I hate talking to weird people...

[flippin_mermaid]

I used to work at Disneyland (I quit in April), but I still somehow end up talking to people outside the park about the place!
So yesterday I'm at a friend's party and someone starts talking about Disneyland and they bring it to everyone's attention that I used to work there. So this guy proceeds to tell me that he won't ever take his 2 and 4 year old there again because he "heard" from some other guy that the people in the characters costumes don't wear clothes under the costume...I was like, "What?? That's insane, I've never seen that..." and he SWEARS that this guy told him that they were in Critter Country getting their pictures taken with Pooh and that Pooh crouched down and the front of the costume ripped open and the guy's *ahem* "wang" popped out at everyone!
I started laughing because it was just ridiculous and the guy got mad at me and told me "Now I know WHY they don't want you to work there...you think it's funny!" and I tried to explain that the cast members that *I* know and have seen ALWAYS wear clothing of some sort covering their body while in the costumes and that the costume couldn't rip open THAT easily, etc. He claims this just recently happened and that there is a lawsuit against Disney now because of it....PLEASE tell me this isn't even true because I would feel so stupid after telling him he was lame for believing that story!
Anyway, it was pretty funny...

[Polar33]

Flippin_mermaid, I think it's a pretty safe bet that this alleged incident never happened. For one, they do wear clothes under the costumes...I think it would be a health issue not too. And second, if this were true the news media would have picked up on it by now and the coverage would have rivaled that of the alleged tigger molestation at WDW. And lastly, In all the time I've worked at Disneyland encountering characters backstage on a daily basis, I've never seen a single guy playing Pooh. Not once. Not that there aren't guys that do, but I think the odds are next to none.

That guy just has some pretty perverted thoughts.

[flippin_mermaid]

Polar, yeah that's my point! That's what I was trying to tell the guy...he was so weird! I've talked to people before (even guests WHILE I worked at Disneyland) who were insistant that Disney always had some weird stuff going on...like guests who would try to get me to tell "the secrets" of the place and stuff...just too strange!
I also know people who play characters and I was often around them backstage while at work anyway...I tried to tell the guy how this just could not have happened but he was SO insistant and he was MAD at me for contradicting him...

So, oh well! Thanks for at least making me SURE that I was right!

[Cloud Buster]

I work in entertainment and can tell you definitively (as if you didn't already know) that the charaters ALL wear clothes. In fact they have to wear Disney-issued garments over their personal under garments. Looks like a half jumpsuit and sweat pants.

[lovethefuzzies]

Why would anyone WANT to be naked in costume? Gross. We wear underdressings. We check them out and turn them in at night. Some people choose to wear their own clothes as underdressings, but if it looks wrong a lead will make them change.

And there are several males in the Pooh height range.

[lady ulrike]

Also, don't all of the costumes fasten in the back? So, it'd be pretty tough for any guy's 'wang' to pop out of any of the suits.

[lovethefuzzies]

Not all of them do, but Pooh's does fasten in the back.

[DLSweeper]

Man! That is so stupid! YEAH! Like that would really happen! I've seen them w/o their costumes on and, yeah! they wear clothes underneath. Man, just a stupid rumour to get people ticked off.

[IDTDD]

:sick1: I have to agree with lovethefuzzies on this one. I'm an ex-costuming cast member (yes, I know you all hate(d) us)and I worked on parades and in the character "headroom" for quite some time while I was there. Not only is it a rule that the characters have to wear Disney issued underdressings (the only exception is for the people that laundered and sometimes supplied their own stuff due to detergent allergies and such) under their character costumes, but very few of the costumes get washed on a daily basis. One would have to have no regard for personal hygeine and frankly be a sick puppy to want to go commando under one of those things. Not only that, unless things have changed drastically, those costumes get checked every time they come in for holes and weak seams (not to say that a bad one never gets through, some people just take no pride in their jobs, or just plain don't know what they are doing, and well, I'll admit it can be easy to miss.). Plus in the Pooh costume, there are rings that hold it out in a circle to make him look pudgy and a full padding underneath. It would have been pretty difficult for any guest to have seen his "wang" unless the costume AND the padding ripped open simultaneously to ehm...expose him. That's very unlikely. I think your story teller is doing just that...telling stories.

[DLSweeper]

:sick1: I think your story teller is doing just that ... telling stories.
Well, I'm totally glad that we worked that out! Man, like someone would really do that!

[Wizard69]

:sick1: I have to agree with lovethefuzzies on this one. I'm an ex-costuming cast member (yes, I know you all hate(d) us).
I hate parade CMs. Why do you have to put your damn trailers blocking our break room? You should put one of the trailers across the way in front of the conference room and get it the hell out of in front of our break room. I hate having to go around your stupid trailers every day just to get to the break room. I know it would fit across the way from the end of the marked fire area in front of the conference room and it won't even block any of the floats. They hardly use those storage sheds anyways. And it wouldn't be in the traffic of vehicles either.

[hulkcoaster]

You hate all parade CMs because they all got togehter and said, lets make a management decision and put this trailer here just to piss you off? :roll: I doubt it.

[Polar33]

Assuming that we are talking about the break room at Egghouse gate, that break room is destined to always be blocked anyways. If it's not entertainment, it's merch delivery trailers; if it's not merch delivery trailers, it's food delivery trucks; if it's not food delivery trucks, it's the construction crews. I don't think there is a single department who can honestly say that they have never clogged up that area.

[lovethefuzzies]

I hate parade CMs. Why do you have to put your damn trailers blocking our break room? You should put one of the trailers across the way in front of the conference room and get it the hell out of in front of our break room. I hate having to go around your stupid trailers every day just to get to the break room. I know it would fit across the way from the end of the marked fire area in front of the conference room and it won't even block any of the floats. They hardly use those storage sheds anyways. And it wouldn't be in the traffic of vehicles either.
Oh my gosh. So you have to walk a few extra steps after they've been dancing their sweaty asses through the park for 30 minutes while wearing furry lockers.

[BirdMom]

I'm an ex-costuming cast member (yes, I know you all hate(d) us) and I worked on parades and in the character "headroom" for quite some time while I was there.
Oh you poor thing! My sister-in-law used to be Mickey in parades, but sometimes they would stick her in one of the little monkey costumes or she'd be Dopey. She was talking about one parade where some dancer literally vomited inside her costume and the parade captains wanted her to just go ahead and put the thing on and get out the gate! She had all kinds of stories about the younger dancers coming in drunk or stoned and getting sick or extra-sweaty inside their costumes. Gag!!! So, you, you poor IDTDD had to deal with the after effects of those fools....

The idiot referred to in the first post of this thread must have heard a variation on the Florida Tigger incident. At least the poor c.m. got acquitted.... Isn't it funny how those fools don't know what they're talking about, yet they insist that they are right? :hammer:

[GMC]

a few things, one, if someone tried to tell me a wang pooped out of a costume, i would have had a few responses.. "well did you pop it back in for the guy, he probly didn't know!" or "pooh, wang, no, pooh and tigger and all them are plush toys, no wangs, not costumes, if they ripped open you probly saw questionably shaped stuffing " and i would have continuted to insist that pooh was a giant moving stuffed animal, until the guy got mad and left.

two, YOU ACTUALLY GO AROUND THOSE!? i just squeeze by, or go through the middle if they look like they're pretty much done changing, there's always enough room to go between that tree, and the carts, and when they look at the random conductor squeezing through, "their" area, i say hello, or get a very serious look on my face and nod.

3 the parade route isn't so bad, i've marched it, then agian, every time i've marched it it's rained. i've done worse parades,though, and feild shows, in 105 degree (dry heat, and probly an underestimate) in a wool uniform, made of mostly dark colors, carrying a large metal instrument that requires mass quanitites of air, and has to be kept parallel to the ground at all times, unless we're "to the box" which requires 45 degree angle and sometimes twisting the upper half of your body in the opposite direction of the feet, even if it means, you're almost completly turned around. You're playing and you WANT to puke, but that horn and that uniform are you life, and you're not going to do anything to ruin them, and if it comes up you swollow it back down, and take it up an octave! You're doing all this while all movement happens below the hips, your shoulders are square and back, your chest is broad, your chin is up, and the look on your face can freeze beer in the Mojave Desert! and the only thing that should make those chicken feathers on your head ruffle, is the wind, and if you can find a way to prevent that, THAN BY GOLLY YOU BETTER! And VPHS was probly one of the most relaxed band in scsoba, but they've changed "leauges" and are now working on being more hardcore.

[Stduck]

3 the parade route isn't so bad, i've marched it, then agian, every time i've marched it it's rained. i've done worse parades,though, and feild shows, in 105 degree (dry heat, and probly an underestimate) in a wool uniform, made of mostly dark colors, carrying a large metal instrument that requires mass quanitites of air, and has to be kept parallel to the ground at all times, unless we're "to the box" which requires 45 degree angle and sometimes twisting the upper half of your body in the opposite direction of the feet, even if it means, you're almost completly turned around. You're playing and you WANT to puke, but that horn and that uniform are you life, and you're not going to do anything to ruin them, and if it comes up you swollow it back down, and take it up an octave! You're doing all this while all movement happens below the hips, your shoulders are square and back, your chest is broad, your chin is up, and the look on your face can freeze beer in the Mojave Desert! and the only thing that should make those chicken feathers on your head ruffle, is the wind, and if you can find a way to prevent that, THAN BY GOLLY YOU BETTER! And VPHS was probly one of the most relaxed band in scsoba, but they've changed "leauges" and are now working on being more hardcore.
Former band geek I take it. I know and have felt all the pain you have described in the above quote. (Except the horns parallel to the ground I marched clarinet.) People don't realise how much hard work goes into performing whether its music, actors, singers etc. I give cudos to our fuzzies for taking the beating they do every day. I also give cudos to our face characters for the unbelievable amount of patience they have. People with "wang revieling stories" just want attention cause they either have been rejected as a performer or feel they aren't good enough.

[lovethefuzzies]

I was never a "band geek" (you said it, not me) nor do I do parades. I do know, however, that even after doing two parades a day (now it's one per day) 5+ times per week, for lord knows how many weeks straight, every one of those CMs STILL comes off set out of breath and sweating like hell. It's not easy stuff.

[Stduck]

Oh I can imagine. I've done that parade root from a marching band perspective. It wasn't fun and we had to march all the way back to the dressing rooms after the parade. As for dancing down the parade root in the POS. I was a guest performer and I was sweating and dying and I could only imagine how poor Meeko (my dance partner) was doing. I give kudos again to all our fuzzies. They put up with a lot of crap but we love them and they make the guests happy.

[GMC]

second parade has got to be the hardest though, when we had one... it's up hill, we did that one year, and luckily it was a frigid winter day, but my legs were so sore after that, espicailly trying not to slip and fall flat on my (trom)bone, it was also very interesting being the guide for the entire block of people and having one of our drum majors in a wheel chair, pushed by a less compotent member, get stuck in the street car track half the blok tried to go around, the other half followed ettiqute and slowed to my pace, and that third half that always manages to get in there, starts yell at everybody... the only people talking should have been me, and the section leaders, and the drum majors, but no everybody had to say something, so the orders that were called were drown out, then the drums cued our horns up. anyway back to the story, my legs really hurt after trudging the entire route.

Doing parade crossing for trains on a busy day, i've heard what some of those characters say when they get to the top of the park, and it isn't always all that great.

[corrinhorn]

Ah...A fellow bone, Did You do anything playing-wise After Villa Park? I have marched that parade route so many times, it isn't even funny. I think that my middle school holds the record for the fastest time down the parade route. We had a Middle School center guide who was 6'3" and a nervous DM who whistled us off at about 1 1/2 speed. It probably took us about 12 minutes from Small World to Firehouse. (we got in so much trouble from our Director) :D

That Parade route is tough, but nothing like doing 3 RCC Field Shows in one night. But I still respect the paraders for doing their job.

[GMC]

not doing anything right now, just got out of high school, and i'm taking a semester off from school, well witht he exception of an ROP class. but yeah, every time we went to go march, we'd be announced, the gates would open, and it would start to rain, the other gates would open, the rear color gaurd would go through, and the rain would stop... it's probly a good thing i'm not in POTS because at disneyland, it always rains on my parade. Oh the day we had planned on going to DL but couldn't due to disciplinary reasons... rain was in the forecast, however, i don't think it actually ever rained.

[Zazu]

Count me in as another retired marching trombonist. This gang wouldn't make very good music, but we'd sure have fun doing it!

[screnwriter]

I used to work at Disneyland (I quit in April), but I still somehow end up talking to people outside the park about the place!

So yesterday I'm at a friend's party and someone starts talking about Disneyland and they bring it to everyone's attention that I used to work there. So this guy proceeds to tell me that he won't ever take his 2 and 4 year old there again because he "heard" from some other guy that the people in the characters costumes don't wear clothes under the costume... I was like, "What?? That's insane, I've never seen that..." and he SWEARS that this guy told him that they were in Critter Country getting their pictures taken with Pooh and that Pooh crouched down and the front of the costume ripped open and the guy's *ahem* "wang" popped out at everyone!

I started laughing because it was just ridiculous and the guy got mad at me and told me "Now I know WHY they don't want you to work there... you think it's funny!" and I tried to explain that the cast members that *I* know and have seen ALWAYS wear clothing of some sort covering their body while in the costumes and that the costume couldn't rip open THAT easily, etc. He claims this just recently happened and that there is a lawsuit against Disney now because of it.... PLEASE tell me this isn't even true because I would feel so stupid after telling him he was lame for believing that story!

Anyway, it was pretty funny...
THere was the case, years ago, of a family that tried to sue the park because the entire family had been taken backstage and saw the characters, "with their heads off, and the weird breathing apparatus that they wear underneath, and it gave my kids nightmares!"

First of all, there has never been any breathing apparatus under any Disney character head!! We've worn ice vests on hot days to keep the ol' body temp down, but no breathing apparatus. And anyway, if I were a judge, and some idjit brought that one into my court, I'd simply ask if the kids had ever trick or treated. Yes? They have? And did your kids ever see their friends take off their masks? They did? Case dismissed!

Oh, and why did this family get taken backstage in the first place? THEY'D BEEN CAUGHT SHOPLIFTING!!! Great thing to teach your children...

[nitro-junkie]

That Wizard 69 kook needs to do three things:

1. Develop a work ethic, and realize that if you're gonna be dumb you better be tough. So you have to walk a few steps more; it'll counteract your excessive caloric intake.

2. STFU.

3. Grow a pair, and take up the parade parking procedures with Show Support management; it sounds to me like somebody lacks the courage of their convictions.

Or is this just another case of "Playskool's My First Job"? :twisted:

[dannydp]

That Wizard 69 kook needs to do three things:

1. Develop a work ethic, and realize that if you're gonna be dumb you better be tough. So you have to walk a few steps more; it'll counteract your excessive caloric intake.

2. STFU.

3. Grow a pair, and take up the parade parking procedures with Show Support management; it sounds to me like somebody lacks the courage of their convictions.

Or is this just another case of "Playskool's My First Job"? :twisted:
Actually it's a case of we come here to vent. From the last few posts you've made, it seems like you don't quite understand this idea.

[GMC]

it's cool though, #3 is refreshing after being surrounded by magic nonstop for the past since november 1st. and we do get quite a bit of that playskool's first job cases, i was a trainer, and a suto lead at my second job which i hled for a year and a half before i was old enough to work at the resort doing something that i knew i'd enjoy doing.

[nitro-junkie]

All I'm doing is venting. What, someone can vent on my job, but I can't vent on them? It's okay to talk smack on guests, but not on each other? What kind of double standard is that?

It's an internet post. Take it with a grain of salt. I sure as hell do.

[goose]

I get pissed off about a lot things at work. But the trailers in front of the breakroom never bothered me. The few times I have used the breakroom during that time I have squeezed between the trailers or I have walked around them. I walk so much at DL I don't even notice a few extra steps.