Up or Down???

**Buttercup** · 10-20-2007, 07:55 PM

I say "up" because on the map, you have to go "up" to get to the castle. The entrance is at the bottom of the page.

**LudwigVonDrake** · 10-20-2007, 08:25 PM

I walk down Main Street USA to the Castle

**Mrs.Mya** · 10-20-2007, 08:42 PM

I am now totally confused.

.....everyone's reasoning seems legit. I guess if I were to be having a general conversation with someone, I'm pretty sure I would say ....." I'm gonna walk DOWN mainstreet".

( both entering & leaving MK )

**kbean** · 10-20-2007, 09:05 PM

I would say also that you would walk down main street to exit.

**Tink's Friend** · 10-20-2007, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by To WDW and beyond

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

Personally, who cares, so long as you're at the Magic Kingdom?!?!?

(Just kidding--please don't take offense.

)

I think of it as walking up Main Street when I'm heading towards the castle and down Main Street when I'm heading back towards the entrance.

Suzanne Q
Bristol, TN

**BronxTigger** · 10-20-2007, 09:43 PM

Actually, now that I've given this a little more thought, I've come to the following conclusions:

-Main Street is a two way street. Therefore, it goes both up and down.
-Towards the castle is "up" and towards the train station is "down", as evidenced on the Official Map.
-However, I think in spoken terms many people will simply say they are walking TO the castle. As in, "let's go to the castle."

I will come back to edit this post if the need arises based on further thought.

**DisneyTwirler13!** · 10-20-2007, 09:48 PM

I think that you go UP Main Street to the castle, and DOWN Main Street to the exit

**PirateLover** · 10-20-2007, 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by dteed

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

Agreed! Technically you are walking "Up" but I've never heard anyone say I'm taking a stroll up the street. So I walk "down" Main St. whether I'm coming OR going!

**PAYROLL PRINCESS** · 10-20-2007, 11:42 PM

I go up Main St and then over to Frontierland. Or up Main St and over to Tomorrowland etc.

**mainemajor** · 10-20-2007, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by dteed

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

Same with us. I think it's just how you talk which you use. I am "up" when I first get to the park and and truely "down" when I must leave, but either way I walk down Main St.

**casey@bat** · 10-21-2007, 12:25 AM

[QUOTE=. 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!!!

[/QUOTE]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the singers walk towards the castle when they sing that song. It seems like I remember them going that way.

I think I have said before"I love when you go in and you're walking DOWN Mainstreet and you see the castle" and then when I leave I just say " leaving the park".

**LibertyTreeGal** · 10-21-2007, 06:37 AM

I popped in my Disneyland Fun DVD, purely for informative reasons, and saw the train station in the background as mary was singing that she was walking right DOWN the middle of Main Street USA, so hey, gotta go with Mary, eh?

Down the street = down towards the castle

DON'T MESS WITH MARY POPPINS... she's practically perfect in every way.

Oh, and it was consistent for the entire song, they never turned around and walked back the other way.

**disneymom2000** · 10-21-2007, 09:31 AM

I'm on Main Street and I go both ways. Depending on where I am standing and my mood at the time, I can go Up to the Movie Theater if I am at Casey's Corner or I can go Down to City Hall, if I am in front of the statue of Mickey and Walt.

Either way - I am so happy to be there.

**To WDW and beyond** · 10-21-2007, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by casey@bat

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the singers walk towards the castle when they sing that song. It seems like I remember them going that way.

There have been occassions where we have seen these singing trolley people going both ways on Main Street.
We have seen them singing from the Emporium towards the castle and singing from the castle towards the station, but still singing, "I'm walking right down the middle of Main Street USA."

**Marker** · 10-21-2007, 10:26 AM

Actually I'd never really thought about it before.

Unless there is an actual hill involved, I think "walking down the street" is generic and does not imply any particular direction.

However, if I were to label it one way or the other, I say walking towards the castle as up, and then "down" to be toward the train station and exit, as in "down and out".

Or, if you look at a map of MK, the direction going towards the castle is UP on the map, and towards the train station is DOWN on the map.

But I don't think I can truly give a fair assessment without actually examining the situation first hand. So, in the name of research, I think I'd better make a plan to head to Main Street to check it out for myself.

**LCPZA** · 10-21-2007, 10:41 AM

Now correct me if I am wrong. But if memory serves me correct, when my DS was around 2(almost 11 years ago)he had a Disney sing a long tape that had a song on it that used the words "Walking right down the middle of Main Stret USA". So if these are in fact the words ( I will check tonight when I get home and pull out the Disney Tape to confirm) then you do walk down main street. In the video they are walking from the entrance to the main castle passing the stores.
Either way does it really matter when you are in the MK? As far as I am concerned your walking in to Happiness and walking out to __. (well you fil in the blank with what ever fits for you)

**caryrae** · 10-21-2007, 11:27 AM

I think I may just walk backwards on Mainstreet from now on.

I am with the people who said it's down both ways. Which ever side I am on I say lets walk DOWN Mainstreet.

Or maybe it is UP going to the Castle because your sprit is UP because you just got there and have all day to spend at MK and DOWN to the exits because you feel DOWN because your day at MK is over.

**McGoofy** · 10-21-2007, 05:41 PM

I've never really put much thought into it as to why, but we always say "up" when we are headed toward the Castle and "down" when we are leaving. Maybe cuz it's such a downer to leave!

**IloveDisney71** · 10-21-2007, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

I recently read this same thing. They also mentioned that the downward slope as you leave was done to help with tired feet at the end of the day.

**Kurtoon** · 10-21-2007, 11:17 PM

I'm walking right down the middle of main street USA
The trolley show starts at the town square and moves towards the castle and the cast members sing" I'm walking right down the middle of main street USA"
So... if the CM's walk DOWN main street to the castle...then so do I.

much mouse

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