Toontown wasn't there when I was a kid, nor was it there when I was 20. I guess that's because Who Framed Roger Rabbit still had about 2 years before it came out.
Toontown is styled to look like the cartoon houses and buildings of cartoon history, in an homage to Roger Rabbit. Actually a large part of the “land” is taken up by the Roger Rabbit ride, and other attractions that are related to the movie.
Ellen and the kids went on the Roger Rabbit ride, while Keke and I wandered around. We got a chance to look at the fountain and climb on the firetruck, and detonate the TNT. A couple of days later, Stewie wanted to go on it again, so we got a FastPass (a great innovation – allows you to return within a set time frame and jump to the front of the line) to come back later. We got back about 10 minutes after our FastPass was set to expire, but we went into the FastPass lane, I acted like I was all out of breath, and said, “Are we too late?” The guy said, “You're just in time”, and ushered us in. Sweet.
Toontown is where the main characters live. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy all have houses there. (Although Donald's is a boat.) The nice thing is that Mickey and Minnie also make appearances at their houses, so after a time or two in line we got to see both of them. We went as a family to Mickey's house, and got to see him “on the set of his movie”. Beenie went back a couple days later by himself and got to see Mickey on the set of “Steamboat Willie”, so that was pretty cool.
Other than Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin, the only other ride in Toontown is a roller coaster called “Gadget's Go Coaster”. It was a smallish coaster, but it moved pretty quickly. Beenie found out from someone that it travels at the same speed as the Matterhorn. It is a much smoother ride, though. Even Munchkin enjoyed it – going on a couple of times.
There is a stop for the Disneyland Railroad just outside of Toontown, and we picked up the train there. It circled back through It's a Small World, then into the tunnel where you could see the Grand Canyon and the dinosaurs. It passed around through the Main Street station at the front of the park, and the next stop was New Orleans Square, where we got off.
