Arriving by ferryboat or swift monorail trains, guests pass through turnstiles and under the old-fashioned Main Street Railroad station to seven happy lands of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy.

MAIN STREET, U.S.A.

A visit to the Magic Kingdom begins by walking underneath the Railroad Station & into Town Square, where you'll get a great view of Cinderella Castle at the top of Main Street, USA. You can take a nostalgic trip down Main Street, U.S.A., aboard a horse-drawn streetcar, a fire engine or a horseless carriage. This is America as it was nearly a hundred years ago with its glitzy cinema and Plaza Ice Cream Parlor. At one end of the street is Town Square, with its City Hall and tree-shaded areas for town concerts by the Walt Disney World Band.

At the end of Main Street is the 'hub' where you'll find roads leading off to the different 'lands' of the Magic Kingdom. Just beyond the hub is Cinderella Castle, and the gateway to Fantasyland. The lands are (clockwise from left) - Adventureland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, Fantasyland, Mickey's Toontown Fair, Tomorrowland.

ADVENTURELAND

Strolling beneath dense vines and bamboo branches, guests pass the gigantic Swiss Family Treehouse -- re-created from the famous Walt Disney movie -- and make their way to a last-outpost river landing where they board tropical launches for the Jungle Cruise. Curious gorillas, playful Indian elephants in their daily bath and frolicking hippos created in life-like realism by Disney artists make for a total mood of adventure in faraway lands.

Nearby, The Enchanted Tiki Birds -- Under New Management is newly transformed. Hollywood featherweights Iago, from Disney's animated feature "Aladdin," and Zazu, from Disney's animated feature "The Lion King," have become the new landlords, creating a witty, upbeat show filled with old and new choreographed musical numbers. And the greatest swashbuckling adventure of all comes in the colorful Caribbean Plaza where visitors explore a battered fort to discover the Pirates of the Caribbean. Aboard buccaneer launches, adventurers travel through mysterious grottos, then plunge down a waterfall and into the midst of a pirate battle for control of a harbor town.

FRONTIERLAND

Beside the picturesque Rivers of America is the land of frontier America -- the old west with its boardwalks, brass-railed saloon and forest forts. Here, too, is the zaniest troupe of singing bears ever assembled, in the Country Bear Jamboree. It's real old-time music with a foot-stompin' beat. Just across the river is Tom Sawyer Island where Injun Joe's Cave, the Magnetic Mystery Mine and old Fort Sam Clemens await exploration. The Island is reached by log rafts.

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad takes guests for a wild ride on a runaway mine train. Young frontiersmen may also try their hand in Frontierland Shooting Gallery where fast-moving targets abound.

The tallest peak in the Magic Kingdom, Splash Mountain, features a log-flume ride with one of the world's longest flume drops -- a five-story, 47-degree descent reaching speeds of nearly 40 mph. The attraction plunges guests into the Disney classic, "Song of the South."

LIBERTY SQUARE

The true spirit of America is brought to life in the shadow of a giant oak, known as the Liberty Tree. Within the Hall of Presidents, the most impressive moments in American history are presented in life-like realism with all of the nation's chief executives on a single stage through the three-dimensional magic of the Audio-Animatronics system.

Across the way is the sparkling Diamond Horseshoe Saloon Revue, where dance-hall ladies and elegant gents sing and dance. Nearby on a graveyard hill is the ominous Haunted Mansion with the liveliest collection of ghosts ever assembled for all to see as they travel through the ancient rooms aboard "doom-buggies."

Liberty Square visitors may also board the Liberty Belle, an old-time sternwheel steamboat, for another adventure into America's historical past. Mike Fink Keelboats and Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes also make the journey 'round the river past Indian camps and a settler's shack.

FANTASYLAND

Happiest of all the Disney lands is the one inspired by animated Disney film classics -- Fantasyland. Here, in the courtyard of Cinderella Castle, are the Mad Tea Party, Dumbo the Flying Elephant, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Snow White's Scary Adventure and Peter Pan's Flight. In the center of all is a gigantic jewel -- Cinderella's Golden Carrousel.

Guests have the chance to prove their worthiness to Merlin in the daily "Sword in the Stone" show. Most charming of the adventures is Walt Disney's salute to all the children on earth -- It's a Small World -- where hundreds of doll-like figures sing and dance in their native costumes.

The "animateered" performance of "Legend of The Lion King," based on the hit Disney animated feature film, "The Lion King," creates a mystical jungle where animators' drawings are brought to life using an advanced form of puppeteering and special effects. The show includes the film's dramatic opening song, "Circle of Life."

The lush lagoon setting of Ariel's Grotto offers a chance to meet "The Little Mermaid" character, Ariel, and then cool off in an interactive leap-frog fountain spouting between sea sponges. Guests also can meet popular classic characters at the Fantasyland Character Festival.

TOMORROWLAND

Tomorrowland features a glimpse into a city of the future as envisioned by the sci-fi writers and movie-makers of yesteryear.

The main thoroughfare of this "city" is the Avenue of Planets, home to the Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Center where X-S Tech, a mysterious corporation from a distant planet, is displaying a new teletransportation device that brings the audience face-to-face with an alien in The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter.

Across the way, The Timekeeper takes guests through a hysterical blast through time in a Circle-Vision 360 format.

Armed with infrared lasers, guests join forces with Buzz Lightyear to defend Earth's supply of batteries from the evil Emperor Zurg in Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, a spinning, brought-to-life Tomorrowland spin-off of the hit movie "Toy Story." The shoot-'em-up fun triggers sight and sound gags, while a lighted display inside guests' toy-spaceship vehicles keeps score.

High above Rockettower Plaza, guests can board the machine-age rockets of Astro Orbiter and surround themselves with whirling planets as they swing through space. On level two, guests can ride the world's first transportation system utilizing the magnetic-powered linear motor on a sightseeing tour compliments of Tomorrowland Transit Authority.

An updated version of the popular Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress gives guests a revitalized performance, complete with a new pre-show. The unique rotating theater provides a fascinating look at how our lives have changed through electricity and new inventions.

Action, speed and perpetual motion await as guests "blast off" into the night skies of Space Mountain for a twisting, diving "return-to-earth" aboard miniature space-shuttles.

Drivers young and old in individual cars enjoy the Tomorrowland Indy Speedway, matching speeds on a winding rally course.

MICKEY'S TOONTOWN FAIR

The newest land in the Magic Kingdom is designed to create "character connections" between guests and Mickey Mouse and all his toon pals. Mickey, Minnie, favorite Disney heroes and heroines -- and even a villain or two -- await guests in the Toontown Hall of Fame. Mickey and Minnie also open their Toontown "mouse-houses" for guest tours. Donald Duck has docked his boat, the Miss Daisy, providing splashing surprising for seafaring youngsters. The Barnstormer, the first kid-sized roller coaster at Walt Disney World, zips and zooms through Goofy's Wiseacre Farm in crop-dusting bi-planes before crashing through a hayloft to complete the high-flying adventure.

This is only the beginning of a day in the Magic Kingdom. Special events include Disneys "Magical Moments" parade, a brilliantly colored, musical spectacle with six themed floats parading down Main Street, U.S.A. There's also live entertainment in every "land" -- song-and-dance shows of classic Disney tunes in the Castle Forecourt, a quartet of toe-tappin', foot-stompin', singing cowpokes in Liberty Square and much more, including themed holiday entertainment, impressive fireworks shows during the summer and special times of the year, plus high school bands, dance and musical groups from throughout the world. In addition, there are face-to-face meetings with the Disney characters throughout the park, plus fascinating shops, themed restaurants and snack facilities.

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