Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway opens at Disneyland for centennial celebration

BY CITY NEWS SERVICE

The celebration of the 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company at the Disneyland Resort began Friday with the opening of Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway and the debut of “World of Color -ONE.”

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway marks the first time Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have starred in a ride-through attraction at the Disneyland Resort. The attraction is located in Disneyland’s Mickey’s Toontown, which will reopen March 8 following its closure on March 9, 2022, for the land’s makeover.

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway combines sets, audio-animatronics figures, animated media and projection-mapping techniques, all synchronized with trackless vehicles and a musical score to transport guests into the world of Disney Television Animation’s Emmy Award-winning “Mickey Mouse” cartoon shorts.

The attraction begins at the “El CapiTOON Theater,” a pun on the Disney-owned El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, where Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway transports guests into what is billed as “the wacky and unpredictable cartoon world of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, where they board a train engineered by Goofy and embark on a zany, out-of-control adventure with surprising twists and turns.”

Guests may see different details of the attraction depending on which vehicle they ride in and where they’re sitting within each vehicle.

The attraction also