Disney Characters

We decided to start our Disney adventure on my birthday so we found the trains that would take us there and headed out. When we arrived the line for tickets was crazy long and we waited between and hour and an hour and a half. When our turn came to buy tickets we decided to go crazy and got three day passes. Day one would be spent at Tokyo Disney, day two would be spent at DisneySea, an ocean themed Disney park unique to Japan and then day three could be spent and either or both parks. Tokyo Disney has most of the rides that Disneyland has, the most noticeable attraction missing is the Matterhorn, but the park itself is much smaller.

The Japanese love their photo ops and several of the lines just inside the park entrance to get a picture taken with a character were as long on longer than lines to some of the more popular rides at the park. This was not quite the case further inside the park so they boys were able to meet some. Coryn was quite excited anytime he saw someone. He likes the generic animals that are at some of the events here so seeing characters he actually knew seem to go over really well. One of his favorite movies right now is Peter Pan so he jumped at the chance to meet Mr. Smee.

There were some characters that didn't wear faces and actually spoke English such as the Mad Hatter who kept crossing Coryn's arms and shaking both of his hands at the same time, commenting on how he obviously remembered to bring his manners with him and while I'm not sure how in to the characters Carter really was, he certainly wasn't freaked out by them like my little sister would have been (Oh snap, Caitlin).

Prior to this trip Coryn had never heard the name Captain Jack Sparrow but now he is one of his favorites of all time. He talks about him a lot now and seems to emphasize the fact that he has jewelery in his hair. He saw Captain Jack on day 3 and the Mad Hatter on day 1. Lisa is pretty sure they he's played by the same guy.

At DisneySea Coryn saw another of his favorites, Mr. Incredible who was accompanied by his wife who Coryn didn't want to get a picture with, because "only girls go see Elasta Girl"

What I found funny was that princess characters had their own security escorts. You can't see them in the picture but Cinderella was accompanied by an large entourage to keep any would be mobbers back. We saw them when they ran to the castle (I assume for a photo op session) and when they returned.