Disney appears desperate to alienate those among its remaining fans unwilling to go along to get along with gender ideology and the LGBT activist agenda. While this is certainly true of the approach it has taken with its film output, the company is apparently also working hard on disenchantment at its theme parks.
A park-goer recently disclosed to That Park Place, a publication that has chronicled Disney's decline and corresponding ideological capture, that he spotted a transvestite cutting children's hair and applying makeup at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique at Walt Disney World.
The boutique gives makeovers to guests ages 3 to 12.
"I'm glad I was wandering the park with my son when this happened," said the unnamed park-goer, who substantiated his sightings with photographs. "My niece did get her hair done by a man named Hector wearing a dress at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique.
"We also have another picture of a male cast member in an Alice in Wonderland costume," added the concerned uncle. "I'm pretty sick and tired to see what is happening to the parks and the people who work there."
According to Inside the Magic, the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique reopened after the pandemic with a new policy: Hairdressers at the boutique, previously called "Fairy Godmothers in Training," would now be called "Fairy Godmother's Apprentices." Moreover, men could now "participate in magical Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique makeovers."
'The illusion is broken.'
Last year, a video went viral showing a mustachioed man in a dress engaging with children at the Disneyland boutique in Anaheim, California.
Conservative writer and author Peachy Keenan tweeted at the time, "This salon, which I have used several times, is for little girls ages 4-10. It is a delight from start to finish, and one of the cutest things to watch. A true 'Disney magic' immersive experience — one of the very few left at the park."
"A man in drag is not only bizarre and inappropriate but it takes guests out of the 'show' — the illusion is broken," continued Keenan. "Nothing matters but the agenda and your 4 yo is a pawn they are happy to mindflay."
Men in dresses aren't just cutting hair at Disney's parks. In some cases, they are recruited for leading female roles.
A conservative Christian family tried their luck earlier this year and visited the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, hoping to make memories having wholesome fun together. The parents paid hundreds of dollars for a dinner at Disney's Wilderness Lodge and a meet-and-greet with the Evil Queen from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
It didn't take the family long to realize they'd paid for a meet-and-greet with what was effectively a drag queen.
"I said I wanted to formally complain about the Evil Queen being a man and that I felt very disrespected by Disney because this is not the sort of thing my family values and they didn’t give us any type of notice that this sort of thing was even a possibility," the father told That Park Place.
That Park Place's Jonas Campbell previously told Blaze News that "if it weren't in a context where there were children present and it were something that was reasonably to be expected by guests of the Walt Disney Company — [a company] that has been so tied to traditional values for so long — then I think that there is a world in which that is acceptable in commerce."
Blaze News recently reported that Disney has been outed actively looking for transvestite actors to star in its new "The Little Mermaid — A Musical Adventure" stage production at Hollywood Studios.
Casting director Erika Ureña specified in her open call for actors that for the role of the "spirited, fun-loving, yet curious mermaid princess," the company was looking for a white woman or white male transvestite between the ages of 18 and 30.
John F. Trent, the editor in chief of That Park Place, suggested to Blaze News that this "appears to be a continued pattern from the Walt Disney Company and its 'not-at-all-secret gay agenda' as the company's Latoya Raveneau confirmed in March 2022."
"It is clearly trying to target small children, their families, and even adults in an attempt to warp their minds into believing this objective evil is normal or even good," added Trent.
Blaze News reached out to the Walt Disney Disney Company for comment but did not receive a comment by deadline.
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Radicals hostile to America and the West committed to a campaign of deracination and iconoclasm in the summer of 2020, digging up graves, toppling statues, renaming animals, melting down busts, knocking out church windows, and killing off iconic brands. Disney made sure to get in on the action.
Amidst the deadly BLM riots, Disney announced that it would overhaul one of its featured theme park rides: Splash Mountain. Apparently, the ride prickled race obsessives with its depiction of characters and songs from "Song of the South" — Disney's Oscar-winning 1946 musical wherein a former slave shares folk tales during the Reconstruction era.
Despite blowing an estimated $150 million on the overhaul and engaging in a concerted hype campaign, it appears Disney has yet another flop on its hands.
'The new concept is inclusive — one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by.'
Splash Mountain first opened in Disneyland in 1989. Disney World in Orlando got its own version a few years later. On both coasts, the ride featured the tale of Br'er Rabbit and his daring escape from a fox and bear. The ride's flume 52.5-foot drop plopped generations of guests down the river and into the moist safety of a mock briar batch.
Anthropomorphic animals and a coherent narrative in a Southern setting were evidently too much to bear.
On June 25, 2020, Disney revealed that Splash Mountain — at both Disneyland park in California and the Magic Kingdom park in Florida — will soon be completely reimagined. The theme is inspired by an all-time favorite animated Disney film, "The Princess and the Frog.'"
"The approach to retheming or 'plussing' attractions (as Walt Disney referred to it) begins with Imagineers asking the question, how can we build upon or elevate the experience and tell a fresh, relevant story?" said the statement. "And with this long-standing history of updating attractions and adding new magic, the retheming of Splash Mountain is of particular importance today. The new concept is inclusive — one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by, and it speaks to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year."
Despite over 100,000 fans petitioning Disney to spare Splash Mountain, Disney closed the ride in both parks in early 2023.
'It had kind of run its course.'
While the new ride based on a box office underperformer uses the same tracks as Splash Mountain and riders still travel in railed rafts fashioned to look like hollowed-out logs, the New York Times reported that Disney spent an estimated $150 million to alternatively tell the story of lead character Tiana's efforts to cobble together a band for a Mardi Gras party using all-new decorations, audio, and animatronics.
Ted Robledo, the ride's executive creative director, stressed to the Times the various signs of "diversity" at play, by which he meant a black protagonist, three types of music, and signage in Spanish and French.
“We're always looking at ways to cast a wider net," said Robledo. "With the old property, for a variety of reasons, it wasn't that relevant any more. It had kind of run its course."
The Times alluded to some signals that potential park guests aren't interested.
A nine-minute point-of-view video tour of the ride uploaded to YouTube had 10,000 thumbs up and over 38,000 thumbs down as of Monday. That Park Place estimated the ratio of positive to negative comments on the video to be roughly 1:200.
Numerous annual pass holders permitted to preview the ride in person ahead of its grand opening later this month have also effectively given "Tiana's Bayou Adventure" thumbs down.
According to Inside the Magic, the ride has been beset by malfunctions and breakdowns. Apparently the ride's hardware has trouble sustaining and communicating with the new animatronics.
Various videos shared online show new characters frozen in place while dialogue and music eerily play on. Last week, on at least one occasion, guests reportedly had to be evacuated following a ride malfunction.
It's unclear whether the new ride will survive as long as its predecessor, given the initial backlash as well as its apparent failure to win over race obsessives.
Katie Kapurch, an English professor at Texas State University, told the Associated Press that the new ride is silent on the "racial realities of the segregated eras they depict."
"We might see the impulse to replace rather than dismantle or build anew as a metaphor for structural racism, too," Kapurch said. "Again, this is unintentional on Disney's part, but the observation gets to the heart of how Disney reflects America back to itself."
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An actor playing the character Goofy says he was sexually touched by a grandmother during a meet-and-greet with a family at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
The victim and Disney World staff notified police, who provided a detailed report with some redactions.
The Orange County Sheriff's office released a report about a February 2024 incident from a 32-year-old costumed Disney actor who took issue with an elderly woman during a photo session.
At around 10:30 a.m., a family of four was taking pictures with Goofy as three of the family members stood to the character's right while the grandmother stood at his left side, with her arm around the actor, the victim reportedly said.
The grandmother then allegedly "placed her right hand on his 'butt' and squeezed her hand three times," the report claimed. "During the squeezing the grandmother said 'Woo hoo!'" the report also alleged.
After the photo was taken, the victim allegedly stopped the meet-and-greet and alerted the Disney attendant that he had been groped by the senior, who was allegedly in her 60s.
'I didn't do anything ... Goofy wants us to leave now.'
A Disney parks and recreation leader was also notified behind the scenes, and authorities were later called.
It would seem the family was asked to leave, as according to the report, the grandmother said "with an attitude, 'What? I guess he doesn't want us here.'"
The family then "walked off," the report said.
According to WDWNT, a Disney photographer was also witness to the events and gave a statement to police. The statement was somewhat redacted, however.
The photographer's statement said that "Goofy stopped the interaction with the family and was asking them to leave." The photographer also noted that they had overheard the family's discussion:
"What did you do?" the father apparently asked the grandmother.
"I didn't do anything ... Goofy wants us to leave now," she replied.
The victim told police that the older woman squeezed his buttocks over his costume and wanted her prosecuted for battery. The grandmother was reportedly wearing leggings and a black Minnie Mouse shirt that read "Nana Mouse." However, no arrests had been made according to the local outlet.
The Disney World grope is not the only alleged incident involving Goofy that recently made headlines. Just a month prior, across the country at Disneyland (which is also located in an Orange County), a woman filed a lawsuit alleging that Goofy caused her injuries.
The lawsuit stemmed from a 2022 trip when a woman claimed she was bent over, tying her daughter's shoes. At that time, a Goofy actor allegedly ran into her and fell on top of her, driving her into the "hard cement floor."
The LA Times, which also said Disney did not provide comment, said that the woman claimed she suffered "severe, traumatic, debilitating, and permanent" injury.
She also made claims of emotional pain and suffering.
The woman is suing the park and Goofy's "handler." The handler's job was reportedly to guide the costumed actor around the park to make sure he didn't bump into anything.
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A conservative Christian family hazarded a visit to the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, earlier this month, likely hoping to create some good memories. The parents shelled out hundreds of dollars for a dinner at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and a meet and greet with the Evil Queen — also known as Queen Grimhilde — from the 1937 classic film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
When time came for their close encounter at the lodge's Artist Point, the family discovered that the actor playing the queen was neither the fairest of them all nor one among the fairer sex, reported That Park Place's Jonas Campbell.
The father told That Park Place, "We've had other meet-and-greets with other Villains, and they are truly the best character experiences that we've ever had. So we had high hopes for the Evil Queen leading up."
"So we all walked over towards the Evil Queen area, and while my kids and wife were interacting with the character, I was doing some video and took a few pictures from about 10 feet away, then handed my iPhone over to the cast member to take some pics for me so I could get in the picture," continued the father. "It was kind of loud inside, so I couldn't really hear what the character was saying until I got face to face [typical conversation distance of a few feet], and then it hit me that the Evil Queen, without a doubt, had a man's voice."
According to the father, extra to speaking in a male-presenting voice disparate in kind and tone from that of the filmic feminine antagonist, the drag queen towered above his family without the need of any sort of platform.
That Park Place highlighted various videos online wherein the same actor can be seen reprising the role of the Evil Queen.
A family has reached out to That Park Place claiming they spent over $300 on a character meet and greet dinner at Walt Disney World... only to discover the Evil Queen character was almost certainly a biological male. This represents the first time we've heard of Disney using a\u2026— (@)
The costly encounter with an actor ostensibly playing two roles proved too much for the father, who complained.
"I told my waiter that I had a problem with something. He then asked what was the issue, and I simply stated I have a problem with Evil Queen being a man dressed in drag. The waiter immediately said he was going to get a manager, and he looked panicked," the father told That Park Place. "At first, I said I wanted to formally complain about the Evil Queen being a man and that I felt very disrespected by Disney because this is not the sort of thing my family values and they didn’t give us any type of notice that this sort of thing was even a possibility."
The irate father who had just blown roughly $60 per meal apparently made clear to the manager the trip had altogether costed him $8,000, not to mention his previous expenditures on Disney-branded adventures.
"At one point, the manager stated, 'I can assure you that she is a woman,'" continued the father. "She went even further, trying to shame me, informing me that 'she' was so excited to get the part as the Evil Queen. For a brief moment, I thought, 'Oh ... maybe I’m wrong,' but then I realized that I was just being gaslighted."
When the father asked whether the queen was a man, the manager allegedly responded, "I'm sorry, sir, I cannot answer that."
Campbell told Blaze News that "if it weren't in a context where there were children present and it were something that was reasonably to be expected by guests of the Walt Disney Company — [a company] that has been so tied to traditional values for so long — then I think that there is a world in which that is acceptable in commerce."
The investigative reporter also noted that it is important to consider context and the type of costume when considering transvestism, as in the case of the hulking queen.
Campbell noted, for instance, that the Fantasmic fireworks show involves the Maleficent character pulling off some physical feats that might justify the use of a male performer. There's also the various masked characters, where the sex of the actor is immaterial — with the exception of the smaller, shorter characters, where size contra gender may be the determining factor in casting.
In the case of the Evil Queen at the Wilderness Lodge resort, the actor appears in videos to be bare-faced and playing a female role that Campbell suggested likely "has a lot of competition."
According to Campbell, it's uncommon and perhaps even a first to have a transvestite assuming an open-faced role in the Orlando parks, whereas in Disney's California parks, there have been multiple sightings of cross-dressing cast members.
Disney has a man in a dress working in the dress store for little girls at Disneyland. This is who Disney wants girls to see when they first walk in to pick out a dress.— (@)
Campbell suggested that there is a meaningful difference between woke content on Disney+ and woke content or performances in the parks. If a parent accidentally turns on Disney's drag queen special or is watching "Muppet Babies" with a child and takes issue when the cross-dressing Gonzo begins to regurgitate social constructivist agitprop, then all the parent needs to do is shut off the TV or change the program.
When visiting Walt Disney World, on the other hand — which Campbell stressed was "an international location where many cultures are coming together to this specific resort, many of them are not paying attention to what is on TV, what is on Disney+ in the same way" — it is easier to get blindsided and emotionally trapped.
"All of a sudden you're in an intimate setting where your children are very excited to experience this thing, they get to meet their favorite character," said Campbell. "[Various sources told That Park Place] the children are unsettled when finding out that these things are not quite how you would expect them to be."
Campbell suggested that the conservative Christian father and others like him are oftentimes placed in a difficult situation where, in order to "stand up for their own religious beliefs or their own beliefs about what truth is in front of their kids," they end up having to "take something that is bright and shiny and desirable" away from their children.
John F. Trent, the editor in chief of That Park Place, told Blaze News that this "appears to be a continued pattern from the Walt Disney Company and its 'not-at-all-secret gay agenda' as the company's Latoya Raveneau confirmed in March 2022."
"It is clearly trying to target small children, their families, and even adults in an attempt to warp their minds into believing this objective evil is normal or even good," added Trent.
Blaze News reached out to Disney for comment but did not receive a response by deadline.
When asked what families considering a trip to Disney World might want to consider in light of the apparent threat of complicity in Disney's war on normalcy, Campbell told Blaze News, "First of all, prices at Walt Disney World are higher than they've ever been and are offering less and less value than they have for years. ... I'd recommend waiting a summer or finding something a little bit more welcome like these regional parks that are doing quite a good job."
"Dollywood, for instance, is a lovely park full of natural beauty. It's also welcoming to all guests even though they are very open to the fact that they do talk about God in the park," he said. "There are other options in the area. Universal, for instance, has been really stepping up their game, and I think a little competition for Disney with things like this is a good thing."
In the way of local alternatives, Blaze News previously reported that soon the Gospel Gardens at the 2,000-seat Basilica of Our Lady, Queen of the Universe nearby Walt Disney World will have a series of life-sized bronze sculptures of the Stations of the Cross — 14 representations of Christ's journey from his condemnation to his death and burial.
Further afield, there is the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky — a full-size Noah's ark and creation museum — or the American Journey Experience in Irving, Texas — a museum containing more than 160,000 artifacts focusing on American history.
"I think that there are other options and of course, anything that has a family interacting together, spending time together, trying to do things that they enjoy together is a good thing," said Campbell.
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Orlando's increasingly woke Walt Disney World features various monuments depicting fictional characters thought up by men. Outside the walls of the corporate imaginarium, an artist is set to erect monuments depicting the historical figure whom billions of Christians understand not only thought up men, but saved them from sin and death.
Catholic artist Timothy P. Schmalz has labored for years on a series of life-sized bronze sculptures of the Stations of the Cross — fourteen representations of Christ's journey from his condemnation to his death and burial.
Schmalz, who previously created sculptures for St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, and for the Catholic University of America, recently told the Catholic News Agency that the stations, some 30 feet wide and others as high as 14 feet, will be installed later this year. He has, after all, completed his creative clay sculpting for the project, meaning they need only to be cast in bronze at a specialized foundry to be ready for installation.
The stations will be planted in the Gospel Gardens at the 2000-seat Basilica of Our Lady, Queen of the Universe, which was granted minor basilica status in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI.
The Diocese of Orlando originally broke ground on the current location with the intention of serving the multitudes of Catholics who would venture to Disney World in Lake Buena Vista.
"I hope to rival Universal Studios, Walt Disney, and every other feature in Orlando by creating what has never been done before, and that is one of the biggest, most complex Stations of the Cross," Schmalz said of the endeavor in 2022.
"It's right in the center of a place that desperately needs a spiritual Catholic oasis," he told the CNA, stressing the importance of "bringing the Gospels [to] where the people are."
Schmalz hopes the works will serve as "tools to convert and inspire Christianity." The nearby theme park may serve as a force multiplier granted that nearly 60 million people flock to it every year.
The ornate and massive installations, each of which weighs thousands of pounds, are replete with biblical references, not just to Christ's passion but to his teachings as well.
"Some of Christ's parables are embedded in the sculptures. In the foreground of each station is the principal scene, but in the background are the teachings of Jesus as well as symbols," said Schmalz. "It is an unusual version of the stations in the sense that it is filled with the New Testament. For instance, station 13 has more than 100 saints. It is unlike any other sculpture I have ever created."
According to Schmalz's artist statement, he is "devoted to creating artwork that glorifies Christ. The reason for this devotion, apart from my Christian beliefs, is that an artist needs an epic subject to create epic art."
"When visiting the great Cathedrals and museums of Europe, one is given many messages of the Christian faith through the great works of art. However, one message these great masterpieces convey to us in modern times is that the church was all important and glorious ... once, approximately five hundred years ago," wrote Schmalz. "Unfortunately, these create the impression that the themes represented are antiquated and should be viewed in a museum."
Schmalz is of the view that the production and proud installation of massive Christian artwork today would buck this notion and visually insist upon the understanding that the "church is all important and glorious ... today!"
"Unless you do something spectacular, it's going to be invisible," the sculptor told the CNA. "That's how we are today. We have a society today where the Catholic Church is competing with mainstream culture. We have to be tough and strong. Even though we are dealing with the Gospels, with eternal truths, the execution often falls short."
Schmalz's sentiment is shared by other Christian artists.
Blaze News spoke in November to the Norwegian team at Bible X, the game developer behind the Christian video game Gate Zero. Game designer Arve Solli stressed that quality often appears to be a secondary priority — if a priority at all — among faith-based developers because many "take it for granted that Christian people ... want to use it or see it because it's Christian."
"We want to create something great because we believe it's the greatest message ever told," said Solli. "So we should put everything we can into doing that. An undeniably great video game, not like 'How little effort can we put into this? People will play it anyway.' ... We tried to think of it the opposite way."
Schmalz, the official sculptor for the coming National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, has similarly gone to great lengths to create religious art "more intense than what is seen on film; so intense, that if you are not Catholic, you would want to become Catholic. You would want to learn more."
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