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{{Infobox Disney ride || image=teacup.jpg| caption='''The Mad Tea Party in Fantasyland'''| land=Fantasyland| park= Magic Kingdom| opened=October 1, 1971| theme= Unbirthday Party| custom_label_1= Based on| custom_value_1= Disney's Alice in Wonderland| duration=1.5|custom_label_2= FastPass +|custom_value_2= Yes}}The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Mad Tea Party is an attraction located in [[Fantasyland]]. 
==Attraction History==
Although always envisioned as an attraction based on the "Unbirthday" scene from Alice in Wonderland, the original plans for the Mad Tea Party were drastically different from the final result. Early designs for the attraction called for guests to enter a "Mad Tea Party" that the Mad Hatter and March Hare were throwing. Guests would enter their tea cups (walking past giant depictions of the Cheshire Cat and the Caterpillar) and spin around a giant Unbirthday table, while the Mad Hatter and March Hare sang the "Very Merry Unbirthday" song <ref> http://jimhillmedia.com/columnists1/b/jeff_lange/archive/2005/05/27/1484.aspx </ref>. When the Mad Tea Party opened on Disneyland's opening day however, its scale had been drastically reduced. Gone from the attraction were the Mad Hatter, March Hare and the "Unbirthday" party. Instead guests twirled around inside psychedelically colored tea cups.
The idea of Due to its popularity in Disneyland, a dark ride based on Disney's Winnie version of the Pooh franchise began in Mad Tea Party was recreated for the late 1970sopening of Walt Disney World. Following Opening on October 1, 1971, the popularity attraction was an exact copy of the Winnie the Pooh movies, Imagineers began to make plans for a Winnie the Pooh Disneyland attraction to be added to Disneyland's Fantasyland. Fantasyland was going to go under a significant renovation soon, and it was assumed that Shortly after the Winnie the Pooh dark ride would be added then. When Disneyland's Fantasyland re-Mad Tea Party opened in 1983 however, there a large canopy was no Winnie added to give the Pooh ride present. Although some cover from the attraction was not built, the idea of a Winnie the Pooh dark ride was not deadFlorida elements <ref name= "dated"> http://waltdatedworld. In 1988 Imagineers once again began making plans for a Disneyland Pooh ridecom/id252. This htm </ref>. Also added at this time the attraction , was going to be located in Disneyland's Toontown Fair. The new Winnie a large teapot (housing the Pooh rid would have allowed guests to travel through what were deemed Dormouse from the three best scenes in film) which the movies. The ride vehicle that they rode in, would be a spinable honeypot. Once again however, the attraction never came to fruition. teacups now rotated around <ref name===Winnie the Pooh Replaces Mr"dated"/>. Toad=== Seven years after After the last attempt at a Winnie addition of the Pooh dark ridecanopy, Imagineers once again pitched the ideaattraction remained unchanged until 1992 when Japanese lanterns were added <ref> http://www.florida-project.com/walt-disney-world-photos/magic-kingdom/fantasyland/mad-tea-party </ref>. This At this time, they wanted to build the attraction in Walt Disney WorldMad Tea Party also received a new color scheme and new music. Although Walt Disney World's Fantasyland had enough space to build In 2010, the new attraction, it was eventually decided to replace the current Mronce again repainted <ref> http://www. Toad's Wild Ride attractionorlandoparksnews. Despite Mrcom/2010/11/mad-tea-party-has-reopened. Toad fan protests, and bad publicity, Disney closed Mr. Toad's Wild Ride on September 7, 1998. Mr. Toad's show building and ride structure were reused, and on June 4, 1999 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh officially openedhtml </ref>.
==Attraction Plot==
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a dark Mad Tea Party begins with guests boarding their teacup ride attraction, that takes guests into the world of the 100 Acre Woodsvehicles===Queue=== The Many Adventures of Winnie Once the Pooh's queueattraction starts, festive music begins playing, is themed to be chapter one of give guests the story feeling that guests they are about to enterat an Unbirthday Party. Pages from a Winnie Although each of the Pooh book, tell guests turntables that the cups sit on spin at a story as they walk through. The queue begins with Winnie wondering what he will do today. A map of the Hundred Acre Woods is shownconstant speed, showing the various places that Pooh (and guests) can gochoose the speed of their individual teacup. The Hundred Acre Woods beginTo do this, with guests passing Pooh's house. His house is inside they spin a large honey tree, and wheel in the words "Mr. Sanders" can be read above the front door. The attraction sign, actually hangs off center of each cup (spinning the honey treewheel faster, marking increases the beginning of the attraction. As part of the attractionteacup's new interactive queue, guests can actually go into Pooh's house and see how the bear livesspeed).  As guests continue on into the queue, they pass both Eeyore's and Piglet's house. Storybook pages outside the homes, give guests a little background. As guests continue on, they come upon Tigger's house and also his bouncing place. Here, guests can bounce on Tigger themed springs cups spin around a small area.  After passing Tigger's house, guests come to Rabbit's garden. Here despite best efforts, gophers are tearing up the garden. The gophers Dormouse from Alice in Wonderland will pop up and down, interacting with guests. One section out of the garden, allows guests to stomp on a button, which will knock large teapot in the gopher's back to down into their holes. Another part center of Rabbit's garden allows guests the attraction from time to spin giant sunflowers and beat (like a drum) various vegetables. After passing through Rabbit's garden, guests come upon the interactive "honey walls"time. The honey walls are large interactive touch screens, which allow guests to smear Mad Tea Party lasts for 1 minute and draw in the honey30 seconds <ref> http://wwwAt this point, guests finally come to the loading areawdwinfo. Here another storybook page tells guests that chapter one is ending, but chapter two will soon startcom/wdwinfo/guides/magickingdom/fan-teaparty. As guests board their honeypot ride vehicleshtm </ref>, before the pages of chapter two line the back willattraction stops spinning and guests disembark. Guests then enter [[Image:madteaconcept.jpg|thumb|400px|Concept art for the story themselves, starting the attraction.Mad Tea Party]]
===Main Attraction=Fun Facts and Trivia==
As Chapter two begins, guests enter * The canopy over the Hundred Acre Woods on blustery day. Piglet and Gopher can be seen on riders's left, being blown around in a garden. Next to them, Pooh is holding on to a balloon, and using the wind to try and get into a beehive. On the ground, Eeyore looks, commenting that Pooh will never get the honey. Across the room, Rabbit can be seen laying in his garden, underneath a pile on unearthed carrots. Next to him is Kanga, who is desperately trying to hang on to Roo. Roo is Mad Tea Party lights up in the airat night, holding on to giving the other end of a scarf. As Kanga pleads with him to hold on, Roo says: "Look mama, I'm a kite!". Riders then go through attraction a door and into Owl's housevery different look.
Inside Owl's house, everything has been disorganized by the storm. On the right * The Doormouse only appears in the house, guests can see a picture of J. Thaddeus Toad (Mr. Toad) handing over a deed to Owl. Another picture on the floor shows Moley (Mr. Toad's sidekick) Walt Disney World and Winnie the Pooh together. Both Tokyo Disneyland versions of these pictures are subtle references to the fact that Mr. Toad's Wild Ride once was located in the current location of the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. After passing through Owl's house, guests enter the next scene through a sliding doorMad Tea Party.
In the next scene of the attraction, Tigger pops up across from riders. He invites them * If you want to "Come bounce with me!", as their honeypot vehicles begin to bounce. As riders bounce around the room, Tigger can be seen all over the room. In the background, the song "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" can be heard. As guests enter the next room (Pooh's house), they see Tigger pounced on top an image of Pooh (who is wearing his pajamas). Tigger warns him to "watch the Mad Tea Party before it got its canopy check out for Heffalumps and Woozles". He also tells Pooh that Heffalumps and Woozles will steal his honey, so Pooh decides to stand guard (holding a gun). After Pooh falls asleep, despite is best efforts to stay awake, he magically floats into the next room.:
As guests follow him into the next room, they enter a bizarre roomhttp://land. All around them, Heffalumps and Woozles manically singallears. Strange objects, such as Woozles with jack-in-the-box necks. One Woozle even seems to light the end of a Heffalump on fire, causing a smoke ring to come out of the Heffalumps trunk, and shoot hit guests. After passing through a large hole in a Heffalump, guests can see the exit of the scene. Before exiting however, the honeypots travel under "watering can" shaped Heffalumps, which transition them to the next scenenet/blogs/jackspence/2008/05/1972_magic_kingdom_walt_disney.html
The next scene takes place back in the Hundred Acre Woods, where a large storm is brewing. Eeyore, Roo, Rabbit, Owl, and Tigger all team up to save Piglet from being washed away by the storm. On the other side of the forest, Pooh can be seen (apparently stuck), trying to get into a beehive. After the storm has ended, all of the characters except for Pooh can be seen celebrating at Rabbit's house. A little further down the track, Pooh can be seen happily eating honey inside a tree. After passing a beaming Pooh, a storybook page reads "The End", and guests can disembark from their honeypot. After unloading, guests are exited out into the [[Hundred Acre Goods]] store.==References==