PirateChick93 said:
I found Donald and the 2 birds (im sorry i don't even know there names) , all i know was that they were by the mexico building in epcot. In one of the pathways, and if you don't look that way you won't see them. I don't know if they moved them but it was an awesome find!
This would be The Three Caballeros - Donald, Jose and Panchito - until recently they had not been seen out in WDW for several years. They are in the pathway to the right of the pavilion if you are looking towards it. You can ask at the little shop outside the pavilion and they can call the character hotline to find out the times.
Some of the "rarer" characters are only seen during special events - and lately by accounts from others who have been character hunting longer than I say that they don't have so many of the rare ones out even then!
Jiminy Cricket had been a hard one to find with the exception of Earth Day, but the seem to have given him a 'full time" job again and he is in AK over at Rafikis Planet Watch.
For us the villians were hard to find again until recently when they started being at MGM in the afternoons - we found Jafar, Evil Queen, and Queen of Hearts all in one afternoon -
Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh and the Penguins from Mary Poppins had been less common, but reports have them out and about more as well. We saw Penguins with MP in MGM, and Rabbit in the Toy Store in England.
Donald is pretty regularly seen now, Camp Mickey Minnie in AK, he had been in Character Connection at EPCOT (not sure if he is now only in Mexico or both locations), Toontown and by the hat in MGM - he used to have his own trailer on Mickey Ave, but he was evicted for Jo Jo and Goliath or someone from Playhouse Disney!!!
Sometimes it's about being in the right place at the right time for those hard to find characters or in my case reading the DIS and finding out who folks are seeing during their visits and then heading out to try and find the same.....