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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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I don’t remember Peter Pan wearing shower curtain rings in his ears.
You were probably much younger then and didn’t realize
that was where they attached the wires.
All the “fairy” tale characters are well represented I’m sure.
confusing, not half as confusing as Disney claiming to be family friendly and then supporting Moochelle’s agenda and the GLBT’s too.
June 2nd was Gay Day at Disney World, when did they go? I didn’t see the date this happened.
I am sure that is part of it too. I just find the whole thing hilarious, and here I am tonight within a stone’s throw of The Rat and his hole...:)
She looks like former Disney employee Christina Aguilera.
LOL!
“Spielman says their family had no idea wearing a Disney costume would turn their dream into such a nightmare.”
The article clearly states she is a Tampa Bay resident.It's not a secret that Disney characters are paid employees, and heavily screened. She obviously does not look like a “child” in that costume.
At their age, wearing a character costume at an Orlando theme park makes as much sence as dressing like doctors and walking the halls of a hospital.
Cute costumes, wrong venue.
Hahaha...that almost made me spit my drink out!
“April Spielman, 15,”
15 will get you 20...
Disney responded appropriately bit be kids are self serving punks.
Chick is hot. How did such a pencil neck geek get her.
Well, little kids wear costumes into the park all the time and it’s no big deal. But I don’t want some Ted Bundy or child molester pretending to be a character who only wants to get close to kids or grab one wearing their own costumes in.
And anyway, she's 15 you perv!
Sheesh!
OR ?
A 15 year-old boy likes Peter Pan??
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