Marathon Weekend 2025

[runwithperseverence7]

SAFD:

Magic Kingdom
1. Haunted Mansion
2. Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
3. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
4. Mad Tea Party

Animal Kingdom
1. Kilimanjaro Safari
2. Dinosaur (yes I’m weird)
3. Flight of Passage
4. Festival of Lion King

 

[matt and beth]

MK:
1. Tron
2. Mine train
3. Splash
4. Big thunder

AK:
1. Everest
2. Flight of passage
3. River rapids
4. Safari

 

[Cabius]

SAFD:

Magic Kingdom

1. Pirates of the Caribbean
2. Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
3. Haunted Mansion
4. Seven Dwarfs Mine Train

This one is weirdly difficult! If we were doing DL, Peter Pan's Flight would be near the top of the list, but I don't have the same nostalgia for the WDW version (grew up in SoCal). BTMRR is painful to leave off, but I have a sentimental attachment to 7DMT due to riding it with my eldest child late at night, her first 'real roller coaster'.

Animal Kingdom

1. Flight of Passage
2. Kilimanjaro Safaris
3. Maharaja Jungle Trek
4. Expedition Everest

My favorite park! The Safari is the park's signature attraction, and the most important. Still, I'll never forget the feeling of riding FoP for the first time, being exhilarated and awestruck at once, despite not caring at all for Avatar/Pandora otherwise.

TBH I would've put Finding Nemo: The Musical on this list before the refurb, but the new version is such a disappointment to me.

 

[WillRunForPizza]

SAFD:

MK:
1. Mine Train
2. Buzz Lightyear
3. Jungle Cruise
4. Thunder Mountain

AK:
1. Everest
2. Safari
3. FoP
4. I guess Kali River Rapids if it's hot out?

 

[princesspirateandrunner]

SAFD:

MK
1. Pirates
2. Haunted Mansion
3. Big Thunder Mountain
4. Winnie the Pooh

AK
1. Kilimanjaro Safaris
2. Flight of Passage
3. Everest
4. Maharajah Jungle Trek

 

[LorrieAnn5]

Magic Kingdom
1. Splash/ Tianna *adjust my other numbers if this isn't allowed
2. Tron light cycle run* I've never been on this, I just assume it's awesome
3. Space Mountain
4. Big thunder mountain
5.7 dwarfs mine train

Animal kingdom
1. Flight of passage
2. Everest
3. Kali River Rapids
4.Safari

 

[hotblooded]

Magic Kingdom
1. Splash Mountain
2. Big Thunder Mountain RR
3. Haunted Mansion
4. Tron

Animal Kingdom
1. Expedition Everest
2. Flight of Passage
3. Kilimanjaro Safaris
4. Na’vi River Journey

 

[disneyrunnergrl]

SAFD:
Magic Kingdom:
1. People mover
2. Carousel of progress
3. BTMRR
4. Haunted Mansion

Animal Kingdom:
1. Flight of passage
2. Kilimanjaro Safari
3. Festival of Lion King
4. Everest

 

[lahobbs4]

SAFD: I'm answering before I read anyone else's answers!

Magic Kingdom:
1. Haunted Mansion
2. Pirates of the Caribbean
3. Splash Mountain
4. Carousel of Progress

Animal Kingdom:
1. Expedition Everest
2. Flight of Passage
3. Kilamanjaro Safaris
4. Festival of the Lion King

 

[gosalyn_mallard]

SAFD:
Magic Kingdom:
1. Big Thunder
2. Seven Dwarves
3. Space Mountain
4. Tea Cups

Animal Kingdom:
1. Everest
2. Dinosaur
3. Flight of Passage
4. Kilimanjaro Safaris

 

[marty3d]

SAFD:

MK: Definitely a tough one and I’m not going to vote for Splash/ Tiana despite Splash being in my top 2. Splash no longer exists and Tiana isn’t open yet so I can’t rank it.

1 - Jungle Cruise
2 - Haunted Mansion
3 - POTC
4 - Peoplemover


AK:
1- Everest
2 - Kilimanjaro Safari
3 - Maharaja jungle trek
4 - Dinosaur (more for the sentimentality - my kids loved it when younger. And Ketchup Mustard Mayo)

 

[jenljeffers1989]

Do you know how you feel after marathons usually? I have tried Epcot two years on the day of the marathon and feel nauseous as I'm eating and cannot finish the yummy things I want to eat/drink. I think Monday is the best day because you may feel better. Just my input!

I've done marathons before and have usually been okay after a nice nap

 

[jenljeffers1989]

SAFD:

Magic Kingdom is tough! My top four would have to be:
1. Space Mountain
2. Haunted Mansion
3. Big Thunder Mountain
4. Pirates of the Caribbean

Animal Kingdom:
1. Expedition Everest
2. Dinosaur
3. Flight of Passage
4. Kiliminjaro Safari

 

[superchime]

SAFD:

MK
1. Haunted Mansion
2. Peoplemover
3. Pirates
4. Jungle Cruise

AK
1. Kilimanjaro Safaris
2. Na'vi River Journey
3. Maharaja Jungle Trek
4. Festival of the Lion King

 

[sandam1]

Do you know how you feel after marathons usually? I have tried Epcot two years on the day of the marathon and feel nauseous as I'm eating and cannot finish the yummy things I want to eat/drink. I think Monday is the best day because you may feel better. Just my input!

I felt absolutely terrible the evening on my first half marathon. I had a large celebration dinner and then wound up sitting on a bench, trying to keep that dinner down, for the rest of the night.

Many months later, I was talking to another runner and they asked how much I had eaten immediately after finishing and I realized that I had really only eaten the nachos and cheese when I got back to the room, before taking a shower and long nap.

Now I make sure that I eat something from the race box immediately after finishing (the animal crackers we got for a while worked really well) and then I get a meal with substantial food (i.e. protein) as soon as I get back to the hotel. Most of the time I don't feel like eating - until I actually start eating, when it tastes really good. Knock wood, I've never had a recurrence of the nausea. So that might be something to try.

 

[DanaVonSchweet]

SAFD:

MK
1. Splash Mountain/Tiana's Bayou Adventure - No chance the retheming changes this for me.
2. Haunted Mansion
3. Tron
4. Big Thunder

AK:
1. Kilimanjaro Safaris
2. Na'vi River Journey - My family will side-eye me on this one but, to me, it's magnificent...as long as the shaman is working.
3. Expedition Everest
4. Maharaja Jungle Trek

 

[1lilspark]

SAFD:
Magic
1. Haunted Mansion
2. Thunder
3. Pirates
4. Jungle Cruise

Animal:
1. Flight of Passage
2. Everest
3. Dinosaur
4. Safari

 

[JulieODC]

SAFD:

MK:
1. Pirates
2. BTMRR
3. Peoplemover
4. Tron

AK: We were there today!!
1. Safari
2. Everest
3. FOP
4. Dinosaur

 

[pluto377]

SAFD
Magic
1. Small world
2. Peter pan
3. Peoplemover
4. Philharmagic

Animal
1. Everest
2. Safari
3. Animation class- does this count?
4. Dinosaur

 

[pinkxray]

Splash Mountain will always be my number #1 but since it doesn’t exist anymore I won‘t count it.

MK
1. Big Thunder Mountain
2. 7 dwarves mines train
3. Haunted Mansion
4. People mover
(Tron would rank somewhere if it wasn’t so short)

AK
1. Everest
2. Safari

…… tough to say 3/4. We have been skipping AK. The last few trips bc I don’t love the rides.
3. FOP
4. Dinosaur