What is your funniest memory on a ride?

[BirdLegsRed]

I have two...the first time DD6 (then 5) rode Test Track, during the part where you speed up and hit the doors then drive around the track...well she screamed at the top of her lungs the whole time! That kid never even stopped to take a breath. :lmao: But after the ride was over, she was ok and ready to do it again!

The second one: Space Mountain scared her too. After that, everytime we went thru the Space Mountain section on TTA, when you hear the Space Mountain music, she would say "oh Mommy we got on the wrong ride!" LOL.
But about 2 days later she decided to give Space Mountain another try and now loves it.

Whats your funniest memories from a ride?

[shortchange1026]

I have 2 as well.

Before I was married, my best friend and I would go to WDW alot. We always rode Space Mountain. One time we rode, someone's hat blew off and got stuck in the tracks and stopped the whole ride. We had just gotten on and were going up the first incline when the ride stopped. We were stuck at amost a 90 degree angle. I said to my girlfriend, Mom always said, go to the bathroom before riding Space Mountain! :rotfl: It was weird because they put all the lights on and you could see all the tracks. It was nice though because they sent 2 CM's to each car to stay with them until the ride resumed. We had fun talking to them and joking.

Another time I went with a different girlfriend and we got stuck on Splash Mountain. You never really realize how annoying that music can be until you're stuck on that ride for over 10 minutes! :rotfl: We had gotten stuck right before one of the dips, right in front of Brer Bear's cave where he is sleeping and you can hear him snoring. We were really happy when that ride re-started!

[MariDisney]

I don't know if it was THE funniest, but last week as we were moving from the pre-show to the capsules on Mission:Space, a woman with the deepest Southern accent I ever heard said, "I believe we are going to be real astronauts!!". It struck my whole family as funny, and we've been repeating it ever since.

[TiggerGuy67]

I have a couple quick ones:

Once I was outside of Space Mountain and a couple who were about 40 were trying to decide whether or not to go on. I spent a few minutes with them and convinced them that it wasn't that bad. I told them that it was deceptively slow, had no real bad drops and was over before you knew it. They ended up behind me on the same car and I could hear her screaming the whole time 'I'm going to kill that guy'. She actually thanked me and said that she was glad she could cross it off the list but that she would NEVER do it again.

The other time has to do with baseball. To be more specific it has to do with Red Sox-Yankees baseball. My family are all big Sox fans so we wear our colors with pride in the parks. Sometimes we keep score and count how many people are wearing Sox stuff versus Yankees stuff. A lot of times we would get in line next to Yankees fans and we always had good fun. Except for this one time on Primeval Whirl. My wife and I got on with a couple and the guy was all decked out in Yankees garb. He not only would not speak to us, he turned away from us while the ride was going and refused to look at us as we sat directly across from him. His wife/girlfriend even asked him to lighten up. He never did and it became rather funny.

[annhjk]

I have 2 also.

One of my DS (then 4 1/2) on ToT with his mouth wide open the entire time, but never screaming!

the other is my niece getting to the end of RnR asking if we were done, looking like she'd rather not gone on it, then asking if we could do it again.

[FairyGodmother76]

Last year me and my boyfriend rode ToT for the first time. We had no idea what to expect. When sat down in the elevator my boyfriend put our Passporter book (the hardcover Disney guide book) on the floor of the elevator. Well midway through the first fall the book was floating in front of us. Luckily he quickly grabbed the book before it smacked the person in front of him in the head!

[Lintasare]

On my past trip we went on Dinosaur with my parents. Throughout the ride whenever a dino would pop up my dad would wave and yell "HI DINO!!!!!!". I got off the ride and pretended like I didn't know him. And then he went and bought the ride photo. He is reaching out to a dinosaur, I am holding on and screaming, my sis is covering her eyes and my mom looks bored. The picture is hilarious.

[FuzzySulley]

I've only been on Rockin Roller Coaster (not sure if that's the exact way to spell it..) maybe 3 or 4 times over the years. More than Tower of Terror, but still too scary for me to go on every time. :laughing:

One time we went on it, I was terrified, and at the end we were waiting for our picture. Well, it popped up, and everybody else has normal "wow-omg-this-is-so-much-fun" roller-coaster faces, but I had my eyes shut tight with my mouth wide open in a scream, clutching the sides of the shoulder harness like my life depended on it. People in the crowd started laughing and a few pointed at my picture and I was so embarrassed (I'm pretty shy normally), and I sort of snuck my way out of there as fast and sneakily as I could. That was a few years ago, and when I think back to it it always makes me laugh. :rotfl:

[PoohsFan1]

During our Sept. 2005 trip we went to AK (our family's first time) and went on Kilamonjaro Safari. As we were going along, we happened to come across a tiny dip with a bit of water in it and there happened to be a native bird (more a FL. resident than an AK resident). Suddenly out of nowhere, my DD who was 4 at the time, screamed at the top of her lungs "WATCH OUT" so the driver wouldn't hit the bird. The whole jeep was laughing.

[TLinden16]

This type of thread is usually found on the theme parks community board, so I'm going to move it over there now.

[mousiemom]

i'm sure i have a ton of stories because we are always screaming on the rides (me, dh, and dd) so the pictures are hilarious. my mouth is always wide open. we were in disneyland this past june and we were on the huge ferris wheel and you can get on the ones that rock and slide. well, we were like,"we want to get on those versuses the ones that do nothing". i was videotapping the whole time cause it was such a pretty view. well, all of a sudden we started sliding like way out and we rocked so hard, i would had fell out of my seat forward if i didn't have my legs propped up on the other seat. my dh and dd were in front of me and we were screaming and dying laughing at the same time and it is all caught on video!! i need to send it in to funniest videos.
mousiemom

[jsebsirois]

In 2006, I went on Splash Mountain with my mother. We were seating front and behind us was a family of one mother and 4 kids. She was alone at the back and was kind of afraid of the ride. The kids kept laughing and so was I. She kept ''yelling'' funny stuff and you can imagine what it was like for the final plunge!!! We were not making fun of her but of her reaction, which, she admitted,was overeacting! When we got off the ride, she slap my shoulder so I stop laughing. I should have take a picture with her!

[secretpantssam]

My sister and I went on Spaceship Earth on the last day of our trip in february right before we had to catch the magical express. We had no idea that it had been changed at all. When our pictures came up at the end, she had a hole where her left eye would. The picture was so funny and we were laughing so hard, we didn't even hear what our story was. And at the end she said "apparently in the future, I'll only have one eye!" We couldn't wait to go on it again on our next trip to see if we'd be missing any other facial features!

[SleepyMom]

DD14 loves thrill rides, but she also loves to scream (loudly) while on them, she says it makes it more fun. We went to DL when she was 11 and went on California Screamin, she took that to mean she could scream all she wants.

I was sitting next to her and couldn't stand it anymore so I somehow worked my arm across the seats and around the harness and put my hand over her mouth. Right as the picture was taken!

When we got off the ride everyone around us had the biggest laugh seeing that.

She got me back though, we went on the big ferris wheel thing (I hate heights) and I told her I would only do the secure cars, not the rocking ones. She got me in the wrong line and then had the video camera going right when we started sliding, her and DH love that part of the video... me, not so much :laughing:

[zackiedawg]

I've got one, but with a big disclaimer:

I WAS YOUNG, IN THE WRONG, AND WE LEARNED OUR LESSON!

Decades ago, my uncle and I (we are 1 year apart, and grew up more like brothers) had been taken to Disney World by my Grandmother for our regular summer trip...I think we were 6 or 7 years old, and starting to go through early rebellious periods in our lives as kids in the 70s were wont to do. This was still in the days of A-E tickets, so going on the rides was limited as the E, then the D tickets were all used up. My grandmother wasn't wealthy, so we'd each get a single ticket book to use, and burn through the high end tickets first, leaving us with the C, B and A tickets.

Fortunately, we still had a favorite C ticket ride - Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Being mischievous, we decided while standing on line walking across a veritable carpet of cigarette butts to collect some of them, and see if we could insert them into the mouths of the characters while passing by on the ride. Stupid kid mischievousness, as we were allowed on the ride while my grandmother waited outside.

Well we started the ride, and were having a hard time getting any characters within reach - so it was turning out to be a bust. But my uncle thought he saw the perfect opportunity coming up on his side of the car. We were just entering the room where you pass the fox cop at the railroad gate before entering the railroad track tunnel. Those that know the ride may remember that the ride car 'busts through' the gate, which swings aside with the fox cop just as your car rounds the bend. My uncle knew that would put the fox cop within easy arms reach.

Excited, he leaned forward against the safety bar, reached out as our car approached, and just got a hold of the crossing gate with his left hand to use as leverage to reach out with his right and try to get the cigarette in the fox's mouth. That's when our car turned right...and the gate would have swung out of the way...had my uncle not been gripping it for leverage. I heard a crack, then we swung into the train tunnel, and I noticed that the crossing gate appeared to still be in front of our car. When I looked over just before we entered the dark tunnel with the train light approaching, I saw that my uncle still had a kung-fu grip on the crossing gate, a deer-in-the-headlights look on his face, and was frozen with fear. My face took on the same deer-in-the-headlights look as I stared at him in fear - uh oh...we're in trouble!

Our car left the dark tunnel, and the situation felt much more dire. I realized then that he needed to LET GO OF THE GATE! We can't exit the last room 'Hell' still holding the broken gate, and come out of the exit doors with evidence in our hands and all to see - so I started yelling at him to drop it - it took a few seconds before he came out of his fear-induced stupor, and did finally drop the gate just as the devil was judging us (boy...there's irony, huh!), and a huge wave of relief swept over me as the doors swung wide and we returned to the sunlight and the crowds...

And my grandmother, and the ride operator, and the Disney security representative...all waiting at the unloading area. A huge wave of dread and doom swept over me before the wave of relief had even finished. Yep...we were in trouble.

In my grandmother's presence, we were given a very polite but stern lecture about ruining the Disney magic for others, acting irresponsibly, what angst we were causing our grandmother, the physical cost of our behavior, and so on. And believe me - it got through! Not like many of today's kids who have no respect for or fear for 'punishment'...in the 70s we definitely did. We also knew that Disney's kind but stern rebuke, no matter how embarassing and guilt-ridden, would be cotton candy compared to what we were going to get from grandma.

Needless to say, that was my last mischievousness at Walt Disney World...and it likely helped instill the strong feelings I have for the magic of Disney that has kept it such a special place for me. That lecture, and the guilt we felt for doing that, helped us see for the first time how really special the place was, and how disappointed we would be if someone else had done what we did and spoiled OUR magic!

[Becky521]

We rode Expidition Everest on our last trip in 2006. It was my husband, dd19, dd13, a friend 14 and myself.From the time our car reached the end of the tracks until we were back at the terminal dd13 screamed. We got out and were all chattering about the ride and someone mentioned the Yeti to which she responded "Yeti? What Yeti?' :lmao: She had her eyes closed and her mouth open the whole time.

[scotas]

Last month I was wandering through the que for Kali RApids. A family was near me. The two kids could not wait to get wet. Well the mother kept telling them they were wrong, you just don't get wet, you just coast along in a large boat. We ended up in the same "boat". She really didn't seem pleased with the raft. (I don't know, maybe she was expecting a luxury liner:confused3 ) Anyways, she was the one one to go backwards down the slope, and that had her really upset. Then we hit the bottom and she was drenched. The funniest part was watching her husband trying not to laugh at her.:rotfl: .

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

I can remember going to MK when I was little with my parents and cousins. We all got on BTMRR (except for my DF). Nobody knew what to expect since none of us were really into thrill rides. We get to the top of one hill after only being on the ride for a couple of seconds. Already, it was obvious my older cousin wasn't having a good time. Well, at the top of that hill, he thought for some reason the ride was over. (It's a short ride but not that short.) He somehow stood up thinking this is where you got off. When the ride proceeded to move, it sat him down. Luckily, he wasn't hurt. When we got off the ride though, we couldn't stop laughing. He really did think that BTMRR was only a 5 second ride.

[LilMommyBug]

My husband & I had our honeymoon at WDW in 2002. He had been several times, but it was my first trip!

Anyway, we get on Big Thunder and start going up the lift hill. I see that water at the top of the hill & I ask him "That goes away right?" and he assures me it splits before we go under it.

So, we get to the top & go under, and the water splits, but it is POURING outside. It was raining so hard we couldn't keep our eyes open. The rain was pelting us in the face & we couldn't stop laughing. My first trip on Big Thunder and I didn't get to see anything because of the rain.

After we got off the ride he tells me "You know that looked like more water coming down than I had remembered...."

[Mickeymouseboy]

Wow, boy have I had some bad moments on rides. Top three are

1. I got on to the ride Expedition Everest (my first coaster) and didn't really expect much from it, I heard it wasn't that great, so I figured I'd be hot stuff and act stupid in the picture. Well, When we got up the big lift hill I was freaking out. I was so upset I almost started crying when we shot up backwards. Then we saw the yeti, and I thought "oh not to bad" but it wasn't the big one. we dropped and the picture took and my eyes were as big as dinner plates.

2. I went on the Dinosaur ride and it was so freaky, I closed my eyes through half of it. My sister started making fun of me so we started "fighting" when the picture was taken we were slapping each other.

3. I was riding space mountain, which I thought was a baby coaster, adn suddenly I saw something zoom past my head. I started to wonder if I was going nuts, but It turned out to be my digital camera.

[creative gal]

Waiting in line for Kali River Rapids in 2004, I got a 'present' from a passing bird just before we were about to get on the ride. Much funnier to my dad and brother, of course though.

This year, I went on the revamped Spaceship Earth for the first time, and showed how truly un photogenic I am in the on ride photo! I looked terrified, my fiancee (also not the best with posed photos) had a rather manic look in his eye. Again, my dad thought this was hilarious, and so did I really, though I was quite embarrassed by the way they project all the images on those large TV screens...

[Disneyfan71]

Actually both are from my last trip in 1995.

My cousin had never been to Disney and I told him about Space Mountain and how it was dark and all. Well he was a little nervous and I told him it's really not a big deal. I mean it's an AWESOME ride but there aren't any big drops. Anyways, we get on the ride, he's behind me and laughed the ENTIRE ride.

Another was on Tower of Terror and neither of us had been on it. During our wait, we "befriended" a family of four (mom, dad, two daughters)..the oldest daughter sat next to me. We got to the first stop--not too bad. She started freaking out as soon as (for those who have ridden it, know what I'm talking about) then it got pitch black and I feel her hand latch down on mine...The poor girl hated that ride!!!

[dawnsb]

The original Journey into Imagination (circa 1988) took your picture during the ride. The first time we didn't know this so we were not looking at the camera. We rode again and made stupid faces, but my grandma is just sitting there looking totally bored to tears. I wish we could have that picture today!

This past trip was the first for my husband's bother and his family. They rode the 'thrill' rides while we waited for them. My nephew is almost 7 and in every picture my sister in laws arm is stretched out trying to hold him in place - the protective part of the motherly instinct I guess - while she is trying to look like she is enjoying the ride.

[MKhead72]

My wife will never ride Soarin' again, :lmao: (LOL) ............. sorry. Thats mean, but you had to be there. ok here goes. We must have waited in line for an hour. The whole time she is saying , I dont know. But me and the kids were saying your gonna be fine youll love it. Well its finally our turn, we go in, she looks around sits in her seat, i sit in mine and put on the seat belt, I tell her to buckle up, so she clicks it in and then she says "no" i said what ??? she said i dont think so. So I said well un-buckle and tell them you want to leave. Well i didn't know, but once the buckle goes click .......... it locks. ..:rotfl2: (LOL) The look on her face was priceless !!! well by now the CM's are nowhere to be seen and the ride starts. We she saw the seats in front of us go straight up, She lost it, she grabbed my arm with one hand and covered her eyes with the other. and up we went. Now we are dangling there and shes tripping out, Im trying not to laugh and telling her to just look one time, youll love it. Dang ! wrong again. well the ride finally ended, thank god for that because i didnt know just how deep fingernails could sink into your arm, but i knew how far she was trying. And the good news is my hearing finally came back in my left ear, after the ear chewing I went through after that one!!:rolleyes1

[TxTink :)]

Once on Buzz Lightyear, my Sis-n-law (a few cars in front of us) lost a flip flop while the doors were closing on her car & it fell in the conveyer belt--- the whole ride came to complete stop for about 10 minutes (that music is loud!)

Once on Kali River rapids, I had my phone tucked in my bra. Well, I forgot at the end of the ride and as I was getting out, it fell perfectly in the 1 inch gap (of course) between the tube and the dock- straight in the water. The CM got it out 10 minutes later, but it was fried.