Disney Sends out Clarification for runDisney Events

Not too long ago, Disney added some new guidelines to some of their very popular events. Disney just sent out an email further clarifying these guidelines. Find out what these updated guidelines are and how they will affect you.

Rules

If you have ever been to Disney, it may seem they have a lot of rules or guidelines for Guests to follow. These rules help ensure that everyone stays safe and also has a good experience.

These rules can range from what is allowed in to the park and even what Guests can wear. Following these rules truly can makes things more enjoyable for everyone. Nobody likes to be effected negatively when someone else breaks the rules.

runDisney Costume Guidelines

Back in August, runDisney sent out an email to Wine and Dine Half Marathon Weekend participants. This email informed athletes that costume guidelines for runDisney events would be changing.

These guidelines would now become more strict and if not followed could result in the athlete not able to participate. The three biggest updates in the this particular email were:

• Layered costumes that could conceal prohibited items are not permitted.
• Costume props including, without limitation, those that surround the entire body, are inflatable, or physically connect multiple participants to each other are not permitted.
• Foam swords and all-plastic lightsabers may be permitted, however, they may not exceed 36″ in length.

Unfortunately, these new guidelines were pretty vague which left many runDisney athletes with a lot of questions. To read more about this email click HERE.

Guideline Clarification

Today, athletes received another email that further clarified some of those vague guidelines that were released back in August. It is important to note that it appears that this email was sent to Marathon Weekend participants and not Wine and Dine Half Marathon Weekend participants. Wine and Dine Half Marathon Weekend is just a few weeks away!

The clarification of the guidelines are:

• Layered costumes, such as ball gowns, hoop skirts, those that have an infrastructure with metal components or hard edges, costumes that do not follow the natural contour of the human body, and/or costumes that could conceal prohibited items are not permitted.
• Layered clothing, including tutus over running shorts, cold-weather gear such as sweatshirts or sweatpants, and clothing that follows the natural contour of the body are permitted unless they present a safety hazard (e.g. dragging on the ground).
• Costumes or large props including, without limitation, items that present a safety hazard (e.g. King Triton’s trident), those that surround the entire body (e.g. cardboard, plastic or other wearable costumes with hard edges, such as a house from Disney-Pixar’s Up), those that are inflatable, or those that physically connect multiple participants to each other are not permitted.
• Small, inflatable or soft-bodied, handheld props (e.g. an inflatable Toy Story ball) are permitted.
• Tutus, transparent wings and hats/headwear are permitted; however, they may not cover the participant’s face.

runDisney has now given clear examples of what is and what is NOT allowed. Some of these costumes that are no longer allowed we have even seen on the runDisney website.

I am glad to see that runDisney has further clarified these new guidelines. Hopefully, this will make it easier for athletes to prepare their costumes for their upcoming races.

What do you think of these more clear runDisney costume guidelines? Does this affect any of your runDisney costume plans? Let us know in the comments below and be sure to share this post with a friend!