I’m going to sound like an absolute witch but what’s the point of an autograph book at Disney
You are basically getting a person in a costume pre tending to be a character signing a pretend name
I just don’t get it
i mean, i get the concept of autograph books for tiny children who fully believe that the characters are real, as i'm sure it makes the whole experience of meeting their favourite characters even more exciting and magical.
but erin and ethan are at an age where they are surely fully aware that the teenager ambling around in a mouse costume is not
actually an oversized mouse, thus i fully agree that it's a bizarre activity to get a random stranger in fancy dress to forge the signature of a fictional character. babs will say it's "for the mens", but honestly it's probably
her running around the parks desperately shoving her autograph book in the character's faces, knocking little kids flying as she stomps to the front of the queue, because she seems to actually be under the impression that the bored teenage boy dressed up is the actual, real Gaston in personified form. as she does with Minnie - a real life mouse in a red dress - and Grumpy the
bleeping dwarf.
note how she's now "twinning" with her "bestie" Minnie! the golden child has been shoved aside in favour of a sweaty teenager wearing a mouse costume who was probably wondering what the actual
duck was happening when she spotted babs queuing in a line of children, and then demanding a photo!
the kids seem to get excited about seeing their favourite characters and posing for photos and waving at the parade, but in terms of collecting autographs, i imagine it's an activity that babs pushes, and is very much under the guise of the children wanting autographs, when in reality they're dragging their heels while she stalks every possible character and would far rather spend their time on the rides - or, in Ethan's case, wishing he was allowed to visit Harry Potter world at Universal.