Tom Sawyer Island | Magic Kingdom | Full Tour in 4K UHD | Walt Disney World

hi this is Josh with resort ev1 today we're taking you on a tour of Tom Sawyer Island at the Magic Kingdom we hope you enjoyed the video and Tom Sawyer Island is in Frontierland in Magic Kingdom and of course you have particular wrap to get to the Iowa and the rap codes across the beautiful rivers of America and here's the station where you wait to get on the raft and the station is very well themed and the decor in this area is very appropriate for the time period in which the novel Tom Sawyer was set in mid 1800s in the Mississippi River Valley in Missouri so now we'll wait for our wrap to come across the rivers of America so that we can go over to Tom Sawyer island one tip for anyone visiting this island it's a lot more pleasant to visit early in the morning or closer in the evening but remember the attraction does close at dusk and those times vary according to the time of the year and the time when the Sun Goes Down it is a lot of fun to watch the cast members so skillfully pilot these brows right into the docks here so now we're on the raft and our raft is called Tom Sawyer but they're all named after characters in the book there's also another raft dock adjacent to the one that we're on so during busy times they can actually cycle three rafts back and forth or even four rafts across the rivers of America to keep people moving so there you see some guests getting off of that wrap and just team in and now we're off across the river for a very peaceful journey and there are two docks where you can land that's the main dock over there to the right but it appears that we're going to the left towards the mill so relax and enjoy the journey across the river now that we're on the island we can take a look at this impressive windmill and we'll take a look inside here in just a bit but you can see there's a platform and a stairway leading up to the second floor but first let's take a look at the entry house and when you normally come across the rivers of America from the main entrance there in front to your lab you'll end up here and there's some great stuff in here some theming that's evocative of that mid-1800s time period as well as even a checkerboard you can play on and I love that the checkerboard table is the barrel there and here's Tom's personal welcome to everyone visiting the island and here's a map of the island and you can see it's actually two separate islands with the suspension bridge between the two which we saw on a raft ride onto the island now we're back by the mill and you can see the entrance there as well as an entrance to a cave and we'll go in there as well but first let's go in the mill I love that the equipment in the machinery inside of this particular mill are actually running so you can really see how a mill might work and when you come out of the mill you actually come out on the staircase so you get a really good view from here down to the bottom as well as the docks where we entered the island so let's take a look back at frontier land and the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and the bridge is called little crooked bridge adjacent to the mill and you can see the stream running there through the foliage and now we'll take a look at the mystery mine called old scratches mystery mine this is one of the highlights of the island in my opinion these caves are so much fun to explore when I was a kid I remember going through these caves and it absolutely made my imagination run wild I wanted to just keep going through them and then as an adult I enjoy it as well and I also enjoyed the fact that they're air-conditioned and they're a pleasure to enter when it's nice and hot in the Florida summer and I do apologize for the darkness here but of course we are in a cave and the lighting is a little bit sparse so I do have the camera set on low light so hopefully we can see well enough to make our way through the cave so for now just to enjoy this tour of the cave and we'll come back and point out highlights as we go and by the way I keep calling it a cave but actually this is the mine very similar thing but the mine is something of course that would have been haul it out of the ground by man and you've got the structural supports here to make it more authentic you can see the all the timbers and the fact that it leans is really cool and this room is great with the diamonds and you've got the sound effect here so we'll take a look at that [Music] the water trickling down the walls is so relaxing of course you can see the diamond Jim in the wall there and I love the sound effect that seems to be emanating from the Jim himself [Music] so now we'll move on with our journey through the mind now this is a really cool effect the mine goes from really large and very high ceilings here to very small at the end and it's almost like you're looking at a force perspective type thing here but actually the mine really does get far it doesn't just appear to get smaller it actually does which is cool and there is the light at the end of the tunnel so we know that we won't be lost forever in the mind but seriously these mines are a lot of fun and I highly recommend you take the time to explore them and conveniently enough the exit to this mine comes out right by the main dock area where the rafts turn across from the other side in Frontierland so now let's take a look at the rest of the island I love the foliage is so dense and it really looks like you're in some kind of a state park or other Nature Preserve a lot of fun and they've got some water fountains here at the top of the hill and they've even got some picnic tables here where you can just relax and enjoy the pleasant shade of the trees they've also got a great kids play area here which has a pirate theme you can see and here's a great view of the rivers of America from the top of the hill on the island here's another look at the play area looks like a lot of fun it almost looks like just old ship parts and things put together for a play area so really cool theme even though I'm not sure it completely fits with the Tom Sawyer theme of the island is still a lot of fun and here you can see the stream running all the way down to the mill and into the rivers of America really nice touch here's the other side and we'll continue on our pleasant walk through the island we're still up on top of the hill and you actually climbed some stairs to get up here and there the stairs going down and there you can see Big Thunder Mountain Railroad across the water the nice thing is the foliage is fairly dense so you can't really see the rest of the park very well so you really can't get it immersed in this area which is nice but from the outskirts of the island here you can really see across the river into frontier land and this is one of the best views of frontier land in the entire park so now we can take a look at Harper's mill and this sign explains Harper's meal just a bit and actually some of the birds sound effects that we're here inside the mill here you can see some of the machinery and this makes this mill very realistic and that's nice to see it you can also hear the bird sound effect they were talking about as well as even see some of the birds and here's a hint those are not real birds but it need to see the effort put into the theme in there and here you can see a directional sign that shows to the left is Hickory switch Hill where we just were earlier in the video and to the right is aunt polly's refreshments so let's head down and check it out but before we do I want to point out this wall here it's actually from the Tom Sawyer story and you can see Tom professing his love for Becky and the fence Aunt Polly had asked him to whitewash in the beginning of the story and of course the job never really got done so here's aunt Polly's which is supposed to be a replica of what Aunt Polly's house may have looked like and you saw on the side that it said Aunt Polly refreshments however Aunt Polly's hasn't served refreshments in quite some time there you can see the riverboat which is a great ride that we'll do in another video and here you can see aunt Polly's itself and you can see that there isn't any place to order food and they used to have sandwiches and light snacks and things like that they've still got a great sitting area here with some rocking chairs as well as this kind of rotunda area that sticks out into the water across from Haunted Mansion and this is one of the best views upon a banshan in the park right across the water there so it's a great view and there you can see that building you may not know this but this is the building where Mike banks keel boats used to launch from and that I believe closed in the 90s but it was a lot of fun and you could write a keelboat around the rivers of America they also used to have canoes as well and here's the barrel bridge this is a lot of fun and I will attempt to not drop my camera here but it's a lot of fun to go over this barrel bridge there you can see that seating area inside of aunt polly's now I'm gonna go back you can see the sign earlier that said Tom and Huck's way and the other way at I'm going the other way but I wanted to show this beautiful waterfall rushing stream thing here which is very pleasant peaceful and again more really elaborate theming you're almost like a cabin on the side of the river and here's Joe's cave anton says don't worry he hasn't been seen for a long time but maybe you could worry just a little bit if you want so we'll go through the cave here so now let's journey inside the cave and see what we can find this cave is even darker than the mine earlier but you can see the light Flanders as we go through and here we're getting close to one of the main rooms in the cave and I let the eerie orange and pink red glow is emanating from different parts of the cave here there you can see some stalactites at the top there and I love this part of the cave because it looks like there are two phases they are created by the stalactites and the different openings in the cave and the ones got yellow eyes and the other ones got green eyes and for red eyes and a green mouth there so it's pretty creative on Disney's part to make faces out of the rock formations and by the way I love the sound effects that make it seem like wind is rushing through the cave here as we walk through that's really cool and as we took a final look at the face there on the wall we'll go ahead and journey out of that main room in the cave there and you can see the lanterns lighting the way but it's still pretty dark which makes it a lot of fun to explore you kind of have to explore with your hands in this area and I love this room where there's this crooked bridge going over this waterway here it's a lot of fun and it's very peaceful and just theory at the same time it's such an intriguing room and it really makes my imaginations a while and the next room here is a lot of fun even if it is hard to see there are a lot of different paths through this particular room but the one that you want to take to get out is actually all the way to the right so just keep that in mind so you don't get too upset if you can't find your way out it's actually really fun to try to kind of try and get lost in the room but be careful because you can get turned around and if you end up back at that fridge in that room you were just apt and you'll know that you're going the wrong way but anyway it's a lot of fun so here we are heading out of that particular room and we see the light at the end of the tunnel so yay again we're not lost forever in the cave so but that cave is a lot of fun and as we head out of the cave you can see the Shack right across from the haunted mansion there so now we're gonna head across the suspension bridge to the other part of the island and as we mentioned tonsillar island is actually two separate islands and they're connected by the suspension bridge but on the bridge you can get a great view of Big Thunder Mountain one of the best part as well as the geysers adjacent to this attraction that's another great view of the Haunted Mansion as well as the castle so now we're on the other part of the island and you can see for langhorne and some of you trivia buffs probably know the origin of the name langhorne mark twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens so langhorne was his middle name so that port is very appropriately named and the port itself has some great exhibits it just really hands-on areas and attractions for the kids to check out it's a lot of fun even for adults and you can see all the gun towers there as well as the blacksmith and even another table where you can play checkers and they've got some restrooms here and there you can see another one of the rifle roofs again and we'll take a closer look at the blacksmith's shop and inside the blacksmith's shop there's some great exhibits you can't go in but you can look from the outside there you can see a horse that's tail actually moves as well as the chicken and some feed and all kinds of great stuff now you can see two kind of crude animatronic characters there but one of them with the Civil War uniform on is actually pumping the bellows to the blacksmith shop there as well as you can see the horses from a different angle and here's the guardhouse underneath the one of the rifle routes and looking inside the guardhouse you can see that the guard is actually asleep so I guess if you wanted to escape that would be a good time and speaking of escaping the escape tunnel here is one of my favorite parts of the fort as a kid I thought it was so cool you could go down the stairs and end up outside on the other side of the island so anyway and pretty realistic I'm sure there were forts in me several war times that have escape tunnels as well as maybe even in the Revolutionary War so now this tunnel really is tight so if you're claustrophobic you may want to avoid this experience but it really is a lot of fun and you can see how close my camera is to the walls here because you kind of have to go sideways and kind of use your hands and just pick your way through the tunnel but it's a ton of fun and this tunnel is different than the other ones pinkie's you can actually see light from outside through some of the grades there and there you can see some light at the end of the tunnel and also you can see just how narrow this passage really is and now you can see the exit to the tunnels we made it out alive and you can also see just how narrow this exit really is as you look at the rivers of American they're in the background and the exit is clearly marked exit because it would be very difficult for two people to meet going opposite direction in this very narrow town and here's a very peaceful part of the rivers of America and we'll look back towards Liberty Square and this path takes you back towards the beginning of the island well that's it for today 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