Cracked.Com Article on Poor Guest Behavior

[Matt_Black]

So, today, humor site Cracked.com put an article on bad guest behavior at Disney Parks. And for the most part, I agree.

Except when they start lambasting Disneybounders. First, those are not costumes. They are clearly street clothes with a color scheme meant to be evocative of Disney characters. People wear jerseys and face paint to football games, and I have never heard anyone claim those people are ruining the NFL.

Second, Disneybounders, from what I've seen, dress VERY nice. Isn't that something we should encourage? I'd rather have them than people wearing vulgar t-shirts, wife beaters, or other apparel that really isn't appropriate for a family vacation spot.

 

[Vaughn4380]

Awesome:

"Toddler mangling is the only thing that soothes my acid reflux"

 

[Schneewittchen]

That article is about spot on.

I watched a scooter-person run over a security guard at Epcot earlier this year. Those things and their irresponsible drivers make me so mad. No, it's not okay to ram strangers..... GRRRR.

Though, I agree, it's a little unnecessarily harsh on the Disneybounders.....

 

[ninjaprincesst]

Wether or not they are abusing the "boundries" of service dog does not bother me half as bad as how abusive most of them are to the dogs. They yank them around on leashes constantly, run over their feet in wheel chairs and scooters, drag them all over hot cement and pavement (If I can feel the heat through my shoes I know it is blistering for the poor dogs, they go all day without giving them food or water, force them on rides a dog has no desire to be on ect... it's just deplorable.

 

[rhildinger]

To me, the only problem with the cracked article is that it only scratched the surface of the @ssholery that is rampant at (not just) the Disney parks.

 

[Siren]

When we were at AK, there was a pack of 10 or so scooters and they rolled up on us out of nowhere like the 12 O'clock boys that come on HBO all the time. I am not kidding -- all ages too, from young adult to the grandma and grandpa. The grandma was the leader and totally the worst.

We were just approaching the safari line and they drove up on the right side of the queue, so the grandma whipped the scooter around in a 360 degree circle and cut off the guys ahead us, blocking the entire queue -- then she waved for the rest of the scooter clique to enter. Meanwhile, everyone else was just standing there waiting in awe because there were so many of them.

And, they were all howling and stuff. I don't know if they are making scooters go faster now, but it looked like a scene straight out of Mad Max or something.

A CM quickly stopped them from going any further in the queue and directed them to a loading platform on the far right. So, I'm guessing they got their own truck or something.

Anyway, I see that a WDWMagic poster was quoted on #3. Mobility Scooter Abusers. That is not surprising, at all. LOL.

With that said, the scooter argument is difficult for me because someone's feelings always gets hurt and there really is no right or wrong. And, I have even had an incident with a horrible scooter driver before but still I have no issues with considerate scooter drivers.

Rude and inconsiderate people are going to be rude and inconsiderate regardless of the scooter. It's not a scooter thing, it is totally a rude people thing.

 

[Bairstow]

I would put the odds of that author being a poster here at 95%.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

So, today, humor site Cracked.com put an article on bad guest behavior at Disney Parks. And for the most part, I agree.

Except when they start lambasting Disneybounders. First, those are not costumes. They are clearly street clothes with a color scheme meant to be evocative of Disney characters. People wear jerseys and face paint to football games, and I have never heard anyone claim those people are ruining the NFL.

Second, Disneybounders, from what I've seen, dress VERY nice. Isn't that something we should encourage? I'd rather have them than people wearing vulgar t-shirts, wife beaters, or other apparel that really isn't appropriate for a family vacation spot.

I didn't get why Disneybounders were included either. The other groups are useless, bounders by contrast are fun. Adults in costumes is maybe what the author had in mind? Or maybe not, since he is obviously well read up about Disney.

 

[Matt_Black]

I didn't get why Disneybounders were included either. The other groups are useless, bounders by contrast are fun. Adults in costumes is maybe what the author had in mind? Or maybe not, since he is obviously well read up about Disney.

And the article included pictures. How on earth anyone would assume that guy Disneybound as Alice is any Disney character is beyond me.

 

[Matt_Black]

Another thing I noticed- on the abuse of the GAC front of the line privileges, the author states that now people with legitimate problems have to wait hours in line. That's... not how it works. Again, as those of us here are aware, with the new system, you go to the Cast Member, they issue you a return time, you come back at said time and you ride the ride. Now, certainly, you CAN spend that time "waiting in the hot sun", or you can use that time to sit in the shade, or get a bite to eat, or whatever.

 

[Bairstow]

I didn't get why Disneybounders were included either. The other groups are useless, bounders by contrast are fun. Adults in costumes is maybe what the author had in mind? Or maybe not, since he is obviously well read up about Disney.

Because they're weird and ripe for ridicule in an online satire magazine?
These things are meant to get a smirk or a chuckle out of a guy reading a quick article on the bus on the way home, not to actually espouse anyone's real moral standing on an issue.

That being said, anyone who actually takes the time to create a "Mother Jumbo" bounding scheme is clearly scraping the bottom of some kind of formulaic creative barrel.

 

[Club Cooloholic]

So, today, humor site Cracked.com put an article on bad guest behavior at Disney Parks. And for the most part, I agree.

Except when they start lambasting Disneybounders. First, those are not costumes. They are clearly street clothes with a color scheme meant to be evocative of Disney characters. People wear jerseys and face paint to football games, and I have never heard anyone claim those people are ruining the NFL.

Second, Disneybounders, from what I've seen, dress VERY nice. Isn't that something we should encourage? I'd rather have them than people wearing vulgar t-shirts, wife beaters, or other apparel that really isn't appropriate for a family vacation spot.

Agree with it all! The thing about cosplay...it does take away the magic from small ones when they waited to meet elsa for an hour and then 10 minutes later she is sipping a beer in at the german buffet

 

[ninjaprincesst]

Agree with it all! The thing about cosplay...it does take away the magic from small ones when they waited to meet elsa for an hour and then 10 minutes later she is sipping a beer in at the german buffet

But Disney Bounders are in no way cosplayers they are wearing normal street clothes with a color scheme to match a character they are not wearing costumes, there would be no way to confuse a Disney bounder with an actual character.

 

[Bairstow]

But Disney Bounders are in no way cosplayers they are wearing normal street clothes with a color scheme to match a character they are not wearing costumes, there would be no way to confuse a Disney bounder with an actual character.

I dunno though.
Take a look at some of the pictures posted in the article.
I wouldn't consider any of what these people are wearing to be "normal street clothes" in that all of them would be extremely conspicuous in a theme park, which of course is the point.
Whether or not it's their main intention, a lot of what they're doing is trying to get as deep into the gray area between "clothing" and "costume" without going over it.
Sure, people on this forum, who actually notice when, say, Jasmine switches from one costume set to the other, are going to be able to tell the difference between the hardcore bounders and the paid Disney cast member characters.

The average 6-year-old, though?

 

[Matt_Black]

The average 6-year-old, though?

If your child can't tell this...

From this...

Then congratulations! You're raising a moron.

 

[Bairstow]

If your child can't tell this...


Then congratulations! You're raising a moron.

Some of the bounders are going to look more like costumed characters than others.
It's not a black and white situation.
No one's going to argue that with you.

 

[Matt_Black]

Some of the bounders are going to look more like costumed characters than others.
It's not a black and white situation.
No one's going to argue that with you.

Well, then let's look at that situation. Let's say a Disneybounder is bounding as a face character, and it's really good. First, we have to assume that it's good enough to fool a casual onlooker. Next, we have to assume that no Cast Members at the front gate said, "Whoa, that's too on point; we're terribly sorry, but you'll have to change." So, we have a Disneybounder who looks very much like the character in question, and an impressionable 6-year old sees them and gets excited. What happens next?

Well, I hope that their responsible parent, guardian, or adult chaperone would say, "Oh, no sweetie, that's not ____, just a fan of ____. We'll go meet ____ right now; thankfully, I picked up a times guide on the way in, so ____ is this way."

 

[LongLiveTheKing]

Number One is spot on although it's not just the bungalows that feed gators

 

[LongLiveTheKing]

When we were at AK, there was a pack of 10 or so scooters and they rolled up on us out of nowhere like the 12 O'clock boys that come on HBO all the time.

Did you intentionally make a pack of 10 scooters sound like a pride of lions roaming the AK savana because that's the imagery I'm seeing, just very lazy lions

And, they were all howling and stuff. I don't know if they are making scooters go faster now, but it looked like a scene straight out of Mad Max or something.

Omg lol which one was Furiosa

 

[The Empress Lilly]

I dunno though.
Take a look at some of the pictures posted in the article.
I wouldn't consider any of what these people are wearing to be "normal street clothes" in that all of them would be extremely conspicuous in a theme park, which of course is the point.
Whether or not it's their main intention, a lot of what they're doing is trying to get as deep into the gray area between "clothing" and "costume" without going over it.
Sure, people on this forum, who actually notice when, say, Jasmine switches from one costume set to the other, are going to be able to tell the difference between the hardcore bounders and the paid Disney cast member characters.

The average 6-year-old, though?

The article dId get some weird costumes together. More 'failed character dressing' than 'succesful Disneybounding'. It got me wondering if it got all mixed up.