Two park layers, graded per claim
Who says so
There are a great many pages about the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, and a great many more about Hidden Mickeys. Almost none of them tell a reader, claim by claim, whether Disney says it or somebody else does. That is the only thing these pages do, and they do it on every row.
Nothing on these pages is ranked, scored or counted down. The bands say what the record does, never how good anything is.
The arithmetic, in public
- Rows the operator owns
- 41
- Rows a third party owns
- 56
- Rows nobody owns
- 1
- Sources behind them
- 18, of which five were withdrawn by the house ruling of 18 September 2026
- Rows left with no support at all
- 15, named but not published
- Hidden Mickey rows carried
- 84 current, 30 removed, 12 the catalogue itself flags for re-checking
Both workbooks are marked LEAD. In this house research is a lead until the operator's page is opened, and neither workbook is treated as evidence anywhere on these pages. What the house adds in its own right is two registers it holds: 1,304 pages of the operator's own site captured on 2026-09-08, and 171 printed guide maps whose dates run from 1977-12 to 2026-07-01.
Five pages
The limits this record keeps
Both workbooks carry hand-written limits on how far each claim may be stated. They are obeyed literally rather than tidied away, and where one exists the page prints the limit instead of resolving it.
- Limit
- Jock Lindsey: current Disney wording is member OR closely connected. Never upgrade it.
- Limit
- Trader Sam's Grog Grotto is adjacent continuity, not an S.E.A. outpost.
- Limit
- Adventurers Club (1989-2008) predates S.E.A. and was folded in later by retcon.
- Limit
- A = Disney says it, B = physical prop, C = legacy/unverified, D = fan theory. Never flatten them.
- Limit
- Disney publishes no canonical Hidden Mickey list; this is one app's catalogue.
- Limit
- Removed Mickeys are the point of a Time Machine layer. Never delete a gone row.
- Limit
- D23 warns that guests find accidental three-circle shapes that were never intended.
- Limit
- The difficulty grade is kept as data and never becomes a rank, badge or score on a page.
- Limit
- NO FIND HERE CAN EVER BE CONFIRMED BY THE OPERATOR. Disney acknowledges the practice and has never named a single instance. A row that stays a LEAD for ever is finished, not pending; never file one as awaiting verification.
- Limit
- A recheck row wants a PERSON STANDING THERE, not a source. No document will settle one, because the only document that could is one Disney does not publish.
The source ruling these pages are built under
On 18 September 2026 this house ruled that crowd-sourced encyclopedias, media commons and fan encyclopedias are not a source here: not as a source, not as a citation, not as a caption, and not as an image. Five of the eighteen sources behind the Society workbook fall under that ruling. Fifteen rows had no other support and are not published; rows that merely cited one alongside a surviving source keep the claim, lose the citation, and say so on the row.
The ruling is a build gate rather than a promise. Every page is scanned before the run may succeed and a single hit anywhere stops it.
How to read a row on these pages
- DISNEY SAYS IT
- The operator's own published page carries this. The workbook cites a Disney page for it.
- A PROP CARRIES IT
- A physical object in the park carries this. The documentation of that object is a third party's photograph or catalogue, not Disney's copy.
- LEGACY OR UNVERIFIED
- Carried in older material or in secondary documentation, and not established by a current operator page.
- FAN THEORY
- Told by readers and enthusiasts. The workbook records it as a theory and does not assert it.
- DISNEY IS THE SOURCE
- The workbook records the operator as the owner of this row. Forty-one of its 98 rows are marked this way.
- SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCE
- The workbook records a third party as the owner. Fifty-six rows are marked this way.
- THIS VENUE'S OWN OPERATOR PAGE NAMES THE SOCIETY
- The house's own capture of the operator's page for that venue carries the Society's name. The capture is one day's crawl, so it says what the page said that day.
- ANOTHER VENUE'S OPERATOR PAGE NAMES BOTH
- A captured page belonging to a different venue carries both names. It is evidence about that page, and it is not counted as this venue's.
- THE HOUSE'S MAPS PRINT THE NAME
- A dated printed guide map in this house's own run carries the name. It attests a printing on a date, never a prop and never an absence.
- NOT IN THE HOUSE'S MAP RUN
- No sheet among the 171 this house holds carries the name. The run is not every sheet ever printed, so this says what the holdings do not have and nothing more.
- SUPPORT WITHDRAWN
- Every source the workbook had for the row was a crowd-sourced fan encyclopedia. Under the house ruling of 18 September 2026 the row carries no support at all, so the subject is named and the claim is not published.
Two transcription conventions are in use and the page states both. Passages taken from a locally-held capture of the operator's own page, and from the guide-map sheets, come from real text embedded in those files rather than from OCR: they read as clean English and are QUOTED, with runs of whitespace collapsed to single spaces and nothing else done to them. Anything whose only reading is OCR is CITED by document, date and page and never quoted, because a corrected quotation is an invented one.
The whole written ledger, minus what the ruling removed
- Disney Parks Blog — The Society of Explorers and Adventurers at D23 Event 2026 ↗
Current S.E.A. mission, motto, early-1500s origin, active modern organization, core members. Dated 2026-08-12. - Disney Parks Blog — Dig Deep into the Story of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Across Disney Parks ↗
Barnabas T. Bullion, Big Thunder Mining Company founded 1850, late-1800s setting, Bullion explicitly a key S.E.A. member, queue props. Dated 2026-05-01. - Disney Parks Blog — Discover Jungle Cruise Film Easter Eggs at Newly Enhanced Jungle Cruise Attraction ↗
Magic Kingdom Jungle Cruise: Dr. Kon Chunosuke explicitly identified as S.E.A.; his entomological collection is in the attraction. Dated 2021-07-22. - Walt Disney World — Jungle Navigation Co. LTD Skipper Canteen ↗
Official restaurant page identifies the S.E.A. Room as a once-secret meeting place and the Falls family parlor. Dated Current. - Disney Parks Blog — Slide Into Immersive Storytelling at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon ↗
Mary Oceaneer explicitly a S.E.A. member; storm carries her ship/artifacts to Typhoon Lagoon; treasures appear in Miss Adventure Falls queue. Dated 2023-07-28. - D23 — Miss Adventure Falls Makes a Splash at Typhoon Lagoon ↗
Mary Oceaneer is an oceanographer/S.E.A. member; Duncan the parrot remains in the wreck searching for treasure. Dated 2017-03-10. - Disney Parks Blog — Jock Lindsey's Halloween-themed Hangar Bar Returns ↗
Jock finds Disney Springs in 1938; current wording says artifacts tie him to S.E.A. and suggest he was either a member or closely connected. Dated 2026-08. - D23 — Adventurers Club - Disney A to Z ↗
Adventurers Club opened 1989, closed 2008, and displayed memorabilia from Merriweather Adam Pleasure's travels. Dated Current archive. - Jungle Skipper — Skipper Canteen S.E.A. gallery ↗
Detailed photo-indexed prop list: Falls certificates, Hightower award, S.E.A. logo, books, maps, fezzes and other cross-references. Dated 2022-era crawl. - Jungle Skipper — Hangar Bar ↗
Documents Samantha Sterling passport, Adventurers Club opening-night photo, Yakoose Ice Co. machine, and 1943 Jungle Cruise logbook reference. Dated 2022-era crawl. - Disney Food Blog — How Much Do You Really Know About Disney's Society of Explorers and Adventurers? ↗
Documents Royal Adventurer's Society library/handbook in EPCOT U.K. Pavilion and an S.E.A. fez at AbracadaBar. Dated 2021-07-24. - Walt Disney World — AbracadaBar ↗
Current official location/backstory for BoardWalk bar; official page does not itself establish an S.E.A. tie. Dated Current. - Jungle Skipper — The Society of Explorers and Adventurers - Introduction ↗
Useful history of how S.E.A. grew from Fortress Explorations and how Adventurers Club material was later folded into the wider mythology. Dated 2020. - MyMagicTrip — Magic Kingdom Hidden Mickey checklist ↗
Current findable checklist; historical/disputed excluded from PDF. Dated 2026-09-14 crawl. - MyMagicTrip — Every Hidden Mickey at Walt Disney World ↗
Full 464-item catalog; status tags include documented, fan reported, disputed, and no longer there. Dated 2026-09-14 crawl. - MyMagicTrip — EPCOT Hidden Mickey checklist ↗
Current findable EPCOT checklist. Dated 2026-09-14 crawl. - MyMagicTrip — Hollywood Studios Hidden Mickey checklist ↗
Current findable Hollywood Studios checklist. Dated 2026-09-14 crawl. - MyMagicTrip — Full catalog — Rock 'n' Roller Coaster 2026 update ↗
Documents Aerosmith-era removals and Muppets-era replacement detail. Dated 2026-09-14 crawl. - MyMagicTrip — Animal Kingdom Hidden Mickey checklist ↗
Current findable Animal Kingdom checklist. Dated 2026-09-14 crawl. - MyMagicTrip — Springs and Resorts Hidden Mickey checklist ↗
Current findable Disney Springs, resorts, water parks, transport and WWoS checklist. Dated 2026-09-14 crawl. - D23 — Hidden Mickeys — Disney A to Z ↗
Official Disney definition/history; notes the practice began as Imagineer inside jokes in the 1980s and warns about accidental three-circle shapes. Dated Current archive. - Hidden Mickey Guy / Steven M. Barrett — Hidden Mickey Catalog ↗
Long-running independent catalog; useful for cross-checking and lost Hidden Mickey history. Dated Current.
Five sources are missing from this list by design. They were crowd-sourced fan encyclopedias and this house does not carry them, so they are not linked, not named and not quoted.