Disney also started putting out special edition cards at events like the Halloween and Christmas parties.Īll in all, I thought that Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom was a pretty cool idea, but I was never drawn to the experience when I was there. To acquire more cards, you had a couple of options: buy them from Disney (or eBoy eBay) or get a new starter pack the next time you visited the park (though you needed to open a portal before you could get the pack). On Medium, these attributes were fixed, but they became randomized on Hard to up the difficulty even further. Once you moved to Medium, the difficulty increased with villains having specific strengths and weaknesses, so it became necessary to have a wide swath of cards like you can see above. On the Easy level, it wouldn’t matter that much which Spell Card you used because the villains didn’t really have weakness or strengths and were vulnerable to any type of attack. To use your Spell Cards, you would simply show the Spell Card you wanted to use to the magic portal and the magic of technology would implement your spell. With your tools in hand, you were now set to go about the park and find the magic portals into the animated world using your map. Luckily, you could get your starter pack of five Spell Cards for free by visiting the Firehouse. Your MagicBand would track your progress through the adventure, while your Spell Cards had different powers all of which would prove useful in defeating the villains. To take on Hades and his cronies, you need a few things: a MagicBand, map and Spell Cards. Now that you know your goal, the question is what do you need to accomplish your goal? That meant you got the chance to have some of your favorite characters like Sebastian and the Genie around to help defeat the baddies and just provide some moral support on the quest. Luckily for you, not all was lost because though main man Merlin was no use, all of the villains’ nemesis showed up for the cause. To make matters worse, Merlin was generally off doing damage control right when you needed him. All in all, Hades got eight classic villains to join his cause, all of whom had plenty of henchmen to defeat as well. Unfortunately, Hades had already tried to steal the crystal but bumbling Pain and Panic botched the job (of course) and it had split apart, with pieces scattered in lands all across the Magic Kingdom.īefore you could take down Hades in a final boss battle, you had to go all around the park to defeat various other classic Disney villains, with fan favorites like Scar and Maleficent as well as under-utilized gems like Yzma and Governor Radcliffe. To keep Hades out, you needed to recover a magic crystal that would create a forcefield of sorts to repel Hades and all of the villains he had recruited to his cause. Merlin recruited you to his team to help stop Hades from accomplishing his goal of taking over the Magic Kingdom and making it his summer home. The Epcot Adventures were a bit more kid-focused to help keep the little ones entertained while their parents enjoyed some adult beverages around the “world.” But on February 22, 2012, Magic Kingdom joined in on the fun when Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom launched, aimed at an older audience with its more sophisticated gameplay. However, Walt Disney World, the more tourist-driven domestic resort, has had a few of them over the years, most notably in Epcot with Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure and Agent P's World Showcase Adventure, not to mention the soon-to-come DuckTales World Showcase Adventure (well hopefully). This fact always surprised me because it seems like something that APs would love to do as an activity to help dive into some of the nitty gritty details of the park. Speaking of Annual Passholders, Disneyland has never had an interactive game scattered around the park for guests to play. The park definitely had an overcrowding problem with the number of APs eligible to go so often, so hopefully this revamping of the Passholder process can help solve that issue and help people embrace being at the parks as more of a gift than a necessity. Personally, I was a Flex Passer before Disneyland closed, and it worked really well for me. Thus far, we haven’t heard much about what this new program will look like, but I think it is safe to say that it will involve some type of reservation system, especially when the park reopens because of how high demand will be. Last week, Disneyland Resort announced that their Annual Passholder system would be coming to an end, with a new membership system set to arrive at some point in the future. This week, we’ll be taking a look at an attraction that isn’t quite closed yet, but will be extinct starting this coming Monday.
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