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PHOTOS - Meet Mary Poppins in the new Main Street Plaza Gardens at the Magic Kingdom
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HauntedMansionFLA
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I wish they would do more with Mary Poppins - a ride like Its A Small World singing those unforgettable songs. Or a musical at DHS.
DisneyRoy
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I agree! Some type of show would be awesome. There is something about those songs. I can sing them everyday and never get tired.
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
Hey, be happy she at least gets SOME recognition in The Great Movie Ride!
There are soooo many awesome Disney movies that don't even have that.
Vegas Disney Fan
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This is a brilliant daytime use for this area, hopefully more characters will join her. One of the things DL does that I miss at WDW is have the characters out and about vs tucked away indoors with lines at WDW. Invest in a few big umbrellas and set the characters free WDW.
zakattack99
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Love Mary Poppins, always have, it has to be my favorite disney movie of all time. Hope I get to see her in Nov!
Sped2424
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No please no umbrella's needed in this area at all. You wan't to have something truly special? Let mary walk around the gardens as guests relax in them regardless. Having a meet and greet right in front of the castle with lines just seems tacky to me and takes away from the beauty that is the garden area. Meet and greets need to be tucked in corners when there is a line to them, only have characters out and about if they can be out and about.
Jon81uk
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Unfortuantly, as I learnt at Disneyland Paris,meet & greets without a line don't work. It just ends up being a scrum of pushy parents attempting to get photos.
WDWLover#1
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Yep. The problem at DLP is that the attendant just stands there and lets everyone get on with it. To the British it's infuriating as we like a good queue. The French don't know how to it seems.
They work at Disneyland in California.
Jon81uk
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Do people nauturally form some kind of line (like in the picture of Mary Poppins) or just first to the front wins, but in a slightly politer way?
In my experience at DL, there just isn't the same level of demand for meet and greets. I saw Mickey and Minnie in Town Square with basically no queue. People would just walk up, grab a pic, and leave. The lower demand seemed to make it possible. At WDW it would be chaos.
DisneyOutsider
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That's not what my experience has been at all. A given character may not be adhering to a set schedule of time and place, but wherever they pop up, that's where the line forms.
If a character ever appears to be just roaming, it's because they're either headed backstage to get a break, or headed to a specific place in the park that they have in mind. I think maybe less popular characters can get away with interacting in a more roaming, free-wheeling fashion, but for most characters to do something like that would make nobody happy.
Just my observations.
HolleBolleGijs
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Problem at DLP is that the CMs (if they're even there) make no effort to form an orderly line, and on more than one occasion I've been told that the character gets to pick the next guest. It just ends up being a mob of people. "Impromptu" M&Gs don't have to be a lineless throng; they can work as long as the CMs have the proper training and the right policies are in place.
Magenta Panther
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I kind of wish Mary would appear in her dark coat and hat and umbrella - her nanny outfit - rather than her Jolly Holiday outfit. I suppose the former would be too hot for the Florida sun or something?