slo’s WEDNESDAY 11/19 poll - Your FIRST Time Meeting Mickey (slo’s Mickey Week)

[slo]

Meeting Mickey Mouse at a Disney Park is so much fun regardless how old you are. I think it’s safe to say that many of us have a favorite Mickey Mouse to take a picture with, but before we could get a favorite, we had to have a first time meeting him. Some of us were a child when we had our first meet & greet at a Disney Park, and some of us were older adults. Let’s find out how old you all were when you first met the mouse that started it all. Tell us today….


How old were you when you first met Mickey Mouse at a Disney Park?

*Please post a photo if you have one.



For Me…….My first time meeting Mickey at WDW was in 1976 - I posted a picture below. I’m forever grateful that my parents drove me from NW Indiana to Orlando to visit WDW.

 

[Disneylover99]

I don’t remember seeing any characters when I was a kid at Disney.
So I guess I met Mickey for the first time with my own kids when I was 41.

 

[leebee]

We couldn't afford Disney when I was a kid so my first trip was when I was 42, when DD was 5. I am not sure if we met Mickey that trip (I don't think so) but it was within a year or two that we became Disney regulars and would have scheduled a meal at Chef Mickey's!

 

[wabbott]

I don't really know. Our first trip to WDW was 1979, and IIRC, they didn't have characters then. So probably was sometime in the early 90s.

 

[Kitty 34]

I was 43 (DH 44)when we took our sons to WDW. They were 17, 11 and 9. We met Mickey at Chef Mickey's. I was hooked.

 

[#1hoosierfan]

My first time was when I was two in Disneyland. My mom has a picture somewhere. I don't remember it.

My next time was when I was 13 in Disney World.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I was 11 the first time I went to WDW and was pretty sure we met Mickey that trip; however, I am not 100%. I'm certain we met Mickey in patriotic attire when I was 13 but I could have sworn I met him in his standard outfit that first trip. I had been begging to go for quite some time but my parents wanted to wait until they felt my younger brother was old enough to make it full days in the parks.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I'm going with 55 years old, back in 1999. It was on our only complete family trip to WDW. We had a DL trip in 1992 but no Mickey. After the '99 trip, Marie never wanted to go back. But I did, as have the kids.

 

[fla4fun]

I don’t remember ever stopping to meet characters when I was a kid. I was eight on my first trip and I remember eating ice cream and riding attractions, but not any characters. There are lots of photos of us in the park but none with characters at all. Perhaps it was because meeting the characters back then was such a free for all. They just wandered the park and people would swarm around them, making it difficult to get a photo without a dozen other kids in it. So I saw Mickey, but didn’t meet him. I have never really gotten into meeting characters as a result. We didn’t do character dining either.

The only photo I have of me with Mickey Mouse was taken at a year end party my company had at Epcot in 2018. Everyone was able to get a photo taken with Mickey as part of the event.

 

[soccerdad72]

I was 16 when we did our big Orlando trip (in 1988). We did WDW for a couple days along with Wet 'n Wild, Cypress Gardens and Cape Canaveral, IIRC.

 

[Kae]

It was Deecmber 1971 there is a picture of me, mickey and my sister. I don't remember meeting Mickey but I do remember meeting Gus from Cinderella.

 

[disneychrista]

Add me to the list of not really knowing. I picked 0-5 because my first trip to Disneyland I was 2.5. The only picture from that trip I’ve ever see is me trying to feed a duck or other bird

 

[Skywalker3]

We did one trip in the 1970s when I was maybe five or six, but I don’t have any memory of meeting Mickey Mouse, or pictures . then my mom won a free trip off of a radio contest in the 80s and one of the perks was a picture with Mickey Mouse , so I know I met Mickey Mouse when I was 15 on that trip. Those were the only trips until we started going regularly in 2000. Lots of great Mickey pictures after that!

 

[AppleDumpling]

Like others, I had no interaction with characters as a child. First time was on a trip to WDW in my 20’s. There’s a photo of me and a friend taken at Epcot, with Mickey wearing the rainbow spacesuit costume pictured here.