One of the most exciting parts of visiting Disney World is meeting the characters! Xavier is obsessed with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse so we were anticipating his excitement in meeting his favorite characters. We were very pleased with the wait times. In the past, I can remember waiting what seemed like hours to get signatures. Because we got signatures early and later in the day, we lucked out.
Early on in the morning, we got in line for the first two characters, Goofy and Donald Duck. These two characters were under "The Big Top" in Fantasyland. After waiting for a short 20 minutes, we were up! While he was not necessarily afraid of the characters, he also wasn't overly keen on them either. He got his autograph booked signed, a quick pic and that was that.
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| Meeting Goofy! |
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| Daddy, Goofy and Xavier |
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| Slightly uncomfortable.. |
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| Donald! |
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| Candid :) |
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| Not a fan... |
The next character we met in Fantasyland was Lady Tremaine, the evil stepmother from Cinderella. We only waited 3 or 4 minutes for her autograph and a signature. It was amazing how well these people stay in character. She acted annoyed, like any evil stepmother would, and made funny little comments. Xavier was fine with her because she didn't have on a big costume :)
While we were in Frontierland, we ran into Chip and Dale! This 10 minute line seemed to last forever because at this point it was HOTTTTT outside! Xavier did fine with these two, but again was kind of whiny and did not want to let go of daddy.
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| Getting Signatures |
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| So Cute!!! |
We ate dinner and Tony's on Main Street and this just happened to be in the same building where people usually wait for literally hours to see Mickey. Because of the rain, we only waited 5 minutes!!!! It took us longer to walk through the winding rope and into the room where mickey was than waiting on the two people in front of us. It was amazing!
After being taken back into Mickey's room, Dustin put Xavier down so he could walk to Mickey. It didn't happen. Xavier was not very happy! Dustin had to practically drag him. Although he didn't react the way we had anticipated, we still got some cute pictures :)
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| Apprehensive to give Mickey the pen... |
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| Autograph time! |
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| :) |
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| Mickey got down in hopes that Xavier would find him less scary from below...but it didn't work. |
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| Family Pic :) |
After the Mickey ordeal, we took Xavier to see the Princesses. Just like Mickey, the usual 2 hour line was a mere 10 minutes. In this room, we saw Rapunzel, Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) and Cinderella! This room was more for me than Xavier...haha. Again, Xavier enjoyed the "real" people more than the big costumes.
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| Rapunzel@ |
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| Sleeping Beauty was so excited that Xavier came to celebrate with her! |
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| <3 |
Cinderella was very good with "Prince Xavier" and sang happy birthday to him. She told him he was very handsome and also that he reminded her of her mouse friend Gus. It was hilarious!! For those of you who don't know who her friend Gus is...
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| hahahaha |
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| Meeting Cindella! |
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| Charmed :) |
The last stop for characters was back in Fantasyland. Here we waited for about 15 minutes to see Daisy and Minnie. Again, he was whiny and not a huge fan but we got the signatures and the pictures :)
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| Daisy Duck! |
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| Totally over the characters at this point... |
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| Minnie Mouse <3 |
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| He wanted his pen back... |
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| Clinging to me! |
Although we got the above character pictures and signatures, there were a few characters that we saw but couldn't get pics or autographs from. Aladdin and Jasmine were in Adventureland but by the time we made it to them, the line had been closed. Xavier still got to see them though.
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| Aladdin and Jasmine |
We saw Pluto and Marie from the Aristocats but it was as we were first walking through the entrance and we didn't have his autograph book and pen yet.
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| Pluto |
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| Marie |
We also saw Pooh, Tigger and Piglet but you had to have reservations to go into the restaurant to get pics.
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| :) |
Overall, we had a VERY successful day as far as characters are concerned. I put Xavier's autograph book and pen in his Hope Chest so that the next time we go, he can add more to it :)
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