In the four theme parks at Disney World in Florida you can meet all of these various characters in meet and greets (this is a specific day). A character can never be in two places at once, of course! There is only ONE Mickey Mouse. But he must run back and forth between the parks. Some of the characters have a continuous time throughout the day (like Mickey), while others come out to play at certain times. The amount of detail is fun: Chip and Dale are in different parks, but never at the exact same time (of course). Often just 5 minutes apart giving them time to scurry back and forth.

All the data came from the Disney World app that lists all the times, but the chart is Flourish.

The interactive version is fun because you can filter by theme park to see when and where your favorite characters can be found:

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/24889291/

If anybody has some other suggestions here, I’d like to hear them for an interactive solution. Tableau is kind of overkill for this and not super friendly for embedding. I have the data structured where every time is a row (so multiple rows for Mickey). Datawrapper involves too much manual manipulation. Plotly is another option: I just need to play more with it.

ETA: I realize I uploaded the picture without the legend for the colors. For those interested, it IS on the interactive version. I just don’t think I can replace this picture with the right one.

Pink = Magic Kingdom

Blue = Epcot

Orange = Hollywood Studios

Green = Animal Kingdom

Posted by shinyro

9 comments

  1. Nice work.

    Your graphic is missing a color legend.

    What do the four colors correspond to? I’m assuming it’s each of those four parks…

  2. This feels like a chart for a Neopets or Stardew Valley or Majora’s Mask guide.

  3. From what I hear they aren’t even the real characters. They are people with costumes. ?

  4. The interactive site is great! This information isn’t easily aggregated on the Disney app or website. Your chart will be very useful for anyone trying to see their favorite characters.

  6. Please add a close out option or X to the info pop-ups in the interactive version.

  7. This is amazing!!! I just wish I hadn’t found it on the last night of our trip. Wonderful graphic and easily consumable.

  8. This is great!

    My OCD insists that I help you group the characters better. Donald, Daisy and Goofy moved up to be with Mickey and Minnie. All princesses together, Snow White first. All Star Wars universe characters next to each other. Same with characters from individual movies, like The Incredibles. Most important is that Chip and Dale should not have a cow come between them.

  9. Missing Marie from ‘the aristocats’

    We found her a decade ago. She still makes occasional appearances.

    We made sure to seek her out.

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