Ok so some people were asking about my Halloween resort character hunting. I was advertising on the Halloween threads and there were about 9 of us in a facebook messenger group who were coordinating and letting each other know which characters were at which resorts, which was immensely helpful. Also, I'm most likely going to end up duplicating this post and putting it in both
MNSSHP threads, since I believe people from both were interested in how this went. This is what ended up happening:
The final schedule we all contributed to:
We were ready to head out around 3:30 pm.
We went to Saratoga Springs first, last year they'd had Oogie Boogie so we had to check. We ended up parking at the pool (mistake) the character meet and greet and Halloween party stuff was veeery far away. There were signs pointing the way and we should have gone back for the car but we didn't. We spent about 15 minutes walking. Finally got to the meet and were about 15 groups back. It ended up being Chip and Dale. Maybe not as good as super rare Oogie Boogie, but these guys are always fun.
After the very long walk back to the car we stopped at Old Key West. They had a signboard up at the gate that only guests could park there, so we turned around and left. This was the only hotel we tried to stop at that we had an issue not being let in.
We heard through our group chat that Panchito was at All Star Music. He is from the 3 Caballeros and is very rare in WDW (In DL he meets every Christmas with Donald and Jose). Characters rotated at the all stars and when we arrived Donald was there. We couldn't not meet him, so we met him then did some trick or treating and hung out for about 10 minutes until Panchito showed up!
Since we were already at the All Stars we just headed to our home resort, Sports. We were able to walk right up and meet football Goofy (there is a football Goofy short if you haven't seen it, we like it a lot). Then we hung out for about 15 minutes until he changed with Daisy.
Movies had Minnie in a movie star dress and Mickey as a director. We'd met them before and remembered that Movies had a long wait, so we instead went next door to Coronado Springs.
Pluto was hanging out by the lake and we only had to wait for one group. He was switching off with Mexican Donald who we'd already met so we headed out.
We next went to the other AK area resort, AKL. We met Pluto yet again, we had to wait behind about 5 groups. I believe he was switching off with another of the Fab Five in a safari outfit so we decided to head out. We hadn't heard which characters were at Kidani but that resort is a pain in the butt to have to park at the parking garage and walk a great deal to the characters so we skipped it because we'd heard pirate Goofy was meeting at Caribbean beach and that meet ended soon.
We made it for the last character set which ended up being Pluto yet again.
Next up, we hadn't heard a lot about the characters at AOA so we gave it a shot.
We ended up arriving at a perfect time and had to wait a few groups to meet Pluto in a life jacket. 5 minutes later Donald in a beach outfit came out so we met him with only a few minute wait. I love hitting those character splits perfectly.
Pop was right next door so was the logical choice. Pop's line was huuuuuuge. We ended up missing surf Mickey by a few groups but got to meet Hawaiian type dress Minnie. Also got a few cute pics of them interacting.
I really didn't feel like messing with most of the deluxes this year, as they can be a pain to park. Through our chat, we heard that Elvis Stitch was at Poly again (we'd met him before). I think Princess Daisy and Chip and Dale in Moroccan outfits were at Contemporary. Wouldn't have minded the munks in those outfits but oh well. I believe Grand Floridian had scarecrow Mickey and witch Minnie, who we'd met before.
I didn't end up hearing a lot about the Epcot deluxes.
Instead we went to the Port Orleans resorts. Had to start at French Quarter since super rare character Louis from Princess and the Frog was out. We ended up missing him by a few groups and instead met Tiana, then hung out at the resort party for half an hour until Louis came back, we were first in line.
We headed to Riverside next where Goofy and Mickey were meeting but the line had already been capped, so that was the end of our night.
Counting Chip and Dale as one meet, we met 13 characters, which was not bad at all. If we hadn't messed up parking with the long walk at Saratoga we probably could have got one or two more in. Oh well, goals for next time!
Also, we got to see a lot of cast member made pumpkins along the way, here are some of my favs:
All in all, it was a lot of fun. Not only do you get to meet the characters but you get to explore some awesome resorts and see all their Halloween offerings. If anyone has any questions please let me know!