Premiering in 2013 and running until the 2020 Covid-19 Disneyland shutdown, Mickey and the Magic Map was a live show hosted multiple times a day at the Fantasyland Theater in Disneyland. The 24-minute performance featured Mickey Mouse in his classic role as Sorcerer’s Apprentice and included songs and characters from ten Disney animated films.
As the story goes, the wise sorcerer Yen Sid tells of a wondrous map, a map like no other, with the power to take dreamers to any place imaginable. But when young apprentice Mickey Mouse attempts to paint the map’s one unfinished spot, he stumbles into a fantastic adventure through worlds of music, color, and beloved characters, as he discovers the mystery of the map’s magic!
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As mickey attempts to complete the map he is absorbed into the world of the animated map. His nemesis throughout the story is the stubbornly unfinished “spot”.
While Mickey attempts to cover the unfinished spot, a series of events lead mickey to Disney characters that leap from stops along Mickey’s journey through the magic map.
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Mickey encounters King Louie from The Jungle Book (I Wanna Be Like You), Pocahontas (Just around the River Bend), Mulan (Reflection), Rapunzel (I see the Light), Sebastian (Under the sea), Stitch (Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride) and Tiana (Dig a Little Deeper) all with dazzling performances that only Disney could produce.
In the end, Mickey realizes his mentor has been watching over him the entire time when the adversarial Spot is revealed as the pupil of Yen Sid’s eye. Yen Sid explains that the Map Shall “never be completed, as long as there is imagination left in the world” A nod to Walt Disney himself who often said the same about Disneyland itself.
