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I am working on getting my daughter familiarized with disney characters before we go. Here is my list of movies that we have seen and ones that we need to see still, any suggestions on ones to add?
Movies we have seen:
-Peter Pan
-Little Mermaid
-Jungle Book
-Finding Nemo
-Ratatouille
-Cars
-Sleeping Beauty
-Snow White
-Up
-The Princess and the Frog
-Cinderella
-Monsters Inc
-Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
-Aladdin
-Toy Story 1 & 2
-Pochahontas
-Tinkerbell
-Mulan
-Lady and the Tramp
-101 Dalmations
-Mickey and the Gang movies
-Hercules
-Bolt
-Lilo and Stich
-The Incredibles
-Fantasia
-The Fox and the Hound
-Bambi
Movies to See:
-Beauty and the Beast*
-Lion King (we did see the Lion King musical already)*
-Alice in Wonderland*
-Sing-a-Long DisneyLand*
-Mary Poppins
-Pirates of the Caribbean ? (I think I've tried her on this before and she got bored! With Jack Sparrow!)
-Dumbo
-Aristocats
* = bought for the car trip to WDW, saving some new (to her) movies that I know she'll like.
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How old is your daughter?
Too young for "The Tower of Terror" movie or "Swiss Family Robinson"?
Older kids will also like seeing "Pirates of the Caribbean".
My daughter is 3 1/2, so maybe a little young for the Tower of Terror. I'll try her on the first pirates and see how that goes, sometimes she surprises me.
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At 3 1/2, I think I'd skip all the ones I suggested. Mom and Dad might like to see them though....and be able to give info about them when visiting the attractions.
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Perhaps Star Wars and a little of Indiana Jones. She loves to watch playhouse disney in the am so while we watched we talk about how we're going to visit the characters she's seeing. We also watched Fantasmic on youtube to see how she would do. The vacation planning video is a good one too because you can show her the attractions.
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Haven't tried it with a 3 1/2 yo but "The House Of Mouse" dvd's have a lot of the classic Mickey & Co. shorts in a pretty entertaining format. And my kids at that age loved the "Book of Pooh" series as an add-on to the Winnie the Pooh movies. As for movies, I know Hercules got a lot of rotten tomatoes tossed at it by movie critics, but it's one my kids enjoy.
i'd definatly get the dvd collections of mickey and the gang, they have a dvd about 90 minutes long for all the classic characters. my dd4 loves pirates and swiss family robinson. how about going on amazon.com and getting the disneyland (our daughter still thinks it's at disney world) singalongs, beach party singalongs at wdw, and campout singalongs at wdw. she gets so excited seeing some things from the parks!!!!
My train-obsessed DS recently got into Dumbo for Casey Junior (the train, has a little diddy that goes with it) and I often think of what a jolt he'd get just seeing the Dumbo ride.
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I'll try her on the first pirates and see how that goes, sometimes she surprises me.
Mom and Dad might like to see them though....and be able to give info about them when visiting the attractions.
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