Ahh macraven...you know we love you, but we do and have gotten loads of attention at disney breakfast. Its not always that great, but there is never an empty seat in the dining room. I've had some fantastic character interactions at disney meals. Of course any character that can talk is always much better, so the Castle meals and 1900 park fare have been great. Actually the Fairy godmother and mad hatter stand out as two great interactions.
i didn't mean to compare the two park character buffets.
i guess i should qualify my statement on that.
i have done the disney character meals plenty of times.
did 4 of them again last september.
i do disney first on my trips and then transfer over to UO hotels and do 5 days at universal.
i can't imagine going to orlando and not doing both parks.
the interactions i have had with the disney characters are not lengthy.
the cm will take a pic with your camera with the characters ie: crystal palace, chef mickey, 1900 park faire, etc. (those are the main 3 i have done) the characters will stay with you for a very short time and then make the rounds. i don't think we had more than 3-4 minutes with them on a one on one situation except for picture taking. (oh and garden grill for lunch character meal i have been to.)
if you are at the resturant for an hour, the characters will make their way back to you at the disney spots.
at the confisco spidey breakfast at ioa, they stay with you for a longer time.
we had spidey sit with us and on our table for a straight 15 minutes. and he still came back to visit us after he went to over tables.
thing 1 and 2 and cat in the hat gave us the same time.
as long as we were sitting at the cafe, the characters continued to return to us and visit.
i think universal does it that way so you don't tell everyone how the food is just mediocre....
you are with the characters so long, that is the high point and remembrance of the breakfast....
we were there for almost 2 hours and had more than we needed time with the characters.
also, the universal char. break. is much much smaller table seating wise.
less people so more time with the characters.
since it is a small setting, universal has the characters with the guests the entire time while the buffet is going on.
i hope i cleared that up.
yes, both parks do characters and have involvement but we have been more fortunate with the universal character breakfast.
and since i have 4 boys, spidey, dr. seuss characters were more of a draw to my family.
it is all personal preference. if you have boys or girls or just adults in your group, the favorite characters of yours will make the breakfast event more exciting to you.
i would never want anyone to think i was being rude to you on my first comment. sorry if it sounded that way.
i'm just a gal that has loved dr seuss characters all my life.
the adventures with spidey came from having boys.......
) - but character interaction more than made up for it!!
) - but I believe they had scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, 'green eggs and ham' bagels, 2 or 3 types of muffins, some fruit (not alot as I recall), waffles (don't think there were pancakes), and one (possibly two) types of cereal. 
