There are a few bits in the game that may not be clear or that there is, quite frankly, an easier way.
Medals[]
You may have noticed some clothing, furniture and the special wands require materials labelled with a Medal icon, such as the Minnie Star Medal or the Shining Glass Medal. There are medals themed to many themes in the game. These are not going to be found casually. The way you would get them is to create a perfect 8 combo in your café of a SINGLE theme. All the items have to match, PLUS you have to have at least one secret combo. You'll know it is a secret combo because next to it on your Theme Combo list there will be a gold circle with an orange exclamation point in it.
The secret combos are the combos of more expensive furniture and decorations such as the Palace Set for Aladdin's Desert Sun Medal or the Queen of Hearts set for Alice's Mysterious Heart Medal. The rarer and more expensive foods are also required for the secret combos. When you throw a party after meeting these requirements, there is a chance that the character will show up as opposed to another cast member and a chance that they will have an exclamation point above their head. If the exclamation is there, they will give you the medal. It does not always happen, and it MUST be from the correct character (e.g. Donald Duck or Cinderella). You may have to do this several times.
There is one exception to the "decorate according to a character's franchise" rule. You may have noticed that, in Disney Magical World, while there is a Goofy theme, there is no Goofy-themed furniture. Instead, Goofy comes to parties with Western themes in a cowboy outfit, along with his friends. If you keep following the above rule of the perfect 8 combo + secret combos for the Western theme, he may have a chance of gifting you the Goofy Star Medal.
Honey[]
Honey accumulates naturally in trees, but in order to get different Honey types, you need to plant different plants in the garden. Usually, any flowering or herblike plant will facilitate the accumulation of honey. However, there are specific plants that can be left in the garden so that trees will yield specific type of honey. For example, if the player has a hibiscus in their garden, they have a chance of getting rosy honey from trees. If the player wants the rosy honey, they should not harvest the hibiscuses from their garden until they get the honey they want. More plants spawns more honey. If bees are surrounding a plant when it is fully grown, it is a plant that will spawn honey. Below are the honey-spawning plants and the type of honey that they cause trees to produce.
Honey - Naturally Spawns without any plant; may spawn more rapidly with any flowering/herb plant, including the ones below
Rosy Honey - Hibiscus, Ruby Red Rose
Golden Honey - Fluffy Dandelion, Sunny Daisy
Rainbow Honey - Jet Black Rose has a chance of spawning Rainbow, Royal Rose, Big Ol' Sunflower (Rainbow Clover might have a chance of spawning this honey, but it's currently unknown)
Soft Resetting[]
To soft reset is to save the game at a certain point, then turn the game on and off after saving if something occurs that you don't like, or you don't get a desired object, thereby moving you back to the last save state. This can be very useful in Disney Magical World for a few things.
One use of soft resetting is for the items in shops. The items of a shop will be determined when you walk inside, meaning that if you haven't entered the place yet, the items inside are not set already. With this rule in mind, you can save before entering a shop. If there are duplicate items in there or the item you're looking for is not there, you can soft reset and start from the last save point. Keep doing this until you have the results you're looking for. This is especially useful for the McDuck's department store, since there are many rare items there that have a very slim chance of appearing, so soft resetting may help in bringing those items for sale. This is confirmed to work in the already-mentioned McDuck's, and might work in the Shop of Wonder. This doesn't work in places like Daisy's Boutique or Chip & Dale's Workshop, since the items there aren't randomized and are unlocked either through gaining stickers or obtaining recipes.
Another use of this can be for card collecting. If you get a duplicate card, it'll stay in your inventory until you trade 3 of them with the Chamberlain. However, there is a way to bypass duplicates without trading. You may save the game before you perform a greeting to collect a card from any character. If you get a card you don't like, simply soft reset and try again. This saving and resetting process can be done as many times as you like. This can also be used for trading: to avoid getting a duplicate, you may save before trading with the Chamberlain, then go about with the trading process. Repeat until you get a new card or the one you're looking for.
This can also be used for fishing in the overworld (this won't work on quests). Save in front of a fishing area, then cast your line. If you don't get the item you want, soft reset and try again. However, this is not recommended, as the fish in the overworld respawn and you may fish to your heart's content.
Soft resetting may be used to get new items in quests, but is also not recommended, as you may lose valuable items that you might have collected, and it's better to replay a mission than to soft reset, as you'll get more items that way.
Finally, one of the biggest ways to use soft resetting is for gardening. Certain items are notorious for being extremely rare to harvest, like the Big Ol' Sunflower. To counteract this, plant a seed in the garden, water it, then leave the Hundred Acre Wood and save just outside it. Come back and water the plants if you need to, but not before saving outside once again. Then, if you harvest the seed and you don't get what you want, you can just soft reset and do it again. This can go several ways: One way is to get duplicate seeds of a food or plant if you're afraid of running out of them, or to get more harvests in the future. However, the best use for this is to obtain extremely rare harvests, like the Primegrain Fruit and Royal Rose. If you harvest a Barley seed and don't get a Primegrain Fruit seed, soft reset until you get it (remember: soft reset OUTSIDE the Wood, as the content of the harvest won't be determined until you enter it). This can be especially useful in conjunction with the Seed of Bounty, which allows for larger harvests and better seeds. If you use the SOB, you won't have to soft reset that much because you are almost guaranteed to get a better seed. However, you may have to use it in case you don't get the duplicate seed or the rare seed you were looking for.