Do your kids get autograph books everytime??

[Twinprincesses]

I am just curious if others get autograph books everytime or if we are just freaks. We tried last time to take ones they already had but they wanted new ones. To me it is kinda a waste of money since they do not really look at them again but they do enjoy it.

So what do you guys do??

 

[dizzyami]

Count us in as freaks - we get them every time (02/05, 11/05, 10/06, 06/07). Every trip DD wants as many sigs as possible - we usually end up with three books! I get the ones to insert the pictures - and she enjoys going through them and seeing how she has grown and the characters in the different costumes (50th, Halloween, YOAMD).

 

[Amy&Dan]

My daughter will be 11 in one month and still gets one each trip. So that's around 10 books for DL (actually more, some trips she needs two) and seven for WDW. She keeps them all, now that they have the photo insert ones it makes it a nice keepsake.

I enjoy the fact she still gets into the characters so don't protest too much. She also gets the majority of her autographs at character meals and we have a cap on how long a line can be before we enter it inside. She also will get multiple autographs from the same character, she just wants as many as possible! I guess we are freaks too, but we are happy freaks!

 

[Quest4Kingdom]

Wow! That's great, so you're able to meet a lot of characters? We just recently got introduced to these character missions, my sis in-law bought my DL her first autograph book and Tink pen, and she is just attached to those particular ones, so it's been like a ritual to bring that same one with us. She even has the same Princess dress she hasn't outgrown yet! Well, we visit DL several times a year so it would be costly for us to have a new one each time though. It's also because we haven't been able to meet too many characters at each of our visits (sometimes as few as only 1 or 2).

 

[godalejunior]

We have a few books and we put the date of the signature in the bottom corner and plan on filling them up as we go. We got a great deal on the books at the character outlet so we stocked up for future trips. I prefer the ones that have the picture that you can insert next to the autograph as well.

 

[joeysmommy]

I made autograph books for my sons (3 and 5) for last year's trip.
We didn;t get very many sigs, just the ones from Goofy's Kitchen and Mickey at Mickey's House. Oh and Pooh at Critter Corner.
I made their books to suit their personality and their names are on it so we'll probably use the same one until it's full.

If I could find the same cool spiral bound albums I would probably make them new ones. But Michael's and Joann's both no longer carry them.

 

[kiwitravel]

My son got one last trip and had a lot fun with it, my DD (14 at the time) wanted to but thought she was too old. Next trip my son is going to do another one and my daughter is going to do one (to hell with being too old) and we might do a family one as well.

 

[Misskitty3]

I was wondering about this too. DS and DD had books on our last trip. I guess we will wait to see if they want ones again this time.

 

[talie95]

We take the same one everytime. We have the one where the autograph is on one side and then a picture slot on the other side. We just use the book until it is full. Although my daughter likes getting autographs it's not that important to her so if there are really long lines for someone we usually won't wait so we've been able to use the same book for the last 2 trips, but we'll probably end up getting another one for this trip since there are only 3 pages left in the book she has now.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

We get a new one every time too. Right now my 2 girls share a book while we're there because the youngest is still too little to have her own and they both get in the picture anyways. At some point we'll start getting each of them one. We have one from our first trip with them (8/06), two from our next trip (12/06) and we'll be getting them again for this upcoming trip.

I prefer the ones that have the photo pockets too and the girls LOVE looking through them and do so a few times a week. And now that the outlet store has opened in Vacaville, I'm hoping we can stock up there before we go.

 

[pixiewings71]

Well last year we got them cute books for autographs because we didn't think we'd be back for a few years. This year (yup, we caved, so hard we now have AP's! LOL) I found cute little photo scrap books at Targets $1 spot that said 2007 on the front so I grabbed those! They loved them, they were slightly bigger so the characters had more room to sign. When we go back in October we will take the books again, not necessarily for the same autographs but for new ones that we didn't get this time. Also, at our Princess lunch my 7 y.o. DD took a book she has with the stories of Cinderella, Ariel, Belle & Snow White and each Princess signed both her book and her autograph book. She thought was just too cool!

Oh ya, if we run out of space in the current book and they want another we will get it for them. LOL Heck, I almost got MYSELF one and waited in lines for autographs/pictures! LOL

 

[disney-super-mom]

Okay, I know this is BAD and goes against the Disney Code of Fun, but our kids have never gotten autographs. They don't even know what an autograph is! GASP!

They've never asked why the characters are writing in other kids books, what they are writing, or why they don't have books themselves for the characters to write in.

They're so caught up in meeting the characters and getting their pictures taken with them, that they don't notice all the book/pens and writing going on.

We've had a "don't ask, don't tell" position on this over the many years and trips to DL. They don't ask. We don't tell.

This year I may end up caving though because I think if they knew about it, they would end up having a lot of fun with it.

Oh.....they also don't know ANYTHING about pins and pin trading.

 

[Carter'sMommy]

Okay, I know this is BAD and goes against the Disney Code of Fun, but our kids have never gotten autographs. They don't even know what an autograph is! GASP!

Oh.....they also don't know ANYTHING about pins and pin trading.

Humor here everybody so I don't get FLAMED!

BAD...BAD... BAD Mommy!

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Humor here everybody so I don't get FLAMED!

BAD...BAD... BAD Mommy!

We took our first trip last fall. The autograph books (in our case it was actually a packet of pre-cut scrapbook paper) were a great ice-breaker for our kids. Our younger DS (2yo at the time) wasn't speaking real well, so he'd run up and hug and beam at the character while DH handled the autographs.

DS6 at first wouldn't approach any character, he was too shy. After I pointed out that his character photo album wasn't going to have as many pictures as DS2's, he suddenly became very interested in the characters and the autograph process.

I fully expect that we will be doing the autographs again.

Though I also am a bad mommy; we just buy pins we'd like to keep, no trading!

 

[disney-super-mom]

BAD...BAD... BAD Mommy!

I know.....I know.....(sigh).....No autographs? No pins? Almost makes me ashamed to call myself Disney-Super-Mom.

 

[jacky b]

My son started out with one book, not the one that has the slot for pictures, when he was 6, we took it back each trip until it was full and then bought a new one. He doesn't get autographs from the same character each trip, we hunt for the characters he hasn't seen during previous trips. We date the corner of each autograph with the month and year so we know which trip he got the autograph. We take a picture as well and then I scrapbook each picture with a COPY of the autograph so that we can keep the autograph in tact.

 

[Quest4Kingdom]

My son started out with one book, not the one that has the slot for pictures, when he was 6, we took it back each trip until it was full and then bought a new one. He doesn't get autographs from the same character each trip, we hunt for the characters he hasn't seen during previous trips. We date the corner of each autograph with the month and year so we know which trip he got the autograph. We take a picture as well and then I scrapbook each picture with a COPY of the autograph so that we can keep the autograph in tact.

Hey that's a great idea about dating them, well afterall, they are "celebrities" too, my daughter still hasn't noticed that Belle is sometimes a different person yet either! <---and thanks to the person who helped me discover this cool one- disney-supermom!