Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway Has a Twister That Stopped Spinning, a Leaning Daisy, and Packing Tape on the Queue Walls

Published September 17, 2026 at 6:06 PM EDT

Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway at Disney's Hollywood Studios has problems both on the ride and in the queue. WDW News Today reported Monday that the twister set piece is not spinning, Daisy is leaning significantly to one side, and Disney has put packing tape over the wallpaper seams in parts of the queue.

Daisy Duck in a pink outfit standing on a wooden podium in front of a red curtain backdrop in the ride's pink dance studio scene, with glowing flower shaped lights on the mirrored walls and the front of a red ride vehicle in the foreground

Daisy in the dance studio scene, photographed from a ride vehicle. WDW News Today says her lean shows up in its ride video. Photo: WDW News Today

Two problems on the ride

WDW News Today noticed both on-ride issues this week:

The twister: the twister set piece is not currently turning.
Daisy: the animatronic is tilted significantly to one side.

The outlet says both show up in its ride video. Both are show problems rather than closures.

A queue wallpaper problem first reported in 2021

The wall trouble in the queue is not new. WDW News Today first wrote about it in 2021, when guests had been picking at the decals until they tore and peeled. Disney painted over the damage at first, then pulled the decals and put up new ones. The peeling kept happening anyway, mostly along the seams where the decals meet.

Now Disney is covering those seams with packing tape, which WDW News Today spotted in several places along the queue. The outlet says that is not enough to stop guests. Low on the wall, at child height, some of the tape has been removed, and the wallpaper is coming loose in places again.

A cream queue wall decorated with gold swirling cloud line art below a red trim and a dark ceiling, with shiny vertical strips running down the panel seams

Shiny strips running down the wallpaper seams in the queue. Photo: WDW News Today

Close view of a queue wall with a gray painted mountain design, where the wallpaper has split and curled open along two vertical seams, with a child in red walking along the patterned carpet at left

Wallpaper splitting open along the seams in the queue. Photo: WDW News Today

If you are riding soon

We did not find any statement from Disney about the twister, Daisy, or the wallpaper, and no refurbishment has been announced. WDW News Today rode it this week, so the problems have not closed the ride. You may just see a still twister and a tilted Daisy until they are fixed.

Sources

WDW News Today, OH NO! Twister No Longer Spinning, Daisy Leaning, and More Wallpaper Issues at Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway

Image credits: All three photos by WDW News Today.

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