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Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway uses innovation to deliver old-school Disney

Outside Disney's new ride, Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway, at Disneyland on Jan. 26, 2023, in Anaheim, California.

Part old-school theme park attraction, part love letter to animation and part modern showcase of projection technology, Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway at long last landed in Disneyland’s Toontown, its second but most-fitting home.

The Walt Disney World import is a nostalgia-fueled charmer, albeit one that celebrates the Walt Disney Co.'s most recent animated shorts featuring the corporation’s biggest star since more or less 1928.

There are plenty of nods to modern theme park flourishes in the trackless attraction — characters look at us, talk to us, direct us, dance with us and give the

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