What are some strange things you've heard guests call the characters?

[Brer Panther]

I was just reading a Reddit thread about things that people have called characters at the parks. Among other things, they mentioned hearing Chip and Dale being called Alvin and the Chipmunks, Lewis and Wilbur from Meet the Robinsons being called Phineas and Ferb, and Figment being called "Spyro on crack". And now I'm curious - have YOU heard any characters being called the wrong names in the parks? I don't think I have...

 

[MarvelCharacterNerd]

While I've heard people mistakenly refer to characters by the wrong name, more often than not I hear tweens, teens and young adults intentionally mislabeling characters to be "funny".

i.e. "Hey Superman!" "Hey Batman!" to Cap or Thor or "It's Thor!" to Loki
or "Look, it's Gandalf!" or "Yo, Dumbledore!" to Merlin
etc. than cracking up because they find themselves amusing

Intentional snark (or outright disrespect) is far more common in my experience than mistaken identity (i.e. calling Pluto "Goofy").

 

[JIMINYCR]

Nope, never heard a character misnamed. I think kids and parents know their Dis characters well enough and know who they are looking for in the parks.

 

[WorldExplorer]

Heard Donald called Daffy.

Heard Hat Box Ghost (on merchandise) called Mad Hatter (probably a slip of the tongue).

It was a family joke for a bit that no one knows what Pinocchio looks like because we've done so many pin trades and had people point to Peter Pan's hat and say "Pinocchio!". Have you ever seen that one stylized Bambi pin that's really common on the boards, I think it's just the shapes of his head? Someone thought that was Pinocchio.

Also, not nearly enough people know who Launchpad is.

 

[SpectreJordan]

I've heard people call Donald "Daffy" a couple times. That one's pretty common.

 

[mousefan1972]

This is a classic in my family- in fact we were just talking about it last week when we were in WDW. This is from years ago, when Marie was meeting in France: Mom to her family: "Oh look, it's the Easter Bunny!" Family: confused looks on their faces. Mom: "See, over there! The Easter Bunny!!" Mom takes a closer look. "Oh wait, no, it's not. It's just some cat". My D, who was in mad love with Marie at the time, "I can't believe she called Marie some cat!" all indignant.

At least it was in April so I guess it could've been the Easter bunny. LOL.

 

[jloucks]

I imagine Tinkerbell gets confused with Shrek a lot.

I'd pay to see that.

 

[AndyS2992]

I’ve seen Sleeping Beauty/Aurora get called Barbie more than once lol

 

[FettFan]

True story: while queueing for Expedition Everest back in 2013, I overheard a guy telling his family that the Yeti is actually Cain from the Bible.

God’s punishment for killing Abel (aka the “mark of Cain”) was that Cain was turned into a giant, immortal mountain beast….who is frozen in place and has an eternal strobe light flashing in his face.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

True story: while queueing for Expedition Everest back in 2013, I overheard a guy telling his family that the Yeti is actually Cain from the Bible.

God’s punishment for killing Abel (aka the “mark of Cain”) was that Cain was turned into a giant, immortal mountain beast….who is frozen in place and has an eternal strobe light flashing in his face.

This is a common, yet heavily dismissed belief believed to have originated within Mormon folklore. Bigfoot, Yeti. etc. Interesting to say the least.

 

[celluloid]

This is a common, yet heavily dismissed belief believed to have originated within Mormon folklore. Bigfoot, Yeti. etc. Interesting to say the least.

This. Hopefully that carried over from the dad hearing that and joking, and hopefully not actually believing that. It comes from a writing where two leaders came to a hairy man they believed maybe to be like of caine wondering around, and he was large and they were at his chest height as they rode.

It is thought that man must be super tall for them to be riding on saddle and the hairy large man at their head height. What is not discussed is they likely riding mule and not horseback and not nessasarily on even ground, but descriptive writing got taken way out.

Hilarious that someone would hear about it during the queue of Everest. Even LDS don't typically believe this.


I have never had characters called anything too weird during my theme park time, but I did often laugh at a memory where a guest referred tp a venue with : "Oh its the Swiss Miss Treehouse!"

 

[DisneyFanatic12]

True story: while queueing for Expedition Everest back in 2013, I overheard a guy telling his family that the Yeti is actually Cain from the Bible.

God’s punishment for killing Abel (aka the “mark of Cain”) was that Cain was turned into a giant, immortal mountain beast….who is frozen in place and has an eternal strobe light flashing in his face.

I waited in line for Haunted Mansion and got to listen to someone’s biblical take on whether or not someone’s soul (which is presumably a ghost) could or couldn’t be on earth after their death. Got a half hour of very interesting debates on whether or not ghosts existed, due to the “overwhelming evidence” they’ve seen on TV. If a TV show is being seen as evidence, our future is sad… not actually, but that’s crazy a TV show is viewed as evidence!

 

[Imhere]

I call Chip & Dale Chuck & Dave.

 

[AndyS2992]

I call Chip & Dale Chuck & Dave.

My mother calls them Chippy & Dippy