Neither are real bad experiences, but just expierences that need to be shared lol.
2008, 1900 Park Fare @ GF and we kinda felt that Mary Poppins wasn't exactly english, like didn't have much of an accent really, at all. I can't remember exactly what kind but it wasn't english. Pic of Me, my fiancee (who I proposed to on this trip) and the Mary Poppins in question.
I think this is the same lady who played Belle during our visit in 2008. She played a great Belle, no accent required since the Belle in the movie doesn't really sound French anyways.
But yes I think if they are going to play a certain character they could at least try to fake an accent or whatever. We had the opposite problem on our trip this year, our Ariel at Akershus was eastern European and had a very deep voice with a thick accent. Don't get me wrong I have nothing against foreign people, but I did have to spend the rest of the night listening to my 4yo daughter ask over and over again why Ariel "sounded funny" lol. I told her she must have had a cold or something but that didn't seem like a good enough response to her I guess.
Also, that is a complete shame about the creepy PP. I'm pretty sure he's the one that played Peter in the castle show we saw and he was
great! Maybe he just gets tired from performing? lol I have never understood why people take that particular job of meeting kids if they don't
like doing it, certainly there are other CM jobs they could get?
Let's see, 2 other bad experiences, neither one the character's fault really. We had our first trip to DW in 1982, I was 7 and my little brother was 4. I don't know if maybe the mouse ears didn't have chin straps back then or something, but for whatever reason my mom bobby pinned them to our heads. The very first characters we met were from Robin Hood, the sherrif and prince john I believe. I think it was the prince who jokingly tried to remove my brother's ears and dance around with them. Of course since they were bobby pinned on it pulled my brother's hair pretty hard and he began screaming bloody murder, literally! The prince felt soooooo bad and tried to apologize but my brother was terrified, he wouldn't meet another character for the rest of the trip lol.
Second one was in 1990, I was 15 and the bad part is entirely my doing, in fact I'm totally embarrassed about retelling it! We had been at the world 3-4 days and I made the mistake of calling my then boyfriend of 9 months from a pay phone in Pleasure Island, and he decided that moment was the appropriate opportunity to dump me. He was my first boyfriend ever so I was in a
horrible mood from then on and made life miserable for anyone in arms reach. I thought if I could get home I could somehow "fix" the situation, if we'd had cell phones back then I would have been on it every second lol! We were RV camping at FW and I figured if I was horrible enough we would just leave early, which we unfortunately did. (didn't help the situation with the bf of course
lol) But anyway before we left we had gone to a character breakfast there in FW, where they do the hoop-de-do revue. I was refusing to go but my parents dragged me, so I sat there with my arms crossed and wouldn't eat or have any fun. Pluto, bless his little heart, came over and tried to cheer me up. He danced around me, licked me, etc. Finally I grabbed him by the tongue and pulled him really close to my face and said something like "If you come near me again I'm going to rip out this tongue and shove it up your....!" Well you get the point lol. He dropped his head and sulked away. I still feel guilty for being such a BRAT to my family and that poor Pluto, who probably quit his/her job that day lol... I doubt they get paid enough to put up with that stuff!
My parents have since forgiven me and have thankfully come with me and my family on our trips to WDW.
They of course don't let me live it down lol. Plus they remind me of how much trouble I'm in when DD4 becomes a teenager!!
I thought he was really cruel given that my son was clearly petrified of him.
