Thanks to someone on the Dis, we also bought Disney Encyclopedia of Animated Characters book, took it to Staples to have it spiral bound, cover laminated, and add extra pages for new characters(inexpensive). It has been awesome, as kids can read it while waiting in line, and it provides great character interaction, as they love to see themselves in the book, and will do fun things with it. Stepsisters crossed out bad things about themselves and good things about Cinderella, and write in new words to look good - hysterical! Woody and Jessie fought over who got to sign first. Provided lots if great memories, and 13 yr old still used it last yr for trip when she was 12, and keeps it in her room.
I agree with this, it looks so cute and I'm sure with a picture it'd be cuter but I also wouldn't know which characters picture to putI've seen photo mattes (great in theory, but I wouldn't want to try to keep that perfect though the parks).
Did you get the hardcover newest version? If so, how did you handle doing the cover? I wish they could punch through the original cover to spiral bind it!
edited to add...i just read that it is a dust jacket! so you can have that laminated and use it as the cover. thats great!
Do you happen to have the pens/ know what kind they were?Then we took good fabric pens I got at a fabric store and had the characters use those to sign the pillow case.