The storylines of the Walt Disney World and Disneyland versions are exactly the same, as are the stylized aesthetics that match the newer Mickey and Minnie cartoons by Paul Rudish. There is one tiny additional scene at Disneyland: Before you make it back to safety and enjoy the “perfect picnic” that Mickey and Minnie originally intended to go on, Goofy takes the train through a covered bridge and offers up more classic antics.
The addition wasn’t intended to alter the ride but rather to make the existing storyline fit the ride building. “It takes a lot for us to design and build these attractions in and around Disneyland,” Marnie Burress, a portfolio project management executive working on bringing Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway to Anaheim, tells SFGATE.
“We’re standing in El Capitoon Theater, which is a real celebration of the golden age of cinema,” Sarah Kibler, an Imagineer who worked on the interior design of the ride building and the ride queue, tells SFGATE. El Capitoon is a reference to El Capitan Theatre, a historic 1920s theater in Hollywood that hosted the premiere of “Citizen Kane” and is now owned by Disney.