Kenny the Pirate’s Guide to Epcot Character Meet and Greets
| Attractions | Characters | Entertainment | Hours |
| Map | Menus | Touring |
| Character Notes | |||
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| EPCOT Character Meals | |||
| Akershus Royal Banquet Hall | Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner | Ariel, Aurora, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Mulan, Snow White or Mary Poppins |
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| Garden Grill | Dinner | Chip n Dale, Mickey, Pluto | |
*All Entertainment is subject to change without notice.
*Arrive early for the most popular characters as sets may be cut well ahead of time.
I saw on the Disney website that the World Showcase meets weren’t listed during Christmastime. Do you know if characters like Mulan will (or have in past years) still met in December when they’ve got the Holiday Celebrations going on?
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That site isn’t very helpful. Yes all the World Showcase characters meet AND they offer the Epcot Storytellers as well as regular shows
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Have Ana and Else moved the Norway Pavilion yet? We are visiting in November. I just want a back up plan in the event we miss them in the MK. Thanks! Great site.
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They moved away from EP long ago and are comfortably meeting guests at MK and offer FP+
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We will be in the parks this week. Has anyone had success meeting characters at the Epcot training spots? If so who, where, & what times?
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People have been seeing MNSSHP villains lately
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Can Peter Pan be found in any other park then just Magic Kingdom? We will be going September 6th through the 13th and I love peter pan so I was just wondering.
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No, but check my Master List or http://www.characterlocator.com for full character listings
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Thank you so much for your help 😀
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We’ll be at Disney in Oct. with our girls ages 2 & 5. We won’t be able to dedicate a whole day to Epcot, but we plan to be there two late afternoons /evenings. I’d like to try to see half the World Showcase characters each day. Do you have a suggestion on when we should try to arrive? I know the characters stop meeting fairly early. My oldest especially wants to see Jasmine and Mulan since those are princesses she’s not yet met.
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You’ll need to arrive early before any meet you choose. The afternoon meets usually fill before the character even arrives.
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Kenny,
Is Belle still in France, MDE lists only Aurora in France. Just checking , thank you, website is great
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Yes, use my app, it’s correct
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Thank you so much for this website! I saw one of your tips on how to stack fast passes for different times and have them overlap, and my little sisters and I will get to meet Anna and Elsa in June! This is the best Disney site I have ever found.
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Thanks! Work on it a little each day to make it even better
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Please could you tell me which characters were at epcot in the Norway area before the characters from frozen were there.
Thanks.
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No one.
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thanks
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Do you have any idea whether Anna and Elsa will be around after January 1, and if so where? We have added an Epcot day onto our trip just to meet them in early February, so I’m hoping they stick around!
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They will definitely stay through jan in current location and they are looking at another spot in Norway to continue after that.
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I too am looking for more information about Remy’s departure. A friend has a reservation on 10/25 and was hoping to see him. Is the last day 10/24 or 10/25?
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I’ve heard that Little Chef Remy’s last day is October 24th, but I will confirm this tomorrow.
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Kenny, can you comment on the rumour that Remy is leaving Chefs de France? Of course, his last day is supposed to be the day before I leave to come to the World. DRAT!! I am really hoping the rumours are wrong. I have a reservation for lunch there that I will be cancelling if he’s gone. Might as well put my money where my mouth is.
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I’ve heard that Little Chef Remy’s last day is October 24th, but I will confirm this tomorrow.
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Any updates on who is at the Character Spot? I see the wait times are long and wondering if I should use one of our golden fp+ for it. We will be seeing Mickey, etc at the Visa Meet n Greet already.
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Wait times are like 5-10 minutes most of the day
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About Daisy when did they take her out cause i saw on April 6, 2013
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When they opened the new Epcot Character Spot
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Don’t know how often this occurs, but we rode the finding nemo ride around 8 p.m. on Sunday, June 9th, and then tour the aquarium area. We got to meet shortly scuba diving Mickey in one of the tanks. We only caught him shortly before he was leaving. Don’t know how long he had been there.
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It’s pretty rare to see Scuba Mickey these days. Nice find.
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Could there be an Epcot Characterpalooza? At roughly 3:30 today (June 11, 2013) my wife and daughter were walking through the American Experience (near the funnell cake stand) and a large group of characters came out for a meet and greet. The group included Gideon, Baloo, Bere Bear, Stitch, Mickey, Sailor Donald, Pluto, Chip & Dale, and Pooh. Possibly others.
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Training meet
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There was a training meet with Mickey and Sailor Donald earlier in the week as well, but it was around noon time.
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I can’t list training meets on the schedules because they happen randomly. Thx for the updates!
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You Da Man Kenny 🙂
The site is “Disney Character Central” but I found a lot of the info wrong for Disneyland when we went last year so you are probably correct.
That’s why I’m looking forward to using your site so much 🙂
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Certainly want to offend them, but their site is more of “Here’s our travels, follow along.” I try to focus on making sure you have info to plan in addition to sharing my stories.
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Hey Kenny,
Love this site. Much better and more informative than some of the other sites I have used before.
We go to Disneyland every year but my family and I are heading to DisneyWorld June 9th for 11 days this year instead and are character crazy 🙂
We’re going to try some of your character touring plans. I can’t wait to see some of the characters California doesn’t have.
Any special advice on Belle & Beast? We LOVE Belle (never seen her in her blue outfit) & have never seen Beast before. Is he truly only found at “Be Our Guest”?
I also see on your site Jiminey Cricket is retired (the other site I used to use still shows him meeting at Rafiki’s Oasis (or something like that). Does that mean he never shows or is he ever a possibility?
Thanks for your site. I can’t wait to put it to the test 🙂
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Yes Beast is only at Be Our Guest for dinner. You can see that I update the information regularly because the date is on there.
Not sure what other site you use, but it’s wrong. Jiminy has been gone since December 3, 2011. Looks like that site doesn’t keep its info updated. Rafiki is the only character out at Rafiki’s Planet Watch currently.
I have an accurate app for Droid and developing Mobile site for other users too.
Check the Master List for an accurate idea what character is located where. Character Palooza, Frontierland Hoedown and Epcot Training are some terms you can search on my site for random/rare characters.
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Is there a specific time and/or place for the characters in training.
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Search Epcot Training on top right and you’ll find this info.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Kennythepirate's Disney Character
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Great! Thank you! I should have known you’d have info on here about it 🙂
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Looking at the Epcot Character list and it says Mickey, Minnie, Pluto NEW Character Spot.
Where is this currently located? We will be going to Disney March4-19 (not exactly sure which day for Epcot yet).
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Around the corner from the old one. Here’s the details:
http://kennythepirate.com/2012/10/20/goodbye-sailor-donald-and-epcot-character-spot-changes/
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I just read that Remy visits your table at Chefs de France, do you know anything about this?
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He is a tiny mouse that comes around to visit tables on a little cart. His schedule is on the Epcot Show Schedules.
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The minnie Mickey and Pluto meet and greet; I heard other characters are there also, is that true? If yes which ones. Thank you sooooo much in advanced. (By the way this is the best disney planning website I have ever seen thank you so much for all the information it’s been very helpful!)
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This is true, it’s not for sure which one’s they’ll have though. If you ask some people to call the character hotline before you might be able to know if there are any extra characters. I got to meet Gepetto at the exit of the minnie mickey and pluto meet and greet outside
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Character hotline won’t know if training characters are out or not. It only handles regularly scheduled meets.
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Thank you so much for all thw work you do to make these lists- but could youcome up with a one page list- I printed epcot and got 4 pages- several months ago I printed an alphabetic list and it was just 2 pages for all characters..
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I recently changed the format to make it mobile phone friendly. The easiest way to reformat the data is to copy it to Excel and move the cells around.
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