Travel the globe with Kim, Perry or Scrooge!
An interactive Walt Disney World attraction based in Epcot’s World Showcase, where guests travel the globe, teaming up with characters from Disney's animated shows to stop villains from taking over the countries of the World Showcase.
The attraction involves using a phone (a proprietary phone provided by the park at first before eventually updating compatibility to the guests' own phones) to go on a scavenger hunt and activate hidden effects in the nooks and crannies of seven World Showcase pavilions: Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Japan, France, and the United Kingdom.
Opening in 2009 as part of Disney's "Living Character Initiative", the attraction has changed themes to represent the current popular animated property.
- The first theme was Kim Possible's World Showcase Adventure, themed, of course, to Kim Possible, as she works to thwart a global Villain Team-Up. This theme lasted four years, closing in 2012, and being replaced by…
- Phineas and Ferb: Agent P's World Showcase Adventure, starring Phineas and Ferb's Perry the Platypus taking his usual spats with Dr. Doofenshmirtz around the globe. This was the longest-running iteration, lasting 8 years from 2012 to 2020, before making way for…
- DuckTales World Showcase Adventure. Based off the 2017 reboot of DuckTales, guests join Scrooge McDuck and family on his usual treasure hunting, coming afoul of villains along the way. Opened in 2022, and is the current theme.
See also the late fellow Disney World interactive attraction Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom.
The various iterations of World Showcase Adventure provide examples of the following tropes:
- Adaptational Villainy:
- While many of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's schemes throughout the attraction have the capability to cause harm, in the UK Pavilion storyline, he only wants to obtain spiky cleats for the purpose of using them to stomp on and kill Perry the Platypus. While still a villain in the show proper, the two are practically best friends, and Doofenshmirtz would never try to actually kill Perry.
- In DuckTales, Hecka is the villain of Norway and wants to claim The Norse Sword of Heckfire so she can conquer Valhalla whereas in the show, she's just a wrestler that's part of Team Ragnarok and has a sense of honor.
- The Artifact:
- Being based on TV shows, sometimes a run of a WSA theme will not coincide with the corresponding show's actual run:
- Kim Possible’s run ended in 2007, with Kim Possible's World Showcase Adventure's grand opening happening in 2009. This theme would remain until 2012, when by that point Kim Possible was practically unknown to kids of that time.
- Phineas and Ferb managed to be the only show whose WSA theme coincided with the show's run, opening just months after Kim Possible's theme closed in 2012. However, Agent P's World Showcase Adventure would last all the way until 2020, five years after the show's original ending in 2015. Phineas and Ferb would continue to get a few scattered releases and begin looping back around in the
Popularity Polynomial near the end of Agent P's run. - DuckTales, the current theme as of writing, is a very unfortunate case, becoming this shortly before and shortly after opening. Announced in 2019, the overlay was delayed from its 2020 opening date due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. It took two years before the redone attraction would open. Within that time, DuckTales would be canceled, air its final episode, and end production in 2021. A month after DuckTales WSA's opening in December 2022, Disney announced it will be reviving Phineas and Ferb for a two-season order. This led to WSA's current theme becoming less relevant than its previous theme, rendering the entire overlay more or less pointless.
- When the attraction first opened, guests were given proprietary flip phones to use to play (Kimmunicator for Kim Possible, FONE for Agent P). These phones were then intended to be disposed of in special drop-off boxes once the guest was finished with them. After adding compatibility for guests to use their own phones in 2016, the drop-off boxes were no longer needed. However, most of them are still standing today near where each mission ends, with at least two of them still brandishing a Perry the Platypus emblem on them.
- Agent P's Norway Pavilion mission was quietly closed sometime around 2016 after the pavilion was updated to include Frozen-themed attractions. Despite this, the effects remained and stood dormant until being brought back when DuckTales WSA opened.
- From the public opening of Kim Possible all the way to the closing of Agent P, the attraction had a booth on the bridge to World Showcase known as a "recruitment center" that lent guests phones or gave them instructions on how to sign in with their own phones. DuckTales is accessed through the Play Disney Parks app, so the booth is no longer needed. The still Phineas and Ferb themed booth still stands today, albeit stripped of any mention of the attraction and its previous theme, and is often blocked off.
- Being based on TV shows, sometimes a run of a WSA theme will not coincide with the corresponding show's actual run:
- Ascended Meme: In Agent P's version of the UK Pavilion storyline, Doofenshmirtz mentions wanting to use "the giant golf ball". He's of course referring to Epcot's Spaceship Earth, long the subject of jokes about its resemblance to a golf ball.
- Big Bad: Agent P's WSA features Dr. Doofenshmirtz as its sole villain.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Magica DeSpell and Mark Beaks team up to take out the Duck family, with Glomgold getting involved as well (after having been tricked by Scrooge and the guests), in DuckTales WSA's finale
- Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game: The UK Pavilion's storyline in all three iterations of the attraction involves a villain infiltrating a golf tournament, and the hijinks that entails.
- Climactic Volcano Backdrop: The Mexico mission always ends with the theme's respective villains being shot out of the volcano in the back of the pavilion.
- Fountain of Youth: Dr. Doofensmhirtz hooks up a “Baby-inator” to his Humongous Mecha in order to turn the populace into babies so they can’t run away. The -inator is reversed onto the robot, turning it into a baby.
- Fourth Wall Greeting: You're greeted upon starting missions by Kim, Major Monogram, and Scrooge in each respective theme.
- Genre Shift: Kim Possible and Agent P were built as if the player is a secret agent unraveling conspiracies to stop villains. DuckTales recontextualizes many of these effects into a treasure hunt to find ancient artifacts before a villain can find them.
- Grand Finale: DuckTales WSA, upon completing all seven missions, has the player up against Magica DeSpell and Mark Beaks to save the Duck family.
- Humongous Mecha: Dr. Doofenshmirtz plans to unleash one in Japan.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Della Duck is featured prominently in DuckTales WSA's Norway mission, despite the mystery about her identity and whereabouts being a huge part of DuckTales' first season.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
- The characters address the player directly, but it's presented as if they're within the same world, more or less.
- In Agent P's WSA, Spaceship Earth is acknowledged during the UK Pavilion's storyline, despite not actually being part of the UK Pavilion, or even actually in the real-world United Kingdom.
- McGuffin: The Seven Plunders in DuckTales WSA
- Mission Control: You're guided on your missions mostly by Wade, Carl the Intern, and Webby and the Triplets in each respective theme.
- Mythology Gag: The attraction's previous themes have various references in the succeeding theme.
- In the toy shop in the UK Pavilion, toy blocks spell out Kim Possible.
- The Baby Bebe robot in the Japan Pavilion from Kim Possible's WSA remained and was integrated into the story of Agent P’s WSA. The robot was finally replaced after a 13-year run in DuckTales WSA, putting a robotic Webby in its place.
- DuckTales WSA has a quiz in the Japan Pavilion where one of the choices is "A Platypus in a Fedora".
- The Japan and China Pavilions still have Perry the Platypus emblems on their former phone drop-off boxes.
- In Adventureland in the Magic Kingdom, an area of fellow interactive attraction A Pirate's Adventure: Treasures of the Seven Seas has a cabinet with references to other interactive games through the years, including two WSA themes. A wooden token brandishing a KP logo, and a platypus skull wearing a fedora.
- A trading card of Strongbeard given out in DuckTales WSA's Norway mission resembles one from fellow interactive attraction, the now defunct Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom.
- In the finale mission for DuckTales, Glomgold performs the Glomtales song from the Theme Song Takeover and the Glomtales! episode at a live karaoke club...but he is promptly booed by the karaoke audience.
- No Ending: There's no real ending to the Kim Possible and Agent P iterations of the game. Once you're done, you're just done. DuckTales would rectify this by adding in a finale mission.note
- Odd Name Out: DuckTales World Showcase Adventure is the only theme to not have a character named in it. Every title up until then was possessive to the main character of the attraction. DuckTales instead uses "World Showcase Adventure" as a subtitle.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Dr. Doofenshmirtz does this to himself by accident with an inator made to remove accents.
- Packed Hero: A lantern in the UK Pavilion has had both Perry the Platypus and Dewey Duck trapped inside it.
- Protagonist Title: Kim Possible's/Agent P's World Showcase Adventure
- Robot Me: Webby gets one in the Japan mission.
- Rogues Gallery: The Kim Possible and DuckTales versions have you facing off against multiple villains from each show. Agent P settles for one single Arch-Enemy throughout.
- Scavenger Hunt: The whole concept of the game is being led around the World Showcase pavilions while searching for effects to set off to progress the story.
- Suddenly Voiced: Hecka in the DuckTales version thanks to Grey Delisle.
- Updated Re-release: Kim Possible's WSA opened with a few practical effects and only two real-world character appearances. Agent P's WSA would add several different all-new effects that bring Perry and Doofenshmirtz into the real world, as well as more general effects that rotate, so the mission is different when the guest plays it again. Most of these character-specific effects would be reskinned for DuckTales WSA with the appropriate characters. note DuckTales WSA would add a finale mission after completing all seven pavilion missions.
- Villain Team-Up: Dr. Drakken and Shego, Bebe, Dr. Dementor, Monkey Fist, Camille Leon, Senor Senor Jr., and Duff Killigan team up to take over a country each all at the same time.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: In Agent P's Germany mission, Perry and Major Monogram have to pose undercover as women to infiltrate Dr. Doofenshmirtz's headquarters. Doofenshmirtz falls for Perry in his female disguise, leading to an Unsettling Gender-Reveal.
- A Winner Is You: Completing missions just gets you thanks from the respective hosts of the game's current theme and a choice to continue playing.
- World Tour: The attraction is presented as this in all three iterations, each with a different excuse as to why these characters are going around the globe.
- Kim Possible catches wind of her Rogues Gallery all planning to take over different countries all at once.
- Agent P's WSA plays each mission out like a typical episode of Phineas and Ferb. The Flynn-Fletchers go on vacation to each country at the same time Dr. Doofenshmirtz is coincidentally plotting something nearby.
- DuckTales WSA plays off the show's concept of already being a globe-trotting treasure hunt, with the player helping Scrooge McDuck and his family retrieve artifacts.
