Up or Down???

[To WDW and beyond]

During a discussion into the prospect of winning a $500 shopping spree, my sister and I realized our differences on the position of Casey's Corner and the shops on Main street.

When walking towards the Castle in the Magic Kingdom, do you walk up or down Main Street?

She thinks that you walk down Main Street to go to the Castle, stating that you don't walk up Main Street to exit the park.

However I think that you walk up towards the Castle, towards the focal point of the park. Also why would the singers on Main Street sing that they are walking right down the middle of main street when they are traveling towards the station from the castle?!

Please help to resolve our issues!!!

[garymacd]

Personally, I am with you. You walk up the street to the castle.

Can't wait to see how polarised this thread gets. It's gonna be fun!

[tomorrowschild]

I think you walk up Main Street towards the castle.

[Goofeygal]

I agree you walk up main street to cinderella's castle.

[amorillo]

another vote for UP!

[rkmemkc]

I do also agree...you walk UP Main Street toward the Castle and DOWN Main Street to go home

[whistlewhileyouwork]

Definately UP to the castle and DOWN to the exit........

[SBETigg]

You must have a fantastic relationship with your sister if this is the kind of thing you debate. I think it all depends on your outlook and neither is right or wrong.

[JuicyMoose17]

Up to the castle!

[EJS-Houston]

I just watched a History Channel documentary about WDW in anticipation of being there in 2 weeks...and they talked about how the public areas of the park are all built up as if they're the 2nd or 3rd stories of a building, with the tunnel system for Disney cast members lying 14 feet below on the 1st story as it were...hence the reason you have to walk up an incline (if my memory serves correctly) to get into the park...and therefore (yes, I do eventually address the thread topic <G>) you walk UP Main Street toward Cinderella's castle, since you have to literally walk up to enter the park from the Transportation Center.

[PrincessASquared]

UP = towards castle

DOWN = leaving MK

[CaptainJessicaSparrow]

First, the Castle = North. So....you walk towards the north and therefore you walk up to the castle.

Second, there are no tunnels at the Magic Kingdom. Florida is below sea-level and therefore, we cannot have basements because if you dig a hole...you have water. So the 'utilador' (or utility corridor) is the first floor and the park is the second floor. So....you have to go upstairs to get into the park from the utilador.

The park is on an incline because of two reasons, the first being that when they built the Seven Seas Lagoon, they needed somewhere to put all the dirt. So it became the parks' foundation. The second being a visual aspect of it - From the Contemporary and other monorail resorts, you can see the Castle. But to create the movie theme, they built the Train Station to serve as the 'curtain' to the show. So when you stand at the turnstiles, you can't see the Castle because the Train Station acts as the curtain to the show and severs your connection to the reality of the parking lots, resorts, buses, etc to create the fantasy that is the Magic Kingdom.

[wedway76]

I walk ALONG Main St!

[GrmGrninGost]

UP to the castle!

[Sean Riley Taylor's Mom]

Another Up to the Castle and Down Main Street to leave.

[TheRustyScupper]

1) Most people in the world go DownTown.
2) Except New York, NY, and Charlotte, NC, they go UpTown.

[TheMartellFamily]

We walk up to the castle.

[dteed]

We always say "down the street," no matter which direction we are going.

[BronxTigger]

1) Most people in the world go DownTown.
2) Except New York, NY, and Charlotte, NC, they go UpTown.

We go down here too...

But yes you go UP to the castle and DOWN to leave....matches your mood.

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

Just to throw another thought out there, what about the song that plays when the trolley morning show is on Main St?

It's lyrics go "I'm walking right DOWN the middle of Main St. USA"