Wandering through Toy Story Mania at Disney’s Hollywood Studios feels like time travelling back to your childhood. Giant oversized View-Finder? They have that. Spilled Community Chest cards from Monopoly? Sure, right over there. Carnival Barker Mr. Potato Head? Uh, we never owned that specific version, but okay. And of course the Toy Story Board Game that we all played in our youth.

You know the one. Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Sheep. That one. Like Candyland, but with sheep. Or Chutes and Ladders, but … with sheep, I guess.

Remember playing this one with your friends? Of course you do! Right?

No. It never existed. It exists only at Walt Disney World, and for one purpose only:

To give you a tiny bit shade when the line goes out the door.

Where Can I Find the Bo Peep Toy Story Board Game?

Okay, what’s the big deal? Lots of props in Toy Story Land are complete Imagineer inventions. There never was a Slinky Dog Toy Roller Coaster set either, and there sure as heck weren’t things called “Tinker Toys.” They totally made that up (we think).

But the Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Sheep Board Game is different. It’s not a mildly lazy excuse to build a thrill ride. It’s mainly just an intermediary outdoor corridor on your way into the show building. The game board is flipped upside down to offer a bit of shade. You encounter it shortly after passing under the Stand By and Lightning Lane marquees.

If you’re lucky (or unlucky, as the case may be, since it means the line is really long), you’ll stop for a moment in this section and get a chance to take it all in.

We are confident that 99% of guests pay no attention to it whatsoever.

Then It Gets Weird

Nice. The Imagineers chose to create a fully realized game board. The game itself appears to have a nursery rhyme theme, since there’s a giggling Old King Cole hovering above you. He was a merry old soul indeed.

The suggestion here is that there might be some kind of alternate Bo Peep Toy Universe featuring other nursery rhyme characters, heretofore un-glimpsed by us Toy Story fans. But probably not. We’re sure Old King Cole is just a one-off…

Wait just a minute. We’re well past the game board, deep into the cavernous indoor portion of Toy Story Mania. And here’s Little Miss Muffet scattered in among Mr. Monopoly’s Chance cards. There are other playing cards too. We’re starting to get an idea of how the Toy Story board game is played. Cards are involved somehow. Clearly dice are needed, since the card says “Roll Again.”

It’s almost like somebody designed the whole game, typed up a set of rules, and manufactured all the accessories. Then blew them up to human-size, stuffed them in a helicopter, and dumped them out all over Toy Story Land.

Little Bo Peep. Little Miss Muffet. Old King Cole. These characters matter. Their choices affect who wins and who loses. The fate of sheep hang in the balance!

Let’s just hope there’s no villain in this nightmare Nursery Realm.

Oh, the Sheep? Found ‘Em

Now we’ve got a Toy Story board game and a deck of cards. Surely they didn’t take this fictional game any further. Especially since literally nobody in line is paying attention to this. They’re too busy counting Monopoly money or watching that robot potato take his ear out.

Except that they did. They took it further. Because here are the sheep!

Now we have playing pieces! This is back in the outdoor portion of the queue, in an overflow area that we’ve never seen used for holding actual people. There’s a pink Bo Peep playing piece nearby as well, just in case you thought the mad designer of this board game stopped at one.

So it appears we truly do have the complete Toy Story board game featuring Bo Peep. All pieces and parts relatively understood and intact (if a bit scattered). Which begs the question…

Why didn’t Disney ever create the real thing?