Your secrets revealed... hidden treasures at Disney
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masonsmousermom · 04-09-2006, 09:59 AM

I know I've read a post similar to this somewhere before, but I wanted to see what you all have to say this time around.

The post talked about "the stake at Epcot that marks the middle of WDW", talking trash cans, walls, fountains, etc... I would like to know your secrets of WDW.

If we go down, which one of your secrets is a MUST SEE?

angelalar · 04-09-2006, 11:58 AM

I have looked and looked for the "stake" and I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone have any more detailed directions?

michnash · 04-09-2006, 10:04 PM

I didn't think it was a stake, really. I thought it was a marker of some sort. I've heard two different stories. One is that the center of the place where all the inventors are--near the entrance to The Land--is the place. Then, going from Test Track over to Mexico via the path (takes you by a convention-like facility and a bathroom) there's a small little survey marker in the ground. It's a circle, but it has mickey on it. It just has a survey location or something- nothing saying it is the middle of the "World" but I thought it odd to have a marker there when I've not seen one anywhere else.
Anyone know for sure??

**DopeyGirl** · 04-09-2006, 10:13 PM

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I didn't think it was a stake, really. I thought it was a marker of some sort. I've heard two different stories. One is that the center of the place where all the inventors are--near the entrance to The Land--is the place.

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That is the correct place! There is no stake. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I will see if I can find a picture of it somewhere! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

bradk · 04-09-2006, 10:17 PM

i think it's more or less of a survey marker.

wouldn't be true anymore of it being the center of WDW anyway though.

**DopeyGirl** · 04-09-2006, 10:22 PM

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i think it's more or less of a survey marker.

wouldn't be true anymore of it being the center of WDW anyway though.

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Well, anymore, yes, the EXACT center would be some sort of a survey marker. There's been a lot of land acquisition over the years.

But at one time "Discoveries"/the "Inventor's Circle" was the geographical center.

simbarel · 04-09-2006, 10:38 PM

I thought I knew where it was but now I don't. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/sorry.gif[/img]

**DopeyGirl** · 04-09-2006, 10:52 PM

Here's a shot of it from a sort of distance . . . and circled . . . [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]

Joy J · 04-10-2006, 10:09 AM

One of my favourite little hidden treasures is the area in Innoventions where you can design and build a robot. It's very entertaining and you get to race your computer designed robot against other guests' robots. Afterwards, you can build your own little plastic robot which you get to keep as a souvenir.

Joy

ripkensnana · 04-10-2006, 11:38 AM

Okay, I think I have a picture I can post...

Yup, here it is!

And here's a picture of the survey marker that some folks have mentioned:

Hope this helps....I actually think that the first one is the actual geographical center of the WDW property. If you're wondering why it's "off-center", according to Lou Mongello in "The Walt Disney World Trivia Book":

"In the early phases of Epcot's construction, a nest of endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers was discovered in a wooded area that was scheduled to be cleared for future development. To preserve the area's natural state, Disney moved the entire construction site 300 feet. A backstage service road was later named for the woodpeckers."

If you notice that sort of thing, the "inventor circles" are about 300 feet west of the center of Future World...

Actually, I was wondering how Disney found out those birds' names so that they could name a road after them [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

RobDVC · 04-10-2006, 01:15 PM

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I know I've read a post similar to this somewhere before, but I wanted to see what you all have to say this time around.

The post talked about "the stake at Epcot that marks the middle of WDW", talking trash cans, walls, fountains, etc... I would like to know your secrets of WDW.

If we go down, which one of your secrets is a MUST SEE?

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Shelly,
is this the thread you are looking for?
http://www.passporterboards.com/ubb/...p;page=0#83119

christiejay · 04-10-2006, 04:48 PM

Regarding hidden treasures in general, here's what I took on our trip last year:

Go to the Mouse for Less website - downloads page, and check out the pocket guides with "Hidden Gems" in the title, and you get a neat little booklet that easily fits in your PassPocket, PassHolder, fanny pack, or pocket. There's one for each theme park, two for Epcot. I also took the character listing.

Don't worry, the folding instructions aren't that hard to follow - once you do one it's easy.

http://themouseforless.com/tripplann...etGuides.shtml

CindyD · 04-11-2006, 12:14 PM

Christie,
Thanks for the website! I think these are cool, since they are small and will fit into a fanny pack!

**Caldercup** · 04-11-2006, 02:50 PM

I have a small Word doc that lists a bunch of these by park. PM me and I'll email it to you.
Eileen

Stripes · 04-11-2006, 05:06 PM

Not exactly a secret, but a lot of people don't "get" the ending of the HM.

I was told some time ago that the story is once you go through the window, you are falling out of the attic, as the bride did. Up until this point you were alive. (You could watch the party in the ballroom but you weren't "in the scene" you see it from above) Once you fall out of the window, the only other mortals there - the caretaker and his dog - are shaking in fright. But who are they looking at in fright? YOU. Now you are in the graveyard (where you belong) and the ghosts are having a party to welcome you. It's fun and you are "in the scene" when the ghosts come out to socialize.