Well, time to get on a soap box. I am new to this site but I know that there are a large number of employees of the parks who read these posts. My family and I have been yearly visitors for quite sometime. My world changed when my oldest son discovered the characters were fun and not going to eat him. Now I love seeing my kids and the characters interact and we have become full flegged character finders. So we have gravitated to finding the oddities. (I realize a whole lot of you dislike the whole meet and greet angle..so there is no reason for you to continue reading unless your killing time.)
A couple of years ago we hit the Halloween Party for the first time and man it was fantastic so many new characters. So we decided we have to come back next year, and we can't miss the Christmas event. Much to our suprise the Halloween event the next year was roughly the same except the villians were only doing pictures. According to people we have talked to 2004 was also the same format with a similar lineup of characters. Judging by the lists I have seen the Christmas party with one exception or two will be the same characters as the Haloween party.
Well so what? Well you would think management would put an emaphasis on putting some new life every year in the special events. I don't understand having the same old Alice trail every year (no offense to you Alice fans), having the standard villians at the castle.
The parks have done a fairly good job mixing up the characters during regular hours, pulling out some oddities every so often, but you would think a special event would be well, special in every way, characters included. How about a villian area at the MNSSHP, or Huey, Dewey, and Louie at MVMCP? Why not bring out the characters that march in the parades at the events for meet and greets like Stromboli, Clara Cluck, The Three Pigs or others. I may be wrong but I think there are a whole lot of us out there who love finding the rare characters.
As for the regular days, it has gotten to the point where my family can be at the parks for a week including a special event and only find 5 or so characters we have not met before. I understand the Big 5, Chipmunks, Stitch and Princeses will be everywhere, but come on, there are so many great characters who need to see some daylight. Why not let some of the lesser known charecters who are out a lot rest, and put some others in their place? As a newer person to this community I realize this is probably an old rant and I may be preaching to the choir, so how can this opinion be heard?
