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Prospector Finds Over 100
More Mickeys Hiding in the Disneyland Resort
Hidden Mickey Hunter Steven Barrett Pans For Mickeys in California
(Anaheim, CA) There’s new treasure in the West! Steve Barrett keeps heading out to California to hunt for more of an oft-sought-after commodity. But this isn’t another gold rush: what draws Barrett away from his day job as an Orlando-area emergency room physician isn’t a precious metal but the prospect of finding new Hidden Mickeys.
Just what is a “Hidden Mickey”?
According to Barrett, author of Disneyland’s Hidden Mickeys: A Field Guide To Disneyland® Resort’s Best Kept Secrets (2nd edition ©2009, The Intrepid Traveler, Branford, CT; $9.95), a Hidden Mickey is “a partial or complete image of Mickey Mouse that has been designed to blend into the surroundings in such a way that its presence is not immediately obvious.” For instance, Mickey’s face peering out from the branches of a tree on a ceramic panel or the “classic” outline of Mickey’s head and ears on the saddle of a carousel horse.
Hidden Mickeys started as private in-jokes among Disney’s designers and artists — “Imagineers,” to use the Disney term — when Disney was building Epcot in Florida and decided that the new “adult” park should be free of cartoon characters. A few Imagineers couldn’t resist slipping Mickey in.
As word got around, more Imagineers were tempted to incorporate their own cleverly camouflaged images of Mickey and other characters into the Disney World rides, attractions, restaurants, and shops. Pretty soon, they started hiding them in Disney’s other Florida theme parks, and then couldn’t resist taking them back West to Disneyland.
Hidden Mickeys are now eagerly anticipated in any new Disney construction worldwide and Hidden Mickey fans can’t wait to find them.
Disneyland’s Hidden Mickeys is Barrett’s second field guide to the phenomenon. The first, Hidden Mickeys: A Field Guide to Walt Disney World’s Best Kept Secrets, came out in 2003 and was an instant hit with Disney World Hidden Mickey fans, who, prior to its publication, depended on word of mouth and loose sheaves of printed lists from other Hidden Mickey fans to spot their quarry.
It wasn’t long before West Coast Disney lovers were clamoring for a Hidden Mickeys guide of their own. So Steve put on his hunting gear and headed West. Disneyland’s Hidden Mickeys is the result.
Like its predecesssor, Disneyland’s Hidden Mickeys is arranged as a series of scavenger hunts — three in this case — complete with clues, hints, and points to be scored.
In this new edition, Barrett has added over 100 new hidden Mickeys spotted in the Disneyland Resort’s two theme parks and its restaurants, hotels, and shops, bringing the grand total to 275. Barrett has personally verified each one, testing his observations against those of friends, family members, and 271 fellow Disney enthusiasts who contributed their Disneyland sightings to his web site, www.HiddenMickeysGuide.com and are acknowledged in the book.
Disneyland’s Hidden Mickeys also includes an “Index to Mickey’s Hiding Places,” which makes it easy to find any Mickey in the book, with or without scavenger hunting.
“Hidden Mickey mania is contagious,” says Barrett. “Searching for them has escalated into a bona fide vacation mission for many Disneyland fans. Even beginners have happened upon a new, unreported hidden Mickey or two.”
Join in the fun! Grab a copy (or three!) of Disneyland’s Hidden Mickeys and head for the parks. The Mickeys are waiting patiently for you to discover them.
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Disneyland's Hidden Mickeys:
A Field Guide To Disneyland Resort's Best Kept Secrets, 2nd edition
by Steven M. Barrett
ISBN: 978-1-887140-85-0
118 pages • 4 in. x 9 in.
3 b/w maps
Index to Mickey's Hiding Places
Trade paperback original
USA: $9.95
Publication Date: August 2009 |
Disneyland's Hidden Mickeys is available in bookstores nationwide, from online bookstores, by calling 203-469-0214, or by visiting www.TheOtherOrlando.com/hm4.html
Published by The Intrepid Traveler
Please send two copies of any printed review or mention to
The Intrepid Traveler, P.O. Box 531, Branford, CT 06405
Please send a link to digital reviews or mentions to
mischa @ intrepidtraveler.com
To request a review copy of Disneyland's Hidden Mickeys, or for any additional information: Contact Mischa Benoit-Lavelle at The Intrepid Traveler
mischa @ intrepidtraveler.com • (203) 469-0214
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