twin characters???

[itsmetigress]

we were at MK yesterday and while autograph hunting for my dd noticed that alot of the characters that were in front of the castle were also inside the entrance..what gives??? i thought it was REALLY odd to have alot of characters out at the same time...i wouldn't think much of it if it was on another side of the park but you could see one of them and look down mainstreet and tell he was down there too

 

[afsi3838]

woops! I bet that is hard to explain to a child. "no really honey, that wasn't goofy you just saw again....that was peter pan"

 

[itsmetigress]

tell me about lucky for me it wasnt really anyone my 3 yr old noticed but,,,,i remember geppeto,the three country bears,ratcliff? think thats his name...daisy was up front too yet daisy and donald were both right at the bottom of the castle....i mean seeing them different places is usually not a big deal..minnie and mickey in toontown then later at the castle..but to have them out that close together..i've never noticed it before..maybe somebody messed up a schedule??? lol

 

[Shooby doo]

Sounds like someone goofed! Unless WDW has changed it's policy!? I always thought that if a character was in one place they made sure they weren't anywhere else in that park. In the "old" days when the characters could be anywhere,that was certainly true- imagine having to explain why a child can see 2 Mickeys ,when there's only supposed to be one!!

 

[WDSearcher]

The policy is that if there is, for example, a Daisy Duck in Town Square, there won't be another Daisy within eyesight of Town Square. So, technically, it wasn't "against the rules" to see a Daisy inside the entrance and then right away at the castle. Lots of people rush through Town Square and head straight up Main Street, so they like to have enough Characters in both places.

But if, by some chance, a child were to see two characters just seconds apart, or notice that the character they met five minutes ago is the character they're seeing now, I find that the best way to explain it is, "Magic." When I used to work in the parks, I had a 7-year-old give me the total 3rd degree one day, about how Mickey Mouse could be in Florida one minute and then in California the next. (And he KNEW this, because he'd just talked to his cousin in California, and his cousin met Mickey only 15 minutes after he had.) His parents were at a loss for an answer. "How can Mickey get from here to there that fast?" he asked. Without skipping a beat, I said, "The same way Santa Claus can get all the way around the world and to every kid's house in one night." Made total sense to him, and since then, my answer to everything regarding how characters can do this or do that is, "Magic."

 

[Terry S]

Be careful..... I posted the same comment when I came back from my last trip and someone jumped down my throat and posted that people are constantly complaining about not having enough characters and now I was complaining about there being too many characters.

Really, I wasn't complaining, it was just a comment that I posted because my kids mentioned something about seeing the same characters in the front as they saw by the castle a few minutes earlier so I thought I would warn people to be prepared with an excuse.

 

[EmmasGrammy]

I like WDSearchers answer "It's Magic". I really think we adults are more upset about "twin" sightings than the kids. Most kids wouldn't even question it. It's kinda like seeing Santa in one mall and he's an older fellow, then seeing another Santa in a different store and it's some youger guy. They only see that it is Santa.

I will tell you, that on one of our backstage tours I, unfortunately, saw a Mickey Mouse character holding the head piece under his arm and he was smoking a cigarette. I will never be the same!!! LOL!!! It really was tramatic, and now I know why no little ones are permitted on these tours. It's all about the magic!!!

 

[itsmetigress]

i would say i was upset...just seemed odd...i mean from standing around geppetto you could look down mainstreet and see him standing at the hub..just wondered if it was a fluke or it happens regularly..and i don't think them double up on characters would make up for not having any...dd knows who she has already seen and doesn't want to see the same ones she saw 2 minutes ago at town square..its fine with me less lines to stand in lol

 

[Hillbeans]

I noticed on my last trip there seemed to be tons of characters everywhere...a lot more than my last visit.

Even at Chef Mickey's we saw all the characters in about 5 minutes of sitting down.