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I'm so happy for you!
My thoughts--
1) You probably won't need two days at Magic Kingdom. You'll yearn for Disneyland-- and it ain't it. (And this is coming from someone whose childhood memories are only of WDW.) EPCOT may be more to your liking-- and I'm not sure you've planned enough time for it.
2) Be willing to veer from your plan, and if you have a park-hopper (I suggest it!) do your best to start in one park and end in another (for instance, Animal Kingdom usually closes kind of early, and you could hit another park that night.) A note about that, though-- I don't know your transportation plans, but be sure to leave enough commute time in between. Buses don't always come fast enough.
3) Priority seating will most definitely work with a party of one-- and you've got to do it, because they really book up (even in the off-season.)
4) Yummy food in the parks... There's excellent orange soft-serve outside the (terrible) Tiki Room. Pastries at Epcot. You will LOOOOOVE the Sci Fi Grill.
5)If you have the chance to explore the hotels, there are some pretty neat-o ones. And the restaurants there are often far better than the ones in the parks (except Epcot, of course.) For instance-- if you're willing to try African cuisine, Boma in the Animal Kingdom Lodge is swell. Also, I remember thinking the "clam bake" (not all seafood, all kins of good stuff) at Cape May Cafe in the Beach Club resort was effin' delicious, and gave us a chance to check out what was, in my opinion, the coolest pool ever. If I remember correctly, Jesse swears by Artist's Point in the Wilderness Lodge. I found allears.net to be extremely helpful in menu/dining planning.
6) Rides-- Mickey's Philharmagic strikes me as something you'd completely love. Try Journey into Imagination in Epcot, though it's different than the one I grew up with, it still has the swell Figment character I so love. Also in Epcot, ride the Norway ride, and Test Track, and the new Mexican one (I haven't been since they updated it, though.) And Mission: Space but do not lift your head off the back of your seat and do NOT look left or right-- just at the screen. MGM, definitely hit Tower-- it's so much better than ours. Splash is better-executed than ours. Pan has fast-pass.
7) Find out which parks are the "early entrance" parks for hotel members, and don't go there in the morning.
8) And... start training now. WDW is a lot wider than DL, and requires much more stamina to get from one end to the other. I did a massive MK-morning/Epcot afternoon/MGM evening once and could hardly stand the next day.
You're going to have such a blast!
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