Character Interactions

[NJlauren]

I was just reading story's on allears.net of memorable character interactions. I would love to hear other people's stories if you don't mind sharing!

 

[Sparkly]

We were very lucky to come across Tweedle Dum & Tweedle Dee in MK last Saturday. We were the last family they saw because they spent so much time with each group!

They stole Mum's hat, played clapping games with us and danced with us. And Mum had to tell them off for picking their nose! ("You're not Stitch, that's gross!") Sadly I think our pictures with them are Photopass, so I can't share them right now. But we had such a blast meeting them and had such great timing to come across them and still get to see them- the line was very long!

 

[kmoore7]

My DD was 4 when we were in AK just walking along when Tarzan came out of the trees right in front of us. He knelt down to her eye level to sign her autograph book. We have pictures and it made our trip. That was 15 years ago and we still talk about it. Just one of many stories we have along these lines.

 

[Newsies]

I think my favorite character interaction on my past trip was Merida. I really wanted to meet her since we both have curly hair and I thought it would be a cute photo. So I was in line for the last day of my vacation, and it started drizzling on line for her. Suddenly, there was a really faint thundering. The cast members informed us that if it came any closer, Merida would have to leave. I became the last person allowed into the area that day. As the thunder proceeded to come closer, the CMs were really rushing to get everyone in (with good reason to do so, of course), yelling at children to put away their autograph books and that there could only be one photo per group, etc. However, Merida turned around and sneaked in a very patient little girl's autograph, which was very nice

So finally I got up there and Merida greeted me with a really big hug. She's like, "I'm sorry, me friends just want us to be safe and you know how our hair gets in this weather!" so then I'm like "How do you keep it so tame?" and she's like "Spring water!" and then we took the photo and hugged again and the CM rushed her away while she was waving goodbye to me. It was really sweet, especially since she knew how stressful being in the line was.

 

[Raetz]

A few years ago My teenage daughters and I were meeting Darth Vader during Star Wars Weekends. One of my daughters was getting his autograph while I was taking pictures. Vader walks over to me and points at her autograph book. Her book has pictures of a few Disney Princesses including Cinderella on the corner of the pages. He proceeds to draw a picture of the Death Star blowing up the Princesses. it was hilarious he was totally hamming it up and shoving it in my daughters faces.

A few days later my daughters were meeting Cinderella and the told her about their experience with Vader. They showed her the picture Vader had drawn of her being blown up by the Death Star. She was like "oh my, I think I know him.....always dressed in all black and in a sour mood.......he just needs some pixie dust to cheer him up" Cinderella then added pixie dust falling on too Vader's autograph. She never fell out of character it was awesome.

About a year ago my Daughters and I were watching Wishes back by Gaston's Tavern. As we are intently watching the fireworks someone comes up next to my daughter and puts their arm over her shoulder. It was Gaston, who goes on to tell her how lucky she is to be his guest for the " His Firewotks". he spent a few minutes with her walking around still with his arm over her shoulder telling her how the fireworks were in celebration of him and all his greatness etc. She was so surprised, happy, and embarrassed all at the same time. Her sister and I still trase her about her date with Gaston.

 

[NJlauren]

We were very lucky to come across Tweedle Dum & Tweedle Dee in MK last Saturday. We were the last family they saw because they spent so much time with each group!

They stole Mum's hat, played clapping games with us and danced with us. And Mum had to tell them off for picking their nose! ("You're not Stitch, that's gross!") Sadly I think our pictures with them are Photopass, so I can't share them right now. But we had such a blast meeting them and had such great timing to come across them and still get to see them- the line was very long!

This is great! I didn't even know they were currently doing M&G!

My DD was 4 when we were in AK just walking along when Tarzan came out of the trees right in front of us. He knelt down to her eye level to sign her autograph book. We have pictures and it made our trip. That was 15 years ago and we still talk about it. Just one of many stories we have along these lines.

So cool, I would love to see a random character interaction like that!

I think my favorite character interaction on my past trip was Merida. I really wanted to meet her since we both have curly hair and I thought it would be a cute photo. So I was in line for the last day of my vacation, and it started drizzling on line for her. Suddenly, there was a really faint thundering. The cast members informed us that if it came any closer, Merida would have to leave. I became the last person allowed into the area that day. As the thunder proceeded to come closer, the CMs were really rushing to get everyone in (with good reason to do so, of course), yelling at children to put away their autograph books and that there could only be one photo per group, etc. However, Merida turned around and sneaked in a very patient little girl's autograph, which was very nice

So finally I got up there and Merida greeted me with a really big hug. She's like, "I'm sorry, me friends just want us to be safe and you know how our hair gets in this weather!" so then I'm like "How do you keep it so tame?" and she's like "Spring water!" and then we took the photo and hugged again and the CM rushed her away while she was waving goodbye to me. It was really sweet, especially since she knew how stressful being in the line was.

I think it was so cool that she wanted to make sure everyone was able to see her even if the CM's were trying to keep her form finishing up.

A few years ago My teenage daughters and I were meeting Darth Vader during Star Wars Weekends. One of my daughters was getting his autograph while I was taking pictures. Vader walks over to me and points at her autograph book. Her book has pictures of a few Disney Princesses including Cinderella on the corner of the pages. He proceeds to draw a picture of the Death Star blowing up the Princesses. it was hilarious he was totally hamming it up and shoving it in my daughters faces.

A few days later my daughters were meeting Cinderella and the told her about their experience with Vader. They showed her the picture Vader had drawn of her being blown up by the Death Star. She was like "oh my, I think I know him.....always dressed in all black and in a sour mood.......he just needs some pixie dust to cheer him up" Cinderella then added pixie dust falling on too Vader's autograph. She never fell out of character it was awesome.

About a year ago my Daughters and I were watching Wishes back by Gaston's Tavern. As we are intently watching the fireworks someone comes up next to my daughter and puts their arm over her shoulder. It was Gaston, who goes on to tell her how lucky she is to be his guest for the " His Firewotks". he spent a few minutes with her walking around still with his arm over her shoulder telling her how the fireworks were in celebration of him and all his greatness etc. She was so surprised, happy, and embarrassed all at the same time. Her sister and I still trase her about her date with Gaston.

These stories are amazing! The Gaston story had me LOLing! I mean i could just picture it!

 

[WendyLou]

Love all of these. Needed that smile tonight.

 

[Funfire240]

My favorite is still from our kids' first trip almost 4 years ago. I've talked about it before so I'm sorry if repeating to some. We were relaxing near where tiana meets (she wasn't out at the time) when a CM started blowing bubbles for the kids, then 1 and 3 to chase around. They were having so much fun that a photo pass photographer stopped and started taking pictures. Next thing we knew Peter Pan came out of nowhere and was playing with them! He took pictures with us and signed their books. Other CM's blocked off the area and let us be the only ones. To me that was true magic and my favorite moment out of all of our trips

 

[KathyNY76]

My 7 year old DD met Tink around 5pm on our visit. Tink asked her what the most magical part of her day had been. DD so honestly and excitedly said, "Right now, meeting you!" Tink squealed, gave DD a giant hug and said, "Well that's just the best thing I've heard all day!" And you could just tell it really touched Tink (the character and the actress) and made her day.

 

[TXAKDisneyFan]

It wasn't really an interaction, but DD fell asleep during MNSSHP while we were in line to meet the 7 dwarfs. She was dressed like Snow White, and looked pretty authentic with her very dark hair (although obviously miniature size). We didn't want to wake her up for the pictures, so DH laid his jacket on the ground in front of the 7 dwarfs and gently laid DD on top of his jacket. The pictures of our sleeping Snow White with the 7 dwarfs are some of my favorite character pics!

 

[buttercup14]

So many! When I was 10/11 I went to meet Jasmine dressed as her (I was much older than the other kids who did this at the time) She greeted me with 'hello princess jasmine, I see you're wearing my favourite outfit today' she asked me where I was from and when I said Australia she asked what I had instead of a Tiger, maybe a crocodile or Koala. At the end of the M&G she gave me a big hug and said 'goodbye Jasmine'

More recently I had a nice M&G with Alice where she noticed I was wearing different shoes, she did a whole photo shoot with me based around trying to be on the matching side of my shoe colour, she switched sides, turned us all around, we crossed our legs over, she was really fun. I had a lot of nice Alice interactions on my last trip. I also had Mad Hatter in DLR be really lovely to me when I met him then all day whenever I saw him at a show, he made my holiday.

We also had bought a dinosaur hand puppet last holiday we took to some of the characters, chip and dale and the tweedles were really fun with it, they both attacked each other with it. I could go into so much more detail/ so many more stories but I'd be here all day!

 

[Momtwofour]

In 2012 my daughter was having Stitch sign her Disney Encyclopedia of Characters Book and when he saw his picture he took the book and ran. The CM with him ran after him and Stitch kept pointing at the picture and himself as to say it was his. My daughter loved it! When we visited Tiana and Prince Naveen they were both as intrigued and Naveen asked my daughter where she got the book. She said Amazon. And he acted quite shocked and wondered how she went to the Amazon to get it and wasnt that quite dangerous! lol

 

[NJlauren]

My favorite is still from our kids' first trip almost 4 years ago. I've talked about it before so I'm sorry if repeating to some. We were relaxing near where tiana meets (she wasn't out at the time) when a CM started blowing bubbles for the kids, then 1 and 3 to chase around. They were having so much fun that a photo pass photographer stopped and started taking pictures. Next thing we knew Peter Pan came out of nowhere and was playing with them! He took pictures with us and signed their books. Other CM's blocked off the area and let us be the only ones. To me that was true magic and my favorite moment out of all of our trips

That does sound magical and really special!!!

My 7 year old DD met Tink around 5pm on our visit. Tink asked her what the most magical part of her day had been. DD so honestly and excitedly said, "Right now, meeting you!" Tink squealed, gave DD a giant hug and said, "Well that's just the best thing I've heard all day!" And you could just tell it really touched Tink (the character and the actress) and made her day.

That's adorable, adults can try to think of the best things to say but kids just come up with it out of know where I love it!

It wasn't really an interaction, but DD fell asleep during MNSSHP while we were in line to meet the 7 dwarfs. She was dressed like Snow White, and looked pretty authentic with her very dark hair (although obviously miniature size). We didn't want to wake her up for the pictures, so DH laid his jacket on the ground in front of the 7 dwarfs and gently laid DD on top of his jacket. The pictures of our sleeping Snow White with the 7 dwarfs are some of my favorite character pics!

This sounds adorable if you're wiling to share I would love to see the picture!

So many! When I was 10/11 I went to meet Jasmine dressed as her (I was much older than the other kids who did this at the time) She greeted me with 'hello princess jasmine, I see you're wearing my favourite outfit today' she asked me where I was from and when I said Australia she asked what I had instead of a Tiger, maybe a crocodile or Koala. At the end of the M&G she gave me a big hug and said 'goodbye Jasmine'

More recently I had a nice M&G with Alice where she noticed I was wearing different shoes, she did a whole photo shoot with me based around trying to be on the matching side of my shoe colour, she switched sides, turned us all around, we crossed our legs over, she was really fun. I had a lot of nice Alice interactions on my last trip. I also had Mad Hatter in DLR be really lovely to me when I met him then all day whenever I saw him at a show, he made my holiday.

We also had bought a dinosaur hand puppet last holiday we took to some of the characters, chip and dale and the tweedles were really fun with it, they both attacked each other with it. I could go into so much more detail/ so many more stories but I'd be here all day!

I love that you have so many stories it makes everything seem that much more amazing to me!

In 2012 my daughter was having Stitch sign her Disney Encyclopedia of Characters Book and when he saw his picture he took the book and ran. The CM with him ran after him and Stitch kept pointing at the picture and himself as to say it was his. My daughter loved it! When we visited Tiana and Prince Naveen they were both as intrigued and Naveen asked my daughter where she got the book. She said Amazon. And he acted quite shocked and wondered how she went to the Amazon to get it and wasnt that quite dangerous! lol

The Amazon haha!!! This is so funny I love it!!!

Thank you everyone for sharing these stories are all so amazing I really hope my family has some great ones with my daughter one day!

 

[juliekzp]

When my daughter was almost 4, she was super shy and didn't want to interact with any characters. We did the Cinderella meal at 1900 Park Fare, and Anastasia spent about 10-15 minutes quietly talking to my daughter and getting her to warm up, complete with hugs and cuddles. It was so precious. My daughter is now 8 and still LOVES to meet princesses.

 

[StirlingSilver83]

I always make my own autograph books I think you get better character interactions with something more personal. Last year when we did the Pirate and Pals Firework Cruise at the end when we met Peter Pan he talked with my son for about 5 minutes and he was looking through the whole book to see who else we had in our book and my son thought that was just the coolest thing ever. We also had an awesome Tigger interaction at 1900 Park Fare. My son LOVES Tigger and has a stuff Tigger that hes had since he was 3 (hes 8 now). Anyways he brought his Tigger with him to breakfast that morning and when Tigger saw his stuffed Tigger he got super excited and started jumping up and down and held my sons stuff Tigger up for the whole restaurant to see. My son thought that was awesome as well. He was so excited that Tigger was so excited to see his Tigger, lol

 

[Mikie]

As a family that formerly didn't do rope drop (usually arriving 30+ min after park opening) we didn't realize that some characters come out and interact on their way to their meet & greet (like the step,other and stepsisters riding the carousel)

We had a special multi-generation trip for 12 this fall and our first ride our first day was. . . . Aladdin's carpets at rope drop. No one's big thrill, but we headed left and it's the first ride! Well, with us filling 4-5 carpets and few others dashing for the carpets first thing, we weren't sure why it seemed a little slow to get started when Aladdin and Jasmine came along, they waved at everyone & walked around, then ended up with Aladdin getting into the carpet with son and hubby and Jasmine getting in with my daughter and niece and me! We got to talk and visit the whole ride, my niece couldn't take her eyes off Jasmine - Jasmine said we must have a very large carpet to get 12 people all the way to Disney.

They walked our whole group over to the photo spot for a photo after! We were afraid the rest of the trip could never live up to our start (but it did!)

 

[Funfire240]

I always make my own autograph books I think you get better character interactions with something more personal. Last year when we did the Pirate and Pals Firework Cruise at the end when we met Peter Pan he talked with my son for about 5 minutes and he was looking through the whole book to see who else we had in our book and my son thought that was just the coolest thing ever. We also had an awesome Tigger interaction at 1900 Park Fare. My son LOVES Tigger and has a stuff Tigger that hes had since he was 3 (hes 8 now). Anyways he brought his Tigger with him to breakfast that morning and when Tigger saw his stuffed Tigger he got super excited and started jumping up and down and held my sons stuff Tigger up for the whole restaurant to see. My son thought that was awesome as well. He was so excited that Tigger was so excited to see his Tigger, lol

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We do this too for autographs! I make 5x7 photo books using pictures of the kids from previous trips and have the characters then sign their own page. It is a hit! For DD"s with the princesses on the page I then added a picture of her wearing that princesses dress. It was such a hit and the conversations that came out as a result were so much fun.

 

[elgerber]

We have a couple of favorites. Summer 2013 it was Chip and Dale in Frontierland. I could never even type all they did, they were spending a TON of time with the people in front of us,and us. Misbehaving, getting put in timeouts, fighting with each other, antagonizing their handler, and finally proposing to my dd.

But my very favorite was a few years back. My dd and I, and her friend and her mom were in Epcot. My dd was standing overlooking the water, facing towards Figment, etc, while my friend changed her camera batteries. I was digging for something in my bag, when I heard a man say to my dd, "isn't it beautiful"? I was like, ok, what inappropriate man is hitting on my 15 yr old. I turn around, and it was Prince Eric!!!! He came out of nowhere, and he was all alone. He talked to her for a few minutes, and we all took pictures with him. We were giddy!!! He then walked away and met up with a handler around the other side of the water and went on his way. We were on cloud 9 the rest of the day. We were with a choir group, so of course we had to keep showing the photos to the other girls, as we ran into them throughout the day.

 

[KTR]

My favorite character interaction was from Disneyland about 5 years ago. My 17 month old son was enjoying the characters, not at all shy. We were at the Redwood Adventure Trail and Kenai and Koda from Brother Bear came out to meet and greet. Timmy was in love. They were his own personal live teddy bears. He just fell into their arms and kept going back and forth. We started to move on to let the next family have their turn and they wrapped him back up in more hugs. We made a point of coming back to the bears several more times on that trip. They weren't a terribly popular meet and greet and were hidden a bit from the main traffic so the line was never too terrible.