Back in 2016, I was Barney's bouncer while he and others performed on stage.
If you thought Beyonce was famous, just the mention of "their favourite purple dinosaur" sent the horde of toddlers apeshit, and they try, several times to get on stage to hug Barney.
Each show had well over 500 little kids. And we did 4 to 5 shows a day. There was also Bob the Builder and some other mascots from the local aquarium.
Memorable experience to say the least and a highlighted item on my CV.
I can just picture it now; toddlers in a frenzy, climbing up stage walls like WWZ, and you there just punting the feral creatures back into the hoard of snotty noses..
They had put this white picket fencing around the stage - tall enough to stop them from swarming the stage, but not actual stage fencing. Toddlers after all. But these kids would grab it and shake it violently, and since it was wooden and heavy, would fall either on them or over.
We'd also have to escort Barney and crew around the convention, like his secret service or something.
This may be my favourite nostr thread this week
They had handlers, like caretakers or whatever that would like 'take care of the little crowd' so the parents could sit in the back. But obviously, when that "Barney is a dinosaur of our imagination" song starts, it's like Michael Jackson coming on stage, these kids just let loose and start throwing themselves on the stage even running around the side to the backstage and running up on stage.
