The Walt Disney World Explorer

The Walt Disney World Explorer is a point and click Windows and Macintosh application released by Disney Interactive around 1996 that lets the user explore the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. The program consists of virtual tours through all of the Disney parks, and trivia about the parks, attractions and hotels. Various games are also built into the application, such as a quiz, allowing the user to test their knowledge of the resort, and a game which involves finding Hidden Mickeys.

About two years after it was released, The Walt Disney World Explorer – Second Edition was made with new and updated information, such as Disney's Animal Kingdom and Disney's Coronado Springs Resort. The disc is narrated by Hettie Lynne Hurtes and Corey Burton, the latter of which is a veteran voice actor who has been featured in several Disney attractions.

Topics
These tables cover all the topics found in both versions of the game.

About these tables:
 * Topic is the name of a topic. The topic names must reflect those used by the application. If a topic appears in both versions then its name in the Second Edition will be listed and its original name will be noted.
 * Versions covers whether or not something appears in either version.
 * Backstage & Trivia covers whether the topic as a "Backstage" slideshow (marked with "S" in the tables) or video (marked with "V") and a "Trivia" slideshow (for the Walt Disney World Quiz Challenge minigame). Neither of these appears without the other, and "Trivia" never uses videos.
 * The Backstage icon in the application is a blue door in a green doorframe with a red Mickey Mouse symbol on the door opening to reveal a starfield. A yellow light coming out of the doorway shows Mickey's silhouette.
 * The Trivia icon in the application is a red treasure chest with a blue question mark on it, opening to show a yellow flash. The chest's lid is surrounded by different colored question marks.
 * Third option indicates whether there is additional content to go with the above Backstage and Trivia options. If the cell for the Backstage & Trivia column says "No", then a N/A applies to this column's cell. This can be one of three options:
 * More Stuff is an additional slideshow (marked with "MSS" in the tables) or video (marked with "MSV"). Its icon is a green, wrapped-up paper bag with a yellow exclamation point on it, with a yellow flash behind the bag.
 * 360° Panorama (marked with "360") lets the user view a 360° panoramic image taken in the parks. Its icon is a viewfinder.
 * Interactivities (marked with "INT") takes the user to a minigame.
 * Still exists? indicates whether or not something is still standing in Walt Disney World to this day. (These tables do not concern with other Disney Parks.) This only applies to topics about physical things like attractions and resorts, not more general, conceptual, or event-based topics such as "Horticulture" or "Land Acquisition".
 * Notes goes over additional things such as when an attraction closed, what replaced an attraction, changes to the topic between the two versions, and other important details.

Main Street USA
None of the topics have a third option, so that column is removed here.

New Tomorrowland/Tomorrowland
Tomorrowland was called "New Tomorrowland" in the original version. Dialogue mentioning "New Tomorrowland" still exists in much of the Second Edition. None of the topics have a third option, so that column is dropped here.

World Showcase
Since almost all the topics for this land are the pavilions, which are very unlikely to close anytime soon, and that everything here is covered in both versions, the "Still exists?" and "Versions" columns will not be used for this table (although IllumiNations has been replaced by IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth since). Instead, the notes will cover any attractions discussed at the pavilions as well as major changes since both versions of the application were released.

Disney Studios Florida
To avoid mentioning MGM, Disney referred to what was then named Disney-MGM Studios as "Disney Studios Florida" in the application.

Trivia/Goofs

 * In the slideshow for "Coming Attractions" (found only in the original version), one the images in the slideshow contains a Hidden Mickey. However, the Hidden Mickey on the image in question (a photo of an Imagineer working on a scale model of Disney's Animal Kingdom) was not clickable like the others. This is because the image was second-to-last in the slideshow; Hidden Mickeys are supposed to be on the last image of the main slideshows (if one appears), since clicking during a slideshow will cut the slideshow (and its narration) short and skip to the last image (which in this particular case, was a photo of a scale model of what would become Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex).
 * The title display fields for a number of slideshows use the wrong background in both versions (more often in the Second Edition). For example, Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground's title field uses the Disney Studios Florida background instead of the correct WDW background (in both versions), while in a reversal of the above, the title field for ABC Sound Studio in the Second Edition uses the WDW background instead of the correct Disney Studios Florida background. (This mistake does not appear for its predecessor The Monster Sound Show in the original version.)
 * In the original version, the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea topic accidentally had the last two photos out of order, with a photo of the ride's moray eels coming after a photo of the famous giant squid, causing a mismatch with the narration as the giant squid was mentioned last. This minor error was corrected in the Second Edition.
 * The title field for Skyway to Tomorrowland's slideshow in the Second Edition maintained the previous name "Skyway to New Tomorrowland" from the original version, although the Fantasyland map's pop-up display for the attraction properly removed the word "New" from the title.
 * The opening narration for Mad Tea Party cuts abruptly when Corey Burton finishes his mention of the attraction's canopy roof.
 * The last couple seconds of the Backstage narration for Innoventions accidentally repeats at the end of its audio clip.
 * The coloration of the lettering that said "Reedy Creek" on the RCID hot spot's sign changed between the two versions; it was yellow in the original version and green in the Second Edition.
 * For some reason, the correct spelling for "BoardWalk" (in referring to Disney's BoardWalk Inn and Villas) was dropped in the Second Edition.
 * Most of the new and updated topics in the Second Edition increased the (also known as tracking to typographers) in the title display fields in the slideshows and the display pop-ups on the maps.
 * The font most commonly used throughout the application is.