Following the success of the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, plans were made for a new section of the park located behind Fantasyland.

Seven years later, during a period when the character was undergoing a resurgence in popularity, plans for a Winnie the Pooh attraction were approved at a different park: Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

[3] Called Pooh's Interactive Queue, it incorporates a playground with children's games, allowing some members of a party to play while others hold space in line.

An original plan from the mid-1990s placed an indoor and outdoor light boat ride featuring a Winnie the Pooh theme at Disneyland.

Fantasyland was ruled out because it contained the least amount of available space and because of the age of its buildings; park managers anticipated that the attraction would be popular and decided to place it in an area that could better accommodate the crowds.

[4] As a tribute to Country Bear Jamboree, the heads of Max the deer, Melvin the moose and Buff the buffalo are mounted in the wall inside the ride.

[5] The budget for the attraction was set at a reported $30 million, most of it dedicated to reformatting the Country Bear Jamboree show building.

When it finally opened in 2003, it received large promotions by park management and lines were somewhat long at first, but quickly dropped off.

It remains one of the most visited attractions in Fantasyland, frequently running out of fastpasses and having wait times over 120 minutes on peak days.

The ride vehicles exit the load area and arrive near a giant storybook showing Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin.

After this, the vehicles arrive in a room painted with rain and cloud patterns, as thunder and lightning go off, and then reenters the Hundred Acre Wood, which is experiencing the rainstorm.

Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, Tigger, and Owl attempt to save Piglet from floating away and the ride vehicles move to find Pooh flying around owing to the wind.

Piglet is a sculpted figure with movement, while Tigger, Rabbit, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga, and Roo are illustrations on the wall behind.

Upon leaving the outdoor load area, the ride vehicles arrive indoors into the Hundred Acre Wood where Pooh is swinging in the air with a balloon.

The mechanism was the one which once lowered "Teddi Barra" from the ceiling in Country Bear Jamboree, the Audio-Animatronic theater presentation previously housed in the show building.

The trophy heads of Max the buck, Buff the buffalo and Melvin the moose, Audio-Animatronics from Country Bear Jamboree, can be spotted if one looks up and backward while leaving the heffalump/woozle room.