Huh! It's nice to see them give TLK a bit more love, but I'm with you in wishing for Scar.
I'm level 14 now and my best score is 563,389- about halfway through the Disney dresses set. I always use Simba unless the game needs me to play as someone else for a mission, but I think I like Kermit and Goofy's abilities best. If Timon ends up being a Kermit reskin I'd be fine with that.
Oh- and no matter what I do, I can't seem to get other character's emojis to show up in the emoji keyboard, just Mickey! I could put up with having them as pasted images if I could only use them
Edit: Just got a new high score, 925,353 using Goofy! Wow!