Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Walt Disney World Resort confirmed that it asked Tolbert to change his clothes and to stop interacti




In June, during a Father's Day weekend trip to Disney World with relatives, theme-park officials pulled airline low price ticket Tolbert  aside and ordered him to stop signing autographs, posing for photographs, and dressing to look like Santa.
"I wasn't wearing a red suit, a hat or black boots," Tolbert told NBC News, "just khaki pants, red high-top sneakers airline low price ticket with green laces and a billowy, specially-made shirt decorated with a collage of Santa Claus heads and sayings from 'The Night before Christmas.'"
During his first two days at the park, Tolbert —  a professional Santa Claus who once took third place for looks, believability and photo at a national Santa Convention —  said he spent a good deal of time chatting and posing airline low price ticket for photos with many children, adults and Disney "cast members," But after a crowd gathered around him on this third day in the park, he said a Disney employee asked him to step around a corner.
"He told me, 'You cannot be Santa and you can't wear that shirt in the park.' He asked if I had any clothes in my hotel room that were less 'Santa-ish' and took me into a shop and pulled a 3X T-shirt from the rack to see if it would fit me."
It didn't. But a large, airline low price ticket short-sleeve, white button down shirt from the theme-park wardrobe airline low price ticket department did. "Then they said to tell people, 'I'm not who you think I am. I'm on vacation and you need to leave me alone.'"
Walt Disney airline low price ticket World Resort confirmed that it asked Tolbert to change his clothes and to stop interacting as Santa with other theme-park guests because "it was disruptive to our operations and confusing airline low price ticket to our other guests, particularly children who asked to take photos with him."
Tolbert is not the first to be asked to change his outfit at a Disney theme park. Citing the theme park's dress policy airline low price ticket , park recently officials asked April Spielman and her boyfriend to change out of their Tinker airline low price ticket Bell and Peter Pan costumes .
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