Vacation Fun – An Original Animated Short with Mickey & Minnie

Vacation Fun – An Original Animated Short with Mickey & Minnie is a short indoor film shown in the Mickey Shorts Theater at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

The show combines new animation with clips from Mickey and Minnie shorts, following the pair through a series of holiday-themed adventures.

Wheelchair and ECV users can remain in their mobility device throughout the experience, with accessible seating available inside the theatre.

After the film, guests can explore themed photo locations inspired by the animated shorts.

Vacation Fun is shown in a darkened indoor theatre using a large screen, amplified sound and brightly coloured animation.

The film moves quickly between different cartoon scenes, with frequent changes in colour, movement and visual activity.

Dialogue, music and exaggerated cartoon sound effects are used throughout, including sudden noises that match the slapstick action on screen.

The theatre remains stationary throughout the presentation.

There are no 3D glasses, water sprays, wind effects, scent effects or moving seats.

The overall experience is visually energetic and occasionally noisy, but without the physical motion or immersive effects found on Disney’s 4D theatre attractions.

Because the film runs repeatedly throughout the day when the attraction is operating, this is usually easier to fit around other plans than a show with only a handful of fixed performance times.

The theatre is indoors and air-conditioned, making it useful when you want somewhere to sit for a while away from Florida heat or rain.

You can skip the photo area after the film if you are not interested in it, or spend longer there without affecting the next group entering the theatre.

Mickey and Minnie somehow manage to turn taking a holiday into significantly more work than simply staying at home, which feels uncomfortably realistic.