Recent content by Riverbird

I appreciate your apology. I'm not upset, just surprised by some of the strong reactions. I'm not much of a hugger or a toucher in my regular life, but as I said Disney blurs those lines a lot. You're seeing magical characters you feel like you've known your whole life approaching you with...

Thank you for bringing common sense back to the table! I can't tell you how much I appreciate it! That's really all i'm looking for with all of this. For it being such a big deal for the characters, I'm surprised that people don't know about it. (Well, apparently lots of people here do, but...

Disney has created the happiest place on earth, and done a fantastic job of it! I'm sure it is well within their abilities to create a Disney language friendly list of tips for meeting characters. Then when you get your confirmation email for a character breakfast, it could have a link to it...

There were no handlers with the characters at this breakfast, which seemed interesting to me. We watched the characters for a long while after this and there was no one following them. It wasn't an issue of me moving too fast. In the later issue we witnessed, the handler was there but just...

Interesting...to me that sounds a little like let's not put up fences or barriers because it might make people want to climb them into places they're not supposed to be. Instead let's just leave everything wide open and hope people guess appropriately at where they are and are not supposed to be.

Thank you everyone for your replies. I totally understand your explanations as to why you shouldn't touch a character's head. What I don't understand is why there's no warnings about this anywhere. Since it's clearly such a big deal, it would make sense to have warning notices when you...

We were wondering this as well. Goofy was the main character for the breakfast and he had the professional photographer following him. Mickey and Minnie both appeared to be wandering around unassisted (though there were a lot of restaurant staff and such in the area). I think this is the part...

Lol thank you :) Not a troll but I do have a job and responsibilities and such during the day...especially right now considering I spent all of last week playing at Disney!

The fact that he ran from our table (I was the first to greet him at our table) and went immediately to another table without talking to anyone else at our table makes me pretty much certain it was related to what I did. When I say he ran out of the room it was for a matter of seconds before he...

In my real life I would never hug anyone I didn't know...but Disney characters approach with open arms like you're a long lost friend. Some social norms don't quite apply in this situation. I don't think Mickey would respond well to, "Gosh I'd love to hug you but can we sit down and get to...

I'm not sure what you mean by overreacting...I'm just trying to better understand.

He came back to our table WAY later towards the end of the meal, after we asked the non-costumed cast members about it. After running out and coming back in, he went to all the other tables around us but not ours. It left plenty of time in the middle to feel pretty upset about it.

I've just returned from my first trip to Disney World. It was absolutely incredible, but there's something that I keep thinking about that I don't understand. On one of our first days there we went to a character breakfast with Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy. When Mickey came to our table, I...