Merida Character Meeting at Disney’s Magic Kingdom

Want to know where the Merida character meeting spot is at Disney’s Magic Kingdom?

The Merida Disney Character Greeting at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom theme park is just off the side of the castle in the Fairytale Garden (across from Starlight Ray’s cafe on the bridge from the castle over to the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party).

As of May 2012, character meeting times run continuously from 9am – 5:30pm. They take families in by groups of 50. While you wait to meet the newest princess, you can color or practice your archery skills.

Merida stars in the newest Disney Pixar movie “Brave” to be released in theaters on June 20, 2012. This curly red-headed beauty hails from Scotland.

The Merida costume and other Brave merchandise just came out and up until June 1 could only be found in the cart outside the character greeting area in the Magic Kingdom and at “Once Upon a Toy” in Downtown Disney, so even Disney cast members were stopping Kariss to look at her costume!

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Rapunzel character meeting at Disney Magic Kingdom Town Square

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Rapunzel is the star of the Disney movie “Tangled” (in case you missed it) and is a recent addition to the Disney character greetings, comparatively speaking when it comes to the other Disney Princesses.

Kariss finally got to meet Rapunzel for the first time at Magic Kingdom Town Square and even though we arrived before the park opened, we still came upon quite a line and had to wait about 25 minutes to meet this newly popular princess in purple (though it was worth it because Kariss was wearing the Rapunzel wedding dress we surprised her with that morning!). We bought the dress for her when we visited the Disney Store in Times Square NYC when we were there in March…and she had no idea

It looks like we took her to the Bippidi Boppidi Boutique, but I actually did her hair that morning with the same accessories we got when we went to the BBB years ago!

As with any character greeting, make sure to have your autograph book and Disney Photo Pass ready to go before getting to the front of the line.