Tips for the first Mickey sighting?

Yogamomma13

Earning My Ears

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Aug 20, 2016

• Aug 26, 2016

• #1

Hi! My family and I are going to Disney is 2 weeks, eek! We will have my almost 3yr old daughter and 1.5 year old daughter. Does anyone have any advice on how to make the first time they see Mickey, or a similar character, not so scary and intimidating? They both LOVE Mickey Mouse Club House but I am just a little nervous that seeing them up close and so big will freak them out.

 

TravelingTotMom

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-M-M-Y!

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Mar 30, 2015

• Aug 26, 2016

• #2

Mickey and Minnie are both in the last float of the 3 p.m. Festival of Fantasy parade at the Magic Kingdom. That would be a great chance to see them from afar.

For meeting Mickey for the first time, I would highly recommend getting a FastPass for Mickey at Town Square Theater. He actually talks and interacts there, so maybe it would be better if they also recognized the voice?

There is also an old Sing-a-Long video called Disneyland Fun, that might help to watch ahead of time. It features the characters in the park, so then they can become familiar with Disney World Mickey, as opposed to Clubhouse Mickey.

 

Yogamomma13

Earning My Ears

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• Aug 26, 2016

• #3

TravelingTotMom said:

Mickey and Minnie are both in the last float of the 3 p.m. Festival of Fantasy parade at the Magic Kingdom. That would be a great chance to see them from afar.

For meeting Mickey for the first time, I would highly recommend getting a FastPass for Mickey at Town Square Theater. He actually talks and interacts there, so maybe it would be better if they also recognized the voice?

There is also an old Sing-a-Long video called Disneyland Fun, that might help to watch ahead of time. It features the characters in the park, so then they can become familiar with Disney World Mickey, as opposed to Clubhouse Mickey.

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O thank you so much!! Those are great ideas! Looking up the Sing A Long now. We do have reservations our first night to Mickeys Backyard BBQ. I was thinking that might be a good chance to see them a little ways away and they can approach them on their own time.

 

jeepnjudy

DIS Veteran

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Sep 13, 2009

• Aug 26, 2016

• #4

We always "talked up" the characters and how exciting it would be to meet them. Always positive so when it came to seeing them my two DS were just as excited as I was! lol

 

LaBelleVie

Nose In A Book

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Feb 2, 2013

• Aug 28, 2016

• #5

We've tried to have our kids get used to other large costumed characters (like the local baseball team's mascot) to kind of prepare them. We've also shown them some Disney World videos with the characters in them on YouTube.

 

DisneyCAL

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Feb 16, 2015

• Aug 29, 2016

• #6

If you do rope drop at MK. Go through on the left side and hang by the ramp that comes down from the railroad. Mickey walks down the ramp after the welcome show. It's just a swing by scenario so nothing up close and personal. It may be a good way to say hi without too much interaction the first time, then meet him later on in Times Square or at a character meal. It's literally him walking down and waving then moving on. But there tends to be a group of people that do this and we all wave and say hi and in a positive happy voice which might help them feel like it's normal.

 

TellTheHubbyLater

"It's for the kids" ;)

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Apr 30, 2016

• Aug 30, 2016

• #7

Our DD is 2 and this will be her first time with a M&G too. Our plan is to do Chip and Dale Sing along on our arrival day, to kind of "test the waters". No wasting of a FP or having a freaked out kid during an entire meal if things don't go as perfectly envisioned