Mad Tea Party, Spinning teacup ride in Fantasyland, Disneyland, Anaheim

Mad Tea Party is a spinning teacup ride in Fantasyland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Three small turntables, each holding six teacups, rotate clockwise inside one large counter-clockwise turntable. The Disneyland version has no central teapot; instead, colorful lanterns hang from wires radiating from the center. The platform is painted with a psychedelic spiral, and the cups come in colors such as white with pink rims and a heart motif, green with clover patterns, and solid pink, green, and yellow-orange.

Mad Tea Party opened with Disneyland on July 17, 1955, behind King Arthur Carrousel and Sleeping Beauty Castle. Ornamental arches joined the light posts in 1972, and the platform and cups were repainted in 1978. In 1983 the attraction was remodeled and moved near Matterhorn Bobsleds, adding colorful lanterns from early concepts. In 2004 spinning was made harder after a disabled rider slipped from a cup; in 2005 one cup was painted gold for the park's 50th anniversary.

The ride takes its theme from the Unbirthday Party scene of Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland and plays a carousel version of the film's "Unbirthday Song". The name comes from the Mad Hatter's tea party in Lewis Carroll's books. Riders turn a wheel in the cup's centre to set their own spin, up to 45 revolutions per minute.

The Disneyland ride has no roof, so it cannot operate in rain: once the turntables take on moderate water they slip and stop spinning. The platform sits near Matterhorn Bobsleds, and a teacup replica stands outside the Mad Hatter hat store for photos.

The Disneyland installation was built by Arrow Development, and for its first two years the cups had no brakes or clutches, so nothing limited how fast riders could spin them. In 2004 the ride was modified to make fast spinning harder after a disabled rider lost his balance and slipped from a cup. One cup was painted gold for the park's 50th anniversary in 2005.