We are Disney newbies and as I have been reading about the Autograph books, I am wondering if this is something my 4 yr old will want to do after seeing other kids with them.
Anyone with experience, not planning to do autograph books and then ended up doing them?
Since we haven't been before, I suppose I just don't understand it. I'm just not interested in carrying them around and waiting for autographs.
Each child is different, of course, but I couldn't imagine why my very active and not even totally familiar-with-Disney-characters child would be even slightly interested in such things, but last year when we went (he was three, almost four at the time), it was literally all he wanted to do for the first two days. He liked meeting the characters and getting autographs. Taking photos with them was almost annoying to him. Something mommy made him do. Autographs, on the other hand, were essential. He became intent on getting signatures from all the characters pictured on his autograph book. (Missed out on Chip and Dale and he's still talking about it.) When characters didn't sign autographs, for whatever reason, he was definitely disappointed.
Though he branched out and was less autograph-obssesed for the last half of our trip (after getting just about every characters autograph already), he still always wanted his autograph book with him, just in case. And when we went to
Disneyland this past summer he was just as insistent about taking the book into that park. (Where, by the way, autographs, and characters in general, seem less common and he didn't get a single signature, much to his chagrin.)
Why is this fun? I have no clue. Maybe it's the group mentality (every other little kid is doing same thing). Maybe it's the guaranteed interaction. Or maybe it does just make them feel special.
I couldn't believe my very active little boy was willing to stand, quietly even, in 30 minute lines to get signatures. Preferring it even to going on rides. I really didn't think he would be into it. My friend assured me he would. She was right, I was wrong. Not something she hears me admit too often