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{{Infobox attraction
| name = Mickey's PhilharMagic
| park = [[Magic Kingdom]]
| land = Fantasyland
| type = 4D film show
| opened = October 3, 2003
| designer = Walt Disney Imagineering
| status = Operating
}}

'''Mickey's PhilharMagic''' is a 4D film attraction in Fantasyland at [[Magic Kingdom]] in [[Walt Disney World]], Florida. It opened on October 3, 2003, in the Fantasyland Concert Hall, and follows Donald Duck through musical sequences from Disney animated films after he takes Mickey Mouse's sorcerer's hat and loses control of a magical orchestra. Although Mickey's name is in the title, Donald is the film's central character, and the show is built around songs from films of the Disney Renaissance and, since 2021, Pixar's ''Coco''.

Versions of the attraction have since opened at Hong Kong Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris and Disney California Adventure.

== History ==
PhilharMagic was developed jointly by Walt Disney Imagineering and the Walt Disney Feature Animation division, whose artists returned to characters that many had originally drawn in two dimensions and rebuilt them as computer-generated models. The film took more than three years to produce and was directed by George Scribner, director of ''Oliver & Company''. It was the first time Mickey Mouse appeared in computer animation in a Disney production.

Donald was chosen to carry the film, the director has explained, because his emotions turn quickly, which suits a character swept from one musical number to the next. Most of his dialogue was assembled from archive recordings of Clarence Nash, the original voice of Donald, who died in 1985; Donald's later voice, Tony Anselmo, recorded a small number of additional lines. The score was performed by an orchestra of some 80 musicians and singers, re-recording the featured songs in new arrangements.

Disney announced the attraction on January 31, 2002. It replaced ''Legend of the Lion King'' in the Fantasyland Theatre, beside [[Peter Pan's Flight]], and construction began that March. The show opened on October 3, 2003, and then ran essentially unchanged for eighteen years.

Its one major addition came in 2021. A new sequence based on ''Coco'', built around the song "Un Poco Loco" with music involving the film's composer Germaine Franco, first appeared in the California and Paris versions that July and was added to the Magic Kingdom film on November 12, 2021, during Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary celebrations.

== Experience ==
The queue and pre-show area are decorated with posters for other acts supposedly appearing at the concert hall, advertising performances by characters such as the Genie, Hades and Wheezy the penguin. Inside, guests wear 3D glasses — presented as "opera glasses" — and face a proscenium stage.

Minnie Mouse warns that Donald is missing as the performance is due to begin. Donald, found asleep beside the orchestra's instruments, puts on Mickey's sorcerer's hat and attempts to conduct the instruments himself; the magic overwhelms him and the hat is lost into the worlds of the songs. Donald pursues it through a sequence of numbers: "Be Our Guest" from ''Beauty and the Beast'', the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" music from ''Fantasia'', "Part of Your World" from ''The Little Mermaid'', "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" from ''The Lion King'', "Un Poco Loco" from ''Coco'', "You Can Fly!" from ''Peter Pan'' and "A Whole New World" from ''Aladdin'', before Mickey reclaims the hat and conducts the finale.

The theatre screen is 150 feet (46 m) wide, among the largest seamless projection screens ever built, and the film is reinforced by in-theatre effects — scents, water and air movement — timed to the action, along with an Audio-Animatronic Donald who appears in the theatre itself at the show's end. The performance lasts about twelve minutes.

== See also ==
* [[Magic Kingdom]]
* [[Fantasyland]]
* [[Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Attractions]]
[[Category:Magic Kingdom]]
[[Category:4D films]]
[[Category:2003 establishments in Florida]]

Mickey's PhilharMagic - Revision history

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