In the now-defunct Mickey’s Toontown Fair, Magic Kingdom were able to explore the S.S. Miss Daisy– otherwise known as Donald’s boat. Exploring this boat took approximately 8.2 seconds. You walked in one side and out the other, soaking in such details as “The Map of Duck Puns” and the “Cord That Is Supposed To Ring The Bell or Blow the Whistle But Doesn’t Work Half the Time.” During the summer months, the foam rubber flooring outside the boat (BLUE flooring, because water) had little squirting things sure to fill the diaper of any toddler within a 3-mile radius.
It’s not exactly the Haunted Mansion.
There was one curiosity though. And no, I’m not referring to Donald’s plastic laundry blowing in the breeze high above . It had to do with the doors. You entered Donald’s Boat from the starboard side (a nautical term meaning “we’re too fancy to just call it the right side.”) This door was just a normal door. But when you exited on the port side (nautical term meaning “We need a 4-letter 1-syllable word for ‘left’ “), you needed to pay close attention to the hole you just came from.
This wasn’t even a real door. The wood was all fractured and splintered, blown out as if somebody locked an irate duck with a bad temper in the hold (nautical term meaning “boat basement”). If you even noticed the makeshift hole at all, that’s probably just what you would conclude.
You would be wrong.
There was an answer for this hole. In a very un-Toontown-like display of layered backstory, you couldn’t find it anywhere near Donald’s boat. You had to go across the street and walk through Mickey’s house.
Mickey’s House was like Donald’s Boat, only with many more plastic items to look at (but don’t touch). They all had either mouse ears on them or some sort of cheese pun. This was considered “good theming” for Mickey’s Toontown Fair. Mickey also had some pictures on his wall, and if you paid attention, you’d see a series of pictures showing Mickey, Donald, Pluto, and Goofy on some sort of fishing expedition.
Wait a second! Is that a shark ripping a hole in the side of Donald’s boat? Quick, somebody sound the whistle! Oh wait, the cord still doesn’t work. I like to imagine that there was an earlier scene where Mickey, Donald, and Goofy all sat around swapping scar stories and reminiscing about Mickey’s tenure on the U.S.S. Indianapolis. Why is Mickey driving anyway? I thought Donald was the captain.
Anyway, it turns out all right in the end, thanks to another picture.
Mickey even caught himself a fish, which looks like the love child of Flounder and Sy Snootles (oh, just google her). Dare we hope for some backstory consistency? Yes! That Mick Jagger fish was mounted in Mickey’s House.
Mickey’s Toontown Fair wasn’t known for these sort of well-developed interconnected storylines. And we are 100% confident that literally zero guests noticed them. But that made them all the more enjoyable for us.
