Where to spot favorite characters?

[NewEnglandCamper]

My DD top 5 favorite characters:

1. Belle
2. Ariel
3. Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)
4. Cinderella
5. Minny Mouse
6. Mickey Mouse
7. Chip and Dale
8. Pluto
9. Jack Sparrow
10. Daisy Duck

DS:

1. Mickey
2. Pluto
3. Donald
4. Alladian
5. Jack Sparrow


Mine are:
1. Donald
2. Mickey
3. Chip and Dale
4. Snow White & 7 Dwalves
5. Goofy

Is there a specific spot where I can potentially the kids choices (or does location differ per day)? Do they all sign autographs. DW is ordering books!!!

 

[labdogs42]

I like to catch the big 5 at Character Connection in Epcot. (Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, Donald) I've had luck seeing all of them there. You can also catch a bunch of characters including proncesses at Toontown. I tend to like the places you can be sure to see characters rather than trying to find them in the parks. Oh yeah, Belle makes appearances in france n Epcot. Ask a Cast member and they can tell you where to find characters, too.

 

[shellyfive]

There is a place in toon town where you can line up to see the princesses, or pooh characters, or minnie and friends-------also at character dining you can see many of those you have listed-----I don't know where to find Jack Sp., Most characters sign autographs, the ones with weird handed costumes can't, some have stamps instead of using a pen.....there are time guides for character hunting as well.......Goodluck!!!

 

[AStamm]

None of the characters you've listed are extremely hard, so do the Toontown thing at MK and Character Connection at Epcot. Captain Jack has a pirates show outside of POTC--you should be able to spot him there. Not sure if he does autographs though since it was just too hot to watch the whole thing in August!

 

[BuzzandAriel'smom]

1. Belle We saw her at CRT dinner
2. Ariel Go to the Grotto 1st thing when MK opens otherwise the wait is 40+ min.3. Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) Toontown
4. Cinderella Toontown and CRT
5. Minny Mouse Epcot Character Connection
6. Mickey Mouse Epcot Character Connection
7. Chip and Dale Epcot Character Connection
8. Pluto Epcot Character Connection
9. Jack Sparrow ?
10. Daisy Duck?

DS:

1. Mickey Epcot Character Connection
2. Pluto Epcot Character Connection
3. Donald AK
4. Alladian ?
5. Jack Sparrow?


Mine are:
1. Donald AK
2. Mickey Epcot Character Connection
3. Chip and Dale Epcot Character Connection
4. Snow White & 7 Dwalves ?
5. Goofy Epcot Character Connection


Also I heard that in the morning you can call guest services and find out when your favorite character will be doing autographs.

Hope this helps

 

[3princesses+aprince]

We got pictures with Alladin and Jasmine in adventure land at MK.
We got Donald in toontown
Ariel at the Grotto, visit early, we waited 45 min. to see her.
Minnie was also in toontown
I'd also suggest the Character meals, we are doing a couple on our next trip, you know you'll definately see the characters you want, and it will give you more time in line for rides/attractions instead of waitinig in too many character lines.

 

[suzydisney971]

From personal experience, I have seen Daisy in Epcot at opening, Donald at the AK during the character breakfast (best place to see him I think and you can catch Mickey, Goofy and Pluto), Alladin and Genie were on Main Street but then they moved over to Adventureland near the Magic Carpet ride. On my next trip, I'm on a mission to find the Princesses so I'm booking the Princess Storybook breakfast in Norway. Oh by the way, I'm 35 years old. My poor husband.

 

[Hunnybee]

Take the cruise! That's where we had the most character interaction, including several run-ins with Daisy Duck.

But, if you can't , here's where we saw them at WDW in May:
Cinderella, Snow White, & Aurora -- County Fair tent in Toontown
Goofy, Pluto, and Minnie -- tent in Toontown
Mickey & Minnie -- greeted us as we walked up to MK on our first day!
Cinderella, Snow White, Belle, Aurora, and Fairy Godmother -- Cinderella's Royal Table
Ariel -- in her grotto at MK (DS didn't wait in line for that one with us!)
Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Chip & Dale? -- Character Connection
Pooh characters -- AK
And we saw a ton more characters just walking around different places. We saw five as we entered AK. Always make sure you have your pen and autograph book handy, you never know!

When we went in 2002 for DS's 3rd b-day, he even got to ride the carousel with one of the penguins on the bench next to him and Bert riding a horse in front of him. We didn't find Mary Poppins until MGM though.

One of the DISers has a wonderful website showing all the characters and telling where they found them. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to put a link in here or not, so I won't. But, try doing a search on google for "wdw autographs" and it is the first hit.

Just a word of caution about the WDW autograph books at the park: maybe we just hit a bad batch but both DD's and DS's books fell apart. DD's book spine actually broke just a couple days after we bought it. I took it back and showed them and they gave me another one. I then carefully inspected DS's and his was starting to break as well. So, I decided not to use them. I had the characters sign the pages but cut out the signatures and put them in a photo album with the facing page showing the picture of the character. It turned out really cute! Next time I will just bring index cards on a ring and have them sign them and work out the book when I get home.

 

[bopper]

Check out this website for info on where to meet characters.

http://home.att.net/~disneysue/characters/wdw/disneylinks.html

 

[LISAVWL]

we got some great pictures and autographs with Donald & Daisy at MGM -- my kids were thrilled to get pics with both of them!