Can anyone who attended last night share what characters were out and where?
Hi! We were at the July 11 event and were really into the characters! Here is everyone who was out and where: In Africa, Tarzan and Jane were meeting right before the Harambe Fruit Market, near where you check in for Wild Africa Trek. My husband saw people waiting and handlers out around 7:30 pm and just randomly got in line while we were waiting for snacks. They had the Tarzan soundtrack playing and were giving us hints that the music might have something to do with who was coming out. We weren’t sure if it would be Tarzan and Jane or Terk and it ended up being Tarzan and Jane and we were second in line! It was a great meet. They switched off every half hour with Tarzan’s ape parents pictured above. And then Terk met across the way by the Mombasa Marketplace. People were lined up there too before 8:00 pm, but here was the catch. Terk came out with Kala and Kerchak after Tarzan and Jane’s first set so everyone in that line was waiting until 8:30 pm when Terk came out. We were able to see Tarzan and Jane at 8:00 pm and then get into Terk’s line before his first set so definitely go to the Tarzan and Jane’s line first. We didn’t wait too long for Terk once he got out but I noticed when we walked by after 10 pm that the line was really short and there were only a few groups there.
Manny and Mothma (?) from Bugs Life we’re meeting at Discovery Island right near Creature Comforts.
Darkwing Duck was meeting at Dinoland near the Fossil Fun games and Triceratops Spin. My kids were thrilled about that so I waited why they stood in line for the games. That was probably our longest character wait. It was maybe 20-30 minutes or so including a break between sets. My kids said he is super rare in the parks so I was happy to wait for them. Launchpad, Scrooge McDuck and Goofy were dancing at the DJ party and not doing official meets. My kids were a little bummed about that. My sons are teens and would have preferred a traditional meet and my daughter didn’t care about meeting them either way.
Moana was meeting at her usual place. There was some talk that she might have someone with her but she was by herself from what I heard. And then Chip and Dale as Rescue Rangers were meeting at the Feathered Friends stage. We went over there after the ducks and only had about a 5 minute wait. No Mickey and Minnie like the pictures I saw from last year. We met Tarzan and Jane, Terk, Darkwing and Chip and Dale and had time for snacks and rides. We met Moana earlier in the day so I don’t know how long that line was. And we skipped the Bugs Life characters and Kala and Kerchak.
Oh and Divine was on Discovery Island by the Adventures Outpost as you walked towards Asia decorated with fairy lights which was super cool to see.
I would really like to hear from someone who was there on how long the waits were and what food vouchers they were able to redeem.
We focused more on the characters but did go on Everest which was about a 12 minute wait at 9:45 pm ish. We jumped in the Flight of Passage line at the end of the night around 10:40 pm and it was indeed a 45 minute wait. I thought for sure it would be shorter but we were glad to do it because we hadn’t ridden it yet that day. We were in AK earlier in the day and one other thing to note is that the safari only ran until 7:00 pm. We were planning to ride it right before official park close not realizing that everyone going to the event would do the same thing so the line reached to Tusker House by the time we got there.
It had been a 15 minute wait at 6:00 pm so in retrospect we probably should have done it earlier. But now reading the other comments, it sounds like that might have been caused by animals on the path too.
We used all our vouchers but to echo the above comments almost all the possible items were sweet instead of savory. For savory items we got the seasoned corn (very good), Mickey pretzels, popcorn and the cinnamon glazed almonds and pecans. I wanted to try the seasoned fries, but the line was at least 20 people deep when we walked by around 10 pm. For sweet items my kids got the dole whip strawberry float, my husband got an iced coffee and we got two Night Blossoms at Pongu Pongu in Pandora. We got plenty of Mickey bars and strawberry bars at both locations with very little to no wait. We used up all our snack vouchers but we were glad that we had a big meal at lunch because there really weren’t a lot of snacks that could double as a meal.
My kids all waited to play a round of games but the lines were long so we didn’t use up all our tickets. Two of the three won though and got a little plush dinosaur to take home.
All in all we had a great night and thought it was really fun event! We felt very fortunate to have been able to go.
