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Disney Character Photos

There are two types of character photos at Walt Disney World, Photopass photos taken by Disney photographers while you are meeting and posing with the characters and candid shots you take yourself.  

I am a HUGE fan of Photopass photos and have some great ones.  Part of my fandom comes from the fact that I am not a very good photographer and take all my photos with m iPhone 6  BUT......
All that being said I highly suggest you be ready to snap a photo (even with our phone) any time you see a character.  Some characters have set meet and greets with set schedules where you can line up to get your picture taken, others are just wondering around the park and you are likely to just bump into one.  Some of these accidental meetings create great photos and wonderful memories. 

The following are all photos I took with my iPhone, with descriptions of where and how:


Look Ma, I'm in a photo!
These three photos are from the Crystal Palace character meal.  The characters visit your table while you are eating from the buffet and pose for pictures and interact with you.  At character meals make sure you have your camera ready and you take photos away from the table (no dirty dishes in the pictures).

My eldest daughter loves Eeyore.
Piglet was waiting for the path to clear so he
hung out at our table for a while and played
with Sydnee. 




The kids love the Indiana Jones stunt show at Hollywood Studios and we had heard a rumor if you hang out down front after the show the actors might comes say hi.  In our case the stunt performer playing Marianne came by and met the kids.  This was a real treat and she was excited to grab a photo with the kids!
Sydnee and I were headed back from the restrooms in Dinoland at Animal Kingdom and we ran across Daisy.  She was hanging out but her photographer was gone so we just took some picture with my phone until the photographer returned.  This pose was Daisy's idea and it came out super cute.  It is always fun to ask the characters what they want to do, they will surprise you.






Confession:  I haven't seen the Country Bears Jamboree show at Walt Disney World, although I have seen it at Disneyland.   Sydnee has never seen it so she was a little confused when this crazy looking bear walked up to her when she was throwing a fit in Frontierland because I wouldn't buy her any cotton candy. 
Characters have a unique way of changing the course of her day.  You can see in the photo she's still not thrilled but she stopped and got a couple big hugs before we moved on.  They danced a bit after this photo was taken and she forgot about the cotton candy and cheered up.  We left the bears to find other kids to cheer up. 





Tusker House in Animal Kingdom


This is another character dining photo.  Mickey was about to take the kids off to the parade they do around the restaurant when we caught this picture of Sydnee and my nephew.  He loved their face paint and told them he wanted his painted, too.

This is at a Run Disney event in 2014.  We took tons of
pictures with the Monster, Inc. crew because no one
else was around.  They posed and danced and were generally silly.


They are discussing Pascal running
off to find a snack.











Epcot is one of my favorite places to meet princesses.  We had just come in the International Gateway entrance and Rapunzel was hanging out by the water.  Sydnee was the only kid around so they had a nice chat.  I have several of them posing for the camera but I likes this one the best because it shows the real interaction and memory.  

Ever since we did the Family Magic Tour this summer, Sydnee has been in love with Peter Pan.  She hunts him down every trip and has long chats with him about all kinds of things.  In this photo Peter was hanging out in front of his ride that they had just closed for refurbishment.  Sydnee had walked up to check out the pin board and so he joined her.  They decided to discuss who was in charge of the park, Mickey or Peter.  The discussion got a little heated, but ended in an agreement to disagree and a big hug. 

There was no professional photographer, no character coach around, just me and my iPhone watching Disney magic happen. 


We don't have special passes or any secret connections.  All these encounters can happen to anyone, so have your camera ready for you never know when the pixie dust will land on your head. 

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