A TikTok creator’s argument with a Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Cast Member over his camera is drawing a wave of criticism, and most of it is aimed at him.
@beardedapostolic
The video was posted by @beardedapostolic and tagged at Magic Kingdom Park. It opens with him seated in a mine car in the station, explaining that his train has been stopped because of his camera, even though he says security had already cleared it.
What The Video Shows
The camera, an Insta360, is mounted on what his caption calls a collapsible selfie stick, and the train sits in the station while he argues with the Cast Member working the load area. He says the holder is attached to the camera and does not come off, tells the Cast Member he is not giving up his camera, and says he has been using it for the last two days. “You’re not even security,” he says at one point, and later, “You’re stepping out of your lane, dude.” He says security told him he could use it as long as he did not put it out.
Eventually he tells them to just take him off the ride. He then turns to a second Cast Member, not the one who had been arguing with him over the camera, and asks whether the policy on this ride is different from the rest of the park. That Cast Member answers, “To my knowledge, no.”
The video then cuts to the next ride he visited in the same park, where a different Cast Member lets him hold the camera after he promises not to extend it. He closes by asking viewers whether the Cast Member on Seven Dwarfs was wrong or whether he was wrong “for wanting to film as a Disney content creator.”
The Comments Are Not On His Side
Viewers in the comments mostly sided with the Cast Member, and the creator answered his critics by bringing up Jesus.
When one viewer wrote that Jesus would want him to let families enjoy the ride instead of wasting their time with the argument, he shot back, “Right, tell me all about Jesus because you know Him so well…”
Others focused on the ride itself. “Content creators always feel entitled to filming wherever,” one viewer wrote, adding that the rules on a roller coaster are there for safety reasons.
What Disney’s Rules Say
Walt Disney World’s property rules ban selfie sticks and hand-held extension poles for cameras or mobile devices in every theme park and water park. In the video, he says security cleared the holder as long as he did not put it out, and on the next ride he promises not to extend it.
That matters on a ride like Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, one of the most popular coasters in Magic Kingdom, where some guests pay extra for a Lightning Lane Single Pass to skip the standby line. Every minute a train sits in the station while a guest argues with a Cast Member is a minute everyone behind him is waiting too.
Disney has not commented on the video.
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