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Who is the main character of "Aladdin"?

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[quote="AladdinsGenie"]Mickey Mouse isn't six foot tall even in costume, but that's not particularly important right now :lol:

But I still think that's one of those things where you just have to go there to experience it to see for yourself. Most of the time when kids are scared it's because of one of two reasons:

1. The character is standing there with their arms out for a hug or to escort them over to the meeting area, and the parents are pushing them towards the character, aka, making the child leave the comfort of their parents' protection. That doesn't always go that well with most little kids at a young age where they are seriously attatched to their parents, and about half the time that doesn't work out when the character in question is another talking person like Peter Pan, for example, because it's like you're doing a trade off to them. "You go to this other person you don't really know, even if they are a 'character' from a movie you like for a picture, dear. I'll be over here away from you :D". They don't care if you portray that character [i]perfectly[/i] like as seen on their TV, if they are scared it's because they don't know you in a personal setting and therefore don't care what you're saying or doing to show them you're not mean or scary :lol:. That's always somewhat easily fixed with a "Ok, I'll go with you", and they ease up knowing their parent isn't going to leave them and they have someone they know to fall back on if things get to be too much for them.

Or 2. The character itself has a canon of being scary or coming from a scene that might have scared them like the villains, or even Stitch when he's destructive because I know he's one some of the kids are scared of, too.
I know when I was a kid, I was scared shitless of the Hulk because of his eyes when he starts to transform. If when I was a kid I were to go to meet the hulk in a park and I'm freaking out when it's my time to meet him, it wouldn't be because costumes creep me out and he's not 100% accurate or proportional like I've seen him, but because I'm still registering him as that thing on tv that scares the shit out of me and I don't wanna go near him, even if he's being friendly at the moment :lol:.

You enter a different level of intimacy when you're able to physically touch or be near that thing that scares you. It's one thing if it scares you on tv, but to have that same thing in front of you and able to touch you is another. That is scary. Then again, I have to wonder why you'd force your child to go meet someone you know they don't like. I mean, it's not like they're not giving you signals of "DO NOT WANT" long before they're forced to get in line because I know I wouldn't go near something that scares me either when I'm being forced to get in line and then AGAIN to go meet this thing, so that's partially on the parents, too.

Not to mention children are often times afraid of things that are taller than them anyways and that probably plays in to it because these characters aren't that big on your TV, but almost always the characters get on their level to talk to them, even if they can't "talk" so the child doesn't feel overwhelmed. I think it's more the idea of getting close to that thing that could potentially scare them/has scared them more than the design of the costume, really, especially when it continues when you're an adult because you're even more aware there's a person in there than a child would be and you're still scared? Come on, now :lol:[/quote]

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