I was wondering when this would happen.
When I called to make character meal AR's for our trip we just took, I caught a CM that was just out of a meeting about the changes (this was a couple months ago, in June I think). He was reading me the changes, and the CM next to him highlighted where the memo said not to tell the guests, lol. He calmmed up and told me to call next week as they JUST got out of the meeting and no one knew anything yet (this was a Friday, at nearly 5pm).
I called the next week, and couldn't make them then either, as it was up in the air still and the system was not allowing new AR's (this was ONLY for the two in-park character meals--Capt'n Mickey at AG and the Princess B'fast at the Plaza--the resort meals were okay to book. This was fo the first week of August).
On my 3rd inquiry, a very nice CM took my phone # to call me when my dates were released into the system for the two in-park meals. A week or so later, she called me about the Princess breaky in the Plaza as the dates had been released, but the ressies for Ariel's Grotto hadn't been released. I made the Plaza AR, and she offered to call me back when AG opened in the system. I told her I was going to pass on that one, but thanked her for being so kind and remembering to call me.
Then my bubble burst. My friend that had just been in June told me that the princess breakfast wasn't all that great. That they (princesses) did not make rounds in the dining room, but were sort of corralled up outside in a roped off area to meet the kids that had a hand stamp from the meal. I decided that wasn't the experience I wanted, so after all that calling back and forth, I cancelled my AR there
Glad to hear the Princesses will be back at AG. The very first CM I spoke with joked about Mickey not having his own meal at DL, and how silly he thought it was that the Princesses got displaced so he could take over their place. And how none of it really made any sense.