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Originally posted by preidel24
Has anyone done either the Keys to the Kingdom Tour, Magic Kingdom Family Tour, or the Behind the Seeds Tour. I thought I might book 2 of these for my DH and oldest DS. While I go do the kiddie stuff with our younger sons. Any feedback would be appreciated. Note: Oldest DS is 15 but will be 16 in Jan he's 6'2 almost 6"3 and definitely would pass for a 16 year old.
Paula
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My DM and I have done Keys to the Kingndom and our whole family did the Family Magic Tour. Your younger sons will LOVE family magic. The storys change from tour to tour, but they go along the lines of a villain is mad and wants to tear down Cinderella's Castle/Destroy Magic Kingdom/ reak havoc in some way. An example is when we did the tour, Peter Pan stole Captain Hook's golden dress hook and Captain Hook wanted to gather a crew at Pirates of the Caribbean and tear apart Magic Kingdom to find it. Luckly, Peter Pan left the tour a clue map to help find the hook. The tour follows the clues which takes you to a bunch of points in the Magic Kingdom and you do little games or tasks in each spot. We had to act like a crocodile and yell "Tick Tock" as loud as we could to go through Adventureland. Ya know, to scare Captain Hook... ;) The end usually a charactor greet, but that's not an absoulte given. Sometimes it doesn't happen, but I've heard that usually it does.
Keys to the Kingdom is very informitive and interesting if you really wanna know how the Magic Kingdom works. The tour talks about the different construction aspects (forced perspective) and talks about how Disney uses everything to totally pull you into the lands, from music and sounds to smells and even the color of the ground. You get a brief history lesson on the creation of Disney World and the guide points out and tells the meaning of some of the in-jokes in the lands and the "credits" that are the upper windows of Main Street. The tour also goes backstage to the float bay that holds Spectromagic, Make a Dream Come True, some miscellaneous floats from past parades (We saw two from the 25th anniversary parade), and the Electric Water Pagent. Right next door is the back side of Splash Mountain. We also went backstage through a back door in a Main Street gift shop and walked about 10 paces and were in the maintanance dock to the Jungle Cruise. Things are much closer backstage...:laugh There is also the trip through the utilidors and lots of other information. Lunch is provided for Keys to the Kingdom as is a ride through a couple attractions, ours were Haunted Mansion (which I was very pleased about) and the Jungle Cruise. Both we did by the tour guide leading us through the exit, which was fun in itself!