Park Pass Pro - Walt Disney - Feb 2025

Park Pass Pro Tip

The best place to watch the fireworks at the Magic Kingdom is left side of the castle within the hub area.  You will need to arrive 1 hour before the fireworks show to get a spot in this area.  I like this side because you can see Tinker Bell fly over the crowd on the right side.  I also like to find a spot that has a fence in front of me so no one can stand directly in front of me.

Recommendation

Check out Animal Kingdom Wild Africa Trek.  

During this 3 hour adventure, you get to go behind the scenes, meet with Animal keepers, travel over some rough terrain, and enjoy a fabulous lunch and private tour of the safari. Click here to learn more.

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Disney Buzz

• Big Thunder Mountain has closed for all of 2025.  A big new magic coming in 2026!

• Work has become on the Tropical Americas area coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park. TriceraTop Spin, Fossil Fun Games and Chester & Hester's Dinosaur Treasures have closed and construction walls are up.

• Create Soulfully is being celebrated at Disney World and Disneyland throughout February

• Febuary 28 - April 21st - Disneyland is celebrating Food & Wine Festival at Disney California Adventure

Disney Fun Fact

Fun Facts about Magic Kingdom

• It's the smallest park as it's only about 100 acres.

• Original adult ticket price for the Magic Kingdom was $3.50 per day.

• There are 999 ghosts in the Haunted Mansion

• Disney uses all the senses you'll always hear music, you'll always see Disney magic, but they also push different scents into different parts of the park and rides.

• They try and keep the different area's of the park out of sight from other areas of the park by using foliage, building and signs that are geographically arranged to block your view of other areas.

• You won't see cast members come and go as they use the utilidor system.

• A trash can is always within 30 steps of where you are.  And they use an Automated Vacuum Assisted Collection System to collect trash which launches trash at 60 mph to a central collection system.

• Liberty Oak Tree was originally on Walt Disney's property and is over 140 years old.

• Liberty Square - there is a brown path that runs through the red pavement to symbolizes the sewage that would have flowed through the streets back in the colonial times.  Also note there are no bathrooms in this area of the park.

• The gray walls of the castle are made of fiberglass in order to sustain the hurricane weather of Florida. 

• The trains were built between 1916 - 1928 by Baldwin Locomotive Works and were used on a railroad system in Mexico.

• Prince Charming Regal Carrousel is the oldest ride.  It was built back in 1917 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company.  The hard-carved wooden horses are originals.

• Kids see things differently.  For example, the Cinderella water fountain that is located behind the castle can be interpreted VERY differently depending on your age! As an adult, you look at it and see Cinderella glancing down somberly, but kids look up to see her smiling down at them.

• In front of the Prince Charming Regal Carousel, just behind Cinderella’s Castle, sits the Sword in the Stone. Many don’t notice it – but those that do try to give it a pull – and try to remove the sword (making for a great photo!). Inspired by the myths of King Arthur, the Sword in the Stone invites guests to try and pull Excalibur—the legendary enchanted sword—from a solid bronze anvil embedded in a great gray boulder. As the legend goes, only someone with honor and inner strength can remove the sword and become the recognized ruler of England! A little secret: While usually nothing happens, once in a great while, the sword is “released” by a cast member with a remote trigger. The sword is lifted out, and a new ruler is crowned from the crowd!

• The Magic Carpets of Aladdin ride features a camel that spits water at unsuspecting park-goers. Many think this electronic machine has excellent aim, but think again! There is actually someone sitting nearby the camel that operates it.

• It took an act of Congress to install the Presidential Seal in the “Hall of Presidents” attraction. There are only three seals in the world: one in the White House Oval Office, one in Liberty Bell Hall, and one in the “Hall of Presidents” at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World!

• The mosaic murals in Cinderella's Castle were designed by Dorothea Redmond. There are 500,000 tiles in 500 different colors, including some made of 14 karat gold.

• The moat surrounding Cinderella Castle contains approximately 3.4 milliongallons of water.

• Cinderella's Castle is 189 feet tall.  Just below the 200 feet which would require a red light on it for airplanes.