Disney owns the Tooth Fairy too

It's not particularly surprising that Disney would freak out (as would just about any other company) when someone doing this could potentially cause them to lose money. Obviously if there is a "real" Santa all dressed up sitting in the middle of the park charging children's parents for pictures, then the presence of a man who's willing to just pose as Santa without any pending charges is seen as a threat to Disney. I seriously doubt that they're as concerned about confusing the children as they are with the fact that money is to be lost if they allowed him to continue.

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Originally posted by nuttyturnip
but in such a massive park, don't they have more than one person dressed up as Mickey Mouse?

Good point. I've never been (at least not old enough to remember) but if it's anything like Universal/Islands of Adventure, there really is in fact only one actor for a specific character at a time. But it's still a good point.

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Originally Posted by acid

Disney does not charge to meet characters in the park. Or for pictures. I've been there three times.

Well, if you look again, you'll notice that I wasn't making a claim to Disney charging people to meet characters. I said that Disney possibly charged a family for their kid to sit on Santa's lap for a picture, if they were anything like every mall I've ever been in. Pictures in general (photo opps) would of course have no charge (I wasn't making that claim). And although the statement was in fact no more than an assumption, it was more along the lines of empathetic dialogue directed towards the other "Santa."

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