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[treacle]

I had an interesting conversation with my 5 year old niece the other day, who informed me that she didn't think they were the real princesses , just weeks after she'd been thoroughly entranced with Belle - her words at the time "I've never met a real princess before ", that Donald Duck is just somebody in a suit made of white fluff and that none of her school friends believed her that magic fairy dust flew out of Tinkerbell's wand (Candelabration)
Don't you sometimes wish you could keep your kids locked away from everyone else's

On the plus side when I asked about Mickey and Minnie, she replied "Well, obviously they're the real ones !" - Phew.

I think I need to plan to take her on another little trip, to reinforce the magic

why would others spoil the magic!! I am sure another trip with help.... failing that some intensive disney film watching..... I have started early with playhouse disney and working up to the wonders of princesses.

 

[leebee]

If you think this was fun, just wait til they ask you why the characters talk in the movies but not in real life! After all, the princesses talk, so why can't the rest of the characters? I like this explanation: Remember how Ariel had to give up her voice to grow legs and become a person? Well, it's like that with the characters; they have to give up their voices to become "real".

 

[tttessa]

If you think this was fun, just wait til they ask you why the characters talk in the movies but not in real life! After all, the princesses talk, so why can't the rest of the characters? I like this explanation: Remember how Ariel had to give up her voice to grow legs and become a person? Well, it's like that with the characters; they have to give up their voices to become "real".

Love that leebee - I will steal that one and use it myself!! Mine are 7 and 5 and I KNOW the 7 year old is doubting, but she keeps the magic for her sister - it is soooooo sweet seeing her reinforce the "realness" for her. So young and yet she "gets it".

Tessa

 

[GlendaONeill]

We arrived back yesterday and my not yet 5 year old son told me they were just people in suits at our character breakfast last Thursday.
I don't care what HE thinks, I know they are the real ones!

 

[wideeyes]

When we were at WDW my dd kept asking how the characters can be at paris and flordia, I told her the flew by plane between the parks and she did not believe me and said they must be actors(she also says the santa's she see are actors as the real one is in Lapland) however when we rode the Magic Express bus to the airport to go home they played a video of the characters riding the bus to the Airport so I said "look, they are going to the Airport to visit the guests at Disneyland Paris". she then believed me!

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

When we were at WDW my dd kept asking how the characters can be at paris and flordia, I told her the flew by plane between the parks and she did not believe me and said they must be actors(she also says the santa's she see are actors as the real one is in Lapland) however when we rode the Magic Express bus to the airport to go home they played a video of the characters riding the bus to the Airport so I said "look, they are going to the Airport to visit the guests at Disneyland Paris". she then believed me!

Awwwww

 

[Ware Bears]

Ahhh bless her

 

[SandraVB79]

I actually haven't had this problem yet, but I wondered about the "face characters" (as I think they're called) - the ones without a mask such as the Princesses. Are they ever seen in multiple places at the same time (within DLRP - not counting WDW, etc)? Or do they only use one costume at a time, and they REALLY are only able to be in one place at a time.

When I was there with my family last summer, we saw the Princesses several times, and I believe we only saw one set of actresses (can I use that word here?) so there was no question about looking different from last time.

About the costumes: I cannot speak for DLP, but we visited the costume warehouse at WDW during the Backstage Magic tour.
As an example in WDW: In the MGM (or whatever it is called now), they have a musical show from Beauty and the Beast.
There are 4 girls that are very good friends of Belle, and each girl has TWO gold-sequined dresses, completely custom-sized to her body. So, there is no "just one" cosyume
(btw, in the previous example: Belle wears that dress for a whole... 5 or so minutes in the show. The dresses cost about 8000 USD per piece! )


When we visited the "wig department", the ladies doing the wigs told us that for each princess at the breakfast at Norway (princess breakfast in Epcot), there were two wigs: one the princess was wearing and one that in the meanwhile gets "done" again.


In Paris, when you do the studio tram tour something, just take a look inside the wardrobe building, you'll see there are multiple costumes!

 

[bigAWL]

Don't know what others have experienced but when we've queued for photos/autographs for the Princesses it's always been the same ones later on that day in the parade.

Come to think of it... I didn't notice it until reviewing the photos later, but I actually saw two different Prince Phillips on the same day (I didn't get a good enough look at Aurora to tell if she was different - but all the other royals in the parade appeared to be the same ones we saw earlier) ...

This one on the castle stage for autographs:

And this one in the parade later that day:

 

[Orion33]

yes parade and meet & greet princesses are um different i noticed this a couple of years back....

At xmas we left the Winter Wonderland show, wlaked down to the plaze stage and Minnie had miraculously out ran us and was now performing there....

honestly it hadn't occured to me but kids don't miss a trick!

"auntie karen...how did she get there we just saw her in the last show...."

hoorah for those secret passageways and yes indeed she is the most hardworking mouse in the business.

Although my idiot brother (who branched off to paris for most of the trip because he hated disney) returned to us in the park last night and when we got our first snow in main street he took great delight in discussing with my niece that it wasn't real snow at all despite my loud protesting it was and refusing to be told otherwise,

Why can't people just let people think what they want without ruining it for others??!!!

 

[treacle]

yes parade and meet & greet princesses are um different i noticed this a couple of years back....

At xmas we left the Winter Wonderland show, wlaked down to the plaze stage and Minnie had miraculously out ran us and was now performing there....

honestly it hadn't occured to me but kids don't miss a trick!

"auntie karen...how did she get there we just saw her in the last show...."

hoorah for those secret passageways and yes indeed she is the most hardworking mouse in the business.

Although my idiot brother (who branched off to paris for most of the trip because he hated disney) returned to us in the park last night and when we got our first snow in main street he took great delight in discussing with my niece that it wasn't real snow at all despite my loud protesting it was and refusing to be told otherwise,

Why can't people just let people think what they want without ruining it for others??!!!

Awwww come on now. If he dislikes Disney fair enough (though mad) but don't ruin the magic for those who are kids and still kids at heart. I personally love stuff like that and will try my hardest to keep the magic for my wee one.

 

[MinnieMouse73]

We have only EVER seen one Belle at DLP :shock (I do realise there is only one Belle, of course, but for the purposes of this thread I think you know what I mean?! ). I do worry that poor girl never gets a day off! We saw her on 3 or 4 consecutive days in October and thought she was working very hard - then went back at Christmas and there she was again!

Or maybe she's got a twin sister?

And we've also seen the Aurora in the photos above a lot too

 

[SandraVB79]

Every time I went to DLP and saw the Lion King show, I saw the same Nala and Scar. Until this last time
Nala didn't have the same great legs and Scar was... he was small. And he lost his hair at one time during the show...