Mickey's PhilharMagic

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What It Is
3-D movie
Our Rating

Current Wait Time
Shows every	12.0 minutes
Average wait	12 minutes

Appeal By Age
Based our reader surveys. See our Ratings and Research page for details.
Preschool
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General Info
Location	Fantasyland
Opening Date	October 8, 2003
Duration	12 minutes
Scope and Scale	Major Attraction
Closures / Refurbishments

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Description And Comments

Mickey’s PhilharMagic is a 3-D film with an odd collection of Disney characters, mixing Mickey and Donald with Simba and Ariel as well as Jasmine and Aladdin. Presented in a theater large enough to accommodate a 150-foot-wide screen—huge by 3-D standards— the movie is augmented by an arsenal of special effects built into the theater. The plot involves Mickey, as the conductor of the PhilharMagic, leaving the theater to solve a mystery. In his absence, Donald attempts to take charge, with disastrous results.

Brilliantly conceived, furiously paced, and laugh-out-loud funny, Mickey’s PhilharMagicwill leave you grinning. And where other Disney 3-D movies are loud, in-your-face affairs, this one is softer and cuddlier. Things pop out of the screen, but they’re really not scary. It’s the rare child who’s frightened— but there are always exceptions, as was the case with the 3-year-old child of this North Carolina mom:

Our family found PhilharMagic way too violent (what seemed like minutes on end of Donald getting the crap kicked out of him by various musical instruments). I had to haul my screaming child out of the theater and submit to a therapeutic carousel ride afterwards.

Happily, an Oregon mom has an easy way to nip the willies in the bud:

My advice to parents is simply to have their kids not wear the 3-D glasses. We took my daughter’s off, and she began giggling and having a good time.

Touring Tips

This attraction offers Lightning Lane via Genie+.
Open for Early Theme Park Entry.
Open for Extended Evening Theme Park Hours.

Provides a nice air-conditioning break during the middle part of the day.

Mickey's PhilharMagic Wait Times

This chart shows you roughly how long you'll wait for Mickey's PhilharMagic when you visit on a day with a given Magic Kingdom Crowd Level. The blue bars represent the average "peak" wait time (that is, how long the line will be at its busiest). The bottom and top black lines represent the range of peak wait times to expect (for you fellow nerds out there: it's the 5th percentile and 95th percentile of peak wait times). Please note that these are estimates, and for a better forecast for your travel dates, see Mickey's PhilharMagic Wait Times.