Tinkerbell refused entry

[Tara_Lee3]

The thing that made me laugh is she said it took her an hour to do her hair. Um... how complicated is a poofy pony-tail? :p:

[NemoRanger]

You know if you think about it. Yahoo just told the world how they can get free clothes from WDW. Just come dressed up to much like a character and we will give you a free t shirt and maybe some shorts. Its not like we reached into the lost and found bind and handed her some moldy sweatshirt from the 83 Olympics.

[Big Wallaby]

Boyfriend? Really? Where were her parents?

On that I was thinking the same thing.

so it wouldn't surprise me that there are any number of 15 yos wandering the WDW parks on their own.

I actually spent my fifteenth birthday at WDW, and that was the day I decided that one day I wanted to drive the Monorail. My father was there for a conference, wanted to stay at the GF but some talk show host who I won't name had taken her entire audience to the parks as her first gift trip. I actually saw her on my birthday, didn't realize who it was until several months later when I came down, my mom was watching the show, and I saw the moment I had actually seen happen live was going on on the TV. Atop a float was this host telling the camera they were finally there, they had finally made it (to which I thought they probably finally made it every day; little did I know they were in from Chicago) and the crowd (which I now know was backstage before the parade stepoff) went wild.

That was my fifteenth birthday, the same day I received a Monorail Co-Pilot Certificate (not a pocketable license) signed by a lady who I would later work with when I went into the department.

After my dad got out of his conference for the day, we spent the evening at Comedy Warehouse.

It's the cheapest Disney trip I ever went on before working there... my dad used miles to get me there, the room was paid by his company for his attending the CPA conference, and I had run of the parks for a week; all we had to pay was admission (considerably less back then) and meals and I had free reign of the parks. Well, the parks and the grounds... I have a story about a sailboat that I have been waiting to tell, and probably should come out with it soon... that is for another day.

At fifteen, having freedom of the parks is a truly magical thing. I would not trade the experience for anything except to have my dad with me as I played. But at that point, it was more special because I was alone.

[shilohmm]

Yahoo just told the world how they can get free clothes from WDW.

That was my first thought, too. But hopefully Disney will clamp down on letting people dressed as the characters into the parks instead. It sounds like they were letting things slide as long as the people dressed up weren't signing autographs or otherwise drawing attention.

I actually spent my fifteenth birthday at WDW, and that was the day I decided that one day I wanted to drive the Monorail.

That's a great story. :)

At fifteen, having freedom of the parks is a truly magical thing.

It's true. :) Especially for boys, I think, at least in my family. My eldest son doesn't realize that much of his love for SeaWorld is just that he got to wander there without the rest of us. We usually keep a kind of tight rein on him for his age, because he is Mr. Impulsive and, although quite responsible in most everyday ways, you just never know what crazy thing he'll do in a new environment. He does tool around on his bike at home, but that was the first time we let him go wandering off on his own while on vacation.

Then, the next time we were out, he got a bus pass so he could run down to SeaWorld whenever he felt like it. Although his dad about revoked that license the day son lost his wallet. :D: But someone turned it in to the lost and found, so they picked it up downtown that Monday and off son went. He just loves, loves, loves being able to ditch his family -- particularly his younger siblings. :p:

[delsdad]

This incident even made the Toronto Star ! Its a nice article, written by a writer who obviously get it!

"Meanwhile, April’s life is totally ruined and she’s going to cry until Disney realizes that she is more special than anyone else and should be allowed to do what she wants."

[Big Wallaby]

The best line from her to communicate that was "They were talking about how little girls, it ruins their dreams, but it ruined my dream, because I just wanna be Tinkerbell."

And the parks need to be more special than they already are. At least, they do for her boyfriend.

I wonder how she would have felt if she had run into me dressed as Rafiki.

Kudos to Malene Arpe for a common sense approach to the situation in the way she wrote her piece.

Does anyone else read this and tink to themselves, "I'd rather pick a different fifteen minutes of fame"?

[5th Dimension]

So we haven't heard from the guy yet, I'm guessing Peter Pan didn't break down and cry for the rest of the trip.

[darph nader]

This incident even made the Toronto Star ! Its a nice article, written by a writer who obviously get it!

"Meanwhile, April’s life is totally ruined and she’s going to cry until Disney realizes that she is more special than anyone else and should be allowed to do what she wants."

We need to sign up Marlene here,,(if she already isn't) ;)

[Darksin]

And 15, really? Crying? Really? Boyfriend? Really? Where were her parents?

I held a AP from the year we moved to Orlando until the year I moved out of Orlando, we where dropped off at Disney all the time as kids without our parents. I'd guess we where probably 13 or so around that time. We're local kids, we knew what we where doing.. and oddly enough I can't once remember getting in trouble with CM's.. the tourists however... ;)


Seriously though, Disney has ALWAYS had the rule about adult costumes especially their own characters.

[WEDFan]

This incident even made the Toronto Star ! Its a nice article, written by a writer who obviously get it!

"Meanwhile, April’s life is totally ruined and she’s going to cry until Disney realizes that she is more special than anyone else and should be allowed to do what she wants."

Great piece and great quote!