Return To Oz (1985) - Behind the scenes with the Wheelers | Horror4Kids

Disney’s Return to Oz is terrifying. A room full of disembodied heads, the Nome King, and those creepy Wheelers? Nightmare fuel. In the 1950s, Walt Disney bought the rights to the Oz sequels with plans to make a movie starring the Mickey Mouse Club cast. Some of the songs even showed up in Disneyland’s Fourth Anniversary Show, but the film never happened. When Return to Oz finally hit theaters in 1985, it mixed The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, with Fairuza Balk as Dorothy. | Disney Histo

Disney’s Return to Oz depicts Dorothy’s nightmare return to the eponymous land where many terrors await. None is more terrifying than the Wheelers who look like middle management types on roller skates. With their horrific costumes, weirdly long arms, and bird-like speech they are still among the greatest fears of the 1980s. | Scarred For Life