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Behind the Mascot: Directed by Doug Barber, James Phillips. With Mad Martian, Daniel Stern. Behind the Mascot will take you inside the stinky, sweaty, hundred and twenty-degree suit as we expose the exhilarating, strange and all-too-often dangerous underbelly of life as a mascot.
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- Doug Barber, James Phillips
- 2004-09-18
Behind the Mascot will take you inside the stinky, sweaty, hundred and twenty-degree suit as we expose the exhilarating, strange and all-too-often dangerous underbelly of life as a mascot.
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- There Are Some Things Off-Limits For Disney Performers When Taking Pictures.
- Disney Princesses Can Be A Little difficult.
- Disney Performers Have A Quota to meet.
- Disney Character Attendants Are The Unsung Heroes of The Parks.
- Disney Performers Are Sometimes Just Spares.
- Disney Performers Have Mandatory exercise.
- Disney Performers Wearing Fur Get Skittish Because They Can’T See well.
- Disney Performers Aren’T Supposed to Hold Babies.
- Disney Performers Are Never Supposed to Meet Their Doubles.
- Disney Performers Need to Watch Canonical Movies to Learn Their character.
Nothing commemorates a trip to a Disney park like a photo opportunity with a costumed character. This can either mean a “fur” character with a suit that covers their entire body (Donald Duck, for example) or a “face” that can use their natural expressions like any of the Disney princesses around the park. But according to Sandra, who was friends wi...
While all Disney performers must start out as a fur character, graduating to princess duty can mean a class distinction. “When you’re a princess, you only have to be scheduled one fur shift every six months,” Jessica, a onetime Disney performer who was friends with Lady Tremaine, tells Mental Floss. “And you can call in for that shift. So there are...
If your time with a Disney character seems fleeting, it’s because they’ve got to meet their numbers. While performing as Lady Tremaine, Jessica had to make the restaurant rounds without slowing down. “They have a number they want performers to hit,” she says. “For me, it was less about people and more about going through the entire rotation. My set...
Fur characters are usually watched over by character attendants—also known as character hosts—to act as their eyes and ears in crowds. (Since they can talk, face characters aren’t as badly in need of an escort.) “It’s a really hard job,” Jessica says. “I have a lot of respect for the attendants. They’re the ones who get yelled at by people who are ...
Being a character performer at Disney often means being assigned to a variety of shifts. According to Mikey, who was friends with Goofy and a variety of other characters (Tigger, Geppetto, Genie, the Sheriff of Nottingham), performers usually find themselves in an atmosphere shift, which puts them right in the park; at parades; at special events li...
Owing to the physical demands of being a fur character with a heavy costume—or a face character on their feet much of the day—Disney typically offers some kind of fitness regime at the start of a shift. “Warm-ups are done at the beginning of your shift and they’re mandatory,” Mikey says. “They are led by [warm-up] coaches that have special training...
Try not to sneak up on a fur character. Because they have virtually no peripheral vision, being touched from the side can be startling. “The fur characters are all different in terms of the places they see out of,” Jessica says. “You may think you know where they see out of, but you don’t. Tigger, you will never know where he sees out of. The best ...
Parents often toss their newborn Disney fans into the arms of fur characters, but it’s not a good idea for the reasons we just mentioned. They can’t see well, and they have giant cartoon hands. “You can’t see,” Jessica says. “I’ve had people tossing their baby at me. The procedure for that is getting as close to the ground as possible. When I was P...
It’s a given that in a park as sprawling as a Disney location, multiple performers will be on hand to be friends with characters in different areas and in different shifts. “In the old Toontown location in Magic Kingdom, for example, there were two different rooms where guests could meet Belle, Aurora, and Cinderella,” Sandra says. “As guests would...
Not many jobs require you to sit down and watch classic animated movies, but then, not every job is with Disney. To make sure performers have a handle on a character’s history, they’re tasked with viewing the canonical movies they appear in. “For face characters, since you’re speaking, you watch the foundation films so you can stick to the storylin...
Behind the Mascot will take you inside the stinky, sweaty, hundred and twenty-degree suit as we expose the exhilarating, strange and all-too-often dangerous underbelly of life as a mascot.
The cast includes Amanda LaVergne as Campbell, Adrienne Warren as Danielle, and Nick Blaemire as Randall, and "award-winning competitive cheerleaders from across the country". [35]
