Tips to ride the teacups with Alice...

[mom2rtk]

This particular message board, no, though it's surely one of the largest Disney-related boards.

The internet as a whole, yes. Many of these special things survived for many years until the internet, for better or worse, made it much easier for people to share tips & thus a lot of things that were intended to be reserved for unexpected special touches became things that everyone felt entitled to. See: The Grey Stuff at Be Our Guest.

On "The Grey Stuff"..... did the internet ruin it, or did it just help Disney realize they could be making money on it?

And seriously, why on earth wasn't it on the menu from opening day?

 

[Pixie Dust ✨]

On "The Grey Stuff"..... did the internet ruin it, or did it just help Disney realize they could be making money on it?

And seriously, why on earth wasn't it on the menu from opening day?

I've wondered the same thing. It makes absolutely no sense.

 

[Meech Loves Mickey]

Does anyone know if this happens at DLR? DD's favorite ride is Tea Cups, and we're likely to head to it first thing anyway because of that. I'm not looking for strategies or anything, and would never expect it to happen (or tell DD about it). Just wondering if it happens at all.

I don't know about the teacups, but I do believe that Alice, The Mad Hatter, and/or Peter Pan may play musical chairs at Coke Corner in the afternoons at DLR. Not sure if this still happens, but I know there was a thread in the Disneyland board about this.

 

[mom2rtk]

I don't know about the teacups, but I do believe that Alice, The Mad Hatter, and/or Peter Pan may play musical chairs at Coke Corner in the afternoons at DLR. Not sure if this still happens, but I know there was a thread in the Disneyland board about this.

We still haven't seen that, but I think I've heard it still happens. It looks really cute!

 

[mickey0624]

My daughter is now 13, but one of my favorite memories of all time was when Alice invited her to ride the tea cups. She must have been 6 or 7. She had dressed in her Alice dress and we wandered over by the teacups first thing in the morning just to try and get a picture with her. We were standing around the spot where she poses for pictures and she came hopping up, walked right up to my son and daughter and said "Would you like to ride the teacups with me?" No planning, just luck. Honestly I didn't even know she did that at the time. But created one of the best WDW memories we've ever had. Sometimes right place, right time.

 

[ELSA711]

My kids road with Alice and the White Rabbit on one of our last visits. They were first in line for M&G that morning and they were asked if they wanted to.
It was cute. My kids weren't dressed up or did anything special. Just luck I guess.

 

[mickey0624]

Although I don't necessarily think this will go away because of posts like this, I do understand the poster who is frustrated because it seems that everything has to be planned. It takes away the spontaneous things. That was such a special memory for us because it was a surprise. No planning. Another was when my son was made chef of the day at the grand Floridian quick service restaurant. The chef came out and gave him his own hat. It was hysterical. Or when my kids were pulled on stage to be part of the hoop-dee-doo. No planning. Sometimes everyone tries to strategize the best way to be first or do things and it does take some of the magic away.

 

[Angel Ariel]

I don't know about the teacups, but I do believe that Alice, The Mad Hatter, and/or Peter Pan may play musical chairs at Coke Corner in the afternoons at DLR. Not sure if this still happens, but I know there was a thread in the Disneyland board about this.

We have seen that before (before having DD). I would love to take DD to it, but I'm not sure if she could participate. She would need physical assistance from me ( she just learned to walk in Dec at 3 y/o), most likely, and I'm not sure if that would be allowed?

 

[Grammy4Lizzy]

They look adorable! She has a Cheshire Cat costume, maybe she should wear that!

How old is your daughter? Children may wear costumes if they are 12 and under.
If she is older DisneyBound is the way to go.

 

[mom2rtk]

How old is your daughter? Children may wear costumes if they are 12 and under.
If she is older DisneyBound is the way to go.

Actually costumes are now ok under 14.

 

[Pixie Dust ✨]

We have seen that before (before having DD). I would love to take DD to it, but I'm not sure if she could participate. She would need physical assistance from me ( she just learned to walk in Dec at 3 y/o), most likely, and I'm not sure if that would be allowed?

I'm not sure it would be the best fit for her. They often have the kids dance & skip around the chairs, pretend to be pirates (hopping on one leg) or various animals, etc. I don't know whether or not that would be frustrating to her. If it's something she really wants to do, I can't imagine they would exclude her because she needs physical assistance from Mom. This isn't the Musical Chairs Olympics 2016.

 

[Baklava]

Does anyone know if this happens at DLR? DD's favorite ride is Tea Cups, and we're likely to head to it first thing anyway because of that. I'm not looking for strategies or anything, and would never expect it to happen (or tell DD about it). Just wondering if it happens at all.

At DLR what I've seen is Alice and the Hatter come by at seemingly random times and climb into teacups with people.

 

[Angel Ariel]

I'm not sure it would be the best fit for her. They often have the kids dance & skip around the chairs, pretend to be pirates (hopping on one leg) or various animals, etc. I don't know whether or not that would be frustrating to her. If it's something she really wants to do, I can't imagine they would exclude her because she needs physical assistance from Mom. This isn't the Musical Chairs Olympics 2016.

It wouldn't frustrate her (she's the happiest, easiest going child I've ever known), but she wouldn't be able to do things like hopping on one leg or pretending to be animals. We may go and watch this year, but we will probably wait on trying to join in (unless of course significant progress changes how she'd be able to participate, at which point we'd jump for joy ) Riding the teacups with Alice would be a much better fit for her. She adores the teacups, and I know we'll be riding them quite a few times over the course of the trip

 

[BookGirl305]

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[Angel Ariel]

dressing up as a theme character and then changing afterward, t

While I understand and would agree with a lot of your post, i don't get this. We dressed DD up as melody last year. and DH and I disney bounded as Eric and Ariel. part of my disney bound was a cardigan, and it ended up being very hot that day (the rest of the week had not been). DD was hot even in her melody dress that my mom made. So yeah, we met Ariel and then we changed afterwards so everyone could be more comfortable.

This is not aggressively pursuing magic, nor does it take magic away from anyone.

 

[Acedink]

We were there in May, and there was a woman (I'd guess 20's) who had a mini Mad Hatter hat on. She was first in line, we were 2nd. Alice came out and went on the teacups with her. At that point, I didn't even know she did that. We stopped first at Merida's line, and then strolled over to get the Mad Hatter's autograph. So it definitely wasn't a rope drop run.

I then figured Alice rode every day, and asked my daughter if she wanted to do that. I guess luckily she said no thanks. Would have been bad to rush over there, and then juts get another pic/autograph.

 

[OldSchoolReasons]

We were there in May, and there was a woman (I'd guess 20's) who had a mini Mad Hatter hat on. She was first in line, we were 2nd. Alice came out and went on the teacups with her. At that point, I didn't even know she did that. We stopped first at Merida's line, and then strolled over to get the Mad Hatter's autograph. So it definitely wasn't a rope drop run.

I then figured Alice rode every day, and asked my daughter if she wanted to do that. I guess luckily she said no thanks. Would have been bad to rush over there, and then juts get another pic/autograph.

This post gives me hope, I'm 26 and this is my absolute dream for this to happen.

 

[Disney Mama74]

Because it's not magic if it's a much-discussed strategy.

For that one person or family that she picks, I would have to believe that it would be very magical regardless of how they got there

 

[Disney Mama74]

Because it's not magic if it's a much-discussed strategy.

To that one person or family she picks, My guess is it is still magical regardless of how they got there.

 

[Disney Mama74]

On my DD's first trip to Disney we did rope drop and entered Fantasyland via the teacups (this was in August 2010). As we were coming up to the teacups we saw Alice & the White Rabbit. We all waved at Alice and she came over and asked DD to ride on the teacups with her. It was completely unexpected! So, if it's going to happen my guess would be soon after rope drop and when she's on her way to the meet & greet.

Great picture!