Miscellaneous Secrets

Trading pins are all the rage at Disney. It started in October 1999 for Millennium Celebration with a few hundred pins, now there are thousands of unique trading pins. I suggest getting the "Starter Sets" for pin trading. It comes with a pin trading lanyard and four Disney pins. These pins can either be kept or be used to trade them with other guests and cast members. To see recent, past and future pins go to http://eventservices.disney.go.com/pintrading/index.
And for FAQs go to http://eventservices.disney.go.com/pintrading/page?id=getStarted#exist.


Miyuki is a candy lady located in Epcot at the Japan pavilion. She is absolutely amazing. She takes warm, soft candy and sculpts them into all different kinds of animals. There are scheduled times when you can see her. The times can be obtained in the park map that is at the front of the park. I suggest you get there 10 to 15 minutes before the show starts to get a good place to stand. She picks who she wants to make candy for, mostly are kids.


Waking up in the morning can be difficult, especially for children, so to get them excited for the day call the front desk and ask for a wake up call for the next morning. This wake up call will be from a favorite Disney character, so make sure the kids pick up the phone.

Throughout the Magic Kingdom there are many magical secrets that many people do not know about. When you first enter the Magic Kingdom you walk down Main Street, U.S.A. When you walk past the bakery you can smell the yummy cookies. What you don't know is that isn't fresh baked cookies your smelling, it scented oil they blow out through a fan towards the sidewalk to give the illusion of the shop baking cookies.

Also along Main Street U.S.A. are some phones, pick them up and listen to the conversation. There is another phone in Tomorrowland under the TTA and Astro Orbitor, pick it up and listen.

In the shop Tinkerbell's Treasures in the Magic Kingdom (behind the castle) there is a little dresser up against the wall with a keyhole in one of the drawers. If you put your eye up to the keyhole you can see a little light and hear a bell as if Tinkerbell was stuck in the drawer. But I suggest being the first to visit the shop in the morning, you get to be the one to wake her up.

In EPCOT at the UK Pavilion, there is a hedge maze that many people do not know of. A great way to add to the magical fun of the day.

In Disney Hollywood Studios, there is a “Singing in the Rain” umbrella attached to a lamp post. The lamp post is in the Streets of America area across from Lights, Motors, Action! It is a great photo opportunity and a pressure pad under the umbrella usually (unless malfunctioning) will release “rain”.