I love Disney but i never have known how the Ulitidors work, can someone please explain
Basically, the utilidors are the 1st floor of the Magic Kingdom.
Epcot's tunnel system isn't nearly as big. It's pretty much only under Innoventions.Also first floor of EPCOT
I love Disney but i never have known how the Ulitidors work, can someone please explain
Epcot's tunnel system isn't nearly as big. It's pretty much only under Innoventions.
MK costuming and one of the CM cafeterias is back there, along with DACS - which is where the "brain" of the entire park is located. It's a giant computer room with rack after rack of servers and processors that run each and every ride, show, animatronic and sound you hear/see in the park. There's even a dark room where they run the parades from. I had the extreme fortune of getting to go into DACS and actually watch them run the 3:00 parade during a Backstage Magic Tour in the late 90s.
Main MK Costuming is no longer in the Utilidors. It's located up by the Cast parking lot north of the park (I believe it's referred to as "West Clock"). With the "Cast Zooming" (or maybe it's "Costume Zooming") where CMs are allowed to bring multiple sets of their costume home, having the old way of in-park Costuming where you picked up a costume at the start of your shift and returned it at the end of your shift became unnecessary. Not sure when it moved, but it was sometime after my KTTK tour in 1999/2000.
I believe in-park costuming at MK now only handles Entertainment and Character costuming.
On my Keys to the Kingdom tour, we went down Stairway 4 (which we reached by exiting out a back door of one of the shops around Pan, I think the one that's now at the exit to Philharmagic) and came back up Stairway 10, which exited out into the park near Tinkerbelle's Treasures and the Cinderella fountain.
While down below, we walked up to the Main Tunnel Entrance, and then across to that secondary entrance and in through Costuming. We even got to walk in through the racks of costumes, then around the corner and into the Wig Room.
-Rob
Interesting. I know that map is fairly old and I have never taken the tour, but I guess I just thought that the utilidor network was a bit more extensive than that (like going deeper into tomorrowland)
Interesting. I know that map is fairly old and I have never taken the tour, but I guess I just thought that the utilidor network was a bit more extensive than that (like going deeper into tomorrowland)
My first trip into the utilidors was July oy 1987 when I was 13, yes 13. At that time they had what was called "The Wonders of Walt Disney Entertainment". Dont really remember much other than being down there. Since then I have taken the KTTK tour in I think 1999. We entered at Tinkerbells treasures but dont remember where we came back up. We saw the money room, DACS, costuming, went into the wig shop, went outside and back in at the main entrance under Village Haus. It was a excelent tour.
Those backstage tours of the MK and Epcot utilidors are fascinating. Great peek into how the operations are really run. I wish they'd offer tours of the Studios utilidors, because those are truly unique. Due to the high water table in the Studios area, the utilidors could not be built under the park as they are at the MK and Epcot. Instead, they're built above the park with a huge simulated sky on their underside to camouflage them from guests. If you look up at certain vantage points from within the Studios, you can see that the "sky" is really just a bunch of inter-connected high-def screens. And the Imagineers really outdid themselves with the simulated storms.
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