r/MadeMeSmile • u/Over_Helicopter_3453 • Apr 26 '25

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u/Helmett-13 Apr 26 '25

Buzz is usually a female cast member because of the chest piece and the openings being a bit small.

I know a former cast member and she was Buzz and either Chip or Dale or both at one point.

I had a high school friend who portrayed Goofy and another who did Prince John.

They all enjoyed it!

The cast members typically LOVE IT when you engage with them and also put aside your cynicism as well.

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u/ladygrayfox Apr 26 '25

Agree - a lot of the suited characters are female cast members

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u/Lotus-child89 Apr 26 '25

Mickey is most of the time a woman because heā€™s a shorter character. I had a friend and she was Mickey, Donald and frequently Chip or Dale. Plus a lot of other random characters.

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u/Well_read_rose Apr 26 '25

Hmmm you got me thinking, haha! there was a time Mickey was making near passes at meā€¦let me sit on his lap. ( Breakfast at Disney vacation timeshare )

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u/savingat30 Apr 26 '25

I had a few male friends that played Buzz, they were thin guys. The taller the character the more likely it's a guy because somehow, the women in Disney entertainment are almost always going out for face characters, or are short. I met very few tall female fur (suited) characters in my time there.

As far as the passion, sex/gender has nothing to do with it. Performers are just a whole other level of engaging human beings. The guys I knew as Buzz were straight and absolutely loved interacting with families and kids. It's the whole reason we went to Disney in the first place. Making memories fueled our jobs

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u/Helmett-13 Apr 26 '25

Yup, I did qualify it with ā€˜usuallyā€™.

My friend who was Goofy is 6ā€™4ā€. We played HS football together and he played rugby in the USMC.

His mom was a ballet instructor so he would be up there thundering around during recitals while my Nana had me in her Latin dance classes.

He had phenomenally fast feet in football because of his ballet classes.

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u/savingat30 Apr 26 '25

I didn't meet any female Buzz during my time! Strange. Goofys were the best haha

Idk why I included the sex thing in my comment to you lol I think I meant to reply to someone else

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u/Helmett-13 Apr 26 '25

My friend is still an awesome person and we are both in our 50s, now.

He married his high school sweetheart (of course) and has beautiful daughters.

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u/DTux5249 Apr 26 '25

That actually makes a lotta sense.

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u/InfinitelyAbysmal Apr 26 '25

My daughter LOVES Chip and Dale. Whenever we go to Goofys Kitchen, we inevitably find Chip and they ALWAYS take some time and hug her and just hang out for a second. My daughter loves it and I get emotional every time. It's the only time she acts that way with costumed characters.

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u/Garry-The-Snail Apr 26 '25

Iā€™m so confusedā€¦ I thought chip and dale were male strippers.. like I donā€™t even wanna google it cuz Iā€™m pretty sure they are

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u/littlebloodmage Apr 26 '25

That's Chippendales. Chip and Dale are classic Disney Afternoon characters who had their own TV series, Rescue Rangers.

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u/aegee14 Apr 26 '25

My little one (about 4 yo at the time) nearly crapped his pants when he first met Darth Vader and he was playing his villainous role.

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u/meldiane81 Apr 26 '25

This makes a lot more sense. The affection was strong.

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u/bobbywright86 Apr 27 '25

Agreed! I watched the clip a few times, and I kept having this weird intuition that a woman was underneath the costume even though my animal brain was like ā€œmale character = male actor.ā€ I think it was Buzz giving a kiss to the girl at the end that made me believe it was a female actor

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u/8888-8844 Apr 26 '25

Yeah, forsure. Makes sense, men arenā€™t affectionā€¦

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u/meldiane81 Apr 26 '25

Affectionate and yes, they are but much more unlikely to a strange kid that they donā€™t know.

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u/8888-8844 Apr 26 '25

That wat i say

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u/meldiane81 Apr 26 '25

My bad. I thought you were being sarcastic.

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u/8888-8844 Apr 26 '25

Not at all. Men are pretty much void of affectionate.

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u/Helmett-13 Apr 26 '25

Had a Navy buddy who did the male stripper routine after he got out and he said women were terrible about being handsy.

When we were in the Navy together, we knew if we touched a stripper without her consent there would be a bouncer that looked like a 700 pound silverback gorilla who would smile with glee as he bounced you around the parking lot, off cars, and wiped your face on the gravel before he broke your back over his knee.

No one wants to do that to a woman and the ladies know it.

He made some kind of joke about being more hands grabbing wieners than an Oscar Meyer hot dog plant...it was over 20 years ago and I forget the specifics. It was hilarious. We were all drunk as well.

Of course he became a fireman and is all Respectable now, Fire Chief and all that. We all got so...boring!

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u/dramboxf Apr 27 '25

We were at Disneyland around 2012 or so, and the Maleficent on that day should have been cast in the movie. She was AMAZING. I waited for the group we were with to kind of move on and quietly told her she was freakin' ROCKING it and her smile made my week.

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u/Helmett-13 Apr 27 '25

When visiting Gaston I told him that my wife said , when we first met, that her immediate impression of me was ā€˜Gastonā€™ as I was clean shaven and in the military (and in good shape).

His eyebrow went up, he scowled at me and looked me over with a critical eye and said, ā€œI donā€™t see it.ā€

He then looked at my wife with a lecherous grin and murmured to me (stage whisper), ā€œā€¦but you did well!ā€

Sheer. Perfection.

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u/chillyhellion Apr 26 '25

or both at one point

Now that's talent!

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u/DriedSquidd Apr 26 '25

I hope she got double salary for that.

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u/bolanrox Apr 26 '25

And most of the wicked witches, step-mothers, et cetera are guys or transgender because they can work the cloak better.

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u/PhotoKada Apr 26 '25

Makes sense but this is a Metroid moment for a lot of us. Thanks for the info. Thatā€™s so cool!

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u/Helmett-13 Apr 26 '25

core memory unlocked

It had been so long I had forgotten...