Disneyland Causes Outrage by Confiscating Children's Costume Name Tags - Inside the Magic

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Two little girls wearing Disney Cast-members costumes

Credit: The McLeod Family on IG

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  1. Kristin Petrey

    Disney is not a friendly place. Growing up I loved to be there as a kid but now taking my children who are mixed race (Me a white female and my husband an African American man) I sadly found out they are terrible. When we took our kids in September of 2020 for four days we left with 3 memories of straight racism against my kids and husband. The last one was the worst because while I was changing my 8 month old outside my husband took our 3 year old into the avenger store on the California side that has incredibly expensive items to look around and pick out a toy I came in after 5-10mins of them being in there and as I looking around to find them I notice a white female worker silently following my husband and son around I stood back watching her and everything my husband touched she would make sure she saw what he did with it. Everywhere they walked she was following pretending to rearrange items. I was livid. And with my anger building I called this lady out as loud as I could for the entire store to hear (like 10,000sq ft of store) I used language that mickey would be ashamed of and made her apologies why because I use my privilege to make racist take accountability when I witness it. I was so mad we left that day. When we got home I wrote a very long angry letter to the CEO after spending time looking up his info. And I forwarded it to every person I could in higher up management. Next day I got a phone call apologizing after they investigated and tickets for another time free of charge. Will we go back probably not I can never Subject my husband and children to that again or I might be spending the night in jail in a town I don’t know.

  2. Corinne

    We had a Disneyland security officer overreact to our family as we were trying to navigate away from an approaching parade. My eldest son has severe autism and had just expressed that he wanted to exit the California Adventure Park. Then all of a sudden here comes the parade and we started scooting through the crowded walkways. A cast member started to rope off the street, but saw that my son was beginning to become anxious and waved us through. That’s when an older security officer,(which we had a positive interaction with earlier in the day) ran up to us as if he was going to throw us in Disneyland Jail and tried to detain us. He was raising his voice and saying things like, “We can’t have this happening”. My mama bear side came out and I said through tears and clenched teeth “If you this this scene is bad, just TRY to stop us. This could get a whole lot worse real quick if you don’t find us a way out.”
    That was my autistic son’s 10th birthday, and the LAST time we ever went to Disneyland. They ruined it for so many of us.

  3. Sid

    Did you even read the article? Security surrounded these children and demanded their name tags. There is no rule against children wearing name tags. Only adults can’t wear costumes that look like costume characters or cast members.

  4. You know when you work for a company they give you a name tag. When you end employment they want that name tag back. Basically they admitted to buying a name tag which shouldn’t have been sold online in the 1st place. Sadly the kids have autism but that doesn’t disassociate disassociate the fact that these tags should not have been sold online in the 1st place.

    1. Former CM

      Lol, I worked there 13 years and was never told to give back name tags.

  5. Coop, the Golden Dog

    REAL terriblke..thankfully, they have their own Instagram, Twitter and Youtube channel as I have..I live in SoCal, around ten or so miles from DLand..have a slight case of what the kids do but amb basically normal..

    Steve

  6. Christine gutai

    I agree there is a problem. I was in California Adventure beginning of November this year. I went into gift shop by Water ride , Forest area by back entrance of Hotel. They sell leather bracelets you can customize with your name. I have made them there over the years…..I asked for Minnie with my last name initial. Holy it turned into a half out nightmare. Management said no, I’m like what? Anyone can have that name. It’s not owned by disney. It was not good so I made a adjustment ( even though they have done it before ). I waited and they finished and then they came back and said they would redo it correctly. I was happy but I lost 45 minutes waiting, yes employees especially Management need to be trained correctly. Staff in store were really nice but lots of confusion. You spend alot of money on tickets and you expect better quality and better training……

  7. Erica Godfrey

    Sir they couldn’t have left the park because obviously you didn’t watch the video of the situation that happened and you haven’t read though the standards that her family didn’t break any policies and I’ve been going there for years and they are friends of a lot of the cast members at Disney and they never said anything to either of her kids about the nametags and there 4 and 6 with autism. I think you need to do your research sir for you say horrible and rude things on the website thank you.

  8. S

    I was with her until she used her child’s autism as a way to garner sympathy for herself

  9. R

    Funny how when adults are shoving, spitting, fighting, loudly cussing, harrassing other guests, urinating publicly in the park or dropping their pants to defecate on the ground at a rides exit path, NO SECURITY is around. Instead, a phone call is made to local PD from an area of “safety”. HOWEVER, a 4 and a 6 year old in costumes, brings out enough “security guards” to surround the three family members. Who then bully the children. Amazing why anyone would pay for that kind of treatment. Seriously people, is this “magical” for you?

  10. Chris

    Cue the benny hill music.

  11. Mari

    Not only you DO NOT read but your heart is made out of stone.

  12. F.U. Will

    Tell us you didn’t read the article without telling us you didn’t read the article. Here’s the part that directly shows you didn’t read it, with your comment about breaking rules:

    “Disneyland later reached out from Guest Relations and confirmed this was not the policy for children, the damage had already been done. According to Disney Parks Dress Code and Costume Rules, children ages 13 and under are allowed to wear costumes any time of the year.”

  13. Gimme a break

    I don’t really care if this family or other families have gotten away with wearing official-looking replica name tags in the parks in the past. It should be pretty obvious to any rational human being why having such things floating around the parks could potentially be a danger – think of how parents are encouraged to tell their kids if they ever get lost to look for people wearing nametags. The fact that they were currently being worn by 4 and 6 year olds does not negate the risk of them falling into the wrong hands. There are plenty of ways to dress as a cast member, or anything else for that matter, without introducing an explicitly banned item that could absolutely pose a threat to the safety of other children if lost or stolen. I also love that this woman was so distraught about the situation yet had the wherewithal to record it to post on social media. How about focusing your attention completely on your kids rather than trying to make a spectacle of it and solicit attention? Not to mention the statement that the 4 and 6 year old children have “worn these [coatumes] for years”, so they presumably haven’t grown out of them yet. 🤷‍♂️ They were bought on Etsy, not because a fake nametag for a costume is hard to make, but because she clearly wanted them to look very realistic. Again, rational people should recognize the risk in that. Wear an actual handmade name tag that could never be confused for a real one and you’ll have all my sympathy if confiscated.

  14. Pony

    You should be ashamed of yourself. Take your rent-a-cop attitude somewhere else.

  15. An

    The mother should be held accountable the kids were under 13.. dropped off so security took my name tags get over it! and explain to the your kids that they didn’t do anything wrong.. it was you the parent…you should have not been there by themselves they should be banned from the park because mother the does not get the rules. Disney should just send them new name tag… perfect end of story! You can complain on social media but she needs to tell the whole story and every bit of a story.

  16. CJ

    in Orlando there used to be a store that sold stuff from the parks. I went there about 10 years ago and found a name tag with my name on it and I found one for my husband. We wear them every time we go in the park on our pin lanyards and get positive comments from all the cast members. We’ve even worn them in the last 12 months to the park. Ridiculous they stopped children who clearly don’t have a job in order to harass a family. Welcome to Bob Chapek’s Disney.

  17. Mickeymouse3

    So big deal. A couple of kids have homemade name tags that resemble a cast members name tag shape. It’s not like they are representing themselves as CM’s. Anyone who thinks they are/were CM’s needs to rethink a few things. I do think Disney overreacted to the situation tho. They could have very easily explained to mom that costuming is allowed but name tags are not. Threatening to boot them? Come on.

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