That was before he met Del Griffith.
Posted on 06/05/2012 5:09:58 PM PDT by Brandonmark
A Tampa bay area teen and her boyfriend are in shock after being forced to take off the costumes they were wearing at Walt Disney World.
April Spielman, 15, and her boyfriend Clayton Covey went to the theme park dressed as Tinker Bell and Pete Pan Sunday.
Spielman said she always wanted to go to Disney dressed as the fictional character. For more than a year, the two teens saved money to buy costumes. Covey flew in fron Arizona.
"We like the Disney characters and we wanted to dress up," Covey said.
When the two arrived at Disney Sunday, they became instant celebrities among guests at Hollywood Studios. However, when they went to Animal Kingdom, the experience changed.
An employee at Animal Kingdom stopped the family and insisted that Spielman take off her Tinker Bell Costume. The manager told her she looked too much like the real character that greets guests at the park.
Covey was told to take off his Peter Pan costume as well.
Since the teens didn't have a change of clothes, Disney provided a voucher so they could buy a shirt and a pair of shorts. Disney officials also provided the family with a Fast Pass so they could skip the lines at the park. Spielman said the ordeal crushed her dream.
"I was crying so hard," Spielman said. "It like, really hurt me because just looking around and people were walking around and they were all dressed up and i'm just standing there like crying."
Disney's Public Relation Manager Kathleen Prihoda sent this statement:
"The guests were asked to change because costumes that could be viewed as representative of an actual Disney character are not appropriate attire for our theme parks. The costumes were disruptive to our operation and possibly confusing to our other guests..."
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LOL. “Shower curtain rings”.
That was before he met Del Griffith.
I take it that walking around in their undies was ok then. Probably due to lawyers. If said costumed person did something would Disney be blamed?
Pretty sad,isn’t it?
Too bad, I guess they didn't wish hard enough. =*(
Another view.....
My dentist’s assistant in CA, WAS Tinker Bell at Disney.
But that was a long time ago....
I just saw this girl on BayNews 9.
She ain’t that hot.
Change your clothes and grow up.
That’s....pretty damn gay.
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You can wear costumes during Disney Halloween time starting in Sept (extra cost of course).
A group of Stormtroopers (501st) went to Universal Studios for pictures. We were at City Walk for 2 hours before security asked us to move along. We created a huge traffic jam and no one could move. They cited fire hazards, not copyrights. Security took a few pics with us before we left.
You can wear costumes during Disney Halloween time starting in Sept (extra cost of course).
A group of Stormtroopers (501st) went to Universal Studios for pictures. We were at City Walk for 2 hours before security asked us to move along. We created a huge traffic jam and no one could move. They cited fire hazards, not copyrights. Security took a few pics with us before we left.
PR Brain Dead, that's for certain.
Disney’s 2 issues here, they wished the boy had dressed as Tinkerbell and they wanted the pair to undress.
There exists a culture of corruption at Disney’s theme parks.
That’s not Peter Pan, that’s Peter Puffer.
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