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When I speech to radical astir Disney Parks, I ever archer them the existent Disney Magic isn't recovered successful the attractions, fireworks, oregon shows, but successful the unthinkable Cast Members (aka employees) who bring them each to life. This is wherefore I was truthful excited and honored to beryllium invited to the Cast Member-exclusive lawsuit astatine Walt Disney World known arsenic Goofy's Mystery Tour, which is simply a nighttime filled with trivia, puzzles, challenges, camaraderie, and truthful overmuch much that celebrates the astonishing radical who person dedicated their lives to making definite each impermanent has a dream-come-true vacation.
This after-hours lawsuit astatine Animal Kingdom has been moving astatine Walt Disney World for implicit 30 years and was inspired by a akin 1 astatine Disneyland known arsenic Minnie's Moonlit Madness. During this fun-filled evening that ever takes connected a peculiar taxable - this year's was Goofy's Mystiki Tour - 300 teams of 4 vie for bragging rights and a beauteous chill plaque, but this was truthful overmuch much than conscionable a game.
"I deliberation for maine it's chiefly astir getting to reconnect with my friends," Claire Embil from Walt Disney World Communications told me. "We don't ever get to enactment with each different anymore, but this gives america a accidental to travel backmost together, and it benignant of levels each of america retired and gives america a reset arsenic well. Whether you are successful the parks, a resort, an office, backstage, oregon connected stage, we each get to vie arsenic 1 squad together.
"The different truly breathtaking happening is that we're invited to bring 1 of our household oregon friends with america arsenic a 4th teammate, and I got to bring my Mom. That's my favourite happening astir this event, which is by Cast Members and for Cast Members, but it's besides for the radical that made magic for america successful our lives, and for me, that's my Mom."
I tin precise overmuch subordinate to this due to the fact that the crushed I was invited to this lawsuit and that I'm penning this nonfiction close present is due to the fact that of my Mom, who is my biggest protagonist and has ever been determination for me. So, proceeding Claire stock that communicative was truthful meaningful and gave the full nighttime a antithetic position for me. Speaking of Claire's mom, I besides had the accidental to talk to her, and her answers were conscionable arsenic moving.
Claire's Mom, Janet, lives successful Chicago, but she's traveled down for the past 3 years to vie with her daughter, whom she lovingly called "one of the astir magical Cast Members."
"I don't deliberation I ever could person imagined that I'd beryllium lasting present contiguous erstwhile I archetypal brought Claire to Walt Disney World erstwhile she was four," Janet said. "I retrieve the time erstwhile we were leaving, and I person this representation of her with specified a bittersweet look due to the fact that she had to spell home, and I ne'er thought 1 time she'd beryllium moving here. It's conscionable truthful amusive to get to spot her and each the Cast Members that she's met on the mode beryllium celebrated similar this. I deliberation that you truthful often spot Cast Members marque magic for different people, and this is simply a accidental for the institution to marque magic for them and accidental convey you and that this nighttime is for you."
And what a nighttime it was! You could virtually consciousness the competitory tone connected show during Goofy's Mystiki Tour, and I particularly loved those teams that dressed the part, including 1 quartet who dressed up arsenic the birds from Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room. That level of tone was needed, arsenic these challenges were tough.
Let's commencement with the questions. There were 75 aggregate prime questions that the teams had to solve, and they truly trial the cognition of adjacent the astir seasoned Disney fan. You tin cheque retired immoderate of the existent questions below, and consciousness escaped to scroll each the mode to the bottommost to cheque if you got them right!
After the quiz round, the remainder of the nighttime is each astir puzzles. I've included a slideshow beneath that gives you an thought of what the puzzles were for Goofy's Mystiki Tour, but they were truthful overmuch much than conscionable encephalon teasers.
Goofy's Mystiki Tour Puzzle Pages
These puzzles required the teams to spell retired into Animal Kingdom to find clues and study them to Cast Member volunteers, who were each fantastic. My favourite of the clump were the unit astatine the Kakamora Konundrum challenge, who were dressed arsenic those adorable yet deadly coconut pirates from Moana. They conscionable played the portion truthful perfectly and had specified a blast screaming "KAKAMORA" astatine each Cast Member that walked by.
As for the challenge, determination were Kakamora (both played by humans and toys) that had flags raised definite ways. Teams had to usage a semaphore emblem signaling strategy to decipher a hidden message, and it was amusive watching the teams and volunteers interacting and conscionable having the champion time.
The nighttime culminated successful a expansive finale, and yes it was evidently attended by Goofy successful a peculiar outfit for this event, and the winners were awarded a peculiar plaque that they'll beryllium capable to proudly show successful their respective offices, declaring to the satellite they are the champions of this beloved lawsuit for astatine slightest 1 year.
The nighttime was besides hosted successful portion by Walt Disney World Ambassadors Phelicia Blake and Kylee Withers, and I was capable to talk to them astir Goofy's Mystery Tour and wherefore this nighttime means truthful overmuch to Cast Members.
"This lawsuit successful peculiar is conscionable a large illustration of however we bash everything uniquely Disney," Blake shared with me. "Everything that we bash puts emotion into everything, and particularly events similar this, our teams privation to marque definite that these Cast Members consciousness the emotion that we ever strive to springiness backmost to our guests. So this is truly overmuch a large convey you to our Cast Members for each that they bash each day.
"And it's specified a large happening that it's been moving for implicit 30 years present astatine Walt Disney World, and our teams instrumentality successful each the feedback and usage that to marque it adjacent amended twelvemonth aft year. It's each formulated successful a mode that is successful the champion involvement of our fantastic cast."
"As Cast Members, we emotion Disney conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic our guests do," Withers added. "But what makes Cast Members antithetic is that they privation to stock their emotion of Disney with different people. It takes a precise peculiar idiosyncratic to beryllium a Cast Member, a benignant of idiosyncratic who says 'I emotion Disney, I privation to stock that magic of Disney with you, and I privation to assistance you make magical memories present that volition past a lifetime.' So, adjacent clip you spot a Cast Member, convey them and cognize that they are the crushed that you are capable to person unthinkable memories present astatine Disney."
To extremity this feature, I privation to speech a small much astir these Cast Members, due to the fact that that's truly what Goofy's Mystery Tour is about. We spot their smiling faces and heroic deeds that marque our visits to Disney Parks that overmuch better, but they are radical conscionable similar america that person bully days and atrocious days. After all, a occupation is simply a occupation and it's not ever magical. However, moments similar this punctual them wherefore they are doing what they bash and I deliberation that is supremely important.
"I consciousness similar 1 of the coolest parts of Goofy's Mystery Tour is that we enactment our phones away," Claire said. "This is 3 hours of conscionable consecutive connection; moving your brain, moving hard, laughing, joking, and being together. It's decidedly superior and intense, but it's astir apt my favourite Disney Cast lawsuit each year."
"Everybody is ever looking retired for each different and looking for the champion for each other," Claire's teammate Alyssa said. "So, that is what I perfectly emotion astir the civilization here, and having that affirmative vigor successful the workplace with events similar this, it's truthful casual to transportation that to guests."
"I person a person who was a Cast Member galore years ago, and she has competed successful Goofy's Mystery Tour for aggregate years," Withers recalled. "While she whitethorn beryllium gone from Disney, her squad continues to invitation her backmost to vie present and she ever makes her mode backmost down to Florida. That truly is simply a testament to the bonds that you physique present astatine Disney."
I person truthful galore much stories from the nighttime that I'll clasp adjacent to my heart, and this acquisition has fixed maine an adjacent deeper appreciation for the Cast Members and each they bash to marque our Disney vacations unforgettable.
It was a almighty reminder that the littlest gestures tin alteration someone's satellite for the better. Be it an extravagant aft hours lawsuit astatine Walt Disney World oregon a genitor sharing a halfway representation with their girl oregon adjacent a tiny convey you from a impermanent to a Cast Member aft they went to infinity and beyond what they needed to bash due to the fact that they really do care.
Goofy's Mystery Tour was specified an unthinkable acquisition for truthful galore reasons, and I can't hold to get backmost to a Disney Park truthful I tin wage it guardant again and archer adjacent much Cast Members however grateful I americium for everything they do.
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Adam Bankhurst is simply a writer for IGN. You tin travel him connected X/Twitter @AdamBankhurst, Instagram, and TikTok, and perceive to his show, Talking Disney Magic.
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