If you’re a seasoned veteran of the Disney-MGM Studios or Walt Disney World in general, after a while, you start looking for different things to do. Sure riding rides is fun and all but variety helps keep the trips fresh and gives you something to look forward to on a future trip. So as a result, you start looking at the park map for something you haven’t done yet, perhaps because you didn’t have time ever before or you wrote it off as uninteresting to you. One of the most overlooked attractions is the
If you’re a seasoned veteran of the Disney-MGM Studios or Walt Disney World in general, after a while, you start looking for different things to do. Sure riding rides is fun and all but variety helps keep the trips fresh and gives you something to look forward to on a future trip. So as a result, you start looking at the park map for something you haven’t done yet, perhaps because you didn’t have time ever before or you wrote it off as uninteresting to you. One of the most overlooked attractions is the
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For years I skipped this attraction because I didn’t think it sounded fun to me. It sounded like something for 7 year olds to do and mostly a distraction. But after a while I too was looking for something new that I had never done and decided to stop in on the
Once inside, you pick a station to sit at where you will find a large piece of paper and a pencil to draw with. The animator will let you know when the session begins who you will be drawing, with the character to be drawn changing each session. There’s about 5 or 6 characters you can draw, some easier than others, and they include Mickey Mouse (like you didn’t see that one coming), Goofy, Winnie the Pooh, Stitch and others.
The session can be quick (the Cast Member has to follow a strict time schedule) and you follow along on your own paper as the Cast Member draws on theirs. When I first tried it out, I wasn’t paying much attention to how my drawing came out, but at the end, I was really surprised by how well I did and really felt a sense of accomplishment (until I went back and tried to draw Stitch and ended up with a real atrocity of a drawing). Let’s be honest for a moment, I’m no Monet and my art skills barely pass at a 2nd grade level, but even I could muster up something that looked like the character I was supposed to draw.
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