Former Disney Park Actors Share Wild Stories From Being on the Job

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    Font - Former actors at Disney parks, what's the weirdest thing that happened to you while you were in character?
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    Font - Earl Sandwich0045 • 2d I dated a girl that played one of the fairies for the Tinkerbell place. Beyond the pretty much daily occurrence of old dads hitting on her (she was 19 at the time) the weirdest thing to happen to her was a woman with a 4yr old little girl was all excited to get a picture with Tinkerbell, who was busy, so my ex volunteered to do pictures and entertain the little girl while they waited. The woman was a bitch about that idea, rudely saying she was here to see Tinkerbel
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    Font - raybirdie • 2d 4 Awards I was a "mouse height" performer at Disney World around 2013. Can unfortunately confirm groping happened from time to time and it was incredibly uncomfortable. We were trained to move away if we could and signal to the character attendants to escort the guest away if it happened. One time some guy thought it appropriate to pick me up completely off the ground in a bear hug. The head pushed back and, because the inside is connected to us with head gear and a chin st
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    Product - Shire Beware • 2d 1 Award Somebody offered me 400 dollars to have sex with him while in my Goofy costume *(makes awkward Goofy laugh) Frosti-Feet • 2d ● 37 Awards Face down, ass up. ... Reply 16k That's the way we like to Hyuck ... 25.1k
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    Font - Judge_T. 2d 1 Award I was playing Goofy inside a restaurant and I got swarmed Aliens-style by a hoard of <10 kids. Unfortunately while I was playing around with them the inner hood below the mask slipped over my eyes and I was completely blinded. We had assistants around whom we could signal for help by flapping our arms, but the kids had made it a game of attaching themselves Tarzan-like to both my arms and to raise them I would have had to lift 3-4 kids per arm (dangerous even if I'd be
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    Font - 3 Awards Not Disney, but mildly funny. In the 90s, My mom used to work for the company that owns Kool-aid. She was over several commissaries (military base grocery stores) and I usually did odd work for her like stocking or building displays. A few times, I got to put on the Kool-Aid Man costume. It was hard to see anything since the view ports were the eyes, mouth and they were super dark tinted plastic. I was placed in between two racks of snack cakes and was scared to move much as I mi
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    Font - Eddy Buddard • 2d 1 Award Never was an actor, but when I was a kid at Disney World in the 70s, I watched Chip get into a fist fight with a young 20 something guy. The guys girlfriend wanted him to do a picture with Chip & Dale, but he didn't want to. Chip grabbed him in a head lock and his girlfriend snapped the photo. When Chip let go, the guy came up swinging. Dale had to jump in and break them up, as Chip started swinging back. For a kid of 12, it was awesome! Reply 8.6k
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    Font - reloadfreak • 2d I knew a friend (a guy) who wore Minnie Mouse costume. He told me almost all guys would put their hands around his waist. He wouldn't dare to talk or else they will hear his manly voice and that might pisses them off. Edit: this blows up quickly. I feel I need to let people know that it's not okay to grope the Disney characters. My friend had introduced me to the people who play them and they are just normal people. All I can tell you is that they will make a disgusting f
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    Font - Diehavok 2d Dated an actress, the weirdest she had was a man asking for him to be in the suit for an hour. He offered her 3k ● Which suit? sarabeara12345678910 • 2d Diehavok 2d piglet ... : Reply 5.8k ... 1.9k ↓ 3.1k
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    Font - FaesCosplay. 2d I use to be tinker bell!!!! (The understudy lol I couldn't do it full time) Weirdest thing is the dads low key hitting on you. Kids are kids they do weird shit but don't mean it... the adults know they're being weird but for some reason just don't care. Like don't talk about my looks in front of your kids or try to cop a feel- it's cringe (it happens so often that we had guards/watchers all over the place just in case someone got handsy and it happened too many times to co
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    Font - SpaceLaserPilot • 2d I used to work at a different amusement park that featured similar costumed characters. The worst thing I ever heard was the time one of the characters was overcome by heat in 95 degree weather, and vomited inside the suit, splattering the inside of the suit's head with their half- digested lunch. They had to walk a long distance back to the dressing rooms breathing the super-heated vomit air the entire way. ... Reply 4.3k
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    Font - artistandattorney • 1d My ex wife was in the character department at Disney World years ago. She was always getting injured by guests. From macho men wanting to see how strong of a grip Mickey had, to grabbing hold of Donald's bill and yanking really hard. Pulling noses, beaks, ears, etc., can really hurt people. Another person was dressed as Daisy duck and got tackled by a guest and knocked out cold. When she recovered, she pressed charges. The worst nights for the characters were high s
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    Font - TreyRyan3 2d I had a female friend who played Pluto for a few years. Even though her gender was indistinguishable because it's a fully body Pluto costume, she's would regularly share how often she was groped by kids and adults alike. In costume she looked like she was 6'6", but was only 5'8" in real life. You couldn't tell the gender of any of the 3-4 in Pluto rotation and you could barely tell them apart. Reply 2.6k
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    Font - seegull12. 2d Not an actor, but was at DisneyLand in 21 and walked past some Stormtroopers. One of them said to me "keep that little droid in check" (referring to my youngest daughter) So now every time she sees a stormtrooper she always says. "dad remember that time at Disneyland one of them talked to you" kidder952 2d ● ... Reply 2.3k At Disney World I got "arrested" by Kylo Ren and some Stormtroopers. All I said was: "Hey Ben, how's your Dad?". They told me I was in the custody of the
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    Font - AllBadAnswers • 2d Reverse of Disney. I was working at Hogwarts Express in Universal Orlando and a tourist asked me without a hint of irony if this was the train to take them to the Disney park. For those who aren't local, Universal and Disney are MILES from one another and for extremely obvious reasons not connected to one another. This idiot tried to fight me that there was a train you could ride between the two competing parks. Reply 1.9k ... bijouxette. 1d Reminds me of the Southern l
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    Font - whodis_itsme • 2d I was Chip n Dale in Land and some dad came up with his kids, I was doin my thang and having fun with them. When it came time for pics the dad comes over to join us and all is well until after the picture when he asked for a hug so I gave him one. He squeezed, pulled away, grabbed his kids hands, smiled and said,"I didn't know Dale was a girl under all that fur." I played it off at the time but it made me really uncomfortable that he had actually squeezed hard enough to
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    Font - The_Woman_S. 1d I was part of the Disney college program and I have my own stories but not as a character. My mom on the other hand, she was a character actor back in the day (60's or 70's). They were testing a new headpiece for the seven dwarf costumes in Disneyland and my mom wore one of them out on a march with Snow White. As a Dwarf, your head is inside their hat, their face on their stomach, etc. Being Anaheim, it was really hot that summer day and as they were going around following
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    Font - pwrdup8291d My son is neurodivergent and when he was four all he wanted was to meet Elsa and baymax. Baymax made him sob and then when he met Elsa all he wanted to do was talk to her about everything, the handlers tried to move us along understandably as the line was long but this woman literally took the handlers hand off my son and said, no, this young man waited to speak to me and he will stay and speak to me until he decides he is done. I cried. My son hugged her so hard because in th
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    Font - Competitive-Shoe1067 2d ● Kind of the opposite, but I got felt up by a Pepe La Pew at Six Flags (I think?) when I was 14. I'm guessing he thought he was "playing the character", but it was gross. My sister kicked him and called him a pervert. ... Reply 748
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    Font - Brett707 2d Never worked for Disney. But I worked with a lot of creepy Disney-obsessed women. More than a few slipped their room keys into Cast Members' outfits. Because having sex with a mouse is a fantasy for so many. ... Reply 707
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