Great Disney World Moment: Enchanted Tales with Belle

Continuing my Beauty and the Beast fandom in New Fantasyland, I had another goal of seeing Enchanted Tales with Belle.

Portrait in Belle's Cottage

The last day of our trip in February, I got in line with Scarlett for the show, but the line was already 30 minutes long. She was not even a little interested in waiting, so we went to see Ariel, who had a 2 minute wait instead.

The plan this trip was to go on our first night at Magic Kingdom during late night extra magic hours.

Luke checking out Belle's checkers.

The wait was only 10 minutes! We walked right into Belle's cottage without even having to wait outside. But alas, a cast member came out to tell us Maurice was "tinkering in his workshop" and we'd be let in when it was done. 20 minutes later, he was still tinkering. And while that was happening, this was happening.

Scarlett fell asleep, Tom was just blinking

Since we didn't want Scarlett to miss Belle, and we didn't want to stand there until the park closed at 1am, we decided to try again another time.

Finally, during Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, Scarlett and I were hanging out in Fantasyland before the fireworks. Low and behold, the wait for Belle was only 5 minutes! It was so not crowded that the cast member told us we wouldn't be let in until 20 people were gathered, and we only made 5. Scarlett thought that was fine. So we went to explore Belle's cottage.

Scarlett said "This is my favorite book!"

Luckily for us, a family of Princesses and a large group dressed quite impressively as Haunted Mansion ghosts arrived and we were lead into Maurice's workshop, then through the magic mirror to the Beast's castle. First, we met the Wardrobe. This is one of the most impressive mechanical characters I have ever seen. She was incredible!

We were supposed to reenact Belle and the Beast falling in love, so before we got to Belle, everyone was given parts to play. The other kids were picked, but Scarlett wasn't, probably because she is so little. I told her to volunteer, but she didn't want to, although later she really regretted not being able to play Phillipe!

Lumiere!

Finally, we were let into the library. There was an awesome animatronic Lumiere. And then Belle emerged!



They did a cute little show. I thought it was fun, especially with the actors already in completely unrelated Halloween costumes.

The Beast/Ghost

Since Scarlett was the only kid that didn't have a part in the show, a cast member came over and asked if she wanted to meet Belle. I was surprised she actually said yes!

It was a very sweet meeting. Sadly (for me), Scarlett didn't want to stand up there and wait for a formal shot, so we didn't get one posed with Belle.

She immediately regretted it and wanted to do the whole thing again, but it was time for HalloWishes instead.

Oh well, guess we'll just have to do it again some day!