The Dangers of Standing in front of the Mickey planter....

[Stduck]

This was many years back when I was a wee high school student.

My high school band was performing in the park and my brother and best friend and her brother were waiting for us to get there. I told them to wait at the mickey flower bed planter in the front of the park. Easy to find and we would run into them on our way in. My brother told me this one.

This asian group of 20 or so came up to my brother and my friend and said the famous "Take Picture?" My brother said "Sure" thinking they meant that they wanted him to take a picture of them as he reached to take the camera. The guy stepped back slightly and said "No picture of you!" My poor brother, friend and her brother were dragged into this picture of Asian tourists. My brother later told me he was never waiting for me in front of the mickey planter again.

[DLSweeper]

I heard of CMs being in pictures, but random guests... Now that's just strange! :lol:

Have you been currupted by the by the statue yet? If you look at it at a certain angle, it looks like Walt has a boner. =^^=

[Stduck]

No I have no the next time I am around the hub I will have to look. Argh Disney for corrupting my sweet innocent mind.

[IndyBob]

I heard of CMs being in pictures, but random guests... Now that's just strange! :lol:
I use to get into peoples pics as they took it of themselves or their family on the attractions. It was good fun!

[Weeble]

Japanese girls love blonde cowboys. All the white breads on BTM used to get massive play from the ladies. Hehehe

[Stduck]

Japanese girls love blonde cowboys. All the white breads on BTM used to get massive play from the ladies. Hehehe
Yeah my brother is a blonde, but it was a gentleman that asked about the picture... :shock:

[GMC]

my sister and her friend are blondes, and they were in the park and some asians took their picture with them, i've heard it's because they're facinated with our culture, and want to be just like us. hmm, they like blonde cowboys eh, does the indy costume count as a blonde cowboy, or do i need to try and cross train in october?

[flippin_mermaid]

I've had my picture taken lots of times by guests while I was working AND while *I* was a guest in the park. I've been asked to have my picture taken down at the beach a few times and then also at Knott's Berry Farm. Oh! And once in an airport. By tourists of course. I think it's fun. =)

[coldfire409]

Several times I've had guests ask if I can be in the picture. Many times they've said that the liked the costume :roll: Although I have no idea who would like my costume, unless I'm gangster or bandit. Oh well what can you really do.

[missvampunk]

wel i dont know about guys but the asians want to take pics with the girls cause when they get back.. its like i had this one while i was there these are the kinds of girls for sex and crap like that.. it was on the news.

[flippin_mermaid]

wel i dont know about guys but the asians want to take pics with the girls cause when they get back.. its like i had this one while i was there these are the kinds of girls for sex and crap like that.. it was on the news.
You heard that on the NEWS?
Anyway, I don't think it's that big a deal. I'm sure there ARE guys who will do that in ANY culture...even our precious American boys! Even girls. Some people go to other countries and want to look like a stud so they pretend that they screwed these girls they took pics with and they compare them to other girls, etc. But I thought it was common knowledge that we all know that SOME people do this? Or is it just my dirty mind? Anyway, it's WHY I like getting my pic taken! I'll be an international slut without ever having to do ANYTHING but stand and look cute. :P

And I'm joking by the way, for those who are sensitive or serious.

[Main Streeter]

Anyway, it's WHY I like getting my pic taken! I'll be an international slut without ever having to do ANYTHING but stand and look cute. :P
And I'm joking by the way, for those who are sensitive or serious.
HA! Rather interesting quote & unusual way to look at photo op 8) Hope you get paid WELL for being "international slut." Seems like a huge amt of fame to handle alone :wink: Sensitive or serious posters here? NEVER gonna happen :lol:

[flippin_mermaid]

HA! Rather interesting quote & unusual way to look at photo op 8) Hope you get paid WELL for being "international slut." Seems like a huge amt of fame to handle alone :wink: Sensitive or serious posters here? NEVER gonna happen :lol:
Yeah, I don't get paid for it, but the sly smiles I get are the rewarding part. :P I tell yah, being an international slut is tough work!

[Grumpy]

Have you been currupted by the by the statue yet? If you look at it at a certain angle, it looks like Walt has a boner. =^^=
you mean with Mickey's nose in the way? In all honesty, I think you have to be in a certain height range to see it that way. I was trying to check it out from all certain angles that I know, and Mickey's nose doesn't go any higher than Walt's thight. Keep in mind, I am 5' tall. My b/f on the other hand, is 6'2". He tried looking to see if this boner thing is visible to him; he said that Mickey's nose is too high to be visually seen as a boner on Walt.

[lady ulrike]

Yeah, the Walt's boner thing is a bit of a stretch. I can see it, but it's not the perfect level, it is a little high. You just have to kind of glance at it to see it right, I think, but it is funny. :)

[IndyandMarion]

If you look at it at a certain angle, it looks like Walt has a boner. =^^=
I dont know whats more wrong with this.

1. The whole fact that this might be true (Havent seen it myself)
2. Or the whole fact (And God I hope noth) that you actually noticed this yourself.

:lol:

[thedingo]

I don't know about the Disneyland version, but its certainly noticeable in the Magic Kingdom version ad WDW...and as for how noticed it... my trainer pointed it out on our first day :shock: :lol:

[IndyandMarion]

Oh. Ok. Well least you shown the item.

Least it proves that although you may have some time on your hands, you dont have THAT much time to actually look at the statue for a minute and say "you know what..."

[GMC]

it works at disneyland too, i used to hang around with some AP's who know everything there is to know about Disney, even though i could put them to shame with everything i've accumulated in just under five months (has it really been that long) here, but they made sure i saw it, if you ask me it looks more like he's got a nose protruding from his fly, but if you want to picture Walt with a hard on... well maybe you should see someone about that.

[coldfire409]

Recently I went to an event in downtown Orlando, and the doors wern't quite open yet. Now I didn't have any credintals on, I wasn't wearing anything really special, just shorts and a t-shirt. Needless to say I was constanly asked questions and I have no idea why.

[Stduck]

Recently I went to an event in downtown Orlando, and the doors wern't quite open yet. Now I didn't have any credintals on, I wasn't wearing anything really special, just shorts and a t-shirt. Needless to say I was constanly asked questions and I have no idea why.
There was an invisable sign only to be seen by those who are stupid. It read "I have answers ask me questions" Kind of the same sign we have when we are playing in the park and guests ask us questions.

[Main Streeter]

There was an invisable sign only to be seen by those who are stupid. It read "I have answers ask me questions" Kind of the same sign we have when we are playing in the park and guests ask us questions.
HA! This was going to be my exact post too. Think when we play in The Park we must automatically have ODV glow around us stating; "We are CMs. We aren't working but hey, ask us any stupid thing while guests @ DLR." :bang:

[Stduck]

Great minds think a like. Just proves that all of us CMs are demented! It also doesn't help when we are point out to our non-CM friends how to get somewhere and we do the whole disney point thing. Yeah all my friends thinks its hillarius....

[1team1dream]

Great minds think a like. Just proves that all of us CMs are demented! It also doesn't help when we are point out to our non-CM friends how to get somewhere and we do the whole disney point thing. Yeah all my friends thinks its hillarius....
that dang pointing thing is such a dead giveaway, I can't tell you how many times i've been called out on it!!! :cry:

[Stduck]

Great minds think a like. Just proves that all of us CMs are demented! It also doesn't help when we are point out to our non-CM friends how to get somewhere and we do the whole disney point thing. Yeah all my friends thinks its hillarius....
that dang pointing thing is such a dead giveaway, I can't tell you how many times i've been called out on it!!! :cry:
I was called on it by an AP friend of mine who works at LLC (for you non-san diego residents that's Legoland California). I was standing on Main Street talking to them (I was in costume) and was about to go back stage to clock out. We were going to meet for a LATE dinner at Coco's. I was giving directions by pointing where to go and she said "I love your Disney Point" I looked at her and said "Argh! Must you point that out? I am on stage and in costume. I have to point like this"

[Yfoog]

My cousins and I would stand by the planter, pretending to be reading the entertainment guide, but in reality seeing how many photos we could appear in the background.
One day we picked a family at random, tailing them for hours throughout the park, and jumping somewhere the background every time they pulled out their camera. Nearly every shot had us in it.

[LostMalfoy]

This whole, being in a foreign guest's picture thing has happened to me before, and to my friend's brother; I think it's unavoidable. It's funny when there's a group of like...20 of them, all in business suits and huge glasses and they just stop random people as they pass by. I used to people watch on Main Street, near the train depot, it's amazing what you see.

As for the bit about guests stopping to ask you questions, true, it could be the Disney two finger point, or they could just hear something you've recently said that makes you seem 'in the know'...but personally, I think it's some kind of Disney aura that permeates everyone that works there. Probably akin to the glowing sign over one's head...but I don't think you can escape it...

[Lasolimu]

If there is an aura it isn't just for people who work there. I have never worked for Disney and I get asked these questions as well.

[BRWombat]

If there is an aura it isn't just for people who work there. I have never worked for Disney and I get asked these questions as well.
Ditto here. Someone in another thread (forgive my faulty memory as to who) got it right: I think you attract questions when you look like you're not totally lost and bewildered.

[Mommytomjm]

WE often have ppl ask if they can take a pic of MJ....but I think that might be because of the 500 or so pins she has attached to her wheelchair! LOL

[Fantasmic_Freak]

Oh.. all the time i get random people come up to me and ask where so and so is or worse than that is i had a guest while i was eating a huge turkey leg by pooh photo in the corner by the backstage gate come up to me and say, sorry to catch you on your break, but do you know where the nearest place to pee is, so with a huge dry mouthful of turkey leg i an straining to get down with no kidding tears comming out of my eyes from choking on it :eek: , i point with one finger to canoe bathrooms, what a jerk, interupt my break! :confused: