1. Train Station - The train station is the curtain to the movie. It deliberately hides the park from view of the guests. As you go under and through the train station you will see a popcorn cart and smell popcorn. Everyone needs popcorn at a movie! The attraction posters that hang on the wall are to enhance your excitment about the stories and adventures that await. Just like posters in a movie theatre.
2. Train Station - In the lower level of the Train Station there is are shelves. There you will see Aladdin's lamp, Pooh's Hunny Pot, and the belongings and luggage of other characters' waiting to be picked up.
3. Train Station - The Train Bulletin which hangs on the wall indicating arriving and departing trains is a puzzle of Disney trivia. Each row is a specific Disney reference. For example, the row for Medfield and Rutledge pays homage to the rival colleges from the movie The Absent Minded Professor and its sequel Son of Flubber.
4. Train Station - Listen for the telegraph at the train station. It's tapping out Walt Disney's speech at Disneyland's 1954 opening in Morse Code.
5. Main Street Second Story Windows - The second story windows of the shops on Main Street are the opening and closing credits for the movie. The windows are all named for important Disney individuals. Walt Disney has two windows and they are the first and last that you see...just like the director's credits in a movie. Walt's first window can be seen from outside the park. It is the window on the Train Station and reads, "Walt Disney, Chief Engineer of the Walt Disney Rail Road Company. Walt's second window is at the far end of Main Street over the Plaza Restaurant and reads, "Walt Disney, Master Classes in Design and Master Planning."
6. Main Street Second Story Windows - One interesting window is on a cornor on the right hand side of the street as you walk towads the Castle. The window reads, "M.T. Lott, Real Estate Investments." This is one of the fake company names that Walt Disney used to purchase the land in Orlando to build Walt Disney World. When said fast, the name sounds like "Empty Lots" as in "why would anyone want to purchase these big empty lots?!" A Miami reporter investigated the company and found out that the owner was Mrs. Minnie Mouse. Walt used fake names so that the land owners would not raise the price on him. Walt bought his first acre of land for $80 and his last, after the story broke, for $80,000. Look for this fun window!
7. Main Street Windows - The windows into the stores are placed low to the ground. Walt's wanted them low so children could see inside the stores!
8. Main Street Town Square - Some say that the red bricks of Town Square are the red carpet of the movie. However, other's say the red was actually chosen to complement the green grass. Red and green are opposite on the color wheel. These combination of colors were selected to look good together both in person and in pictures!
9. Main Street Town Square - The firehouse features a sign over the second story windows reading Engine Co. 71. Why 71? That's the year the Magic Kingdom opened (1971 to be precise)!
10. Main Street Barber Shop - You can have glitter or color put in your hair. Many parents bring a child for his or her (often ceremonial, not actual) first haircut. You receive a certificate with a lock of the child's hair attached.
11. Main Street - You can hear the sound of tap shoes if you listen outside the "Dance Studio" on Main Street!
12. Main Street Tony's Restaurant - Outside the lady and the tramp Tony's Restaurant there is a bench with Goofy sitting on it. If you sit by Goofy he will start laughing. Good trick to spring on those who don't know this secret.
13. Main Street Tony's Restaurant - Tony is the name of the Italian Chef who serves spaghetti to the dogs in Lady and the Tramp. Be sure not to miss there signature carved in the cement in front of the eatery! In addition, at the back of the restaurant dining room, there is a beautiful 3-paned dark blue window, through which you can see the shadowy silhouettes of Lady and the Tramp sharing their late-night meal of spaghetti.
14. Main Street Stores - Check out the old style phones on the walls in the stores. Pick up the reciever and listen in to party line conversation!
15. Main Street - Major George Weaver is up for reelection. You may see him on Main Street. Other town characters are socialite Hildegard Olivia Harding, town gossip Tabitha Quidnunk, and newspaper reporter and "pin-thusiast" Scoop Sanderson. These cast members are happy to talk to you...just be sure you address them as their characters!
16. Emporium - The sign above the door says, "Established in 1901". This is the year that Walt Disney was born.
17. Exposition Hall - A ride vehicle from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride can be found at the back of Exposition Hall.
18. Exposition Hall - This is the only building on Main Street built to full scale. It was built this way to hide the Contemporary Resort. Seeing the modern hotel from a 19th century town street would spoil the illusion.
