The Disneyland 70th Celebration includes a new Key to Disneyland experience. Guests can purchase a large toy key and then use it to “unlock” the park’s magic. At the end of the experience, they get an exclusive mystery trading pin.
Key to Disneyland Guide
Key to Disneyland – $59.99
The plastic key has a “D”-shaped handle and castle-shaped teeth. It’s gray and blue.
According to the experience’s lore, each land of Disneyland has been collecting magic for 70 years. As you play the game, you unlock and collect the magic.
The key features the Disneyland 70th Celebration logo just below the handle.
It includes a wrist strap attached to the handle for easy carrying. The strap features images of Mickey & Friends, the Disneyland Resort wordmark, and the 70th logo.
This compartment on the back of the handle holds the secret pin you won’t unlock until end of the experience. A Mickey-shaped vault is pictured on the compartment. The key’s switch is next to the compartment.
The trading pins are not available for separate purchase at any Disneyland stores and can only be obtained through the experience. The key and pins are not refundable, exchangeable, or returnable.
Instructions
Here are the experience instructions from the Key to Disneyland webpage:
- “Purchase your Key to Disneyland at select shops in Disneyland Park or at World of Disney in the Downtown Disney District.”
- “Explore Disneyland Park, looking for the 70th Celebration lock station located in each land.”
- “Insert your Key to Disneyland into each lock to reveal an icon, light effect, and music for that land. Unlock magic in all 9 lands in Disneyland Park.”
- ” Upon completion, find the Mickey Topiary Finale lock station by the entrance to Disneyland Park (near the Newsstand and tunnel), where your key will unlock more surprises—including 1 of 9 commemorative trading pins!”
Guests can start in any land, but they must finish at the Mickey Topiary Finale station. Here’s a list of the other 9 stations:
- Main Street, U.S.A. — Disneyland Fire Station
- Adventureland — Aladdin’s Lamp inside Adventureland Bazaar
- New Orleans Square — Outside La Mascarade d’Orleans
- Bayou Country —Outside of Pooh Corner
- Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge — Across from Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
- Frontierland — Wilderness Expeditions and Delivery Service Wagon (near the entrance to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge)
- Mickey’s Toontown — Across from Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin
- Fantasyland — Fantasy Faire
- Tomorrowland — Near the exit of Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters
Tomorrowland
When you find a lock station, make sure to turn on your key with the switch. Each station has a different color scheme and iconography representing that land. The Tomorrowland station is white and blue with images of Space Mountain, Autopia cars, rockets, a submarine, and a Monorail.
After turning on the key, insert it into the keyhole. You actually cannot turn the key.
The key activates lights and sound effects. You can insert the key multiple times to experience different effects, each inspired by an attraction. For example, the Tomorrowland station plays car sounds representing Autopia, a radar sound for Submarine Voyage, and more. The lights on the circle around the keyhole sync with the sounds. The panel around that circle also lights up purple and there are projections on the wall behind the station.
After you unlock the magic of a land, your key will light up in a different color and pattern. It will play a musical ditty and a new icon will appear on the center.
A glowing purple Space Mountain represents Tomorrowland. As you unlock more magic, more icons will appear and fill the remaining space on the key.
Adventureland
The Adventureland station is gold, pink, and red. Instead of attraction icons, it features images of gems and jewels — although you can see that the icons around the keyhole are the same at every station. These are the 70th anniversary logo and nine symbols representing all nine lands. This station has green, gold, and purple lights.
The key lights up green and Jungle Cruise boat icon appears.
New Orleans Square
The New Orleans Square station is purple, green, and gold (the colors of Mardi Gras). It features musical iconography. It played jazz music.
The key lights up blue and activates a gargoyle candelabra from The Haunted Mansion.
Bayou Country
This key has a wood finish with yellow and green highlights. It features flower and bee icons. The sound effect we heard appeared to be from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
The key lit up yellow and a “Hunny” pot icon appeared.
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
The Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge station has a more unique rusted metal appearance to blend in with the land’s theming. It has a screen that displays different graphics with beeping sounds.
The key lights up red and displays a Millennium Falcon icon.
Frontierland
The Frontierland lock station is atop a wood post in front of the Wilderness Expeditions and Delivery Service stagecoach. It actually incorporates the stagecoach into its effects.
When you insert the key, the interior of the stagecoach illuminates, showing silhouettes of its riders. Bubbles erupt from a barrel on the front of the wagon. Sound effects include the sound of a horse’s hooves and someone saying, “Ride ’em, cowboy!”
The key lights up orange and displays a Mark Twain Riverboat icon.
Main Street, U.S.A.
The lock station on Main Street (other than the finale station) is inside the Disneyland Fire Station. It’s red and gold with fire station icons and fiery red lights. Our sound effect was the ringing of the station’s bell.
The key also lights up red and displays a Partners statue icon.
Fantasyland
The Fantasyland station resembles a wood sculpture painted yellow, blue, and brown with pink and gold filigree. It shoots bubbles out of its top and plays Fantasyland music.
The key lights up purple and displays the Sleeping Beauty Castle icon.
Mickey’s Toontown
In Mickey’s Toontown is a blue and yellow cartoon-y station featuring fire hydrant and Mickey icons. It also shoots out bubbles and plays a hopping sound effect. Note that the lights are hard to see during the day at some of these outdoor stations.
The key lights up blue and shows the final icon of our adventure — Mickey’s house.
Mickey Topiary Finale Station
The finale station features a faux Mickey topiary atop a faux brick planter with a post showcasing all of the icons of the experience. A Disneyland 70th flag is in the grass around the topiary. When you insert the key, celebratory fanfare will play and bubbles will shoot out of the Mickey topiary.
If you try to visit the finale station first, the station will play all the same effects. But your key won’t register the experience as completed and the pin compartment won’t open.
The key itself plays “Fantasmic!” music and rainbow lights appear as the compartment pops open, revealing the “D”-shaped pin inside. The icons that light up on they key actually match the images pins, with one for each land. We received the Haunted Mansion pin, which has one of the gargoyle candelabras on the left side of the blue letter.
One other interesting note about the function of the key is that once all of the locations have been completed, you can still repeat the effects with lights and music on the key. There are two buttons on the end of the handle — a Mickey with a music symbol and a Mickey with a light symbol. Use the light button to select one of the land icons and press the music button to hear the song and see the lighting for that land. As a result, the key makes for a fun memory souvenir even after the pin vault has been opened.
The Key to Disneyland experience can be completed at your leisure during the course of the Disneyland 70th Celebration. You can take one day or multiple days to complete all the lands, and the key will save your progress. The experience is intended for ages 4 and up.
Video
If you want to see more of the Key to Disneyland experience, we have a complete walkthrough video with all of the lock stations below:
Review
This is $60, which isn’t cheap, but it makes for a fun experience and souvenir. Kids will love it and it makes for a cute display item. If you like light-up souvenirs or just enjoy more of an interactive experience during your Disneyland visit, we recommend this.
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