Question about characters in Marathon/Half-Marathon

[freddog]

Just curious as to how often the characters (picture opportunities) are stationed? For example, are they approx every 2 miles or so or does it really vary?

 

[IamTrike]

I am not a morning person, but from what I remember of this years half I think the spacing varied. I don't remember characters in the first couple miles. When we got to the magic kingdom there were a couple different character spots and they were relatively close together.

 

[KateB]

For the half Winnie was at about mile 2 or 3. Then there were several spots in the Magic Kingdom (Alice, Country Bears, Princesses). We didn't see an other characters until we were behind the Grand Floridian (Mary Poppins & a penguin). We passed Winnie again and on the on ramp there was a soldier from Toy Story 3. Our final character spotting was close to EPCOT and that was the Fairies.

There were more but those are the ones that I specifically remember seeing and pointing out to my DH. We weren't willing to stop and lose time and possibly get swept.

 

[J3nn78]

I dont think there were any for about 3 miles. Then if I remember correctly, there were characters about every mile, maybe some even closer together. There were lots! I have pictures with almost all of them

 

[tj4disney]

I did the marathon this year for the first time, and I would say it varies, with characters most prevelant around the parks. First was Chip and Dale at mile 3 in Epcot, missed Tinkerbell at about mile 6, and then got Tigger and Eeyore at about mile 7-8. Then in MK got StepMother/StepSisters and passed on Fairy Godmother. Also got Princess and Frog crew (Tiana, Prince ?, and Louis), Woody/Jesse, and POTC crew (my vote for best costumes). So the MK stuff was all between mile 10-11. Then about mile 12 got Goofy/Donald on a golf course. Somewhere around mile 14 got PP/Wendy/Hook/Smee. Then at AK got Belu/King Louie, then Minnie, and then Mickey. Then at DHS (mile 21-22 ish) got Russell from UP, and then Phineas/Ferb. Back in Epcot got Jasmine, then Snow White, and then Mulan/Mushu.

So that was 16 different character opportunities that I did. Besides missing Tink and Fairy Godmother, I probably also passed on 3-5 others...can't come up with them at the moment.

They are plentiful, and was one of the reasons I decided to do Disney. Sure, it probably tacked on 15-20 minutes to my run, but each time I thought..."in 5 years would I rather have a picture commemorating this event, or a couple more minutes of time." Picture won out most of the time!