About 2–4 inches · wrap the face · one piece per visit
An Orlando park day ends with a small object in a bag. You have walked heat, stood in a screened line, ridden a tram, and maybe waited out a 3 p.m. storm. The souvenir that still makes sense at that hour is a fridge magnet: light, flat, and meant for painted kitchen steel at home. This guide is what to notice and what to carry so that piece survives the rest of the week.
Parks publish their own bag rules and hours — check them before you go. Parks publish their own bag rules, locker maps, and prohibited lists. Read the gate you are walking into that morning. The magnet job is narrower: a city or park-day plaque that has to live in a pocket, then a suitcase, then a fridge door in a real kitchen.
What to notice before you buy
Park gift shops sell a wall of licensed faces. International Drive souvenir rooms sell another wall. Both are useful if you already know the mark you want. The question here is different: will this piece still read on a painted fridge after Florida kitchen air, and will it survive the bag between here and that door.
Look at the construction. A thin tin print is almost a postcard with a magnetic sheet. It is the usual pocket souvenir: light, easy to scuff on a zipper. An enamel plaque is a metal blank with color in cells. Heavier, slower to scratch, better at holding a photo corner once you are home. Resin and glass discs look like city objects in the case; they are thicker in a bag and want a sock or a glasses case. If the door at home is stainless that does not hold a magnet, none of these constructions will save you. Test a cheap fridge magnet on that door before you build a set.
Look at the subject. A downtown fountain, a palm against a hotel slab, a Florida outline, a flamingo: civic Orlando, useful for a week that never entered a gate and for a park week that still wants the city. A park-day icon is the week itself. One of those is enough. Four of the same week mute the diary. The souvenir guide is the object. The fridge guide is the door. This page is the day in between.
What to carry, and what to leave in the room
| When | Magnet job |
|---|---|
| Park walk | Nothing extra. Buy at the end if you buy at all. |
| End of the day | One plaque, face wrapped, in a pocket or a notebook. |
| Hotel kitchenette | Skip the door until you know it is painted steel. |
| Home fridge | The diary. One piece per trip. |
Do not start the morning with a magnet. The walk from a Kissimmee or Lake Buena Vista lot to a screened gate is already a carrying problem: water, sunscreen, a poncho, a battery. A plaque in that bag becomes another hard edge against a phone. Buy at the end of the day, or write us before the trip and pick the piece up as a send-off. If a thrill-park locker is in the plan, keep the plaque out of the locker with keys and cards. Ordinary ferrite fridge magnets are household objects; a hard metal rim still scuffs a screen.
Park operators in this metro screen bags. Walt Disney World Resort Property Rules are public: suitcases, bags, coolers or backpacks larger than 24 inches long by 15 inches wide by 18 inches high stay out of those theme parks and water parks. A fridge magnet is not a bag. It is also not a reason to carry a weekender to the gate. Universal Orlando Resort, SeaWorld Orlando, and the rest of the metro post their own lists. A magnet rides in a pocket or in the tote you already planned for water.
Hotel kitchenettes on International Drive and in Lake Nona rentals often have a door the size of a day bag, and some of those doors are stainless that will not hold. Leave the frame and the clip set at home. One city view on painted steel is enough if the apartment happens to take it. The working set waits for the kitchen you actually live in.
Heat, storms, and the face
The Florida Climate Center, using National Centers for Environmental Information normals, puts Orlando morning relative humidity at 88 percent for the year, 90 percent in July and 91 percent in August. July’s normal high at Orlando International Airport is 92.0°F. Wet-season afternoons build short, loud storms. That is the air a magnet has to cross between a gift counter and a hotel dresser.
Enamel chips on tile. Tin print scuffs on a zipper. Sunscreen and pool chlorine on a damp towel cloud a print. Wrap the face against a T-shirt sleeve, a sock, or a notebook. Keep it out of the toiletry bag. Do not park it face-down on an I-Drive nightstand that is already sticky. Date the magnetic pad with a marker before you wrap, so the week has a place in the diary without writing on the picture.
How to write us
Name the day and the door. “Park week, one trip piece, painted apartment fridge” is enough. “City view for a kitchen that never entered a gate, Lake Nona, June” is enough. Look at the catalog families, then Prefer email? Use our contact page. Packing and a split stay are the next page: packing and split stays. Gifting the same object: gifting from Orlando. Publisher: Orlando Magnet Company and Tabaconda LLC.