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A dad is getting blasted on social media after calling out a Disney cast member for bad behavior. The dad was on a Disney Cruise with his family when his son got a rare trading card. According to the dad, the Disney employee working in the store where the card was purchased asked the boy for a trade.
While the employee allegedly knew the rare value of the card, the boy didn’t, and traded the card. Even the dad admitted he didn’t know what his son had until it was too late. But instead of just accepting that he made a mistake by not stopping the trade, he decided to complain. And that didn’t go the way he expected.
The dad took his problem to social media.
The dad, whose name is Anthony according to Bored Panda, took to X to complain about the Disney employee.
“On a recent Disney Cruise sailing, a uniformed cast member traded my young son 5 promo cards for a rare Lorcana card he’d just pulled,” he wrote in a post. “The card is worth about $4,000. I spent 6 weeks going through every proper channel to resolve this. Disney’s answer was no.”
He tagged Disney Cruises in the post, but has since made his account private due to the backlash against his story.
“My son opened booster packs in an onboard store. A cast member working there helped him, then offered the trade,” the dad explained. “He told us directly he hadn’t planned to trade his promo set — he did it because of how rare my son’s card was. He knew the value. My son did not.”
According to the dad, the promo cards his son received valued about $1,000. Due to not having WiFi on the ship, he claimed he was unaware of the card’s value.
Many people believe the dad was at fault, not the Disney employee.
Why was your “young son” alone in a store on a Disney cruise where no one could help him make the right decision? It’s difficult to blame anyone at Disney for this or prove that the employee had bad intent. They would have to review footage and prove that the exact card was…
— Your_Favorite_Mexican (@MikeandLily_UFC) August 6, 2026
He likely wasn’t expecting how many people wouldn’t be on his side, and there were plenty of people who called him out.
“Why was your “young son” alone in a store on a Disney cruise where no one could help him make the right decision? It’s difficult to blame anyone at Disney for this or prove that the employee had bad intent. They would have to review footage and prove that the exact card was traded there in the store,” one person wrote.
“Did your son think the 5 promo cards were cooler? If so, great! YOU’RE worried about the value because you don’t see it as cards, you see it as a stock,” another added.
“Let me ask you this, had you or your son never learned the value of his card, would he had been happy with the trade? Does your young son sell cards or even know the value of $4,000?” one user asked. “To me it sounds like you might be forcing him to be upset because you know the value of the card.”
“End of the day your son was happy with the trade which is why he made it. Its only an issue now that you told him the made up piece of papers value. Those promos might be worth more down the line or all these things may be worth nothing. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” someone else chimed in.
The dad appeared to be surprised by the way things played out.
After receiving criticism, Anthony allegedly posted, “Didn’t expect the type of negativity towards me and my parenting or towards my son from my previous post.”
He explained that he reached out to Disney directly, working alongside Guest Communications to rectify the situation. The determined dad kept at it for six weeks, he claimed.
He was told that cast members are “contractually barred from trading with guests, and anything received gets turned in to a manager.”
The Disney representative he worked with “agreed this was unfair,” and pushed for management to “make it right.” But when he asked for a new booster pack that is valued at approximately $140, he was denied.
“I’m not trying to get anyone fired. I just think a company built on trust with families should stand behind a kid when one of its own employees takes advantage of him,” the dad said.
Sounds like he needs to chalk it up to a lesson learned.
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