Originally Posted By ssWEDguy So I was visiting the Haunted Mansion the other day. Checking out the pet cemetery on the way out, I noticed a brand new tombstone! Way up at the top of the hill, on the left -- it's Mr. Toad. CM's tell me that he really is a new addition. No one knows how or when it actually appeared. Has it been there for a while and I just didn't notice? "Mr. Toad, Sad but true; Not as marketable As Winnie the Pooh" R.I.P. Toad
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy If this really is a new sighting, I'll post a picture in the next day or so.
Originally Posted By Rosso11 This was just put in. The rumor is that when they were cleaning the pet cemetary one of the statues broke in the back. Instead of leaving an empty space they put the statue of Toad. Theres all ready pics up on other sites if you look around.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I find the whole Toad tombstone to be despicable and the quote to be a physical admission of what's wrong with Disney now a days. Sad.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Sorry, Labuda. I actually went to the HM 2 weeks ago to get this photo, but they wouldn't let me in the courtyard to the pet cemetery. I know they were doing refurb then, but there was nothing going on in the courtyard that I could see as yet. But they had their rules. Ok. The HM just reopened the other day. I will get the picture this weekend. >> I find the whole Toad tombstone to be despicable << Well of course you do. I would have been surprised otherwise. I myself consider it to be pretty biting "graveside" humor.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I find the whole Toad tombstone to be despicable and the quote to be a physical admission of what's wrong with Disney now a days. Sad.< While I think the message is true ( just look at that stupid playground) - some of the 'humor' lately ( if it doesn't fart or smell , it isn;t humor it seems)- is like they had a hiring spree from Mad Magazine
Originally Posted By Indigo The statue is there but no plaque as far as I can tell. Pictures here <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/indigoskye/65471352/in/set-1412602/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/i ndigoskye/65471352/in/set-1412602/</a> -John <a href="http://thedisneyblog.typepad.com" target="_blank">http://thedisneyblog.typepad.c om</a>
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Looking at those pics posted before... seems to me this is the same statue that used to be featured on the pedestal in the library room in the first scene of the old Toad ride.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> seems to me this is the same statue that used to be featured on the pedestal in the library room in the first scene of the old Toad ride. << Good memory, TDLFAN. I would guess that this tombstone is probably an actual figure from the attraction, refurbished to look like weathered brass. >> but no plaque as far as I can tell. << I will more closely to see if there is a plaque. I'm betting not. That would have had to be a new work, as opposed to the existing Toad figure just being refurbished for the tombstone. The tombstone inscription in Post #1 is from the bulletin board in the HM breakroom.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Ok -- I finally got some pictures of my own of the new TOAD tombstone in the HM pet cemetery. Check it out. <a href="http://ssdisney.home.att.net/toadhmtombstone_x.htm" target="_blank">http://ssdisney.home.att.net/t oadhmtombstone_x.htm</a>
Originally Posted By Blackie Pueblo Holy Cow. I'm so embaressed. With as many times as I've been to Disney World, I never noticed the Pet tombstones. And now they have a statue of Mr. Toad, and I was just there before Thanksgiving. I've brought shame and dishonor to my self, and my family.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> I've brought shame and dishonor to myself, and my family. << Most people miss them. But that just makes them that much cooler when you do discover them someday in the future. You get this "Has this always been here?" rush. They're on the way out of the mansion when most people are still busy talking with each other about what they saw inside. And then they're tucked away up the hill, behind a lot of (purposely) overgrown foliage.
Originally Posted By gaston lives I LOVE the idea of Toad in the cemetary. It's sad that his great ride was torn apart for a Pooh ride, but this at least gives him a semi-permanent spot in the hearts of Disney fans like myself. A piece of nostalgia can last forever in our minds, but only for a concrete timeframe in a themepark.
