This weekend, we took the Cultivating the Magic tour at Disneyland. This tour is aimed at the horticulture found around Disneyland. "Flower and stuff, that's dumb," you might say. No, you're dumb and this tour was awesome and incredibly interesting and made me take more notice of details around the park that I normally overlook.
This tour was one of the cheaper ones at just $30 per person, and it was a ton of value for the money. It includes the 2 hour tour, a pin with your name on it, 3 rides, and another special pin, plus a packet of seeds!
There were so many new facts about Disneyland that I didn't know before. I don't want to give too much away, so I'll just give some highlights. For example, the trees on Main Street are in the same 3/4 scale as the other buildings, and when they get too big, they are taken out and moved elsewhere, and new small ones are put in their place.
The first ride we got to skip the line on was Jungle Cruise, but it wasn't the normal spiel. We had the whole boat to ourselves, as our tour guide talked about all the plant life throughout the ride. The bamboo trees throughout the ride were there before the park was, and Adventureland and Tomorrowland switched from their planned places in order to leave them where they were and have them within the ride!
Next, we went on Haunted Mansion, which is currently in it's holiday overlay of Nightmare Before Christmas, and thus has a line of well over an hour. Some people in our group literally jumped and clapped their hands they were so happy to go on it!
We also went on the Storybookland boats, and again had the whole boat to ourselves so that our tour guide could tell us all about the plant life and how they get those little trees so tiny.
This is an actual redwood tree, found in Adventureland!
This is probably my favorite detail that our guide pointed out. This area is right between New Orleans Square and Adventureland; look how the fence changes to reflect the different lands. AMAZING.
We also checked out the Drawing Disneyland: The Early Years exhibit at the Disney Gallery. I think I'd seen some of the artwork at D23, but there was a lot more cool stuff to be seen. Like this statuette of one of the paintings in the Haunted Mansion.
And check out this glass slipper from Cinderella, and the tiara!
The Disney Gallery is in the lobby of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, which you should be sure to check out, because they've got an improved animatronic that actually has facial expressions! It's pretty cool.
Almost as cool as this chillaxing dog wearing Mickey ears. That dog is living his best life.
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