![]() It consists of narrated virtual tours, trivia, and slideshows of the resort's parks, attractions, hotels, and other related topics. The application focuses on the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. Check it out, you can find it on eBay for cheap, trust me.The Walt Disney World Explorer is a point and click Windows and Macintosh application developed by Mindsai Productions and Disney Interactive, and published by the latter. Overall, the WDW Explorer was an intresting program. Corey Burton, of course, provided narration, and it was extremely intresting for the young Disney theme park fan in me. Of course, what I thought was the coolest feature was the WDW timeline, where you dragged your monorail to sight the different WDW developments since 1971, with "The Monorail Song" playing in the background. Using the trivia quips from the slideshows around the CD, you answered such questions that were actually HARD!! If you got it right, you most likely were treated to Corey Burton doing his audio shtick (he seems to really like the whole Timmy/Mommy thing a lot).Īnother feature was "Tours of the World", where some girl (forget her name) led you on different tours of WDW, showing attactions good for toddlers, teenagers and the adult class, including the most romantic places in the resort. The big feature was the Quiz Challenge, where Corey Burton gets to show off his (amazingly funny) improv skills. Who knew somebody could make a game themed to the Living Seas? Or the Monster Sound Show? Also featured was a Hidden Mickey game were these items were hidden in a picture and when you clicked on them, they totaled, and I think 5 or 10 led you to a secret Mickey video. There were seperate games on the CD, for the oddest attractions out there. The second edition, like mentioned above, only featured a single page about Animal Kingdom. There was also a page for each hotel, waterpark and Downtown Disney (2nd edition). The pages about the parks often gave off a 360-degree panorama of a certain area. More Stuff was rare, but it usually featured another trivia quip or maybe even a video. Trivia was a quip about the attraction to be used in the WDW Quiz, which I'll talk about later. One of the more intresting videos was the time-lapse construction film of Spaceship Earth. Backstage gave you an intresting look usually of WDI creating the attraction, or a video if it was a movie-type attraction. Usually there were icons to the left, titled "BACKSTAGE" and "TRIVIA", and maybe even sometimes "MORE STUFF". Once clicking on an attraction (Tinkerbell was your cursor), it led to a slideshow of sorts, and Corey Burton (who would often tell of his voice apperances in attractions ) narrated it, saying what it was about. On the Tomorrowland screen, an alien claw would occasionally break the ceiling of Alien Encounter. Like, for instance, on the Disney/MGM map, the Muppets hot air balloon would rise and roam the park, and the TOT constantly showed people dropping. To give you an idea on how it worked, go onto VisionsFantastic, who based their Disneyland Explorer idea on the WDW Explorer, except that on the WDW Explorer, the maps were made intrested with animated figures that you lead you to different areas. The opening's unique, with Walt opening it along with (for some reason) the Horizons "Oddessy" score, and then you came upon a giant animated map of WDW along with a meldley of songs riveting your speaker, including Small World, Grim Grinning Ghosts, Tiki Room and One Little Spark. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the 2nd edition is unavailable along with the first, but the first is easier to find. Not only do you get to scroll around a pre-Gemini Epcot, you get to actually see WDW acknowledge CoP's existance! There was a 2nd edition made, I have both, but the 2nd edition is horribly scratched, and there isn't much changes besides a page for the Coronado Springs, Animal Kingdom (just a page?), Buzz Lightyear and I think a new Test Track page, but it was a waste of money to buy both of them. ![]() Created for the 25th anniversary, the WDW Explorer was a truly unique program. ![]()
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