My wife and I took the keys to the kingdom tour on January 26th. Our tour guide was great and the tour itself was informative. My wife loved it. I found it a little disappointing.
My expectations were to see the inner workings of a few attractions and get some history of the park itself. We were given a general Walt history along with the basic ideology of the company and how it is run.
I am posting the following to help people decide if they want to attend this tour and in hopes that someone who took one of the other tours could suggest one more appropriate to someone who wants to see how the attractions operate.
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The tour's focus was more about park operations than the park itself. We discussed lightning rods and the windows on main street. We rode jungle boat while the guide talked about walt wanting real animals in it.
Backstage was literally back stage. We saw the garage the floats are stored in and the pool where the water from Splash is stored when not in operation. Parking lots! Seriously, parking lots! We also were shown the carport that the antique cars that run on main street are kept.
Lunch included!
We then rode Haunted Mansion entering through the handicap hallway. No discussion of the ride itself just the architecture of the mansion's exterior. Next we were shown a tree made out of two trees and the different concrete in the liberty area.
Lastly, we were shown a very small section of the utillidors. Very underwhelming! Instead of grand PENTAGON type hallways think smaller hospital type hallways and that's what you got.
No fantasy land, no future land, no castle. The only question i had related to the park, I forgot to ask due to boredom. (Does MK have their own fireworks plant?) So 5 1/2 hours seemed so long for the amount of information given with very little new information for anyone who has read anything about disney or watched Walt's show in Disney Hollywood Studios.
My expectations were to see the inner workings of a few attractions and get some history of the park itself. We were given a general Walt history along with the basic ideology of the company and how it is run.
I am posting the following to help people decide if they want to attend this tour and in hopes that someone who took one of the other tours could suggest one more appropriate to someone who wants to see how the attractions operate.
Spoilers below
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x
x
x
x
x
x
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The tour's focus was more about park operations than the park itself. We discussed lightning rods and the windows on main street. We rode jungle boat while the guide talked about walt wanting real animals in it.
Backstage was literally back stage. We saw the garage the floats are stored in and the pool where the water from Splash is stored when not in operation. Parking lots! Seriously, parking lots! We also were shown the carport that the antique cars that run on main street are kept.
Lunch included!
We then rode Haunted Mansion entering through the handicap hallway. No discussion of the ride itself just the architecture of the mansion's exterior. Next we were shown a tree made out of two trees and the different concrete in the liberty area.
Lastly, we were shown a very small section of the utillidors. Very underwhelming! Instead of grand PENTAGON type hallways think smaller hospital type hallways and that's what you got.
No fantasy land, no future land, no castle. The only question i had related to the park, I forgot to ask due to boredom. (Does MK have their own fireworks plant?) So 5 1/2 hours seemed so long for the amount of information given with very little new information for anyone who has read anything about disney or watched Walt's show in Disney Hollywood Studios.
