Colorful People seen at WDW

[HDS]

People have problems with guys in kilts at WDW? I was sporting mine this past week there. Don't hate.

 

[NiarrNDisney]

The doll lady I rrefer to in the orginial post sat in the lobby of the Grand Floridian on one of the couches with a number of dolls around her. She might have scaled back the dolls moved her location or was asked to scale back and move but I'm not sure.

When we saw her in May she was sitting in a chair near the staircase heading up to Citrocos and she seemed to have a number of dolls with her. If I am not mistaken she goes for the afternoon tea.

 

[SAV]

It has to be 2 years ago now, but we saw this older gentleman who was wearing a vest filled entirely with Tinkerbell pins. I can't remember if he had on a Tink Hat and shirt too or just the vest. Either way seemed a bit odd to me.

 

[drew81]

Umm yes I made costumes for my daughter to wear that match the trolley performers, and the MiSiCi dancers as well. They seemed to LOVE them and shower her with attention...now I'll have to worry that somewhere people are calling us crazy people for doing that.

If it's what you enjoy, go for it. If other people see you as strange then that's their problem.

 

[Figments Friend]

People have problems with guys in kilts at WDW? I was sporting mine this past week there. Don't hate.

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In reality, MORE men need to wear kilts to WDW in my opinion.
Awesome photo..thanks for sharing!

 

[Goofyernmost]

Umm yes I made costumes for my daughter to wear that match the trolley performers, and the MiSiCi dancers as well. They seemed to LOVE them and shower her with attention...now I'll have to worry that somewhere people are calling us crazy people for doing that.

I think everyone is referring to adults in costumes. Kids in costumes are encouraged. The reason they discourage adults is because they don't want to confuse people and have them heading for a regular guest instead of a regular character.

 

[Gabe1]

The doll lady is harmless. Her husband use to work for Disney before he passed. I believe he was a member of the orchestra she comes most evenings to listen to the orchestra and sits in a chair over to the side on the first floor. She never bothers anyone the staff like her and always seem To stop and talk with her. She use to give her teddy bears away to kids but has since stopped.

And edit!

Oy.

 

[unkadug]

(edit)And then there is ....

I'm pretty sure that he is a member of this site!

 

[Nemo14]

Yes he is.

 

[Figments Friend]

I think everyone is referring to adults in costumes. Kids in costumes are encouraged. The reason they discourage adults is because they don't want to confuse people and have them heading for a regular guest instead of a regular character.

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Heh heh...his reminds me of a great memory one year i attended MNSSHP....
I met up with a few friends, one of which was a ex-CM. That evening we were all dressed up...me as Figment, and the others as Skipper Dan ( related to the the Weird Al parody song about the Jungle Cruise) and a character from The Prisoner tv series. My Ex-CM friend dresses as Indiana Jones, and he looked EXACTLY like him...wide blue eyes ala Harrison Ford and everything! It was awesome...but he kept having people stop him and want to take their photo with him. We finally realized after about an hour of this going on that people actually thought he was a ACTUAL *face character*. One time when he stopped for a photo, on the TomorrowLand bridge, people started to line up as if it were a impromptu Meet n Greet ! It was hilarious... but after we realized what was going on he played it cool and tried to make himself not look so *authentic*.

That evening we enjoying driving him to his car in the MK parking lot, only to drop him off and then drive around him a few times singing the Indiana Jones Theme loudly out of the car windows. Dat-da-dat-DA...dat da DA.....!

 

[InLikeFlynn]

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Heh heh...his reminds me of a great memory one year i attended MNSSHP....
I met up with a few friends, one of which was a ex-CM. That evening we were all dressed up...me as Figment, and the others as Skipper Dan ( related to the the Weird Al parody song about the Jungle Cruise) and a character from The Prisoner tv series. My Ex-CM friend dresses as Indiana Jones, and he looked EXACTLY like him...wide blue eyes ala Harrison Ford and everything! It was awesome...but he kept having people stop him and want to take their photo with him. We finally realized after about an hour of this going on that people actually thought he was a ACTUAL *face character*. One time when he stopped for a photo, on the TomorrowLand bridge, people started to line up as if it were a impromptu Meet n Greet ! It was hilarious... but after we realized what was going on he played it cool and tried to make himself not look so *authentic*.

That evening we enjoying driving him to his car in the MK parking lot, only to drop him off and then drive around him a few times singing the Indiana Jones Theme loudly out of the car windows. Dat-da-dat-DA...dat da DA.....!

We just got back from two MNSSHParties and had the same issues with our costumes. The first night was not a big deal...I couldn't walk 2 feet without being stopped, but whatever. I always made it clear I wasn't a character but people wanted photos anyway. The second night we were repeatedly told by CMs we could NOT pose for photos or even let anyone take photos OF us. We still got stopped and asked and had to constantly say no....I felt horrible because the people looked at us like we were being rude bit...well, you know whats.

The best comments we got over the party night were a lady on the monorail as we were heading over from the Contemporary - "so, are you girls on your way to work?" LOL...yes, we live at the resort and ride the monorail to work in full costume. And then a character attendant approached me while we were in the line to meet Merida to tell me a guest had just argued with her over meeting me (btw, I was dressed as Giselle in the big wedding dress). The guest ran over and asked how long was Giselle going to be there for meet & greets, and she said "ma'am, this is the line for Merida - Giselle does not meet in the parks." The guest then said "but I can see her RIGHT THERE in her big white dress!!" She then had to inform her I was just a guest.
We got stuff like that all night long, and Merida told me I was a legend among the princesses and that they'd all been talking about me, and she was glad she got to meet me too (we met her at the second party we attended).

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Ah, this fine thread, I had forgotten about it. Since last posting, I also ran into somone I can only call "creepy Ariel guy"

The kids and I were on line to see Ariel and this guy was behind us. You could tell he was not "quite right". He must have been in his mid 30's maybe. had a very childlike apperarance and was holding a largish (24" or so) Ariel doll that he told us he made himself. We hung around after seeing Ariel and watched him. He had her holding the doll and talking to it, and then he asked her to "hold it an look at it wishfully, because it has legs and you don't and you are wishing for legs". It was about that time that a CM came to escort him away.

-dave

That guy used to post here. At least I think we can safely assume it was him. He did the same thing with the dolls with all the other princesses.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Umm yes I made costumes for my daughter to wear that match the trolley performers, and the MiSiCi dancers as well. They seemed to LOVE them and shower her with attention...now I'll have to worry that somewhere people are calling us crazy people for doing that.

Costumes for kids is great. Costumed adults will confuse other guests, especially kids.

 

[Nemo14]

That guy used to post here. At least I think we can safely assume it was him. He did the same thing with the dolls with all the other princesses.

He still posts.....

 

[The Empress Lilly]

People have problems with guys in kilts at WDW? I was sporting mine this past week there. Don't hate.

Kilts are awesome! Anybody with any Scottish in him ought to get married in kilts.


Please don't moon other people. At least me. Unless I'm drunk, in which case I'll think it is hilarious.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

He still posts.....

Oops...glad I refrained from passing judgement then. :sweating:


Ten dollars say Nemo14 is Peter Pan guy.

Twenty say Doll Lady is Vitani88.

 

[mamamouse]

i saw the teddy bear lady in gf and the pin guy in epcot 2 days apart from each other last week,the pin guy was fine but the teddy bear lady was another story,sorry but she gave me an un easy feeling

 

[Raven66]

He still posts.....

I'm pretty sure I know who it is. I haven't seen him around lately. He's alright. He's always nice and polite.

 

[AEfx]

:lookaroun

That just absolutely made my morning.

 

[DisneyJunkie]

I'm sure many people are aware of this already, but there's a website out there in which some of the more unusual people seen walking around Walmart have their photos snapped and loaded onto it. I think there could just as easily be a similar site made up for a lot of the strange people seen walking around the WDW parks as well. To be honest, the basic park visitor roams around in shorts, t (or tank top) and sneakers.....but last week we saw some truly bizarre things. Some of them: in 90+ heat some were walking around in relatively tight jeans and long sleeve tees; others were dressed in all black; some who clearly have issues with their weight were wearing attire way too small for them and showing off things they ought not; some are just walking around "dressed to the 9s", and so forth. I know people will wear what they want, or will look the way they chose to....but man, sometimes it's like walking through a freak show down there.