Family Magic Tour
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Bob P
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Here are some details and reviews:
http://allearsnet.com/btp/tours.htm#fmt
Also if youy do a search on this baord you will find other threads on the Family Magic tour.
Bob
http://allearsnet.com/btp/tours.htm#fmt
Also if youy do a search on this baord you will find other threads on the Family Magic tour.
Bob
nkjzmom
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I hope you're not silly to take a 4 and 6 yr old!!!! Then I'd be crazy for taking my 10, 8, 6, 4 year olds, and 19 month old!!
This tour is designed with kids in mind. It will be great...we can't wait to do it on the 11th.
This tour is designed with kids in mind. It will be great...we can't wait to do it on the 11th.
Disneynutbsv
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My 9 year old and I had a blast! Its a lot of fun!
We all had a great time on the Family Magic tour this past Saturday and our kids are 14, 12, 7 and 5. If you like, I could post a review with some details. However, I'm getting the feeling that I should keep some of the details a secret.....I wonder if anyone would mind if I posted a review??
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We did the tour this summer and thought it was a lot of fun. One of the families on the tour who had teenage kids did drop out, but for young kids it should be great. My DS9 and DS6 loved it!
I didn't realize there was already a thread. This is what I posted as a new thread today (a review)....
When we made our reservations for this last trip, the agent suggested the Family Magic Tour. Once I found out the details, it sounded very interesting, so we did it on 10/2. It was AWESOME, and I HIGHLY recommend it.
They tell the adults not to tell the kids, so it will be a surprise. The tour is supposed to be a tour around the Magic Kingdom. However, in the beginning, it is discovered that Peter Pan has stolen Captain Hook's hook. Your tour guide has found a scroll with clues and riddles on it. The goal is to go on a scavenger hunt around the Magic Kingdom to try and find the hook. The map sends you around the park looking for different things. The kids ABSOLUTELY LOVED it, and the adults had a lot of fun too!!! I don't want to spoil the big surprise ending, so I will not tell you how the tour ends. All I can say is, the hunt was so much fun... yes, we found the hook... and the ending, which was a surprise to even the adults, was very memorable!!! Trust me...It is something very out of the ordinary, and for someone who has been to Disney World a lot, it was a unique and special treat that we would never be able to do without the tour. If your child likes Peter Pan, it is a MUST.
It is well worth the time (2 1/2 hours) and the money ($25.00/pp). It starts at 10:00am and you have to be at City Hall to check in by 9:45am. There is a break in the middle of it, and they provided coffee and bottle water in the beginning.
One suggestion, don't do this on your first day if this is your first trip to Disney. One family's kids wanted to ride all the rides we were passing because they had never been to Disney before, and so they could have cared less about the hunt. They left the tour early because the kids were so insistent on riding rides, and unfortunately missed the big ending.
When we made our reservations for this last trip, the agent suggested the Family Magic Tour. Once I found out the details, it sounded very interesting, so we did it on 10/2. It was AWESOME, and I HIGHLY recommend it.
They tell the adults not to tell the kids, so it will be a surprise. The tour is supposed to be a tour around the Magic Kingdom. However, in the beginning, it is discovered that Peter Pan has stolen Captain Hook's hook. Your tour guide has found a scroll with clues and riddles on it. The goal is to go on a scavenger hunt around the Magic Kingdom to try and find the hook. The map sends you around the park looking for different things. The kids ABSOLUTELY LOVED it, and the adults had a lot of fun too!!! I don't want to spoil the big surprise ending, so I will not tell you how the tour ends. All I can say is, the hunt was so much fun... yes, we found the hook... and the ending, which was a surprise to even the adults, was very memorable!!! Trust me...It is something very out of the ordinary, and for someone who has been to Disney World a lot, it was a unique and special treat that we would never be able to do without the tour. If your child likes Peter Pan, it is a MUST.
It is well worth the time (2 1/2 hours) and the money ($25.00/pp). It starts at 10:00am and you have to be at City Hall to check in by 9:45am. There is a break in the middle of it, and they provided coffee and bottle water in the beginning.
One suggestion, don't do this on your first day if this is your first trip to Disney. One family's kids wanted to ride all the rides we were passing because they had never been to Disney before, and so they could have cared less about the hunt. They left the tour early because the kids were so insistent on riding rides, and unfortunately missed the big ending.
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We did the Family Magic Tour this June......it was absolutely one of the highlights of our trip, even with it being about 95 degrees and so humid we could hardly stand it!
My girls were 6 and 10 and they both thought it was so much fun. My older one was the clue reader most of the time because the other kids with our group were all younger. They had a great time figuring out where we were going and despite the fact that you all sometimes look riduculous going through the kingdom, the adults got into things too. Our guide made each clue so much fun for everyone.
The best part for us was the surprise at the end....I will give it away so if you don't want to know stop reading.....
Peter Pan and Wendy met us at the end, escorted us through the kingdom with my younger daughter never letting go of Peter's hand, right through the back entrance of It's A Small World, right onto the boat with what had to be hundreds of people waiting in line, we rode the ride with Peter and Wendy talking to the kids the whole time, we got plenty of time for autographs and got a special Magical Moment certificate at the end as well signed even by Tinkerbell! It was just so cool. Of course all these other people see Peter and Wendy and want autographs but the guide tells them all they are with a special group and so here you are in the middle of MK with characters just to yourself!
I thought my girls would be wilting halfway through since it is a long tour but they were so excited about what came next and all that the tour guide told them, it didn't even phase them that they were passing other rides or that they were too hot.
I think its definitely worth the money and is truly one of our favorite memories from the trip!
Hope you have fun doing it too!
My girls were 6 and 10 and they both thought it was so much fun. My older one was the clue reader most of the time because the other kids with our group were all younger. They had a great time figuring out where we were going and despite the fact that you all sometimes look riduculous going through the kingdom, the adults got into things too. Our guide made each clue so much fun for everyone.
The best part for us was the surprise at the end....I will give it away so if you don't want to know stop reading.....
Peter Pan and Wendy met us at the end, escorted us through the kingdom with my younger daughter never letting go of Peter's hand, right through the back entrance of It's A Small World, right onto the boat with what had to be hundreds of people waiting in line, we rode the ride with Peter and Wendy talking to the kids the whole time, we got plenty of time for autographs and got a special Magical Moment certificate at the end as well signed even by Tinkerbell! It was just so cool. Of course all these other people see Peter and Wendy and want autographs but the guide tells them all they are with a special group and so here you are in the middle of MK with characters just to yourself!
I thought my girls would be wilting halfway through since it is a long tour but they were so excited about what came next and all that the tour guide told them, it didn't even phase them that they were passing other rides or that they were too hot.
I think its definitely worth the money and is truly one of our favorite memories from the trip!
Hope you have fun doing it too!
OK! On 10/1 we took the tour with another family with 2 children, I'm guessing about 6 and 9 (I know the Mom posts here and her name was Heather. Hi, Heather!!) and an older couple.
It was a lot of fun! The CM was Hope and she was a scream. Mickey had told her that she needed to cancel our tour (of garbage cans - pretty funny!) in order to find a group of people who could work together to help save the MK! Then she gave us a story about Malificent casting a bad spell that would make all the Disney stories end badly. She asked all the kids what their favorite Disney movie was, and then we talked about how they would end if Malificent had her way. Sid would keep Woody and Buzz and destroy them, Hopper and the grasshoppers would eat all the food and the ants would starve, etc. She then asked us if *we* would be willing to help - of course we would. We learned the magic words - Together Everyone Achieves Magic - and we were off, after a healthy sprinkling of *Mickey Dust*, aka mickey confetti.
She had a book with rhyming clues and we went from place to place in the park - barking like a dog, singing Happy Birthday, mooing, flying like Buzz Lightyear - all kinds of silly stuff. We had to find the heart with pawprints in front of Tony's, a hidden Mickey on a manhole cover, Aurora's garden (the Rose Garden because she is Briar Rose), etc., etc. Our favorite one was sneaking into Cosmic Rays, right up to Sonny, crouching in front of his stage, then all jumping up and shouting "Hey, Sonny!" and running out the door as fast as possible!
Eventually we came to this roped off area near Liberty Square and who should appear but Peter Pan and Wendy! They had a box that they had dug up and in it we found two spells - the wicked one and a good one. Hope read them aloud, Wendy was frightened, we said the magic word and amazing! The wicked spell was gone!
Then we had a nice time with Peter Pan and Wendy, taking pictures and getting autographs. After that we all played follow the leader (Peter was the leader, of course!) and headed over (in a loud, silly way!) to Philharmagic. We waited a few minutes and played a game together, then we went into the lobby of the Philharmagic show where we waited a few more minutes while Wendy told us a story. We sat together in the front row, which thrilled my kids! Afterwards, Peter gave us all a Magical Moment certificate which he and Wendy had signed, and it was all over.
I had read the reviews over at allearsnet so I knew what sort of thing to expect, but not what bad thing we would be fighting and who we would meet at the end!
I hope this review helps you decide if your kids would enjoy it! My 5yo is convinced that we saved everything with our good spell (which actually concerns me a bit!!), my 7yo sat next to Wendy and just loves her now and my older girls felt smug, doing something exclusive! My husband and I just had fun
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It was a lot of fun! The CM was Hope and she was a scream. Mickey had told her that she needed to cancel our tour (of garbage cans - pretty funny!) in order to find a group of people who could work together to help save the MK! Then she gave us a story about Malificent casting a bad spell that would make all the Disney stories end badly. She asked all the kids what their favorite Disney movie was, and then we talked about how they would end if Malificent had her way. Sid would keep Woody and Buzz and destroy them, Hopper and the grasshoppers would eat all the food and the ants would starve, etc. She then asked us if *we* would be willing to help - of course we would. We learned the magic words - Together Everyone Achieves Magic - and we were off, after a healthy sprinkling of *Mickey Dust*, aka mickey confetti.
She had a book with rhyming clues and we went from place to place in the park - barking like a dog, singing Happy Birthday, mooing, flying like Buzz Lightyear - all kinds of silly stuff. We had to find the heart with pawprints in front of Tony's, a hidden Mickey on a manhole cover, Aurora's garden (the Rose Garden because she is Briar Rose), etc., etc. Our favorite one was sneaking into Cosmic Rays, right up to Sonny, crouching in front of his stage, then all jumping up and shouting "Hey, Sonny!" and running out the door as fast as possible!
Eventually we came to this roped off area near Liberty Square and who should appear but Peter Pan and Wendy! They had a box that they had dug up and in it we found two spells - the wicked one and a good one. Hope read them aloud, Wendy was frightened, we said the magic word and amazing! The wicked spell was gone!
Then we had a nice time with Peter Pan and Wendy, taking pictures and getting autographs. After that we all played follow the leader (Peter was the leader, of course!) and headed over (in a loud, silly way!) to Philharmagic. We waited a few minutes and played a game together, then we went into the lobby of the Philharmagic show where we waited a few more minutes while Wendy told us a story. We sat together in the front row, which thrilled my kids! Afterwards, Peter gave us all a Magical Moment certificate which he and Wendy had signed, and it was all over.
I had read the reviews over at allearsnet so I knew what sort of thing to expect, but not what bad thing we would be fighting and who we would meet at the end!
I hope this review helps you decide if your kids would enjoy it! My 5yo is convinced that we saved everything with our good spell (which actually concerns me a bit!!), my 7yo sat next to Wendy and just loves her now and my older girls felt smug, doing something exclusive! My husband and I just had fun
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Thank you so much for posting these reviews. I can hardly wait now to do this tour. I just pray that Peter Pan is at the end of the tour. He is DD8s favourite character and she would be so thrilled to be able to spend a little time with him.
nkjzmom
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Wow...thank you all for sharing your experiences with us! It sounds like so much fun...I can't wait!!!
Our whole trip is themed to Peter Pan. We have family shirts with "We're off to Neverland" on them and we are dressing up as all the characters of Peter Pan for MNSSHP. I hope we get to meet them at the end! That would be perfect.
Our whole trip is themed to Peter Pan. We have family shirts with "We're off to Neverland" on them and we are dressing up as all the characters of Peter Pan for MNSSHP. I hope we get to meet them at the end! That would be perfect.
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Does this tour take you into Frontierland and Adventureland at all?
We won't be touring those lands until after the tour but am worried that the kids may see the Frontierland and Adventureland attractions and want to go on them right away.
Thank you
Suzy
We won't be touring those lands until after the tour but am worried that the kids may see the Frontierland and Adventureland attractions and want to go on them right away.
Thank you
Suzy
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Yes, we did go through every land, but the kids are distracted the whole time so you shouldn't have too much of a problem. just wanted to say that we only got Wendy and not Peter on our tour because he was involved in the Cinderellabration show going on. he did sign the Magical Moments certificate for us that you receive at the end of the tour though.
BTW, my kids were DD5, DS3, DS1 and all had a great time. My BIL (21)had an even better time giant stepping through Tommorowland and flying like a bird through Frontierland, even though he said "No Way!!" to joining in at first
have a great time,
Claire xx
BTW, my kids were DD5, DS3, DS1 and all had a great time. My BIL (21)had an even better time giant stepping through Tommorowland and flying like a bird through Frontierland, even though he said "No Way!!" to joining in at first
have a great time,
Claire xx
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We have scheduled it for Monday, Dec 5th and I couldn't be more excited!!! We will be taking 4 yo and 5yo and I guarantee they will LOVE it!!!
Anyone else going the same day????
Anyone else going the same day????
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