Originally Posted By Disney and beyond Have you ever encountered a character in the weirdest place, or at the weirdest time? I saw some of the Country Bears on my last trip...at Epcot. I was so shocked, and I actually got their picture. I saw Donald Duck at Blizzard Beach as well.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I saw Goofy swimming in the pool with a bunch of kids at the Hollywood Hotel at HKDL. It was actually really fun to watch, but I just wasn't expecting to find a character in the water up to his waist.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 Years ago, Goofy waterskied onto the beach at the Poly while my kids were swimming.
Originally Posted By Elderp The wierdest character so far I have encountered was when I saw Mickey Mouse hanging out in front of my house. I live in the San Bernardino mountains so that was wierd. Turns out Mickey Mouse was the grand marshall for our local parade and my house was the starting point for the parade.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Years ago, while taking the 'chicken exit' out from the Tower of Terror, I encountered Aladdin as I opened the back door. He was walking toward me and I couldn't help and stare at him--what with all the manly chest hair revealing itself to me the way it was. It was wonderful to see that Jasmine was no where in sight at the time, too. Anyway, I offered him one of my most engaging smiles. Unfortunately, he suddenly stopped dead in his tracks--as if he'd just seen a ghost. Then he scurried back in the direction he'd just come from. It just goes to show that I'm not the only one who's afraid to ride the Tower of Terror...
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Posts 6 and 7 very funny. A magical encounter one year as my family awaited the fireworks on a very hot summer day. We left my sister to guard our blanket with strict instructions not to talk to anybody no eye contact because she is always sharing our spot to anybody with a sad story. As we walked back we could see a strange guy in our spot with my sister. Apparently he was going to be in the parade but could not tell us who he was but he would try to come back after the parade. Turns out he was Prince Phillip and he got us into the cast section for Fantasmic and then went on rides with us until closing. I think my sister reminded him of his mother and he was new to California. Anyway we never tell our sister not to "share" anymore.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Now, see there!! Prince Phillip came by to visit with your sister!! He actually took time out of his royal schedule to talk to a commoner!! So why doesn't anything that incredible ever happen to ME?! I've been waving my hands off at that particular prince for years!! But only from a distance because he's usually in a parade or a stage show at the time. How precious it would be if THAT Disney hunk gave me some attention like that?! Sometimes Life can be so unfair...
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: You'll have to forgive me, ducklings, but I simply can't get over it! Prince Phillip, of all people!! And he just happened to be in that young girl's neighborhood and decided to drop in on her the way he did!! Oh, what I wouldn't give to be able to play with a mighty sword like that....
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: So, is ya finished yet, ya tramp?! Er is there more ya just gotta say 'bout Prince Fill-er-up that goes ta show how much of a dang fool ya is?! ORWEN: Well, I like Prince Phillip, too, don't forget. After all, he IS the boyfriend of my best girlfriend. ORGOCH: Give it up, sister! I only got time ta deal with one fool at a time taday!!!
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Now whenever my sister and I see Prince Phillip in the parade we scream his name to let him know we remember the magic! He is our Dream Guy! (Am I torturing you yet???)
Originally Posted By digby7 I am envious of your Phillip encounter! We had a close encounter with something a little more hairy at Disney Studios. Back in 97 (our very first trip,) we had saved, scrimped and dreamt for over a year. My shy little boy, a tow-headed 6 year old had thought of nothing but riding Star Tours. He loved Star Wars, had all the figurines. But when the fateful day arrived, he chickened out and we went across the ride to the exit while his older sister rode with her aunts. As the door closed and the ride began, his little lip trembled, his head bent and two huge tears rolled out of his eyes. He was so disappointed with himself. My heart broke as I struggled with what on earth was I going to say to make this right. Suddenly, I became aware of someone right beside me and I noticed two very hairy feet next to my sons feet. There he was in all his glory, Chewbacca! He was great! I whispered in my sons ear that someone wanted to see him. My son looked up and despair turned instantly into awe. Chewie took a step back and spread his arms our and awe turned to joy as my boy flew to give that wookie a big knee hug. Just then two ewoks came down the corridor and started to play with my boy. They ruffled his hair, put on his ball cap, played with his pooh sunglasses and delighted his so totally that he never gave another thought to his dissapointment. Just a few minutes later he saw them greeting guests and he decided he would ride Star Tours after all. Magic. So is it any wonder that our family keeps going back? I didn't mention that my son has a disability that made speech very difficult for him and social interactions at that time was very limited. Makes me even more grateful.
Originally Posted By Kimrue When I was about 17 we went to some sort of character breakfast with my parents, I have no idea where it was, but I encountered an extremely annoying, borderline creepy pluto. The first time he came around, I was polite and we posed for a picture, but then he KEPT coming around and pretending to lick my head, covering my eyes when I would go to take a bite of food, playing with my hair...hahaha, cute and funny, I was into it at first but low and behold, there he was AGAIN...'go the heck away, dude!!!" seriously it was so annoying that I couldn't feel comfortable eating. I realize sometimes the characters are supposed to really 'play up' a role, but I don't think it should be at the expense of the comfort of the guest. I seriously couldn't enjoy my food and I just sat there until it was time to go, then we high tailed it out of there faster than you could say bibbidi bobbidi boo!!! This was about, gosh, OVER a decade ago, but it was pretty darn bizarre. Still to this day when I see a pluto character I remember that incident...LOL!
Originally Posted By mickeyboy43 These stories are all pretty funny! I think the strangest place we have ever seen a character Mary Poppins strolling along with her merry band of bodyguards in tomorrowland. Talk about contrast!
Originally Posted By RobinsonCrusoeEsq Hi. Sorry for being late, but I have a funny story about when I saw Goofy water-ski up to the pool at the Polynesian too. The boat roared up, everyone turned to look. Goofy wades to shore. He runs up to the pool and jumps right in at the shallow end. (This was before the zero-entry pool.) Once he was all soaked, he got out of the pool. He held his finger up to his lips like he was telling us, "Shhhhhh." He tiptoed up so a man who was lying on his stomach, tanning his back in a louge chair. Then he clasped his soaking wet gloves together and wrung the water out of them onto the unsuspecting sunbather's back. The place went nuts with laughter and applause. The "victim" took it like a true sport, and Goofy ran back to the idling speedboat, hopped in, and tore away.
Originally Posted By lilgoofymom Love the Goofy story. We saw Goofy at the Polynesian too. We were at the restaurant, eating dinner. This was before the character meals. Goofy came into the restaurant and "attacked" my mother with an inflatable hammer or baseball bat. Her reaction was priceless. She didn't take her eyes off him after that. He kept trying to sneak up on her again. They played this game the entire time he was in the restaurant.
Originally Posted By partyhare The first time I went to WDW as a little kid, we saw Mr. Smee waterskiing around the Seven Seas Lagoon/Bay Lake waters. It was so random, but we loved it. And I have seen Goofy many times at the water parks in the main pools. Another time, I was looking at the logs come down the big drop on Splash Mountain, and all of a sudden, one log has Brer Rabbit riding with the guests! It was so unexpected!
Originally Posted By CMDad Back when my son was still working at WDW, we were having dinner at Chef Mickey's when Chip (or was it Dale, I don't remember) came up to our table, pointed to his eyes, nose and then my son. When my son was puzzled, the sequence was repeated until I realized that Chip was informing my son that EYE (I) NOSE (know) YOU. When Chip went offstage my son followed and then came back and informed us that it was a colleague of his from the HM. Later in the meal, Goofy came up to my son and handed him a note which said GOOFY + MINNIE = MAX
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Oh, no!! So all those jokes about Goofy and Minnie weren't just jokes after all!! How dreadful!!!
