Zootopia characters confirmed

asianway

asianway

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brb1006 said:
I noticed sometime around Disneyland Paris's 25th Anniversary that all of a sudden various Disney characters started showing up (Mainly the obscure and not well-known type) that you hardly see any where else or rarely come out at other Disney parks. Mainly since I been fascinated with Tokyo Disneyland since 2005 and I remember during the early days of Youtube I seen a few parades or shows from Tokyo Disneyland that featured Marie and Clarice who were both only exclusive to Tokyo until both suddenly showed up at WDW (Marie sometime in 2007/2008 and Clarice at WDW during an Easter event at the Grand Floridan Resort and at Disneyland during the "Dancing With Disney" event at DCA and during an opening ceremony for Disneyland's 57 or 58th opening ceremony). Even other Disney characters such as Kronk,Tarzan's Parents, and Yzma are found at Paris but this all might have to due with them only showing up during the character palooza and when "The Prince" arrives at the park. Keep in mind, this was way before I got more in-depth with the Disney Parks and this was back during my Middle School years when I noticed this.
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You may want to look more carefully. Tarzans parents have never appeared in Paris. And Wdw has Kronk. They're among those characters that Wdw doesn't use for events(which they do)
 
Cmdr_Crimson

Cmdr_Crimson

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jensenrick said:
Tarzan's parents are meetable characters?
Yet I have to go to a kid's "jump around" parade to see Judy and Nick- the mind boggles.
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brb1006 said:
I might have seen a photo of Tarzan's Parents somewhere on the Internet.
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Here you go...
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KLinder7

KLinder7

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doctornick said:
Yes, there's no reason to have the same characters meet in different parks when other characters are never used. The number of M&Gs isn't IMHO an issue as much as who is offered -- add more variety to the program.

(That said, I think Star Wars is actually under-utilized for M&Gs. It's only Chewbacca and Kylo Ren that actually meet regularly, right?)
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Jawas too if you count them, but they are just roaming Launch Bay. But if the Green Army Men count, they should too.
 
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Ignohippo

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asianway said:
And you're wrong. Meet & greets have a HIGH cost per experience which is what they care about. Furthermore as I've said before WDW already has the most meet & greets of any of the 5 resorts. You're not considering all the multi room locations and practically exclusive use of back to back sets.

Be angry but for the right reason-they overuse VIPs, Star Wars, Pixar, and princesses at the expense of a more varied assortment of classic storybook characters.
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Thank you very, very much for your knowledge. I have no clue about these things, so it's nice to hear form someone who does.

Even at the expense though, it would seem M&Gs are a major part of the Disney experience. They spend hundreds of millions in attractions, certainly M&Gs are just a fraction of the cost of a new attraction.

If there were ever an easy and relatively inexpensive way to give the guests more of their money. Meet & Greets would be the way.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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Ignohippo said:
Thank you very, very much for your knowledge. I have no clue about these things, so it's nice to hear form someone who does.

Even at the expense though, it would seem M&Gs are a major part of the Disney experience. They spend hundreds of millions in attractions, certainly M&Gs are just a fraction of the cost of a new attraction.

If there were ever an easy and relatively inexpensive way to give the guests more of their money. Meet & Greets would be the way.
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Meet and Greets have low up-front costs but are extremely labor intensive. The people running the parks are going to be much more concerned about those high, on-going labor costs. They also have a low capacity, so their cost per guest ratio is high, and that's the very sort of metric used to determine which attractions (of all varieties) stay and which get the axe.
 
asianway

asianway

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lazyboy97o said:
Meet and Greets have low up-front costs but are extremely labor intensive. The people running the parks are going to be much more concerned about those high, on-going labor costs. They also have a low capacity, so their cost per guest ratio is high, and that's the very sort of metric used to determine which attractions (of all varieties) stay and which get the axe.
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Very well said
 
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Ignohippo

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lazyboy97o said:
Meet and Greets have low up-front costs but are extremely labor intensive. The people running the parks are going to be much more concerned about those high, on-going labor costs. They also have a low capacity, so their cost per guest ratio is high, and that's the very sort of metric used to determine which attractions (of all varieties) stay and which get the axe.
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Understood. And it's a shame.
 
cjkeating

cjkeating

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I was at DCA recently and it seems that they did sign originally but they no longer do. One guest with an autograph was with another guest who wanted an autograph and they explained this to the character host who then changed the explanation from 'they don't sign' to 'they aren't signing today'.

The line for them wasn't particularly long so I don't know why signing would be an issue, their are no autograph cards either like I have seen at Florida for characters like Baymax.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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cjkeating said:
I was at DCA recently and it seems that they did sign originally but they no longer do. One guest with an autograph was with another guest who wanted an autograph and they explained this to the character host who then changed the explanation from 'they don't sign' to 'they aren't signing today'.

The line for them wasn't particularly long so I don't know why signing would be an issue, their are no autograph cards either like I have seen at Florida for characters like Baymax.
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could be that the these CM characters dont know how to "sign" yet?
 
Ryan H. Serowinski

Ryan H. Serowinski

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Thumper 32 said:
What's especially crazy is that such popular characters still aren't meeting, when Studios just this week added a full coverage (back to back to back) location with plain boring Chip and Dale. It would literally be an exact cost swap to have Nick and Judy instead. Boggles the mind.
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Agreed Disney has done a very bad move, and Nick and Judy sign in Hong Kong Disneyland(you'll be jealous)
 

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