Characters

By: David Koenig

pg. 167, 6 hours.



I'm still reading the same book about Disneyland, and it is still really cool and interesting. There are allot of funny stories in the book, one was about characters and how they cope in the costumes they are in, and how it gets really hot in the costumes. another thing i thought was funny was that the characters who are "masked" such as Mickey and Minnie are usually all women because Mickey and Minnie are both very small, so they have women do the part. Another thing i read was about some people who played the masked characters and their stories of their job, a common story among all of the former cast members (which is Disney for employees) was that when the were in costume people used to beat them up. Mostly children and teenagers, but parents would tell their kids to go "Kick it in the shin" and the children would do it. it got to the point where it was so severe that all masked characters have to have a guard ( another cast membr stand right beside them wherever they went so that nobody could do anything) so if your ever at Disneyland and you see Mickey and his friends along with a guy standing right beside them, you will know the story behind that.