Moana, Mirabel and Figment meet and greet details confirmed for Walt Disney World

[Cmdr_Crimson]

CMs will have a first chance to meet Moana at AK on 4/21. And I think this is a dead giveaway as to WHERE she'll be meeting.

Cast Member Preview of New Moana Character Greeting Location to Take Place on April 21

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I'm sorry, but Raya makes much more sense consider what Asian themes are represented And also..She has a Dragon..Yes, I know they had a sand sculpture but, this movie needs more representation in this park..I would even like to see Sisu in Human form doing M&G's..

 

[DCBaker]

Here are the published times for meeting Moana at Character Landing.

After April 23, here are the current published times.

 

[Robertingles]

If you’ve never met Vanellope or want to again, now would be a good time.

How long you think till she’s out?

 

[IanDLBZF]

Fairytale Gardens Merida Meet & Greet Closing Today at Magic Kingdom To Begin Encanto Reimagining

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BlogMickey reports TODAY is the last day Merida will meet at Fairytale Gardens.

 

[Timothy_Q]

Wild that Merida kept that prime MK spot for so long, considering how many more popular characters came out after her

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Wild that Merida kept that prime MK spot for so long, considering how many more popular characters came out after her

Probably didn’t want to spend the money to retheme the area.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Wild that Merida kept that prime MK spot for so long, considering how many more popular characters came out after her

She is part of the Disney Princess collection so she has value just from that and sells merch, etc even if other individual movies and characters are more popular ... I think that fact gave her more leash than other

 

[mattpeto]

Looks like Merida to Liberty Square.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

She is part of the Disney Princess collection so she has value just from that and sells merch, etc even if other individual movies and characters are more popular ... I think that fact gave her more leash than other

No, it's because....

 

[Horizonsfan]

Liberty Square? For a European princess?

 

[Epcot82Guy]

Liberty Square? For a European princess?

Next they'll put a German princess into the Pacific Northwest... Oh wait...

 

[DCBaker]

Looks like Merida to Liberty Square.

My Disney Experience has her location now at the gazebo - here are the published times for the meet-and-greet today.

 

[tcool123]

Liberty Square? For a European princess?

She's just following the trend

Belle in 2016 at the Heritage House

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And it seems like Drizella and Anastasia were meeting there last year in the gazebo where they threw Merida

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And the British nanny, Mary Poppins has been known to meet in that very gazebo as well

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As you can see Liberty Square has a time honored tradition of being an overflow for European character meet and greets.

 

[Horizonsfan]

As you can see Liberty Square has a time honored tradition of being an overflow for European character meet and greets.

That doesn't make it right. It's thematically incoherent, which Disney used to care about.

While Tiana is of the wrong time frame, she's at least American, so that's passable but not perfect. Merida's supposed to be from Medieval Scotland, so she's in the wrong continent and time.

 

[drew81]

It’s amazing to me Mirabel still isn’t at WDW. If anything, she should have already been meeting and Asha would be taking that spot.

Always late to the party. Always.
Disneyland has a new character, literally every week.

 

[Unbanshee]

Fairytale Gardens Merida Meet & Greet Closing Today at Magic Kingdom To Begin Encanto Reimagining

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BlogMickey reports TODAY is the last day Merida will meet at Fairytale Gardens.

Here's the new meet and greet spot

Merida Meet & Greet Relocates to Liberty Square at Magic Kingdom

With the Fairytale Gardens venue now closed for an Encanto reimagining, the Merida meet and greet has relocated to Liberty Square

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[Touchdown]

I always viewed that gazebo as part of the hub, that’s what you see from there Liberty Square is blocked off by the shops and the gazebo is as close to Adventureland.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

That doesn't make it right. It's thematically incoherent, which Disney used to care about.

While Tiana is of the wrong time frame, she's at least American, so that's passable but not perfect. Merida's supposed to be from Medieval Scotland, so she's in the wrong continent and time.

Same reason why Moana is out at AK when Raya would make more sense since it's more asian themed..

 

[MisterPenguin]

I always viewed that gazebo as part of the hub, that’s what you see from there Liberty Square is blocked off by the shops and the gazebo is as close to Adventureland.

Yeah, I always viewed it as it's own thing, never as "part of Liberty Square." It's just a gazebo with a wild-ish garden. It looks like it could have been built any time from the early 1900's to today. Not at all 'colonial.'

Sorta like somehow Haunted Mansion or a Mississippi steam boat or the Diamond Horseshoe Saloon is part of Liberty Square.

 

[Horizonsfan]

I think it's fair if you want to delineate that area as no longer LS.

Liberty Square itself is set in a finite period of America's history. Similar to how GE at DHS is set in a specific moment. The other option is ditching the land conceit all together and just lumping it in with Frontierland. I don't love that.

Frontierland, Adventureland, Fantasyland, and Discovery Island at AK are more amalgam areas that have no set point. So they lend themselves to greater character flexibility.