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Trixie the Time Traveler · your guide · Walt Disney World, 1971 to what’s next

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Real placesEvery marker sits where the ride actually is.
Any yearSlide the year, or press play, and watch the resort change.
The Time Machine

Been before? The changes are a pattern.

Slide the year and watch the resort rebuild itself under a real satellite frame, back to 1972.

Trixie the Time Traveler

Join Trixie, 1971 to the future ↑Five ways the resort has changed since your last visit.

2026Selected year
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Where things areAll parksTap a park to zoom in.
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Then · selected year

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Its whole story shows here.

What stayed—
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Who paid for it, year by yearDisney’s own printed guide maps, and the sponsor on each one.
Park hours and quiet days

Disney World park hours this week, and which day is which.

Disney’s own calendar for all four parks: opening and closing, early entry for Disney hotel guests, the party nights that close a park early to day tickets, and the nights a park stays open late. Which day suits which avatar is underneath.

Your list

Build the day you want.

Search anything Disney lists and add it. Every “+ Add” on this page lands in your list, which follows you as the button in the corner. Print it, copy it, or send someone the link.

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Your trip

The days you just built.

Everything on your list, laid out a park at a time. Each day is measured against that park's own opening hours, and what needs booking is listed underneath with Disney's page for it.

The Matcher

What the party actually agrees on.

Send everyone the same page. Each of them picks their own list and presses Share my list, which puts their choices in a link. Paste those links in here and the overlap comes out: what all of you want, what most of you want, and the one thing one person asked for and never said again. Nothing is sent anywhere and nobody needs an account — the lists travel in the links and are counted in this browser.

Share your experience

File a field report.

You have been. Nobody else on this page has. Rate what you did, say what you really waited, and the next family reading this gets a better day than you did — which is the entire point of the house. It is your day, line by line, not a blank form.

Trixie the Time Traveler, hands open
Past, present, future

What is coming, and what is going.

One question asked in two directions: what Disney has announced and put on the calendar, and what stood in these places before.

The books

Shorter lines. Better deals. A day worth what it cost.

Ten books, on sale soon. Nine you read, each in three editions: the reader, Letter for printing, and large print. The tenth, Our Disney World Memories, is one your family fills in rather than reads.

Cover: Disney World 2026
Disney World 2026First visit, maybe the only one. When it might be the only time, the usual advice changes.
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Cover: Magic Kingdom 2026
Magic Kingdom 2026One park, one day, land by land. Every hour something is pulling the crowd one way.
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Cover: Disney World with the Grandkids
Disney World with the GrandkidsWhat works with little ones and grandparents in the same party, and what does not.
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Cover: Disney World Vacation with Limited Mobility
Disney World Vacation with Limited MobilityA Walt Disney World trip on wheels, or on legs that tire.
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Cover: Our Disney World Memories
Our Disney World MemoriesA book your family fills in, not one it reads. 120 pages, and it types or prints. Trixie’s time capsule prints what stood where you stood, from Disney’s own dated guide maps.
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Cover: The Other Disney World
The Other Disney WorldA day without a park ticket: the resort hotels, the water, Disney Springs.
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Cover: Disney Springs 2026
Disney Springs 2026An evening with no admission. Free to walk into, easy to spend in; what is worth it.
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Cover: Universal Orlando 2026
Universal Orlando 2026The other Orlando gates, day by day, with the same rules of thumb.
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Cover: LEGOLAND Florida 2026
LEGOLAND Florida 2026The day off with young children. The park is sorted by your child’s age, and it says so.
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Cover: Dollywood 2026
Dollywood 2026The Smokies park on its own terms: the coasters, the crafts, the food, the season.
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Field Files

A page for every one of the 1550 things to do, eat and see at Walt Disney World: what it is, today’s times, what is nearest on foot and what visitors say.

Walt Saw It. Disney Built It.

Follow an idea from a real place or a real engineering problem to the Disney result — and see where the evidence is strong, where the stories conflict, and where the question is still open.

Who Says So

The Society of Explorers and Adventurers and Hidden Mickeys at Walt Disney World, graded claim by claim on whether Disney says it or somebody else does.

Hidden Mickeys at Walt Disney World

Hidden Mickeys at Walt Disney World, park by park: 84 reported today, 30 that are gone with the year and the reason, and 12 that want a look. Disney publishes no list of them.

Disney World Treasure Trails

Six walking trails across Walt Disney World, 42 finds in all: Hidden Mickeys, the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, what Imagineers carried forward, what stood here before, where it happened, and the Main Street windows. Every find says who published it.

Disney for the Rich! Walt Disney World, and what Disney will tell you it costs

What money actually buys at Walt Disney World, in Disney’s own words and nobody else’s: the figures it publishes, the things it names and will not price, and the one everybody asks about that is at another resort.

Disney on the Cheap

What a meal actually costs at Walt Disney World: a main dish and a drink at 204 counters, and a children’s meal at 118, from Disney’s own menus, read 2026-10-04.

Disney World on YouTube

The newest videos from nine YouTube channels that cover the parks.

Disney Adults

Walt Disney World for grown-ups on a trip without children, a door for each decade from 21 to 70 and up: bars, tours, signature dining, shows, spas, golf and rides you can take in a wheelchair.

Disney World today

Every morning: each park’s hours, the shows with a time, what is closed, and what changed on the parks’ own sites.

Disney World news

What Disney and Universal announce, day by day, each linked to the announcement itself.

Disney World questions, answered every morning

Each park’s hours today and ahead, its shows with a time, and what is closed, in the parks’ own words, one page a question.

Disney World guides, in Disney’s own words

27 guides: for each park a rainy day, little ones, height requirements and a first visit land by land, every line from the parks’ own listings and pages.

Ears to the Ground at Walt Disney World

What several recent visitor videos about Walt Disney World say in common, topic by topic, in the newest video's own words: 54 tips from 212 videos of the last 60 days, every video named and dated. Visitors' words, never Disney's.

TrixiePlanner

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The directory

Everything Disney lists, with a page for each

Every ride, show, restaurant, shop and hotel at Walt Disney World, park by park. Each name opens its own page.

Magic Kingdom · 139

Show all 139

Rides and attractions · 37

Shows and entertainment · 16

Character meets · 10

Places to eat · 37

Shops · 25

More · 9

EPCOT · 184

Show all 184

Rides and attractions · 34

Shows and entertainment · 15

Character meets · 14

Places to eat · 68

Shops · 32

Animals to see · 4

More · 12

Disney's Hollywood Studios · 98

Show all 98

Rides and attractions · 14

Shows and entertainment · 17

Character meets · 7

Places to eat · 27

Shops · 23

More · 5

Disney's Animal Kingdom · 106

Show all 106

Rides and attractions · 15

Shows and entertainment · 10

Character meets · 2

Places to eat · 28

Shops · 12

Animals to see · 28

More · 6

Disney Springs · 179

Show all 179

Places to eat · 61

Shops · 87

More · 26

Disney's Blizzard Beach · 26

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More · 21

Disney's Typhoon Lagoon · 26

Show all 26

More · 21

The resort hotels · 191

Show all 191

Places to eat · 152

Resort hotels · 34

Across Walt Disney World · 593

Show all 593

Events and tours · 49

More · 539

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