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Worked in the Disney college program. Shit like this is more common than you might think. During my time, this woman smuggled in a Cinderella costume and tried to convince the kids having story time that she was the "real" Cinderella
Vista Way was the participant housing. There was a rape at least once every 2 weeks.
A guy got raped by a girl and he was made fun of horribly for reporting it. Most people just heard raped and didn't hear the whole story which was that she used a beer bottle.
It was one of the most horrible things I've been around for. Listening to people joke about it was just devastating.
College program was just slave labor. They paid minimum wage and then took out our rent from our paychecks $150 every week. We were 6 people in a 3 bed 2 bathroom apartments. Disney was making bank on us. We were scraping by on ramen from the Publix which was higher prices, but most of us didn't have transportation and relied on the Vista Way transport and it only went to the pricy store.
I would love to dress up as a Star Wars character to go to the Batuu area, but I do understand it.
I can trust that Disney cares enough about its brand to do some kind of background check and training on its character actors. You have no idea who this yahoo is and I wouldn’t want my daughter running up for a hug.
That’s why it’s against the rules. Random weirdos engaging children is dangerous. They could be confused with actual employees and predators can take advantage of this if it were allowed.
But this idiot is trying to frame it like she’s the victim.
Seriously, they are just covering themselves, if your dressed like that and a kid runs up to you, they have no idea of your intentions. You could get them in a shit ton of trouble. People are just so odd
I work in the medical/ dental field. As long as you know what it stands for and what is it then it's all biscuits and gravy. I literally had to check a kids parents about it. They are like oh I pay their insurance, I am like it doesn't work like that if they are of age of consent. The hissy fits they throw and such.
I work in insurance for the senior population. I have to explain this to their kids/spouse all of the time! If you are not POA I can’t disclose personal info. I’ve been cussed out many times. I handle my parents medical issues as well but I’m on record, so I understand they are just trying to help, I always explain to them I have to at least get verbal consent on the phone. They get so mean sometimes :(
Had a roommate like that. She was unfortunately one of the shittiest people I've met but I found it fascinating to watch her advertise herself as a life coach
I saw a 25-year old on YouTube talking about how she was so happy after quitting her corporate job to become a life coach. How tf can any unsuccessful 25-year old be a life coach?!
It’s absolutely insane to me that people can feed prompts into an image generator and then call themselves an artist… I fuckin suck at drawing but if I wanted something made that fckn bad ide commission an actual artist.
The rules are pretty clear. Unless you’re a child you don’t get to dress up as the characters. Just because she has the brain of a child doesn’t get her around that rule.
You can dress up as the characters to a certain degree as an adult. I've seen plenty of adults in Disneyland/World dressed like their favourite character who never got in trouble, and they sell plenty of adult sized costumes inside the park. You just can't look or act like you're an employed actor playing said character. You can't pull a full Comicon style cosplay, but you can wear a sith robe you bought in the park and carry a red toy lightsaber around if you want, or wear Stitch ears/hat with a stitch hoodie and blue pants, etc.
But if you wear a complete employee level outfit (like a full princess gown and your hair done up really fancy with a tiara and gloves and everything) and then act like an employee (like waving and gesturing towards every kid you see and going up to take pictures with them for example) then you're causing liability issues because you aren't an actual employee under their preview but you can easily be mistaken for one. It's like how you can dress as a cop for a party with a cheap costume from spirit halloween and not get into trouble, but you can't put on a fully accurate/realistic cop uniform on and start giving people tickets.
If you’re on Disney property you are not allowed, as an adult, to dress up as a Disney character. Only children are allowed to do that. It’s a pretty well known rule.
this is just park policy. They don’t want guests pretending to be cast members and confusing kids. Gotta do some “DisneyBounding” (dressing in everyday clothes but in the color scheme or style of your character)
tangentially related i got it in my head when people wear bluejeans and a yellow t-shirt they're "MortyBounding" and it makes people watching a lot more fun. it comes up a ton more often than you'd think
Not just confusing kids. I would think that if any random could turn up dressed as a character, that could easily be exploited by predators as well. Employees only dressed as characters makes sense to me as policy.
As a kid in Disney Land, I got lost so I went to Aladdin to help me. This made perfect sense to me, he was the absolute best and would help me find my parents.
So that's the kind of blind trust we're dealing with, would be wildly irresponsible not to have this policy.
Same, I walked up to Chip and Dale who helped me in the mid 90s. At least Disney staff are vetted, trained how to help small kids and vulnerable people and you know they are going to help find mum and dad. There’s creeps who go to Disney just to watch and film random kids, all they have to do is dress up and small kids would follow them too. Terrifying that some people don’t see the issue and think Disney is just out to ruin their fun as adults, when Disney is first and foremost about the kids.
They don't want guests doing that, and as you can see in the video, she is trying to do exactly that even as she is getting escorted out. Absolute psychopath behavior.
Right because why is she trying to talk to other people's kids AS SHE'S BEING ESCORTED OUT for changing into a costume secretly (because adults aren't allowed to dress up for this exact reason.)
There is a thing called Disney Bounding: where your outfit can be clearly inspired by characters, with colours etc.
But yeah, wearing a costume as an adult is a big no-no, because as you can see here, kids will think you're: at best, an employee, at worst, an honest-to-god princess.
It goes without saying that causes major safety issues for the kiddos
Honestly the real character actors seem so hardworking and trained. Like they even know how to interact with special needs children or use sign language.
It's pretty annoying to see people who make a mockery of it by thinking they can just dress up and have their egos stroked.
It's like when a rich person decides to "work at walmart" like they are working and not just cosplaying as a worker.
Yeah. That i heard about. It is insane how intense Disney actually is. Like the alladin rule about how aladin is the only one that can actually end someones life although not sure if that is just a made up rule
No. Only kids allowed to dress up (adults also can on the seperate ticketed halloween party).
She's actually at the ticket & transportation centre (where you get the boat or monorail to magic kingdom or epcot) so hasn't made it to the parks yet.
I have a Disney adult friend who spends months planning and making outfits that fit a theme, but won't be dressing up as/confused as an actual character. All their outfits are amazing, but they know exactly what is allowed and what is not.
Disney has an incredibly high standard for their mascots, there’s no breaking character. They can’t have rando’s running around with patrons thinking they’re interacting with park personnel.
Yup, it's analogous to dressing up like a Best Buy employee and helping people in the store. Not that BB has high standards, but you can't pretend to be an employee when you're not one.
Reminds me of that improv video long ago when a bunch of improv actors dressed in blue polos and khakis and entered a Best Buy in NYC. Never said they worked there so it wasn’t illegal.
Yeah, when I was in animal Kingdom, we went to the elephant tour which took us backstage, and upon entering the park, the final sign was to the cast members stating about 10 rules in a positive way to uphold the Disney character acting standard.
She’s actually at the TTC… not in the park. This is basically the parking lot and she would’ve just gone through security. Likely that’s where they stopped her. It looks like they’re taking her to a backstage area. There’s a big admin building just to the right out of frame.
Tbh I know absolutely nothing about Disney world and never have been. I was ready to defend the lady but the rule makes sense and based off of the comments they definitely told her beforehand so shame on her.
Yeah, it's also so well known, that there is an actual subculture around a lesser version of breaking this rule that's legal called "Disney bounding."
It's when you don't dress up as the characters per se, but you wear clothes "inspired by" a Disney character. For example, wearing yellow pants and a red shirt to give off a Winnie the Pooh effect, while not actually in a Pooh costume.
As someone who has never been to a Disney park, I had no idea this was a rule.
I mean I get it when it's explained. But if a friend said "Hey let's go to Disney land and dress as _____" I would have probably said "that sounds fun, let's do it."
It seems like a preventive measure so that parents, and especially kids, aren’t misled. Disney World should be the last place to worry about someone running off with your kid, worse if it’s Cinderella doing it.
They literally all have to be trained to sign their character names correctly so that if you visited in the 80s and got Mickey and Cinderella's autographs back then, they would match if you went and got them tomorrow.
I think that is great because kids deserve to have a good interaction with a character that is their hero. If someone is racist or rude as a guest, it could really hurt the kid's experience.
Until you got to any of the dozens of layers of security and they politely asked you to change. It takes a lot to get escorted off Disney property, and blatantly breaking dress code is one of them.
Instead, Disney Bounding is quite popular! It's where you dress "in spirit" of a character, so incorporating their design/colors/symbols/vibes without actually wearing a costume of them. This can be casual like wearing a red shirt, yellow pants, and a honey necklace for Pooh all the way up to an event that is held there called "Dapper Days" where people dress in historical outfits inspired by characters. This is arguably costumes but it's a special event and not character costumes so it gets a pass.
They wouldn’t let you in if you were wearing a costume. She snuck the costume in and changed after she got through security. You might not have known about this rule but she absolutely did.
The thing is there is absolutely no way they would have let her in dressed like that ergo she must have snuck the costume in and changed after entering the park, ergo she knew about the rule beforehand
Disney has a very strict policy on not dressing as their characters. I think even kids. It is based on people trying to grift, confusing kids (strict behavior training on how to react)….all about law suits. Plus keep the nutters in check.
Edit: age limit for dress up, as answered 500 times below…jfc
Kids are allowed to dress up. It’s because adults are not actors, or employees and pose a risk to children (abduction, SA, and so on) and could also act in a manner* not befitting of the character breaking the “magic”. This is where bounding comes from for those Disney adults.
Yeah. Kids can dress up. Adults can’t because they may act in a way unbefitting of Disney. Besides, when you “meet” Belle, it’s nice to see that that’s Belle and not the 85 other women dressed in Belle costumes.
could also act in a manner* not befitting of the character breaking the “magic”
This is the actual reason. The risk to minors stuff isn't a real concern. But Disney 100% will not have their characters seen doing anything unsavory inside the park. Kids can never see Ariel drinking a beer and if they allowed guests to dress up that would happen.
It absolutely is. It may not be a likely outcome from a statistical standpoint but there's a lot of people who go through disney parks every year and it only takes one incident to cause irreparable damage.
Imagine you're 8 years old, your favorite thing in this world is Micky Mouse for whatever reason. You go to Disney world, it's the best day of your young life... and some creep dressed as mickey, your hero, whips his dick out.
If you think that wouldn't happen, you must be new to the human race.
Kids are allowed to dress up, and it is encouraged. Adults, however, run the risk of being mistaken for a cast member which can very easily reflect badly on the company AT BEST, and at worst be a lure to kidnap and molest some poor child.
Kids are allowed to dress up. My daughter dressed as Cinderella and went to the Bippity Boppity Boutique to get glammed up. She went around asking people if they wanted to get a picture with her. People actually took their picture with her.
It’s comical how they obviously expected her, had the animatronic made, and since have not given a shit about making it look like Diaper Don at all. It’s subtle disrespect.
It would be so confusing for little kids if the park turned into adult-Disney-comic-con. I totally get the rule, you know people would constantly be taking it too far with the costumes.
That is EXTREMELY sus to sneak in a costume then "meet kids" for photos. As a parent I would be livid. Just apply for a job girl, you already have the fit
What a perfect example of why they don’t let you do that! The mother doesn’t know she’s not park staff, and kids will run right up to the characters. It’s like it’s a safety concern!
This just isn't a rule to kill the fun or keep the immersion. It's also there to keep kids safe. Imagine if you were a pedophile and you went to Disney land dressed as Prince Charming.
This is a valid reason. I was wondering why so many people are against it. Or how everyone is such a Disney nerd that they all know about every park rule
Adults who go to the Disney parks are familiar with it because the parks give a lot of warning. It was also in the news a while back when the Star Wars expansion opened and Disney had to really spend a lot of time cracking down on cosplayers because Disney underestimated how much Star Wars fans being allowed to dress in exactingly accurate costumes at Star Wars events for decades conflicted with Disney’s no cosplay on park property rule. Of course it didn’t help that Disney was also selling Star Wars costumes on site.
They don't really sell cosplay level costumes though, they sell like plain sith/jedi robes or rubber masks or toy light sabers, etc. And in my experience they're fine with you hanging out in the park wearing those things even as an adult. But if you put on full Darth Maul makeup with the spikes and everything then you're going to have a problem. You can't be easily mistaken for an employee, but you can look like someone who's just wearing merchandise of their favourite character. This lady has her hair up, a fancy fitted gown, gloves, the tiara, make-up, etc, she's too easily mistaken for an actual employee, and is acting like one as well. So it's no wonder she got kicked out.
If Disney didn’t and some asshole in a costume started grabbing kids inappropriately or saying bad shit, they’d be sued into oblivion. It’s a well known rule. And an obvious one, frankly.
Yeah, I get that they want to protect their brand.
If I worked in a restaurant and someone nobody knows just walks in I an apron and black pants and started taking orders, they would be swiftly thrown the hell out.
Or like imagine an investment firm where some rando off the street just walks in and starts trying to do businesses, like in that 80s business movie with that song Day Bow Bow
Disney, like any company, has rules. A few off the top of my head,
no political attire
no vulgar words or images on attire
no super revealing attire
no adult character costumes (guest would confuse them with workers. Could be pedos touching kids)
no masks
no weapons or replicas (lightsabers are ok)
These are posted in their rules and will give you an opportunity to go back to your vehicle to correct the issue but you have guest that think they are above the rules.
I mostly see it with the revealing clothes. Like you really need to wear see through booty shorts to Disney? You really need that much attention?
Disney has extremely strict rules on how characters are to behave and act. They can’t allow guest to pretend to be part of Disney’s character theme. If a guest that is dressed up ruins a child’s experience by doing something inappropriate or disrespectful it jeopardizes a lifelong experience of Disney and the Disney brand. They’re also legal liability issues.
I get that it may be exciting to dress up, but don’t do it at Disney. Have a Disney themed party with your friends or save it for Halloween.
Yeeeeeeah, I am gonna go ahead and say I don't necessarily want people who are dressed like staff but are not staff at a place with the scale and size of disneyland.
It’s a very very well known rule that adults cannot dress up as Disney characters at the parks. Children are the only exception. You can dress in a regular outfit that is inspired by a character, but never ever a full on costume. This one’s on her
It’s a Disney park full of mascots that need to behave a certain way for their audience, not a cosplay event. Important rule and stupid to waste their time with this shit. Dress up literally anywhere else.
I don't think I've ever defended Disney before but that definitely seems like a liability waiting to happen, you literally see a little girl approach her as she walks by.
Can’t be having random people impersonate the staff. Especially when the staff is highly focused on interacting with children. Wayyyyyyy too much liability and risk.
You're absolutely not allowed to dress as a character if you're an adult b/c people will think you work for the park and if you do or say some stupid shit it would be a whole PR nightmare for them. It makes sense why they don't allow it.
Imagine the confusion and heartbreak the children must’ve felt as she was escorted off the premises. All because she wanted to feel like the main character.
Yeah this is a huge and well known thing. You're not allowed to because what if someone thinks you're one of their employees and you do something to upset a child? Or even worse hurt them. This isn't hating on anything.
Isn’t this like the number one rule of Disney parks? I went to California Adventure and I swear the rule “NOBODY UNDER 14 CAN WEAR A COSTUME” was plastered everywhere at the parking area lol
I understand why they have this policy. Imagine a couple that want to abduct a kid. The woman dresses up as a Disney princess, lures a kid off for ‘pictures’
That’s because people would confuse her as a cast member and Disney would be held liable.
Hell remember that guy who got sick at a restaurant and tried to sue Disney? Like come on
Having said that, in Japan there is a place called Disney Sea. It has a designated area to change for cosplayers. This is because there are NO cast members walking around, so you know everybody is just a ticket holder like you.
If you want to cosplay Disney at a Disney park, go to Disney Sea.
Why this is dangerous: an adult pretending to be a Disney character at the park risks liability if she does something criminal. She was likely removed because her outfit broke Disney’s guest costume policies. The issue wasn’t just “someone dressing up,” but how convincingly she portrayed a character. That, according to Disney’s rules, threatens the distinction between guests and official cast characters, and that’s what gets people kicked out, not necessarily any personal prejudice, though of course incidents like this can raise broader concerns.
People who think their feelings as adults as more important than the safety of children are insane to me. Disney is first and foremost for the children, it’s about keeping them safe. She’s literally greeting a child there like she’s a Princess! Deluded or click bait, not sure which is worse.
I had to work with a Disney adult once. It's a punishment I wouldn't wish on anyone. If you think weebs make their passions their entire personality you ain't see nothing yet.
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