Mickey's PhilharMagic

Mickey's PhilharMagic is a 4-D film attraction found at the Magic Kingdom theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland and at Tokyo Disneyland. The film was directed by George Scribner, who is best known for directing Disney's 1988 animated film, Oliver and Company. Mickey's PhilharMagic is a 12-minute long show featuring 3D effects, scents, and water as well as a number of characters from Disney movies. It is shown on the largest purpose-built 3D screen ever made, at 150 feet wide.

Locations
At Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Mickey's PhilharMagic is located adjacent to Peter Pan's Flight and the Fantasy Faire shop in Fantasyland. This is the fourth attraction to utilize this show building. The theatre originally hosted the Mickey Mouse Revue. Later, it was the home to the 3-D Magic Journeys film after it left Epcot's Journey into Imagination pavilion to make way for Captain EO. Most recently, it was home to the stage presentation Legend of the Lion King.

At Hong Kong Disneyland, Mickey's PhilharMagic is located adjacent to Royal Banquet Hall in Fantasyland.

At Tokyo Disneyland, it takes the place of The Mickey Mouse Revue, which was originally located at Walt Disney World before moving to Tokyo Disneyland as one of its original attractions.

Attraction development
The attraction is unique in being one of a very select amount of attractions in the Disney theme parks in which Walt Disney Imagineering has collaborated with another division of The Walt Disney Company - in this instance, it was Walt Disney Feature Animation. This same partnership developed the Fantasmic! shows at Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios. Legendary Disney animator Glen Keane re-rendered Ariel from The Little Mermaid in 3D, returning after rendering her in 2D in the original film. Nik Ranieri, supervising animator of Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, also returned to animate that character in 3D. Most of Donald Duck's dialogue is actually archival recordings by his original voice actor, Clarence Nash. Tony Anselmo, Donald's current voice actor, recorded only five new lines for the character in this attraction (such as the scene where Donald Duck hums to the tune of the song "Be Our Guest".)

Plot synopsis
Mickey Mouse is performing with his PhilharMagic Orchestra at the Fantasyland Concert Hall. Inside the queue area, there are posters advertising the Concert Hall's past productions and performers, such as Hades from Hercules, Genie from Aladdin, Willie the Whale and The Three Little Pigs. Upon entering the theater's lobby, guests pick up their "opera glasses" (3-D glasses). During their wait, guests hear orchestral music from Fantasia, Fantasia 2000 and other Disney animated films.

Goofy, the Concert Hall's stage manager, admits the guests into the main theater, where final preparations for the performance are underway. Minnie Mouse then tells the guests to put on their "opera glasses." Minnie then realizes that Donald Duck has gone missing and goes to tell Mickey. Goofy, through a misunderstanding, then raises the curtain to reveal that the stage is empty, except for a conductor's podium and Donald, who is sleeping in a box. Mickey races onto the stage in a hurry, quickly telling Donald to unpack the instruments. Mickey places his famous Sorcerer's hat on the podium, then dashes off the stage, telling Donald, "And don't touch my hat!"

After Donald unpacks all the instruments, including a grand piano, from the small box, he is tempted to try on the Sorcerer's Hat himself. He does so, which causes the magical instruments to come to life and play an extremely unpleasent melody. However, when Donald bullies a small flute, the other instruments rise up, creating a whirlwind of magic and music. Donald loses the hat in the storm and passes through different scenes from different films while trying to retrieve the hat.

After the whirlwind passes, Donald finds himself in a dark place, which takes us to "Beauty and the Beast" with Lumiere, who begins to sing "Be Our Guest." The audience can smell the food (including an apple pie) and when a bunch of champagne bottles pop off their corks, they feel quick blasts of wind in their faces.

The dark comes back for a second. When the light returns, we find ourselves in "Fantasia". The music from The Sorcerer's Apprentice plays as the Magic Brooms enter the room, splashing water on Donald and washing away the dirty dishes left behind from the previous scene. The audience also gets blasted with water. A broom smaller than Donald comes in, carrying a big bucket. Donald snatches the bucket away, but only gives it back when a gigantic broom comes in.

The giant broom spills water on Donald, taking us into "The Little Mermaid," where Ariel is singing "Part of Your World." At the end of the song, an electric eel shocks Donald when he tries to kiss Ariel.

Next, we're in "The Lion King," where Simba sings "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" amidst a menagerie of jungle animals rendered in a paper cut-out style.

After that, we go into "Peter Pan," where the chourus sings "You Can Fly." Peter sprinkles pixie dust on Donald, giving him the ability to fly.

Finally, we go into "Aladdin," where Aladdin and Jasmine are singing "A Whole New World" while flying through the night sky on Carpet. This time, Donald retrieves the hat by Jasmine placing it on his head. Unfortunately, the hat gets knocked off of Donald's head by Iago and Donald jumps after it.

Donald falls back into the magical whirlwind from earlier. Donald gets sucked inside, finding himself back onstage, still in the whirlwind. Mickey returns, puts on the hat and uses its powers to restore order. As Mickey finally conducts the orchestra, the flute that Donald bullied earlier knocks the duck into a tuba. As a fitting end, Donald gets shot from the tuba and into the theater's back wall.

English version

 * Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse
 * Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
 * Clarence Nash (Archival recordings)
 * Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse
 * Bill Farmer as Goofy
 * Jerry Orbach as Lumière
 * Jodi Benson as Ariel
 * Jason Weaver as Simba
 * Rowan Atkinson as Zazu
 * Blayne Weaver as Peter Pan
 * Brad Kane as Aladdin
 * Lea Salonga as Princess Jasmine
 * Gilbert Gottfried as Iago

Japanese version
Most of the original voice cast reprised their original character roles in each of their own respective Disney films, excluding Peter Pan (who had a different voice), Donald Duck, and Simba (with archival recordings). According to Disney staff members at Walt Disney World, an estimate of about 80 talented musicians and/or background singers performed the music for the film as well as the return of famed composer Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin) and lyricist Tim Rice (Aladdin, The Lion King), who arranged the music for each song they had worked on since some verses or lines of these songs were omitted for this attraction.
 * Takashi Aoyagi as Mickey Mouse
 * Koichi Yamdera s Donald Duck
 * Yu Shimaka as Goofy

Songs

 * Mickey Mouse March
 * Be Our Guest
 * The Sorcerer's Apprentice 
 * Part of Your World
 * I Just Can't Wait to Be King
 * You Can Fly
 * A Whole New World