What is your greatest character experience?

[Alice42]

2 stories come to mind................
We had the Mad Hatter show up at our wedding reception at WDW. It was a surprise for our guests and everyone loved him. He was signing autographs, telling funny stories, taking pictures with everyone. I was laughing so hard at some of the silly things he was saying, I thought I was going to wet my pants

another story.............

My DH and I were at Epcot (it was pretty empty that day) and we were walking through the UK. We went to the maze area and there was no one back there. Then, low and behold, ALICE comes walking out! I ran up to her and told her I loved her movie, she is my favorite character, etc. We were chatting for a bit and there was no one around! It was incredible. I will always cherish the picture I took with her that day. I was definitely in the right place at the right time!

 

[Horizons16]

i would have to say getting mickey donald and goofy along with 3 or my great friends to flex for a picture... looking at it now... memories...

my crew and i are so goofy

 

[kitty9tails]

I went in January of 98 and got the most adorable pics of my then 1 and 3 year old kids with the CMs above. I then headed to a resort beach in Sarasota and lost my roll of film. Some kind person found the film, got it developed and turned it in to the front desk of the resort, where the folks returned it to me. I will always treasure those photos.

 

[PrincessTToo]

Here are my two favorite WDW character experiences:

Minnie and my husband:
On our first big trip to WDW several years ago, my husband and I ran into Minnie at the Garden Grill in Epcot. She was very, very, very attentive to him. (Later on I squealed on her to Mickey.) She sat next to him as close as she could and he put his arm around her. I took their picture and it is the best picture of my husband that I have ever taken. He was grinning from ear to ear. It’s almost 10 years later and I still have that picture on my desk at work.

Minnie and me:
On my first solo trip to WDW a couple years ago, I was coming out of Minnie’s house and saw her in the gazebo. It was a really short line so I went ahead and got in line. There was a very large family ahead of me and it took quite a while to get all their pictures taken with Minnie. By that time the line behind me was quite long and I was beginning to feel very uncomfortable being a solo adult waiting in line to meet a character. Then the man behind me told his daughter that she was next to meet Minnie. Just then Minnie motioned for me to come meet her. The little girl behind me started screaming (and not in a good way) as I moved forward and Minnie and I hugged. I told Minnie that I was just going to take a quick picture of her for her biggest fan (see story above). But she insisted that her “handler” also take a picture of me and her together. The little girl is still screaming as I’m explaining my very complicated camera to the “handler”. The little girl continues to scream as the “handler” takes a couple of great pictures of me and Minnie. We hugged again after the pictures. I was so impressed that Minnie took so much time with me despite the screaming little girl and treated me as if I was the most special person she had met that day! I have the best of the pictures of me and Minnie on my desk at home in a Tinkerbelle frame. It definitely was a moment sprinkled with pixie dust!

 

[Cinderella37]

I will admit to being character crazy. My poor fiance has just learned to keep up with me when I see a character or am heading to a character greeting. I think my handsome fiance secretly enjoys all of the attention he gets from the female characters like Minnie, Cinderella, Mary Poppins, etc. One experience that will be forever in my head (as well as in the photo) is Erik and the Queen of Hearts. First, she didn't want me in the picture. Then she insisted that Erik get on his knee and kiss her hand. He kept shaking his head and the Queen kept getting madder and madder. Finally at my prodding he did. The crowd was roaring with laughter.

For myself, last July in front of the castle, Big Al took off with me and was grabbing Mickey Mouse ice cream bars to share with me. He only brought me back when Erik told him how expensive I was to support! Then, Captain Hook did the same thing, motioning for me to leave Erik and join him on his ship. Well, I called it a boat and he got mad at me. A few weeks ago, Sulley was afraid of me until I promised him I wasn't toxic to him and Mike. I have tons more stories and enjoy the interaction so much (I admit to being somewhat of a ham)...