Where to find the cameras for the best Disney World ride photos

Everyone likes to mug for the camera at Walt Disney World. Whether it’s a selfie, a family photo in front of the castle, or a Magic Shot from a PhotoPass photographer. But what about when you are on a ride? Do you know where to find all the cameras on Disney World rides so you can get the best ride photos?

You can find your ride photos under Photos in your My Disney Experience app, and you can download them if you purchase the Genie+ service or the Memory Maker (which also will give you all your other Disney PhotoPass photos).

There are 14 rides at Disney World that have cameras. In some cases, there are both photos and videos available for download. And if you don’t see your photos in your My Disney Experience app, or find people you don’t know in the photo, you still may be able to find your photo by contacting Disney.

Whether you’re rocketing through space, escaping from a yeti, or racing around a haunted mansion, you’ll want to keep an eye out for these cameras and strike your best pose for a memory that will last a lifetime. Here’s where you can find the cameras to help you get the best Disney World ride photos.

Magic Kingdom

Magic Kingdom has the most attractions with cameras to capture your reaction.

Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin

You won’t have to worry about the camera for this ride until the end, so concentrate on hitting those targets. The camera is in the last room, right after the Emergency Escape Hatch, the room with all the projections. As you exit that room, you lose control of your vehicle and it automatically turns toward Zurg in a spacecraft. If you want to pose, this is the time to do it and hold your pose until after the second flash.

The Haunted Mansion

The attraction recently updated the look of the photo by having one of the three hitchhiking ghosts hitching a ride with you. This photo is at the start of the ride. After you step into the doom buggy you enter the portrait gallery with paintings on the right wall. The photo is taken as you pass the last portrait in the gallery. The “lightning” helps light you for the camera.

Pirates of the Caribbean

After passing the beach scene on your left near the start of the ride, the boat will turn left. Take a quick look at the skeleton holding the ship’s wheel to the right and then turn left and you will find a skull and crossbones. The skull will talk to you. That is where the camera is located. The eyes will flash. There have been a number of times I’ve been briefly blinded by the flash and went through the ride with some spotty vision, so beware of looking directly at that skull for too long.

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train

This attraction has two different camera locations. After the first hill, where you pass the vultures on your right, you go swooping to the right, and then to the left. The first camera is located on that left turn, to your left. The second camera is located at the bottom of the hill on the left after you leave the mine where the dwarfs are located.

Space Mountain

This attraction is a bit tricky because you could end up looking in the wrong direction. As you get to the end of the line you will be directed to either go to the left for loading or to the right for loading. Make sure you remember which way you go because it will determine which way you look. If you go to the left, the camera will be on the left. If you go to the right, the camera will be on the right. Now that you have that set, the camera location is around the first corner just as you are launched into the ride.

TRON Lightcycle / Run

The newest ride to open at Disney World, TRON Lightcycle / Run, offers not only photos but videos. As a bonus there are cameras on both sides of the ride vehicle so you get both photos and videos of both sides — just in case your ride partner puts their hands up in front of your face as you launch. The cameras are located just after you leave the loading area in the launch tube, and they’re taken just as you’re launched toward the outside.

Animal Kingdom

Whether running from a dinosaur or yeti, you’ll have your photo taken.

DINOSAUR

The camera is toward the end of the ride when the Carnotaurus lunges out from above you. The camera is on the right. There will be a large flash as you drop under the Carnotaurus.

Expedition Everest

After escaping from the Yeti, the train car comes out of the mountain and goes downhill. The camera is on the right side.

EPCOT

There are three attractions in EPCOT with photo ops.

Frozen Ever After

If you want to spread out your arms and give your best rendition of the “Let it Go” pose for the camera, you’ll have to wait until after the song. Get ready as you pass by Marshmallow and the snowgies on your left. The camera is up and to left as you barrel down the hill into the waters below.

Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind

Many of the rollercoasters at Disney grab a quick photo of you during the launch of the ride vehicle. The same is done here. When the car turns and you are facing backward prepare for the photo because the photo is taken just as you launch. If you have long hair, be aware that because you are going backward, your hair might block your face in the photo.

Test Track

The Test Track ride photo is located outside, as your car is launched on its 60 mph trip around the building. Look up and to the right as you go down the hill as soon as you leave the ride building as part of the power test.

Hollywood Studios

Rock’n Roller Coaster

This roller coaster launches from 0 to 60 mph in 2.8 seconds and the photo is taken during the launch. So as the countdown to launch begins, put your head back against the headrest, and put on that rock’n roll face.

Slinky Dog Dash

This is another coaster where the camera is at the end of the ride. After you finish going up and down on the small hills, the coaster will make a sweeping left turn down a hill. When you get to the bottom, the camera will be on the right side.

Twilight Zone’s Tower Of Terror

“You are about to discover what lies beyond the fifth dimension, beyond the deepest, darkest corner of the imagination . . . in the Tower of Terror.”  With these words, the elevator starts to move and your trip into the Twilight Zone has begun. The elevator program is randomized for each ride, so you don’t know how many times you will be lifted up and dropped. We do know the camera is located at the top of the tower. When the elevator gets to the top and stops for a second, put on your best look of terror, because the flash will go off when the elevator drops.