hmmmmm... Oh yeah! The character meals. You did Storytellers, and Minnie and Friends, right? Tell me about them! Dh and I are trying to figure out what to do for a Character Meal....
We have now done all of them except the Princess meal.
The boys enjoyed Storytellers more than I expected; they met Chip and Dale (who they recognized from last year, and from watching their cartoons on the hotel tv channel), Kenai and Koda (they watched Brother Bear this past summer), and enjoyed meeting Terk (Tarzan) and Meeko (Mulan) even though I don't think they recognized them.
Minnie and Friends was fun, but kinda hectic. Characters were coming one after the other, and they seemed to start out with a 'route' to cover the whole place, but then when they got bunched up at the same table they'd deviate from the route and then wound up skipping us!
We waited to see Eeyore, then walked out, but caught him outside. We waited for him to take a break, but then the somewhat nice CM 'handler' we were waiting with was chastised by another cranky CM who apparently was nagging them to get back inside.
Goofy's Kitchen (which I think you've done, too?) is great, though also seemed a bit disorganized this time. Aladdin came by twice, but skipped our table, so before we left I spotted him and asked him to come by; it was the direction he was heading anyway, so after stopping at tables along the way, we finally met him. He even dealt sweetly with a bored DS3, who by then was under the table and coaxed him out.
And we loved Lilo & Stitch (breakfast @ PPH), too. Good character interaction, relaxed atmosphere and very nice waitstaff.
I'd say these last two are our favorites, and happen to be the first ones we did.
They put a stint in and he seems to be okay for now. About 4 years ago he had an abscess on his brain and almost died from that. Its been a rough day....
