 Toontown
is the only land in Tokyo Disneyland almost entirely inspired by a single
movie, that movie being "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" In the movie, cartoon
characters (called "Toons") were not just drawings on a page, but actually
had a life of their own. All Toons, when they were not in the studio
making movies, resided in a place called Toontown. Thus is the inspiration
for Tokyo Disneyland's Toontown.
You would expect a place that's home to cartoon characters to be a wacky,
mixed-up place, and Toontown lives up to that expectation. Buildings are
oddly shaped, signs sometimes make no sense, and everything looks like a
life-size, three-dimensional cartoon. Toontown is also a very "hands-on"
place; just about every door knob, lever, button, and handle you find does
something or makes some sound-effect when operated.
Toontown at Tokyo Disneyland is very similar to the original Toontown at
Disneyland in California, but the layout is reversed (for example, Roger
Rabbit's Cartoon Spin is on the far left of Toontown at Tokyo Disneyland,
versus the far right for Disneyland in California). Toontown at Tokyo
Disneyland is also very, very crowded with people, even on slow attendance
days (which are few). |
