Not Disney, but 6 flags over Texas. I get a crash course in mascot etiquette, don my suit, and stroll out to face the world! I'm out the gate maybe 3 minutes, and it all goes wrong. For those of you guessing heat stroke, I wish. I hear the pelting of tiny feet, and turn to look. Here's this maybe 6 year old kid, running full tilt, eyes locked onto me. I figure the kid must REALLY love Sylvester, and stand, spread eagle, ready for the love and adoration of children.

Instead, that little bastard gets about 4 feet from me, and goes to a knee. Still full speed. His arm cocks back so far I think his knuckles scraped asphalt. And then he unleashes it. The only thing missing was the flaming bird and the kid actually yelling "FALCON!! PUUUNCH!"

Kid managed to nail me center mass of my right testicle. I screamed in an octave usually reserved for bats and dog whistles, and collapsed in a heap. As I proceeded to teach that child every possible combination of every possible curse word I was dragged back to the employee alleyway I had started from, and they retired the suit for the day. -Megalon84

I used to work at a different amusement park that featured similar costumed characters. The worst thing I ever heard was the time one of the characters was overcome by heat in 95 degree weather, and vomited inside the suit, splattering the inside of the suit's head with their half-digested lunch.

They had to walk a long distance back to the dressing rooms breathing the super-heated vomit air the entire way. -SpaceLaserPilot

I was playing Goofy inside a restaurant and I got swarmed Aliens-style by a hoard of <10 kids. Unfortunately while I was playing around with them the inner hood below the mask slipped over my eyes and I was completely blinded. We had assistants around whom we could signal for help by flapping our arms, but the kids had made it a game of attaching themselves Tarzan-like to both my arms and to raise them I would have had to lift 3-4 kids per arm (dangerous even if I'd been strong enough to do that).

I found myself blind and completely rooted to the spot, unable to ask for help and with nobody realizing that I was in trouble. I spent like a solid 10-15 minutes in that sort of limbo reflecting on the life decisions that had taken me there until the assistant came over and whispered "set is over dude" and I finally managed to signal something was wrong. -Judge_T

Never was an actor, but when I was a kid at Disney World in the 70s, I watched Chip get into a fist fight with a young 20 something guy. The guys girlfriend wanted him to do a picture with Chip & Dale, but he didn't want to. Chip grabbed him in a head lock and his girlfriend snapped the photo. When Chip let go, the guy came up swinging. Dale had to jump in and break them up, as Chip started swinging back. For a kid of 12, it was awesome! -EddyBuddard

I use to be tinker bell!!!! (The understudy lol I couldn’t do it full time) Weirdest thing is the dads low key hitting on you. Kids are kids they do weird shit but don’t mean it…the adults know they’re being weird but for some reason just don’t care.

Like don’t talk about my looks in front of your kids or try to cop a feel- it’s cringe (it happens so often that we had guards/watchers all over the place just in case someone got handsy and it happened too many times to count.) -FaesCosplay

I used to be the Easter Bunny at a function hall and people were just...weird. I've been threatened by a guy that told me he was going to throw me down the stairs. -The68Guns

My mom was a character actor back in the day (60’s or 70’s). They were testing a new headpiece for the seven dwarf costumes in Disneyland and my mom wore one of them out on a march with Snow White. As a Dwarf, your head is inside their hat, their face on their stomach, etc. Being Anaheim, it was really hot that summer day and as they were going around following Snow White a little kid saw my mom “Doc” he ran up to give him/her a hug.

As he was hugging Doc, the plastic that made up the face started melting inwards and the child started screaming “I killed Doc! I killed Doc!” In hysterics. Character handlers rushed my mom/Doc off through one of the secret passages by Pirates and got her out of the costume before the plastic could melt onto her. -The_Woman_S

I was Chip n Dale in Land and some dad came up with his kids, I was doin my thang and having fun with them. When it came time for pics the dad comes over to join us and all is well until after the picture when he asked for a hug so I gave him one. He squeezed, pulled away, grabbed his kids hands, smiled and said,"I didn't know Dale was a girl under all that fur."

I played it off at the time but it made me really uncomfortable that he had actually squeezed hard enough to feel me under my costume... decided to wear binders while I was in character so that no one else could ever feel my boobs again through the suit. This was back in 2019. -whodis_itsme

Somebody offered me 400 dollars to have sex with him while in my Goofy costume *(makes awkward Goofy laugh.) -ShireBeware

Reverse of Disney. I was working at Hogwarts Express in Universal Orlando and a tourist asked me without a hint of irony if this was the train to take them to the Disney park.

For those who aren't local, Universal and Disney are MILES from one another and for extremely obvious reasons not connected to one another. This idiot tried to fight me that there was a train you could ride between the two competing parks. -AllBadAnswers

Hah, makes me think of the Gaston push up challenger. To clarify, it's just a funny video and Gaston cheating on push ups while talking shit. -Obwyn

Never worked for Disney. But I worked with a lot of creepy Disney-obsessed women. More than a few slipped their room keys into Cast Members' outfits. Because having sex with a mouse is a fantasy for so many. -Brett707

I had a female friend who played Pluto for a few years. Even though her gender was indistinguishable because it’s a fully body Pluto costume, she’s would regularly share how often she was groped by kids and adults alike. -TreyRyan3

Not Disney, but mildly funny. In the 90s, My mom used to work for the company that owns Kool-aid. She was over several commissaries (military base grocery stores) and I usually did odd work for her like stocking or building displays. A few times, I got to put on the Kool-Aid Man costume. It was hard to see anything since the view ports were the eyes, mouth and they were super dark tinted plastic.

I was placed in between two racks of snack cakes and was scared to move much as I might knock them over. So I stood there for probably a half hour still as a statue while waiting to see people. This small kid, maybe 3 or 4, comes up to me with his mom. His eyes were so big and he was adorably in awe. I saw him and bent down to say hello and scared the living hell out of that poor kid.

He BOLTED directly away from me, screaming in terror. I lumbered after him for about 5 steps, trying to placate him and tell him I was friendly..before realizing I was just making more nightmare fuel for this poor little dude. His mom was laughing so hard she fell on her ass. -VogonSkald

I knew a friend (a guy) who wore Minnie Mouse costume. He told me almost all guys would put their hands around his waist. He wouldn’t dare to talk or else they would hear his manly voice and that might piss them off. -reloadfreak

I was a “mouse height” performer at Disney World around 2013. Can unfortunately confirm groping happened from time to time and it was incredibly uncomfortable. We were trained to move away if we could and signal to the character attendants to escort the guest away if it happened. One time some guy thought it appropriate to pick me up completely off the ground in a bear hug. The head pushed back and, because the inside is connected to us with head gear and a chin strap, my neck bent back with it and it hurt like hell. -raybirdie

I dated a girl that played one of the fairies for the Tinkerbell place. Beyond the pretty much daily occurrence of old dads hitting on her (she was 19 at the time) the weirdest thing to happen to her was a woman with a 4yr old little girl was all excited to get a picture with Tinkerbell, who was busy, so my ex volunteered to do pictures and entertain the little girl while they waited.

The woman was a bitch about that idea, rudely saying she was here to see Tinkerbell and not "off-brand" fairies. So just shrugging it off, my ex moved on. A bit later, she hears a commotion and Tinkerbell is obviously upset, and security shows up. Apparently, this woman was Tinkerbell's bio mom and had taken her granddaughter to Disney, just to violate the restraining order against her.
Disney Jail is a real place. -EarlSandwich0045

Another person was dressed as Daisy Duck and got tackled by a guest and knocked out cold. When she recovered, she pressed charges. -artistandattorney

Dated an actress, the weirdest she had was a man asking for him to be in the suit for an hour. He offered her $3K. (Piglet.) -Diehavok

Not a cast member but either Mickey or Minnie cut a very audible fart while posing with my wife and me. It must've been awful inside that dutch oven of a costume. -Jeffclaterbaugh