Pirate Adventure Treasure Hunt in Adventureland

 

Whether you visit Magic Kingdom often and are looking for a new experience, or you and your family are ready to find something that you don't have to wait in a long line for, The Pirate Adventure Treasure Hunt is a great way to spend your time.

 

 The Pirate Adventure Treasure Hunt starts in this small building between Adventureland and Frontierland. It's really nondescript and you may have already walked past it not knowing what it was. I know we did a few times, even though the sign hanging out front says "Pirate Adventure".

 

Once you enter inside the one room building, you see many maps and "treasures". 

You will head to this Cartography table ( which is digital), and select how you will "play" the Treasure Hunt.

 

You will select how many players will be on your team. It was only my sister and I doing the hunt, so we chose two. If you have a larger parry, you may want to break into two or more teams and make it a sort of challenge of who can complete their hunt first.

Once you select how many players will be on your team the digital screen will give you a symbol.  Ours was this flower.

 You will then select the paper Treasure map that has that same symbol on it. The map that matched our symbol was the Blackbeard map!

When you open up the map, each one is unique. They each have a different route to follow for your treasure.

The map is full of clues and our first clue took us to Agrabar Bazaar. 

Note: All clues will keep you in Adventureland. 

Our clue took us to this fortune telling machine that I never noticed was here before. It took us a moment before we realized what we were suppose to do when we got there. On the bottom of the machine, there was a Pirate symbol that lit up, when I put my Magic Band against the symbol, the panther inside the machine said something and gave us our next clue as to where we would go next.

Each time we were led to a different part of Adventureland, I ended up seeing props that I've never noticed before even though I've been through this land hundreds of times before. 

 

And every time I pressed  my Magic band against one of the symbols,  something moved, talked or made noise.  For example, when I put my Magic Band on this symbol, one of the pieces of pottery in the above photo spit out water. 

 

Did you know these Pirate heads were hidden back here to the left of Pirates of the Caribbean? Either did we. These pirates talked and played music.

You could sort of get a sense of where the clues were going to be because most of them had these boxes in front of them, and in most cases that is where you will press your Magic Band on the symbol. 

There are about a half dozen or so clues to get through until you complete the treasure hunt. When you have finished, take your map back to the building you got your map from and claim your prize. The prize here is usually some card of Captain Jack, or something similar. We did for-go our "prize".  In years past, the prize use to be a fast pass  to Pirates of the Caribbean. Now that would have been a better prize!

Till Next Time ~ M and L

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