He did the vibrate and giggle that he does when he wants to say something. I had to hold him to my ear to hear what he was saying over the volume of the haunted mansion. When he vibrates like that I say he "went off."
He went off a whole lot in world showcase. Sometimes three or four times a country, sometimes only once per country. He went off quite a bit in MK, but it seemed like more in Epcot. We were already waiting for fantasmic when we went off to tell us that it was only an hour so we should go on over. He tells lots of jokes, some of them were funny. He has three games. One game is he will say the name of an attraction and you squeeze his belly if it is in this park or his hand if it isn't (or maybe that is backward). Another game, he lists character names, and you squeeze his hand or belly when he says certain names. The other game is Mickey says; you squeeze his hand or belly if he says Mickey says, you don't if he doesn't say Mickey says. Sometimes I expected him to go off and he didn't so I would walk around trying to find the sweet spot (for example, outside of pirates. Finally he decided to say something).
He was a lot of fun, and I got a kick out of him. He is easy to carry because he has a clip that attaches to your belt, then he just slides on or off the clip. The cast members hadn't seen too many of them, and sometimes they would ask me to show them. The rumor was that they are trying to make it where it will respond at home to the disney channel on tv. I'm not sure how they can do that. I used the dvc coupon to rent for free. I ended up taking him back and buying the ttc for the monorail instead. I think for me the fun would run off pretty soon. It was interesting to hear him say something, though.
People on the internet were wondering how they would clean them for the rentals. I didn't ask, but there was the idea that they would throw away the plush, but the way the push buttons are in the hands and belly I don't think they can do that. If you buy one, you get to take the rental back and get a new one in the box if you want to (rather than just keeping the one you had). Our friends returned the one they used the coupon for also and had the same experience that we had, that they don't know how to work the registers to return them yet because not many people have. They have two attached round units inside that are accessed through a zipper, and take AA batteries. I wondered if you could take them to
disneyland if they would work there. I figured they would not.
I saw a bunch of people from the dis boards yesterday at Epcot and they had probably three of them between them, so I bet you hear lots about them. If they didn't get drunk and lose them
Oh yeah one other thing. If you were in the parks, a lot of times the jokes he would say sort of matched the place you were. Sometimes he went off to tell a joke that was associated with that place (at ctx, he said "what do you call an anxious tyranosaur? A nervous rex" or something like that). Sometimes those little jokes that were associated with a place were pretty funny!
One other weird thing. One day we started in epcot in the morning and went to magic kingdom. When you go through the turnstyles he is supposed to learn where he is, but on main street he still thought he was in epcot - I held both of his hands to play the "what's in the park" game and he wanted to play epcot. So I went back to the turnstyles. The cast members there said that it wasn't really the turnstyles that did it, but that it was the Roy statue. But I held him around that area anyway, and he went off right before going in the tunnel (an exiting the MK line, he said he was tired and going to sleep), and then went off at the Roy statue. I think the Roy statue is probably the first place it goes off for most people in MK, but I don't think the information is downloaded there. They send the information through his nose.
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