Everytime we've been, it's opened an hour after park opening. We usually do a few things in Fantasy Land, then go line up and wait for Toon Town to open. We always head straight for the judges tent for a pic with Mickey! When we do it this way, it's never crowded. The only time I've ever been there in the afternoon (around 4 or 5) was the day that they taped the Christmas parade for TV---I don't think you want to know about the crowds on that day!
We've gone in the evening and there were very minimal crowds. We didn't see mickey we went to the big tent store that has characters (sorry can't think of the name!) and they have 3 lines to see different sets of characters. We saw Pooh tigger and eeyore and we were the only people in there. it was awesome! We got a picture with all 3! (which they hardle ever do) So I would definitely go at night!
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