Vacation Fun - An Original Animated Short with Mickey & Minnie

Vacation Fun - An Original Animated Short with Mickey & Minnie: attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Walt Disney World — live wait times, operating status, and planning data on MouseHub.

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Visitor sentiment

3.9· 32 Google ratings

The MouseHub take

Vacation Fun is the animated short that plays at the Mickey Shorts Theater in Echo Lake at Disney's Hollywood Studios. The theater opened on March 4, 2020, in the space Star Wars: Path of the Jedi used to hold. Disney's own copy has the short celebrating Mickey and Minnie's favorite vacation memories, and it mixes never-before-seen animation with clips from the Disney Channel shorts, Yodelburg, Potatoland and Outback at Ya! among them. The room is dark and cold, the seats are padded, and the theming runs past the screen to the architecture, the framed movie posters, and hidden surprises tucked around the building.

Most people use it as a filler stop between rides, and it works as one. Waits stay short through the afternoon, so a cool seated break costs almost nothing on a day of walking. Small kids track the bright colors and the slapstick. The disappointment lands on guests who came for a new story, since part of what plays is stitched from clips of Disney Channel's 2013 Mickey Mouse shorts. The modern character designs split the room the same way.

At a glance

Best for
Families with young kids who need a dark, cold place to sit down in the middle of a Hollywood Studios afternoon.
Skip if
You know the 2013 Mickey Mouse shorts already, or you have one day here and headliners still on the list.
Ride type
Animated short in an indoor theater, with a photo set at the exit
Intensity
Gentle. A seated indoor show with no motion. The room goes dark for the film and the comedy is slapstick.

The good

  • The room is dark, cold, and seated
    Guests use this as a place to get out of the sun, and it does that job better than it does any other. The adults in the party get the break as much as the kids do.
  • Waits stay short
    The line rarely builds the way it does elsewhere in the park, so you are usually into the next showing without standing around for it.
  • Not all of it is reruns
    Disney's copy promises never-before-seen animation mixed in with the clips, so there is new footage between the parts you recognize.
  • The photo sets are worth the walk
    You leave through life-sized recreations of Mickey's world, built for a vacation photo. Families work through them rather than filing past.
  • The theming runs past the screen
    Disney built the place around Mickey and Minnie, from the colorful architecture to the framed movie posters, with hidden surprises tucked in for anyone who looks.
  • Nobody in the party gets turned away
    Disney lists this one as Any Height and May Remain in Wheelchair/ECV, so toddlers, grandparents, and anyone using a mobility device all go in together.

The bad

  • You have seen a lot of it before
    The clips come from Disney Channel's 2013 Mickey Mouse shorts. Anyone who watched that series recognizes the scenes and gets less out of the room than a first-timer does.
  • The character designs split the room
    Those shorts use a modern take on Mickey and Minnie, and guests who grew up on the classic shapes tend to bounce off it.
  • The short jumps around
    Stringing clips together leaves the thing feeling disjointed. Guests who wanted one story come out describing it as chaotic.
  • The screen looks small for the room
    Reviewers describe the picture not filling the wall it hangs on, which leaves dead space around the edges and takes some of the scale out of it.
  • The exit jams at the photo sets
    Everyone stops in the same narrow stretch to take pictures, so the group behind you waits while the group in front poses.

Veteran tips

  • Save it for the worst of the afternoon
    The value here is a dark, cold room while the park bakes. Spending a morning hour on it costs you the stretch when headliner lines are shortest.
  • Find it in Echo Lake
    The theater sits in Echo Lake, in the building Star Wars: Path of the Jedi held until March 2020. People looking for it near the other Mickey attractions end up on the wrong side of the park.
  • Give the lobby a minute
    Disney says the place is full of hidden surprises, from the framed movie posters to details worked into the architecture. Walking straight to a seat skips most of what you paid the wait for.
  • Stay in your wheelchair or ECV
    Disney lists this one as May Remain in Wheelchair/ECV, so there is no transfer to plan around and nobody splits off from the group.
  • Ask about handheld captioning
    Disney lists handheld captioning for this attraction. Worth sorting out before you sit down rather than after the short has started.
  • Let the first wave clear the photo sets
    The recreations sit past the exit doors and your whole showing reaches them at once. Hang back and you get the sets without a line behind you.
  • There is nothing to book
    This is not on the Lightning Lane lineup for Hollywood Studios, so there is no pass to buy and no return window to hit. Walk up when you want it.

MouseHub editorial, written from visitor reports and official Disney sources. Last reviewed .

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