In the wake of the recent mass shooting in the Orlando nightclub Pulse that left at least 50 dead and dozens more injured employees of Disney, Universal, SeaWorld and other Central Florida theme parks stood together in solidarity. On Sunday they took to Facebook, twitter and other social media to express their feelings on the shooting.
A collection of performers, show casts, and characters from Festival of the Lion King in Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Celestina Warbeck and the Banshees at Universal’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Universal’s Islands of Adventure’s Dr Seuss characters, and even pearl divers from SeaWorld gathered, among others and posed for pictures. Most casts stood forming hearts with their hands and arms as Kevin O’Brien, theme park business veteran, took photos.
His posts read:
“Keep them coming Disney! This is family. We are one, strong band of people. From entertainment, costuming, techs, attractions, merchandise, custodial, and all other depts. Show that there is love out there!”
O’Brien said in a Facebook message: “My friends are my family and a lot of them go to Pulse, I’m here to just say that we are all thinking of friends and families and the love ones who were hit hard with this!”
The posts have been shared more the 3,500 times and more photos have come in, most recently were performers from Heartlake City at Legoland Florida and the employees of the Transformers: The Ride 3-D at Universal Orlando. Click here to see all of the photos.
All over the world people are showing their support by donating blood which is still needed or going to the gofundme page set up by Equality Florida, you can visit that page here.
Our thoughts go out to all the family and friends of all of the victims
Photo credit: www.facebook.com/kevin.obrien.3998
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