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/* Town Square Theater */
With the closure of Mickey's Toontown Fair on February 11, 2011, Disney knew it needed a new location for a permanent Mickey Mouse meet and greet. To solve this problem, the Town Square Exhibition Hall was refurbished, eventually reopening on April 1, 2011 as the Town Square Theater <ref> https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/03/mickeys-magical-meet-and-greet-debuts-april-1-at-magic-kingdom-park/ </ref>.
When entering the new theater, guests initially had the option of meeting either Mickey and Minnie Mouse or Disney Princesses princesses (who would eventually be relocated to the under construction [[Princess Fairytale Hall]]). In line with the new theater's theming, the Mickey meet and greet was officially titled "Backstage Magic with Mickey Mouse".
When guests entered the new Town Square Theater they choose which experience they wanted to wait for. If they choose to meet Mickey Mouse, they entered the right hallway. Adorning the walls here, are animated posters advertising Mickey as a magician. Once guests arrived in the mouse's dressing room they could interact with a talking Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Throughout the room guests could also find a number of tributes to Disney history and other Walt Disney World attractions.
If guests chose to visit the Disney princess, they would go to the left, where they could also find a series of animated posters. Unlike Mickey, who's whose room was themed as a dressing room, the Disney princesses met in front of smaller themed backdrops. No matter which character experience guests chose, they ended up in the theater's gift shop upon exiting.
The first major change to come to the Town Square Theater occurred on October 31, 2011, when a new talking Mickey Mouse made his debut <ref> https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/10/mickey-tests-some-magic-words-at-walt-disney-world/comment-page-1/ </ref>. Although the next generation meet and greet character would continue to meet sporadically over the next couple of years, it was not until October 21, 2013 <ref> https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2013/10/meeting-magician-mickey-mouse-at-town-square-theater-in-magic-kingdom-park/ </ref>, that the talking Mickey experience became permanent. Following the opening of [[Princess Fairytale Hall]] on September 18, 2013, the Disney princesses moved out of the Town Square Theater <ref> https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2013/09/princess-fairytale-hall-opens-in-new-fantasyland-at-magic-kingdom-park/ </ref>. Mickey and Minnie then remained the sole occupants of the theater until May 20, 2014 <ref> https://insidethemagic.net/2014/05/tinker-bell-moves-to-town-square-theater-at-walt-disney-world-leaving-magical-nook-and-fairy-friends-behind/ </ref>, when Tinker Bell moved in. At this time, the new Garden Theater opened within the Town Square Theater, which allowed guests to shrink to the size of a fairy and be magically transported to Tinker Bell's Magical Nook.
