If you plan your Walt Disney World theme park days like paramilitary operations — and if you don’t, you should ask yourself why you don't — then you likely pulled your hair out the first time your child insisted on wasting a half hour of precious ride time waiting for a character’s autograph, only to get the autograph and then . . . wait in line for another half hour for yet another autograph.

One of the best kept secrets at Florida's Disney World is the Epcot Character Spot, tucked just inside the Innoventions West exhibit space near the front of Epcot. One line and one half-hour later your autograph-book-toting sprite gets passed off in quick succession to six characters: Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy, and Chip 'n' Dale.

If you’ve ever done time in one of these autograph lines, you know what an insanely good time saver this is!

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