Originally Posted By sdlovesmickey What is the coolest character encounter you or your children have had? That is such a huge part of our trip since I have a preschooler. We got many autographs on our last trip and I can't wait to see her expression again on this trip as she sees all her favorites. Last time she got to play musical chairs with Mary Poppins, The White Rabbit, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum and the Mad Hatter. It was so cute. I had a calendar made at Walmart that is entirely pictures of her with various characters (priceless)!!
Originally Posted By BrnardM My very first visit to Disneyland we found Captain Hook and I just had to take a picture with him. So just as my Mom is about to snap the photo, Peter Pan jumps in from out of nowhere and gets in the picture! Totally unexpected but it made my day! Afterward, Hook kind of bulleyed him around which was pretty funny. Great, now I have to go and track down that picture!
Originally Posted By sdlovesmickey I haven't seen Captain Hook; I'm jealous Peter Pan and Wendy did sign my daughters autograph book though. We were right in front of one of the stores on Main Street that has two entrances and he took her book and ran into the store and came around to the other side teasing her. It was so cute.
Originally Posted By bAmboo1 I've had so many but here was a funny one: Back before they had Pooh, Brer Fox and Brer Bear would frequently wander around Critter Country. One time my two brothers, cousin, and I went to Teddi Berra's arcade and played that alligator stomping game. Because there were four of us, we were easily able to get the high score of the day. We started playing other games when Brer Fox and Bear came in the arcade. We turned and saw them put money in the alligator game and start playing. They got a pretty good score and held their hands up in the air. I pointed to the machine (where it said high score of the day) and said, "That was our score." Brer Fox then looked at Bear, then turned back to me and pushed me (all in good fun of course) and started making that "come on, lets fight" gesture. Brer Bear walked behind my brother and kicked him in the rear. We were all laughing so hard and Fox and Bear kept trying to "fight us".
Originally Posted By mickey42397 My coolest was definitely with Mary Poppins at the Grand Floridian at WDW. I had taken my god-daughter and she was just turning four at the time. We were the last ones leaving the character breakfast and Mary Poppins spent a great deal of time talking to her and dancing with her and teaching her how to curtsey properly. She even took her and walked her back into a kitchen area to show her to someone back there. I can't explain why it was so magical, but I could just feel her joy and it was great. She just turned 17 last month, and she still loves Mary Poppins !
Originally Posted By AladdinAZ Jan 2005, before any Gold Mickey ears started appearing, I took a pair of my mouse ears and spray painted them gold. I was in DCA near the fountain area, and started walking up the parade route, when someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Mickey Mouse ~ he pointed at my Gold Ears and was really happy! I've had a few other fun moments with some of the characters, but the one where Mickey ran after me was the best!
Originally Posted By Scar My daughter was 3 and we were having breakfast at Goofy's kitchen. Alice came over and just loved my daughter. She ended up coming back to our table several times, and in the end Alice carried my daughter around Goofy's Kitchen. It was incredible.
Originally Posted By JazzCat I have two that are really special to me. One was several years ago when I wanted to get a picture with Eeyore. I had been standing there waiting, but all of the parents kept pushing their children in front of me. Finally, the person inside Eeyore held their hand up to the kids and gestured me over to get our picture taken. That meant the world to me since the parents obviously didn't care. The other happened this past Wednesday. We saw Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother. I asked the Fairy Godmother where we could take a picture with her and she said "well we'll walk over together", grabbed my hand and we walked over to the castle hand in hand. She asked if we wanted a picture with Cinderella or her and I immediately replied "you of course!" It was so cool! We have never even *seen* a photo op with the Fairy Godmother!
Originally Posted By sunnyshandiin I thought the princesses at Ariel Grotto did a good job. Ariel did a great job at sounding like Ariel and having the same young naive personality she has in the movie. Then, it was amazing to see how much Snow White looked like Snow White!!! It was so much fun plus the Salmon B.L.T. was amazing!!
Originally Posted By Jenny512 My favorite was an interaction between my daughter--then 7--and, um, Snow White's wicked stepmother (what's her name???). Anyway, they were chatting and the WSM kept sneering and being snide. As they were finishing, my daughter threw her arms around WSM's waist and hugged her. WSM froze with her arms held slightly out, then rolled her eyes and patted my daughter on the back. The video is a RIOT (Ellie thinks so, too).
Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk The Mad Hatter at Goofy's Kitchen. My daughter asked him for his autograph. He wrote, "My autograph". Then my daughter laughed and said no, your name. He wrote, "My name". Then she said, no write the Mad Hatter! He replied, Oh that is completey different! Specifiality is very important. I Love watching that video! Second fav. will be this summer when I meet Captain Jack Sparrow!
Originally Posted By wahooskipper When I worked at WDW I volunteered at Give Kids the World. Seeing those children who had such difficult lives interact with the likes of Mickey and the gang brought me such joy. When my own child(ren) see the characters it is fun and heartwarming but it just brings back memories of children who had very little time left fulfilling a dream.
Originally Posted By disnyfans last year my daughter and i walked to the front of disnyeland to take pictures of her in front of thse mickey flowers and saw all the princesses playing games with a bunch of little kids. it was so fun. we got a picture of our daughter with them.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad In October 2001, (realize when this was, less than 30 days after 9/11) I took my family on principle alone from Atlanta to DL in California. It was my own personal statement and reply to what was going on at the time. We had a MD-80 (seats maybe 100?) to ourselves, and security was as tight as is humanly possible. Anyway... We were in line with out children (I only had three back then) and we were in line to see Minnie on her front porch. Suddenly Minnie looks to her left, (there is a CastMember exit nearby) and started stomping her (huge yellow wooden shoe-ed) foot at someone. The guest (who looked somewhat Mid-Eastern) payed no attention and continued to walk into the CM exit. Minnie handed the mom the child's autograph book, broke into a full run toward the CM exit, and literally ran the guy down!!! Within milli-seconds, there were 4 men with head sets there and took the guy away. These didn't seem to be the sweet old gray haired security guards that you see. To this day I have no idea what that was all about, but wow in that day heightened-alert was heightened alert!!! Needless to say, we all got a lot of extra attention and love from Minnie that day.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I mean we were in line with OUR children, not with out.....blah nevermind
Originally Posted By Travaria I went to Disneyland weekend before last for my birthday and my niece and I were getting signatures from Aladdin and Jasmine after the storytelling thing. Jasmine wished me a happy birthday, then Aladdin said, "I don't know when my birthday is." and Jasmine said, "That's ok, you can have mine" so Aladdin said "Great, when is it?" Jasmine froze for a second and said," It's...Soon, very soon." Aladdin then mumbled something about how he should probably know this stuff and then as we were leaving I heard him say "I don't know when my birthday is because my parents never told me before they abandoned me on the streets." It was hilarious.
Originally Posted By cstephens We've always had very good luck with characters, even when there have been no children in our party. Plaza Inn - Tigger using a balloon to rub the top of a friend's head to create static electricity, and then later trying to communicate to a cashier CM that Tigger wanted the CM to unfold a paper napkin for him because he couldn't do it himself. Plaza Inn - Tigger stealing my shoe and then taking it with him when he went on a break. Ariel's Grotto - There to celebrate a friend's birthday, and Chip and Dale and Goofy were all very animated that day. PCH Grill - On one Easter brunch visit, we showed Donald that there was a duck item on the menu. He took the menu and stormed up to the hostess' podium and had a fit. PCH Grill - On another Easter brunch visit, I was so happy that Thumper was there, so we were able to get a picture of Big Thumper with Little Thumper: <a href="http://colddeadfish.net/images/easter02/easter-thumperx2.jpg" target="_blank">http://colddeadfish.net/images /easter02/easter-thumperx2.jpg</a>. However, Pluto wasn't as happy to see Little Thumper: <a href="http://colddeadfish.net/images/easter02/easter-stomp.jpg" target="_blank">http://colddeadfish.net/images /easter02/easter-stomp.jpg</a>. Big Thunder Country Picnic - We had a great time with Meeko there, who was apparently well versed in Fantasmic. We've even got video of him with a friend reenacting a scene from Fantasmic. The friend said I could put the video on our site, which I haven't gotten around to doing formally, but here's the link to the video: <a href="http://www.colddeadfish.net/images/DL71704/PrinceMeeko.asf" target="_blank">http://www.colddeadfish.net/im ages/DL71704/PrinceMeeko.asf</a>. /cs
Originally Posted By kaoden39 In 2002 we went to Goofy's Kitchen to celebrate our then 8 year old daughters birthday. Her name is Kody,which I know is unusual but we ordered a cake and I called more than once to make sure they spelled it right. Well the day arrives and the cake comesout and it has Cody on it. The Mad Hatter had seen her name on the happy birthday sticker got all upset and said "No this won't do." He ran into the kitchen got the icing tube and cameout and corrected her cake. Make such a big deal out of it making her feel all the more special. He's a favorite now.
Originally Posted By dizmomof3 A friend of mine was at DL last week and her 8 year old DD got to ride Dumbo with Mickey in the Golden Dumbo. Now that's pretty special.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper On a more personal note my best friend had his rehearsal dinner at the Living Seas in their private dining area. Tigger came to the party and stuck around for quite some time. We got lots of good pictures and he had a blast with the kids who were there.
