Introducing... Speaking Fur Characters for Meet & Greets!

[Guest]

does anyone know if this will be at Magid Kingdom this year? ... I travel at the end of October? Thanks

[Imagineer2802]

Originally Posted by vanessamv

does anyone know if this will be at Magid Kingdom this year? ... I travel at the end of October? Thanks

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It will be a while yet - probably not this year. This was the first testing phase...it was a complete surprise for the guests, and it was only for a day or two. They are still developing and improving the concept, and according to the Disney Parks Blog article, they have "more surprises up their sleeves" ..so who knows what is coming next!

[Mazzy]

Originally Posted by geoffa

Mazzy - knowing Disney, they'll come up with closed caption or signers I would have thought. And if you indicated to Mickey that you are hearing impaired I'm pretty sure he would respond accordingly. Watching that video he seems to do the same old gestures as he always did. When we were visiting Prince Caspian there was a little girl in front of us who was deaf - guess what? Caspian was able to sign which thrilled the little girl no end.

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Yes, WDW is great for signers, but for people like me who are partially deaf, lipread and don't sign, we need captions available or are totally left out, especially when the rest of the family who visit the character with you are hearing. Let's hope they come up with some technology for us.

[Guest]

That is amazing, I so want to meet talking Mickey

[Guest]

Oh wow. My kids are always asking me why they can't talk. Will definitely have to book another trip to see this. Any excuse ;-)

[Peter H]

This is great stuff. One thing though. Are they planning to roll it out to DLP. If so which language will they speak and will they go by their English or French names. Could be a bit of mine field. Otherwise fab.

[Guest]

i think this will be fantastic, all the kids will love it. i watched a video of this on youtube of the mickey mouse interacting with a child and it does look great

xx

[Guest]

oh myyyy this is amazing!

well done disney!

[Guest]

Looks and sounds absolutely amazing! My 4yr old son asks every time we are in WDW why they don't speak!
When are they rolling this out at WDW?

[Imagineer2802]

Originally Posted by rgpark

When are they rolling this out at WDW?

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It will be a year or two at least. Disney Parks officials are saying that this is the earliest stage of testing, and that they are a long way off rolling out around the parks. They do say they have "a few other surprises up their sleeves" though! So look out for those!