Mickey's PhilharMagic

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Mickey's PhilharMagic

Locations, openings and status
Magic Kingdom October 3, 2003
Kodak Open
Hong Kong Disneyland September 12, 2005
Open

Mickey's PhilharMagic is a 3D interactive show at the Magic Kingdom theme park in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA and at Hong Kong Disneyland in Hong Kong SAR.

At Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom Mickey's PhilharMagic is located opposite Cinderella's Golden Carrousel in Fantasyland where The Legend of the Lion King was previously located. Mickey's PhilharMagic is a 12-minute long show featuring 3D effects, interactive smells and water as well as a number of characters from Disney movies. It is shown on the largest purpose built 3D screen ever made, at one hundred and fifty feet wide.

The attraction is unique in being one of a very select amount of attractions in Disney theme parks, in which Walt Disney Imagineering has collaborated with another division of The Walt Disney Company - in this instance it was Walt Disney Feature Animation, who also joined forces with Walt Disney Imagineering to develop the Fantasmic! shows at Disneyland and the Disney-MGM Studios. Legendary Disney animator Glen Keane re-rendered Ariel from The Little Mermaid in 3D, returning after rendering her in 2D in the original movie.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The story goes that Mickey Mouse is performing with his orchestra - PhilharMagic - at the Fantasyland Opera House in the Magic Kingdom. When you enter the building there are clever quirks put in by the Imagineers like posters advertising past performers, such as Hades from Hercules. Before the show starts Donald Duck puts on Mickey's magic hat (seen first in Fantasia) and gets pulled into a whirlwind of magic and music. He loses the hat in the Disneyverse, and passes through scenes from The Little Mermaid, Fantasia, Aladdin, Peter Pan, The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast trying to get it back. It ends with an explosion and Donald being launched straight into the audience. An Audio-animatronic of Donald, appears in a balcony wall, struggling to get out.

1 Attraction facts
2 Trivia
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Attraction facts

Grand Opening:
- The Magic Kingdom: October 3, 2003
- Hong Kong Disneyland: September 12, 2005 (Opened with Hong Kong Disneyland)
Designers: Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney Feature Animation
Sponsor: Kodak^[1]
Projection Screen Size: 150'
Show Length: 12:00
Ride System: 3-D Movie
Film Director: George Scribner
Extra options:

[edit] Trivia

Most of Donald's dialogue is edited from older appearances when Clarence Nash was still Donald's voice. Tony Anselmo only recorded 2 lines for the film.

[edit] References

^ 2002. "a new sponsorship of Mickey's Philharmagic, a new 3D film scheduled to open Summer 2003 in the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando. " http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/infoImaging/disney.shtml