This is a topic I brought up in another thread, but I was just wondering everyone's opinion...
I make a trip to WDW at least once a year. This year, however, was special because I was with friends who had never experienced the parks before. It was really fun seeing their reactions to everything for the first time.
One of the things they all wanted to do was get a picture with every character possible. And being that we were there for 7 days during mid-April, I figured it wouldn't take too much of our time.
... - HA! :hammer:
Now, since I haven't done this in years, I didn't know about 2 things:
1. The characters don't 'roam' the parks anymore. They have specific times where they come out for pics.
2. Characters give 'autographs' now.
Well, the first thing wasn't too big of a deal - because now we could schedule times to meet with characters. Of course, that's what EVERYONE seems to do now! :lol: And the lines to meet with characters were always huge (even though the parks weren't too packed).
But when on earth did we start the whole 'autograph' thing??? I won't go off on a rant here - but seriously, it probably DOUBLED our picture time. I think every kid had a pen and pad - and took forever getting them out and ready to sign. Also, because of the long time they took, we would get cut off in line over and over and over and over again! (
I never DID get a picture with Donald! )
So, here are the questions for discussion:
Has anyone else experienced this?? Have you too had problems with long character lines and autographs??
And for you CMs, what do you think about the autographs?? Do they cause as much of a problem as I'm making them out to be??
*Btw, in case anyone cares, the fastest moving line to meet characters were with - Mike and Sulley!! No lie! And you know why??? Because of the costumes, they can't sign autographs.*
I make a trip to WDW at least once a year. This year, however, was special because I was with friends who had never experienced the parks before. It was really fun seeing their reactions to everything for the first time.
One of the things they all wanted to do was get a picture with every character possible. And being that we were there for 7 days during mid-April, I figured it wouldn't take too much of our time.
... - HA! :hammer:
Now, since I haven't done this in years, I didn't know about 2 things:
1. The characters don't 'roam' the parks anymore. They have specific times where they come out for pics.
2. Characters give 'autographs' now.
Well, the first thing wasn't too big of a deal - because now we could schedule times to meet with characters. Of course, that's what EVERYONE seems to do now! :lol: And the lines to meet with characters were always huge (even though the parks weren't too packed).
But when on earth did we start the whole 'autograph' thing??? I won't go off on a rant here - but seriously, it probably DOUBLED our picture time. I think every kid had a pen and pad - and took forever getting them out and ready to sign. Also, because of the long time they took, we would get cut off in line over and over and over and over again! (
I never DID get a picture with Donald! )So, here are the questions for discussion:
Has anyone else experienced this?? Have you too had problems with long character lines and autographs??
And for you CMs, what do you think about the autographs?? Do they cause as much of a problem as I'm making them out to be??
*Btw, in case anyone cares, the fastest moving line to meet characters were with - Mike and Sulley!! No lie! And you know why??? Because of the costumes, they can't sign autographs.*
And of course... depending on how popular they are... they'll sometimes get instantly mobbed... lol...