Always go to the left in the early morning in the parks to get on some of the best rides with little or no wait times, Head to Splash Mountain!
 

The Main Street shops do get smaller as you approach the Castle. The First Set of Buildings directly on Main Street are Taller than the Second Set as you head towards the Castle. This is to promote a the image that Mainstreet is longer than it is when you are arriving at the park, and shorter than it is when you are leaving the park after a long day of walking around.

As you approach the Castle and walk up the right-side walkway (not the walkway leading into the Castle but next to the Castle), there is a water fountain. Behind the water fountain, there is a small fountain with a statue of a princess in it. Behind the statue, there is a crown painted on a mural. If you get down real low as you are drinking water from the water fountain & look up, the crown appears to be sitting on top of the head of the princess. It was intentionally painted there so that when children look at the statue while drinking, they could see the "crowned princess" in clear view!
 

Next time you take a walk down Main Street, U.S.A. take a close look at the castle. You will notice that the "bricks" get smaller the higher up the castle goes. This technique is called forced perspective. The castle looks a little taller than it would if all the "bricks" were the same size.
 

Take a ride on the Jungle Cruise look for the Hidden Mickey on the silver plane which has crash landed.
 

The Tower of Terror, What a ride! But check out the details, find the Hidden Mickey on the Concierge Desk in the Hotel Lobby.
 

You must eat lunch or dinner at the Sci-Fi Dine in Theater, Lots of fun and great milk shakes! Don't forget the Movies.
 

It's Tough to be a Bug is fun for everyone, the bugs will get you, Make sure that when you are in line that you check out the "Tree of Life".
 

Check out on the windows on Main Street USA, Look for Walt Disney's window.
 

Check out Engine Company 71 on Main Street USA.
 

Check out the Head Stone for Leota at the Haunted Mansion, she maybe looking right at you.
 

Take the Keys to the Kingdom tour lots of fun and you will get to see the back stage of the Magic Kingdom. Did you know that under Main Street USA is a small underground City full of Cast Member Services, Supply Areas, and more, That is just one of the great things you will see on this tour.
 

Did you know that you will always see lots of US Flags, along Main Street, In Frontier Land and everywhere. But did you know that most of the US Flags are not the real thing they are banners and each have a small error on them (wrong number of stars or stripes), this way they can stay up all the time where as the US Flags go up in the morning and they come down at night.
 

Great place for fireworks for the 1st timer you want to be on Main Street and as close to the castle as you can get, if you want a great place and want to be away from the crowds, go to Fantasyland and sit down near Dumbo.
 

The Disneyland "Test Bricks" If you are heading down Main Street toward Sleeping Beauty Castle, take a quick right toward the locker rentals. There, just to the right of the entrance to the lockers, you'll find a red "brick" wall with many different patterns of faux bricks - some evenly spaced, and some wavy, like cobblestones. This concrete wall was constructed in 1954 as Disneyland was being built, and the various patterns were tests for various portions of the park. The wall was left in place, and the test patterns were never covered over.
 

"Noseeum" Green Helps Maintain Mystery
You may have heard that there is a secret club in Disneyland, called "Club 33." The only evidence of this club is the entrance door in New Orleans Square just to the right of the Blue Bayou foyer - and even that doorway is often missed by the public.
 

To help maintain its low profile, Disney designers decided to paint the door a dull green dubbed "Noseeum Green" by the Disneyland design team.

In fact, much of Disneyland has been coated with this particular shade of green, as the Disney designers have decided it is the least obtrusive color in the entire spectrum. Doors, containers, and even entire show buildings have been painted with this dull, naturalistic color. By no coincidence, the military uses a similar shade of green for many of its ventures.
 

Walt Disney's Opening Day Speech - in Morse Code!

If you're already over in New Orleans Square, take a listen next time you're near the train station. That tap-tap-tapping you hear is actually a portion of Walt Disney's speech from the opening day of Disneyland in Morse Code. The full messsage, an abbreviated version of Walt's opening day remarks which loops endlessly, reads: "TO ALL WHO COME TO DISNEYLAND, WELCOME. HERE AGE RELIVES FOND MEMORIES OF THE PAST, AND HERE YOUTH MAY SAVOR THE CHALLENGE AND PROMISE OF THE FUTURE."
 

Original Imagineer Artwork on Display

While walking back through New Orleans Square, don't forget to get your future foretold from Fortune Red, an animatronic pirate in a coin-operated fortune-dispensing machine which can be found in an alley near the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. While waiting for your fortune card, take special note of the map Fortune Red is pointing at. That map is an original illustration by Imagineer Sam McKim, who was involved with concept art for many of the most revered attractions (such as Pirates, the Haunted Mansion, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, and the Carousel of Progress.) McKim may be best known, however, for the famous souvenir wall maps he created of Disneyland park for many years.
 

Recycled Characters, or Just Good Stewardship?
When winding your way through the queue to Star Tours, take a closer look at the squatty little "G2 Droids" which are constantly trying to get your attention. Those robots are actually the Audio-Animatronic geese from the defunct "America Sings" attraction, without their original feather coating - and with new futuristic heads. Other residents from "America Sings" can also be found in the grand finale scene in Splash Mountain.
 

Hidden Mickeys
A true Hidden Mickey is one that is not meant to be seen immediately, and is usually placed purposefully by a Disney Imagineer or artist in a context that would not normally contain Mickey Mouse. When the shape of Mickey Mouse is used as an obvious part of the design, such as Mickey ears on the top of lampposts, it is considered decorative and sometimes referred to as a "decor Mickey." Additionally, formations of the iconic head and ears have been spotted in nature or even on animals, but they are also not Hidden Mickeys. The general rule is: "Not associated with Disney, not a Hidden Mickey."

Locations
Although approximately 600 Hidden Mickeys have been recorded,[1] the Walt Disney Company has never compiled a complete list of all the "known" or "deliberate" Mickeys (whether created by an Imagineer or a Disney Cast Member), so there is no way to confirm or disprove every single Mickey sighting.[2]

However, various websites and books list locations of Hidden Mickeys, and usually allow Disney fans to add, dispute, and/or prove the existence of such sightings.
 

If you look at the second floor of the shops on Main Street, you will see names in the windows. When Walt was building the park he wanted to credit the designers so he put their names above the stores. The art designers are on the arts and crafts store, and so on. Walt's name, is on the train station (which is one of his loves) and the shop that sells his favorite dessert -- ice cream!




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