Best Magic Kingdom Tips, Secrets and Must do's - Please Contribute!!!

[Bongi22]

Cinderella's Wishing Well - have not seen this in your list for photo ops. It is on a lovely path to the right of Cindy's castle. The base of the well has the cat Lucifer chasing all of Cindy's mice.

Don't forget to bow in front of Cinderella.

 

[IMwink]

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[disney minnie]

I don't there should be a "things you can skip" section. Every family is different and has different Disney memories. If you skip things on purpose you may miss a treasured memory. As children we would run to the Tiki birds when it started to rain and we would go back and forth between that and Pirates.

Don't forget eggroles in Adventureland and ice cream on Main Street.

 

[amamax2]

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[DisGal520]

I see that you included riding the back of the train with the conductor. But did anyone share yet that the child who gets to announce 'All Aboard' may receive an honorary conductor card?

And not exactly IN the MK, but worth adding - guests can ask the CMs attending the monorail stations to ride up front with the driver. Kids then get a card for being an assistant monorail driver.

 

[segpm08060]

I am loving these tip threads! Subscribing!

Me 2 !!!

 

[The Masked Maniac]

The most important is to get there as soon as they open.....for us we get on 12-14 rides before it gets crowded.....but we do however start on things like Pooh...Pan.....Teacups....Snow White...Mansion...Pirates...etc....

 

[blueeyesrnc]

1. Story Time with Belle is a charming experience. She reads a story to the children and chooses some children from the audience to help act out the story. Althogh it is outside, it is a lovely shaded area and somewhat cool. A nice way to sit and rest while your children enjoy time with Belle.
2. If you are the first to find a paintbrush on Tom Sawyer's island, you will win a prize. I believe the prize is a fastpass. There are 3 paintbrushes hidden on the island every morning.

 

[buzz2400]

Phones

One in Tomorrowland under the TTA and Astro Orbiter. There's also one in one of the shops on Main Street (candy store?). I believe there may be one in the Main Street Railroad Station??? Pick them up and listen to the interesting


Castle

(1) Sit in the outer edge of the Plaza restaurant...basically look at the castle, find the wire that goes from the castle down to the restaurant rooftop on the right, and go get a seat under it. TinkerBell will fly down that wire and right over the top of your heads!
(2) I haven't seen this one posted, but it was fun for my kids to discover the little mice up in the rafters of the lobby of the castle. Gus and Jacques in the throne room at Cinderella’s Royal Table.
(3) Behind the castle is a fountain with Cinderella. If you bend down and look at the fountain, the crown on the back wall appears to crown Cinderella.
(4) On Cinderella’s Carrousel is the only place in Fantasyland where you can see a picture of Cinderella running with her prince to their carriage after just being married.
(5) When you take a walk down Main Street, take a good close look at the castle. You will notice that the "bricks" get smaller the higher up the castle goes. The Imagineers called it the "forced perspective" technique. The castle looks a little taller than it would if all the "bricks" were the same size.
(6) Stand behind Cinderella’s castle during the Cinderella surprise celebration show. Peter pan and Hook have to run from the top of the castle to the stage and they use that area by Tink's treasures. It's really funny too. They will do something silly, and peter will make a comment about the chase!
(7) Inside the walls of the walk-through of the castle are several mosaics. On the mosaic wall farthest from the entrance are the two stepsisters, Anastasia and Drusilla. The mosaic shows one of them with a red face and the other with a green face. Red with Rage and Green with envy!!!
(8) There are approx. one million mosaics to make up the scenes.
(9) This may have already been mentioned, but if you sit on the stone ledge on the side of the castle, you will hear Stitch giggle and tell you to be quiet because he's hiding. The kids got a kick out of that when I told them to sit there for a break.

 

[buzz2400]

Cinderella’s Carousel

(1) There is only one horse on the carousel that has a gold ribbon on its tail. This particular horse is rumored to be Cinderella's favorite. (At least that's what the fairy godmother said.)

Country Bears

The claw marks on the floor of The Country Bear Jamboree.

Fantasyland

When you go to Sir Mickey's Shop in Fantasyland, look at where the roof meets the walls. You will see Willie the Giant from Mickey and the Beanstalk peeking into the shop.

 

[mom2rtk]

I loved the throne they used to have in the THRONE room as you enter Cinderella's Royal Table. Now that throne is no longer there. Has it shown up anywhere else???? It was an awesome photo op!

 

[buzz2400]

Main Street- Check out the old-style phone in the General Store (on the right side of the street as you're headed in). Pick up the receiver and listen in to a conversation going on. At this little shop called the Main Street Market House, there is a phone mounted on the wall. If you pick up the receiver, you can hear a conversation between a mother and her daughter, Annie. They discuss what they are going to buy at the store, the cost of certain items, and how to attract a man. Every now and then, a nosey eavesdropper, Miss Klump, listens in and is politely told to hang up by the mother. When I asked the Cashiers at the store about it, they just replied, "Of course the tenants upstairs!" or something like that.

 

[buzz2400]

Train
The telegraph you hear at the train station is tapping out Walt Disney's speech at Disneyland's opening in Code.

On one of the shelves (CMs can help you locate it), you can see Aladdin's lamp as well as other characters belongings waiting to be picked up at the train station.

In the Train Station, you can find articles left by other "guests,” including Mary Poppins and other characters from Disney films.

When you are in the waiting room of the railroad on Main Street, they have these antique Mutascopes. I thought they were just for display, but when you put a penny in, they actually work! There are 4 or 5 of them, and some of the lightbulbs were burned out so didn't work, but I know at least two of them did, and it only cost a penny to find out. The kids thought they were great. You put in a penny, start turning a crank and a short silent movie plays for you.

 

[buzz2400]

Tomorrow Land

(1) A talking trashcan is in Tomorrowland too! His name is Push. He comes out from Mickey's Star Traders every hour or so and roams for 20 minutes.

(2) Near the Speedway on the way into Tomorrow land, there is a high streetlamp with three large round hooded lights. It was designed to cast a hidden Mickey on the ground twice a day when the sun is in the right place.

(3) The metal "palm trees" in Tomorrowland folds up at night and opens during the day just like flowers!

 

[datgirl]

Thanks for all the info I will be taking my first trip in August and all the information is great! I don't know how to PM. Would you be able to send me the food list you talk about in your post. Thanks!

 

[IMwink]

Major updates. I guess I had been skipping updating this thread. I thought I had posted many tips that i found, but I guess not.

Still need some more restaurant experiences (I am going to post the question on that thread too.)

And I need more veteran experiences. This is the park that everyone says you should go back to if had to choose a 2nd day at only one park.

Why?

 

[TXMomof3boys]

Thank you SO much for starting these park tip threads!!! I have learned so much. You are so sweet to take the time to make updates to your original post so we do not have to read every page!! I have bookmarked all four and will be taking notes from them for our 2nd trip in June.

Thanks again for all your hard work!!

 

[IMwink]

Updated the Restaurant info and the abbreviations to the DIS approved list.

 

[bethany777]

How long will you be in each park? We just got back and the lines were not bad at all, but last July, it got pretty rough!

 

[Crystal824]

Major updates. I guess I had been skipping updating this thread. I thought I had posted many tips that i found, but I guess not.

Still need some more restaurant experiences (I am going to post the question on that thread too.)

And I need more veteran experiences. This is the park that everyone says you should go back to if had to choose a 2nd day at only one park.

Why?

There are alot more attractions at MK than at any other park. You really need at least two days to do the major attractions properly. Plus, with your children, ages 5 and 6, (heck at my age, 29) it is the park they will most likely enjoy the most. That isn't always the case my nephew, 4, loved AK.