Trail 6 of six · Walt Disney World · 7 finds
Imagineering Footprints
Read Main Street's upper windows as end credits. Each fictional business quietly names artists, engineers and leaders who built the parks.
One URL, one search: main street windows at magic kingdom, and who they name.
Your guide
Trixie the Time Traveler, the guide written for this hunt. She also guides Trixie’s Time Adventures on the TrixiePlanner front page.“Main Street’s upper windows are end credits in disguise. Look up—the people who built the parks signed their work above the storefronts.”
How this trail reads
Main Street's upper windows read as end credits. Each one names people who built the parks, staged as a fictional business above a real shop. Disney lists the shops; the windows above them are not separately listed, so the house's evidence reaches the storefront and stops there -- which is exactly as far as it honestly goes.
Your own record
A reader keeping track of what they have seen is collecting, and these pages support it. What they do not do is turn it into a score: there is no total set against another reader, no ranking of one find above another, no badge and no streak. The three difficulty words the original page carried on the Hidden Mickey finds — they graded the finds against each other — were removed for that reason, and a build that lets one back onto a page fails.
Marking a find is a convenience for a reader and not a record this house keeps. It is written into this browser's own storage on this device; it is never sent anywhere, it is never counted against another reader, and there is no badge, no streak and no leaderboard at the end of it. With scripts switched off there is no button, and nothing else on this page changes.
The seven finds
1 of 7 · Walter E. Disney, Chief Engineer
Magic Kingdom · Main Street train station
The clue
Before walking under the railroad, look at the second-floor window on the station facing the entrance.
What you are looking at
The window reads 'Walt Disney World Railroad Office — Keeping Dreams on Track — Walter E. Disney, Chief Engineer,' joining Walt's love of railroads to the resort he never saw completed.
Who published it
SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCEStanding: LEADwdwmousing.com
A third party published this; the house holds its own evidence beside it. https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-36---magic-kingdom---windows-on-main-st-usa---town-square-southeast---part-1.html ↗
- Disney lists
- Walt Disney World Railroad - Main Street, U.S.A. Field File
Every piece above is something this house holds, and the link goes to it. A listing establishes the place. It does not establish the find.
2 of 7 · Roy O. Disney's development company
Magic Kingdom · Main Street Confectionery
The clue
From Town Square, look to the third floor above the corner entrance of the Confectionery.
What you are looking at
Three windows form 'Dreamers & Doers Development Co.' and name Roy O. Disney as chairman—a tribute to the business leader who made Walt's Florida project financially possible.
Who published it
SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCEStanding: LEADwdwmousing.com
A third party published this; the house holds its own evidence beside it. https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-36---magic-kingdom---windows-on-main-st-usa---town-square-southeast---part-1.html ↗
- Disney lists
- Main Street Confectionery Field File
Every piece above is something this house holds, and the link goes to it. A listing establishes the place. It does not establish the find.
3 of 7 · The machinist behind the moving magic
Magic Kingdom · Car Barn
The clue
Between the Firehouse and Horse Barn, face the Car Barn's southern wall and find a window advertising handmade buggies.
What you are looking at
'Broggie's Buggies' honors Roger Broggie, the machinist who helped develop Audio-Animatronics and worked on Walt's personal railroad.
Who published it
SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCEStanding: LEADwdwmousing.com
A third party published this and the house holds nothing beside it yet. https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-36---magic-kingdom---windows-on-main-st-usa---town-square-southeast---part-1.html ↗
4 of 7 · The academy of fine art
Magic Kingdom · Center Street
The clue
On the south side of Center Street, look to the balcony above the Uptown Jewelers façade.
What you are looking at
The Painting & Sculpture window names Collin Campbell, Blaine Gibson, Herbert Ryman, Mary Blair and Dorothea Redmond—artists who defined the visual language of the parks.
Who published it
SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCEStanding: LEADwdwmousing.com
A third party published this; the house holds its own evidence beside it. https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-37---magic-kingdom---windows-on-main-st-usa---center-st---part-2.html ↗
- Disney lists
- Uptown Jewelers Field File
Every piece above is something this house holds, and the link goes to it. A listing establishes the place. It does not establish the find.
5 of 7 · Big Top Theatrical's show makers
Magic Kingdom · West Main Street
The clue
Look above the old Main Street Athletic Club frontage for a three-window theatrical company.
What you are looking at
Big Top Theatrical names Claude Coats, Marc Davis, John DeCuir and Bill Justice—four major designers of Disney shows, films and attractions.
Who published it
SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCEStanding: LEADwdwmousing.com
A third party published this and the house holds nothing beside it yet. https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-39---magic-kingdom---windows-on-main-st-usa---west-side-main-st-----part-4.html ↗
6 of 7 · The Camelot installation crew
Magic Kingdom · Casey's Corner
The clue
From the Castle Plaza seating area at Casey's Corner, scan the upper windows above the piano side.
What you are looking at
The Camelot Corp. window names Tony Baxter, Dave Burkhart, Ed Johnson and Gary Younger—designers and production people who turned drawings and models into physical show.
Who published it
SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCEStanding: LEADwdwmousing.com
A third party published this; the house holds its own evidence beside it. https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-40---magic-kingdom---windows-on-main-st-usa---castle-plaza---part-5.html ↗
- Disney lists
- Casey's Corner Field File
Every piece above is something this house holds, and the link goes to it. A listing establishes the place. It does not establish the find.
7 of 7 · Walt's graduate school of design
Magic Kingdom · Plaza Restaurant
The clue
At the castle end of Main Street, look above the Plaza Restaurant for a set of windows staged as a school of design and master planning.
What you are looking at
The windows credit Walt Disney, Richard Irvine, John Hench, Marvin Davis, Howard Brummitt, Fred Hope, Vic Greene, Bill Martin and Chuck Myall—the team behind master plans, castles, lands and ride systems.
Who published it
SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCEStanding: LEADwdwmousing.com
A third party published this; the house holds its own evidence beside it. https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-40---magic-kingdom---windows-on-main-st-usa---castle-plaza---part-5.html ↗
- Disney lists
- The Plaza Restaurant Field File
Every piece above is something this house holds, and the link goes to it. A listing establishes the place. It does not establish the find.
What this house could not reach
2 of these seven finds reach nothing this house holds, and they are listed here as well as on their own line so the gap is not something a reader has to notice for themselves.
- The machinist behind the moving magic — Car Barn, Magic Kingdom
- Big Top Theatrical's show makers — West Main Street, Magic Kingdom
Nothing was attached to make the count look better. A pointer that is nearly right is a wrong pointer.
Sources for this trail
- https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-36---magic-kingdom---windows-on-main-st-usa---town-square-southeast---part-1.html ↗
SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCE - https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-37---magic-kingdom---windows-on-main-st-usa---center-st---part-2.html ↗
SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCE - https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-39---magic-kingdom---windows-on-main-st-usa---west-side-main-st-----part-4.html ↗
SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCE - https://wdwmousing.com/chapter-40---magic-kingdom---windows-on-main-st-usa---castle-plaza---part-5.html ↗
SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE SOURCE
Every source is named in full so it can be opened and checked.
What a find rests on
- Who published it
- Disney’s own page — disneyworld.disney.go.com, d23.com or disneyparksblog.com — or somebody else’s. 0 of the 7 finds rest on Disney’s own; 7 do not.
- Standing
- LEAD, on all 7. Opening the operator’s page for the place does not open it on the claim, so a find stays a lead until a page is opened on the claim itself. Nothing on these pages is settled by having been published.
- Disney lists the place
- 5 finds reach a Field File — this house’s page for a thing Walt Disney World lists. That establishes the place. It establishes nothing about the find.
- Disney printed the name
- 0 finds reach a dated guide-map printing run off Disney’s own paper, which is the strongest thing in this set.
- This house wrote it down
- 0 finds reach a row in the Hidden Mickey workbook or the S.E.A. workbook, each row carrying its own owner and its own standing.
- A name left the map
- 0 finds reach a succession pair: the last sheet a name was printed on, the first sheet without it, and the pool of names that began printing after the gap. The pool proposes and nothing more; a person rules.
- Nothing at all
- 2 of 7 finds reach nothing this house holds. They say so on their own line rather than leaving a reader to assume more.
A printing run is Disney's own paper. Two kinds of sheet are read for it: one carries the operator's own digital text, the other was read by machine off folded paper. Both can attest that a name was printed on a dated sheet. Neither can anchor an absence, so a run states its own reading for its first and last sheet.
Where the rest of this lives
- The front door
- TrixiePlanner — plan a day on the map, and the resort year by year.
- The guide’s own pages
- Trixie’s Time Adventures — ten stops, and the places and people in them, every one standing on a page Disney publishes.
- What Disney lists
- the Field Files — one page for each thing Walt Disney World lists, and the page every find on these trails links into.
- The S.E.A. workbook
- Who Says So — S.E.A. at Walt Disney World — the Society row by row, each graded by who owns it.
- The Hidden Mickey record
- Hidden Mickeys at Walt Disney World — the full catalogue, including the shapes that are gone and the reason Disney names none of them.
- Built the same way
- Walt Saw It. Disney Built It. — six stories about what Walt saw and what Disney built, with the same evidence discipline.