We received this tip before our last trip, and I try to share it with everyone. It was so helpful. Toontown opens later than the rest of the park. However, you can ride the train to Toontown earlier. You just get off at that stop. There is nothing open, but the kids can play on the playground and in Donald's Boat. When the ropes dropped, we went straight to the Judge's Tent (is that where the characters are??). There are three different lines. We got to see Cinderella and the mice in one room, Chip and Dale and Minnie in another, and Winnie the Pooh and gang in the third. We did this all right in a row with hardly any wait. They only let so many people in each room. Somone posted in another thread that they thought it was the same characters in all of the rooms, but that is not true. After we finished there, we went to see Mickey and around that time, it was crowded. We got to see lots of favorites without wasting a lot of time.