I have now directly insulted two Disney cast members about the characters they brought to life at Walt Disney World.

Not bad for someone who claims to love Disney, eh?

Here’s how it went:

I have a friend who works for Disney – primarily in a professional backstage role. We were talking at Epcot one day, when she said, “Wasn’t Tapestry of Dreams the best parade?”

I said, “No, I didn’t like that at all! I love Tapestry of Nations, but they just shortened it and made it corny when they changed over to Tapestry of Dreams.”

She got a sad look on her face. And then it struck me:

“Oh. My. God. You were in it.”

Turns out she was ‘friends’ with Cosmo, and I had just insulted her to her face. Ugh.

“Wait! Wait! I liked it! It’s just that Tapestry of Nations was longer – you know!”

She is the nicest, most perfect representative of Disney the company could wish for, and I stomped all over her parade. Of course I liked Tapestry of Dreams, it’s just that Tapestry of Nations is the parade that stole my heart. So when I returned to find Tapestry of Dreams, it was like meeting a step-parent. Nice, just not quite the same. Cosmo was the best part. *waves to Rose.*

The second time was right here on Mousejunkies.com. Whenever I get a chance to take potshots at Figment and Dreamfinder, I do it. It’s become a “thing” since my first book. In it, I wrote how I didn’t like the attraction. It’s been redone twice, and they just haven’t gotten it right. I was asked by my publisher to expound a bit on why, and it ended up becoming a much bigger thing than I intended. I had created a monster.

I have friends and readers who love Journey Into Your Imagination, and Figment and Dreamfinder in particular. So they’d rib me about it and we’d go back and forth until it became an ongoing battle of taste that I kept alive.

Earlier this week I posted yet another Figment-related blog, and took a couple shots at Figment and Dreamfinder.

Who would’ve thought, in a million years, that the Dreamfinder is a real person who has a real life, pays taxes, drives to work in his real car and who reads blogs?

Yeah, not me.

Turns out, he’s very real. Lot’s of people know who he is. Just not me, at that point. Imagine my surprise when I was reading the comments on that particular blog entry, and I learned that “Dreamfinder is enjoying your blog.”

*head/desk*

Thankfully, he seems to have a sense of humor. I should really be more careful.