Half-man / half-Pooh Bear takes a break next to decapitated patriotic Mickey Mouse

Photo by Left Hand Rotation

[#1 posted by Antinous / Moderator, June 23, 2009 2:51 PM]

That's hot.

[#2 posted by harrisonlong, June 23, 2009 2:52 PM]

Is posting this photo going to get the guy playing Pooh fired? Disney has a habit of getting crazy about "cast members" being caught in candid, compromising positions.

[#3 posted by hokano, June 23, 2009 2:55 PM]

What can one say about this sort of thing, really?

Except, of course "Drop another ziploc of frogs in the hail cannon."

[#4 posted by mackenzi, June 23, 2009 2:56 PM]

That googlebear needed a facelift anyway. Hey, googlebear lived, right? How about a million? Just between you, me, Fred Vogelstein, fred, Emma, U2, Vogue, and God the Damned.

[#5 posted by hokano, June 23, 2009 3:04 PM]

And although there is undoubtedly a decapitated Mickey Mouse not far away, what we see here is clearly the disembodied head of Mickey Mouse.

Either way, I say well done.

[#6 posted by Anonymous, June 23, 2009 3:14 PM]

Somebody gone git fired!

[#7 posted by kleer001, June 23, 2009 3:45 PM]

Being a mascot, especially at a major theme park, is really hard work. Some scary shit there.

[#8 posted by Anonymous, June 23, 2009 3:52 PM]

And here you'll see Donald Duck attending some religious ceremony in Turkey :))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1a0wB1MzUE

[#9 posted by Stefan Jones, June 23, 2009 4:16 PM]

Maybe the photographer found a window overlooking a closed area, inaccessible to the public?

Maybe this is an amateur, out on the streets somewhere?

[#10 posted by catastrophegirl, June 23, 2009 4:18 PM]

it looks like the comments on the photostream indicate this was taken in madrid, which makes it a special situation for the costumed performer in question : if he was visible it was due to the location not being secure enough for disney's rules. he doesn't appear in the photo to be aware that he is being photographed. i doubt he's going to get in trouble - but whoever was in charge of security and setting up the performer break area probably IS in trouble

[#11 posted by Brainspore, June 23, 2009 4:26 PM]

I hear one of the most surreal things about working at Disneyland is going backstage and seeing various princesses taking cigarette breaks.

[#12 posted by urederra, June 23, 2009 4:50 PM]

And the photo was taken by Peter Parker, while swinging on a spiderweb.

[#13 posted by Chris Spurgeon, June 23, 2009 5:06 PM]

Disney doesn't have a theme park in Madrid (the European one is outside of Paris). Must just be some guy in a Pooh costume? (With, one assumes, a guy in a Mickey Mouse costume near by).

[#14 posted by deny77, June 23, 2009 5:27 PM]

Eeyore must not be far behind.

[#15 posted by echolocate chocolate, June 23, 2009 6:20 PM]

That half-man-half-Pooh is sending Mickey to the bottom of the river after trapping him in a block of concrete.

[#16 posted by TK, June 23, 2009 6:45 PM]

ManBearPooh?

[#17 posted by eattrn, June 23, 2009 8:52 PM]

Disney won't be happy.

[#18 posted by Cory Doctorow, June 24, 2009 2:35 AM]

That's almost certainly not a Disney park; it's Times Square or Sunset Boulevard where the fursuits frolic freelance.

[#19 posted by TheWillow, June 24, 2009 6:49 AM]

@Cory - I actually thought it looked like Bethesda Terrace in Central Park.

[#20 posted by Phikus, June 24, 2009 7:58 AM]

Somebody slipped that pooh a mickey, or was that the other way around?

[#21 posted by trippcook, June 24, 2009 8:20 AM]

HOLY SHIT!!! The Disney characters at the parks are dudes in suits?!?!?!?!?!?! Somebody call the New York Times so we can get the word out about this totally unknown and unexpected fact!

[#22 posted by Anonymous, June 24, 2009 8:45 AM]

And how do we know this isn't a picture of Mickey taking a Pooh?

[#23 posted by Anonymous, June 24, 2009 9:47 AM]

This image reminded me of a painting by a guy called Jason sho Green. I tried to link directly to the pic but if you go to his home page it's image number 33 titled 'pooh break at eurodisney'

here's the site www.jasonshogreen.com

I wonder if the guy in the photo modeled for the painting? :)

[#24 posted by Keneke, June 24, 2009 10:24 AM]

Mickey's head is "off-model". Definitely not Disney-owned. But I bet most of us fanatics already guessed that.

[#25 posted by Anonymous, July 16, 2009 11:50 PM]

Maybe it's to promote the new movie: Harry Potter and the Half-Pooh Bear