Disneyland Park is famous for its slogan “The happiest place on Earth” and almost anyone who has been there at least once will agree that even one day there is truly an unforgettable experience. Especially if you are a child, although Disney tries to create a real holiday for adults too.
However, every coin has two sides, and it’s easy enough to imagine actors spending all day in one-piece costumes of Disney characters. On this side, the stories may not be as funny and amusing – and a recent viral thread in the AskReddit community is dedicated to just such tales.
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#1
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 that moment a stranger saw him.
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#2
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”
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#3
If Micky Mouse from Disney Florida 1993 is on Reddit I’m sincerely sorry for punching you in the face.
I was 2 and didn’t like my personal space being invaded.
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#4
I squeezed Goofy’s nose when I was little and he pretended to cry and I still live with the shame.
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#5
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!
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#6
Not a cast member but either Mickey or Minnie cut a very audible fart while posing with my wife and me. It must’ve been awful inside that dutch oven of a costume.
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#7
I was playing Goofy inside a restaurant and I got swarmed Aliens-style by a hoard of kids under the age of 10. 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 been strong enough to do that).
I found myself blind and completely rooted to the spot, unable to ask for help and with nobody realizing that I was in trouble. I spent like a solid 10-15 minutes in that sort of limbo reflecting on the life decisions that had taken me there until the assistant came over and whispered “set is over dude” and I finally managed to signal something was wrong.
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#8
Not a cast member, but I was a visiting Disney with my family and my 4-yo daughter honked Pluto’s nose.
I immediately and calmly asked her to stop and I apologized to Pluto because I felt like that was crossing a line.
This thread made me feel a little bit better about the nose honk.
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#9
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 Snow White a little kid saw my mom “Doc” he ran up to give him/her a hug. As he was hugging Doc, the plastic that made up the face started melting inwards and the child started screaming “I killed Doc! I killed Doc!” In hysterics. Character handlers rushed my mom/Doc off through one of the secret passages by Pirates and got her out of the costume before the plastic could melt onto her.
Always thought it was a fun story and curious how much it screwed up that kid.
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#10
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.
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#11
I interviewed to work at Disneyland once. My girlfriend at the time got offered a job. I got told “you’re not a good enough person to work for Disney”.
We went straight from that to meeting my girlfriends dad for the first time.
Great day.
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#12
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.
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#13
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
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#14
I was one of the ugly sisters and i got bumsmacked every day …got promoted to princess nothing i really miss my fans
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#15
I used to be the Easter Bunny at a function hall and people were just…weird. I’ve been threatened by a guy that told me he was going to throw me down the stairs. It’s hot, too. Some kids were really happy to get a picture, so it made it all worthwhile.
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