Thank you for the kind words. I hadn't noticed the difference in distance, but it did seem that my shots of Jack in Disneyland came out better than the ones that I took last winter in WDW with the same camera and lens.
I think he's harder to shoot at DL though, because you're going up the waterfall....unless of course PotC is completely full and the boats are stacked going up the waterfall......
I had to go back and look again at the original at 100%. The hand is there, but with the lighting, color and texture, it blends into the chair.