First, wow. I can’t believe you are answering on this forum since 2011. Kudos to you.
Second, a question. Why would the Tigger costume tail would be separated from the body?
I’ve been thinking of applying to work for Disney. Can you give me any info on Attractions like the people in Harry Potter wearing robes and such?
Please oh please tell me you’re joking…
If not, I shall politely inform you that the Harry Potter attractions are at Universal Studios, not Walt Disney World.
Please refer to this site for a list of all attractions at Walt Disney World. List of Walt Disney World Resort attractions - Wikipedia
Hi! I am going to be auditioning for a dancing role at Walt Disney World in about a week. I live in another state, so I wanted to ask if you knew how long Disney gives you to move to Orlando? (If they choose to hire me.)
This is just amazing. I also have joined just to ask you a few questions. And big thanks in advance for any reply.
I’m a stilt walker and make my own costumes. I’m soooo interested in the costumes you wore and how they go together. Specifically the toy soldier. I’ve studied 1000 images of him and tried to solve how to construct something similar. Then I find this post… can’t believe you actually were one of those guys! It’s amazing!
Can you possibly describe, or make a diagram, of how the body’s built? I can’t tell you how helpful any insight on the torso and it’s internal support would be. It seems in two halves and I see the costume shoulders are way higher than the actual performers.
What is the framework inside - to raise the shoulders, support the body and keep it stable?
How does it fit onto the performer?
How does the outer body then attach?
How do the two halves of the body then join together securely?
Are the plastic arms only attached by the strap to the top of the torso? - or to the sweater too?
How do the straps attach to the torso?
Other things I’d love to know if you could take the time…
How was the neck covered? (I think I see a black cowl pulled up to the performer’s mouth in the film of one’s head falling off)
Where are the performers eyes? - what did you look out of?
Did the head attach by the same mechanism as you described the Tigger head did?
What were the feet made of? - they look hinged. Were the toes hollow?
I’ve got 2 weeks to make a stilt costume. Eek! And the Disney costume really looks like a toy, not just a person in a coat, so I’ve set my heart on making my body and arms along those lines. Well, that’s the plan anyway!
Thanks for this amazing post.
Welcome to the SDMB Mary Faerie. This thread was originally created in 2011. It looks like the creator Cryptic C62, hasn’t posted here since 2014.
Just wanted to give you a heads up, so you don’t think you’re being ignored if you don’t get an answer. 
do you know how much the suits cost? Ive heard mickeys is $5000 and Belles ball gown is 30K
Hello, cawcaw, you might wish to look at the post immediately above yours…
To answer your question, according to Cryptic earlier the performer’s costumes as used in the parks are not for sale at any price. Disney wants to maintain control over the characters.
So if you want your own costume you’ll have to either make one yourself or hire someone to make it, or get one of the commercially sold licensed costumes, or one of the many commercially available knockoffs. You can’t trademark a yellow ball gown.
my wife and I have a bet . How many cast members “know” Tinkerbell?
I say 7 she says 4 . Who is right and if neither how many, Please
As with the thread you started on this question, no one knows what you mean.
The question has been clarified in the other thread. To “know” a character is synonymous with “playing” that character in the park. Cast members are not allowed to say that they “are” that character.
It would be like Sean Connery not being allowed to claim he “was” James Bond, only that he “knew” James Bond. So if the question was:
“How many actors ‘know’ James bond? I say 7, she says 4. Who is right and if neither how many, please.”
The answer is 7. Seven actors know James Bond. Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.
I don’t know the answer to your question but I do know that Tink is a different height and weight and facial-feature requirement than the princess characters. I believe Merida is also shorter, but I don’t know if she and Tink are interchangeable. If they could be shared, I bet they are.
Given that the other white princesss can interchange roles quickly and easily, there’s not any use looking at how many of them there are, because if it gets busy, central can just drag someone back and re-costume them and shove them back out to meet demand.
On the other hand, it would be sensible to see if you can figure out how many Mulan, Pocohontas, and Tiana princess character performers there are, and add a couple of extra people because Tink is likely more popular than those are.
As a personal speculation, I would say there are probably between 3 and 7 “popular” princess characters (including Tink and Peter and whoever else isn’t actually a princess) scheduled at any one time to be out and about, with another one or two employees in the back to be called up if demand or crowds flare up.
Bumped.
Don’t know how much of this article is jive, " What The Mouse Doesn’t Want You To Know: Backstage Secrets About Working At Disney," but thought I’d post a link here: What The Mouse Doesn’t Want You To Know: Backstage Secrets About Working At Disney - Trend Chaser
My sons worked at Disney World since this post was started, and the stuff that they’ve told me jibes with items on the list, with one exception (and it may have been covered here): the two fingered point, as I’ve heard in multiple places, is to avoid offending certain cultures with a single finger point. It had nothing to do with Walt Disney. Of course either one of those answers could be wrong, but that’s what the cast members are told.
The traditional explanation was that Walt always pointed with two fingers, because the fingers had a cigarette between them. Cigarettes have been erased out of the Disney story.
The most important culture that single-finger pointing might offend is Americans. Americans frequently use “other cultures” are their excuse for not likely finger-pointing, but really, when did Americans ever have any kind of awareness of foreign cultures? As illustrated by the lists of “other cultures that think finger pointing is rude” which invariable misunderstand and misrepresent other cultures.