuts led to Starland being combined with a proposed Roger Rabbit-themed land to become Mickey’s Toontown. In the early 1990s, Disney planned to build a West Coast clone of Mickey’s Starland at Disneyland, part of a major expansion of the park outlined in the Disney Decade plan. However, the tour of Mickey’s House and the Mickey meet & greet remained central elements of the land. The focus shifted from a birthday celebration to promotion for the Disney afternoon block of animated series, with a heavy emphasis put on characters during a reworked version of the stage show. In 1990, they changed the name to Mickey’s Starland. While Mickey’s Birthdayland was initially planned to be a temporary expansion, guests were so taken with the land that Disney decided to leave it standing. Mickey’s Country House in the Magic Kingdom In this first incarnation, guests would tour the house, viewing each of Mickey’s somewhat realistically furnished rooms - including a den, living room, bedroom, and kitchen - from behind velvet ropes, before the tour concluded in a screening room showing classic Mickey cartoons. It featured facades of the town of Duckburg, a meet & great with Mickey in his dressing room at Mickey’s Hollywood Theater, a stage show revolving around the other Disney characters throwing Mickey a surprise birthday party, and - most importantly for our purposes today - a replica of Mickey Mouse’s House. The initial version of Mickey’s Birthdayland was… sparse, to put it mildly. The trip would end at the brand new Mickey’s Birthdayland Station, where guests would disembark. Guests could board the Walt Disney World Railroad to take a direct trip to the new land, passing by cutouts of other Disney characters along the way, all of whom are also headed to celebrate Mickey’s Birthday. To celebrate that occasion, Disney added a new land to the Magic Kingdom, aptly titled Mickey’s Birthdayland. Specifically, Mickey Mouse’s 60th birthday in 1988. However, that all ended in 2011 when Mickey was evicted for a … circus?! So, why was Mickey’s house built in the first place, and whey was it torn down? Let’s find out.īelieve it or not, the story of Mickey’s House at the Magic Kingdom begins with a birthday. For nearly 25 years, they were able to see where and how Mickey lived before meeting and greeting with the “big cheese” himself. The Sad Demise of Mickey Mouse’s House in Walt Disney Worldįor several generations of Disney World guests, no visit to the Magic Kingdom was complete without a stop at Mickey’s House. Magic Kingdom and Disneyland: Best of Both Worlds.
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