Any funny Disneyland or World stories???

[Disneyland1084]

I thought it would be fun to tell you a really funny Disneyland experience that happened to my family before I was even born. My dad went to Disneyland in 1962 with his family. Everyone, including his grandmother who was nearly 80 got on the Matterhorn thinking it was a slow fantasy ride like Alice In Wonderland. Anyway, they get on the Matterhorn and are going up the ramp thinking "This is a slow paced relaxing ride." Of course once they drop they all have the shock of their lives and start freaking out for the grandmother. She ended up being ok and didn't say a word when the ride was over. I always crack up thinking about this whenever I go to Disneyland. If anyone has a funny Disney story to tell, I'm always up for a good laugh.

 

[chibichibirei]

Hee hee...when I was at Disneyland as a 14 month old, I was going to see Donald Duck, well the castmember that he was with told him that he needed to go somewhere else, so being in character, he starts to stomp his feet up and down, .... just as I was right beside him. I burst in to tears, and wouldnt go near him again. when I told my mom that we were going this summer, she told me to be carful around Donald

 

[DLovinFam]

I have two funny stories.

#1....When I was four, my parents took me on the Matterhorn. I didn't like it, but instead of crying or getting upset, I just didn't talk to my parents for some time. I gave them the silent treatment. I had *justs* started talking to them again and then they took me to the Haunted Mansion. I didn't like that ride either so they didn't hear another word from me for a long time again. lol


#2.....When my little brother was 5, he figured out that one of the characters wasn't "real". I think he saw part of the person in the costume some how. He was very sad to discover this. Well, then he got to meet Snow White! She gave him a big lipstick kiss on his cheek. With a big grin on his face, and love in his eyes, he looked up at my mom and says...."Now *she* is REAL!!!"

De Ann

 

[LucyKate]

The one ride our kids wanted to go on more than any other was Splash Mountain. They'd seen it on TV, and couldn't wait to try it.

When we did the first drop they started to get a little scared, but when we did the second, which is in the dark and you can't see it coming, they just freaked and the 9YO actually stood up and tried to get out of the boat.

I had to drag her back in (not easy when you are in front of her). Of course, they both knew the biggest was still to come. At the end of that drop I have, on my home movie, the 9YO saying very clearly "daddy I DON'T want to go on that again!".

However she did do Indiana Jones and liked it, and the 6YO was almost talked into doing Splash again, and both say they will do it again if we return.

They both also loved Haunted Mansion.

 

[quentina]

OK....We had a traumatizing experience at Animal Kingdom....My 5 year old son was standing in line for Lilo and Stitch autograph. Well, they decide to play Monkey in the Middle with his autograph book. Now, my son in very polite and timid. He is saying...DO you have something you want to share? Can I please have my book etc. After 3-4 minutes of this....Way to long if you ask me....Lilo turns around (I can only see her back), bends down and seems to say something to my son. The next think I hear is the sound of my sons hand smashing on the plastic of Lilo's face. OH God...I was horrified. Now, we do not spank, hit and too be honest barely yell...So...He is so grounded. Our vacation is ruined...my life as I know it is officially over. So, I tell me son to apoligize. Lilo refuses to accept his apology, she is flinging her plastic head over her shoulder. Well, I don't know what to do, it is a total tragedy. My son is crying, my husband is laughing saying that she deserved it and now I need to fight with him over what he is teaching his son.

Now, let me say when this happens, the extremley long line is hysterical. So, this man comes running over ot me...I think he thought I was a child abuser or something. It turns out, Lilo put her finger on her cheek (kiss). My son thought she wanted to be smacked. Could you imagine?? Now, I am chuckling as I play this out in my head, at the time I was mortified. When I asked Quentin why he hit her, he said "I was only trying to make her happy"!!

So, after long debate, I write Disney an Email explaining what happened. I also explained the what if this man did not say anything and I beat my kid (which I wouldn't, however, many would). A few days later they call me and want me to sign a release form so they can use my memo in their training department. The lady agreed that sometimes they need to come out of character!!

So, now he is 7. Last month we went to WDW and he says to me...Mom keep her out of my face

Kim

 

[Blackunicorn]

Well, I don't know if these are funny, or just funny to me...

1) The first time we went to DL, my DD was 3 going on 4. We got on Autopia, and I did the gas but I let her steer. I don't know what she was thinking, but she let go of the steering whel and *crash!* we slammed into that little thing that keeps the car on the track. Of course, then we rebounded, and *crash!* we hit it again, and rebounded, and *crash!*, and so on. The natural thing to do was start screaming, so there we went down the track, "AAAAAH!" *crash!* "AAAAAH!" *crash!* "AAAAAH!". I think the CM's though we were crazy! Afterward, my daughter told my husband in an awed tone of voice, "The steering wheel was ALIVE!"

2) We went on Splash Mountain, and I wore my husband's baseball cap. My daughter, then 5, wanted to know if she could hold her hands in the air like they do on the roller coasters, and I said yes. Well, I was so busy snapping pictures of her that I forgot to take off the hat, and it got swept off when we went down the mountain! I was mortified and kept apologizing. The next day, my son, 10, was playing in the pool and offered to do an impression of someone. He got out of the pool, took a running start, and jumped in. When he surfaced, he started crying, "Oh, no, my hat! Oh, Matt, I'm soooo sorry! I lost your hat! Oh, no!"

 

[bavaria]

Several years ago, I noticed that some of the payphones at DL would make a 'sproing' noise as I walked by. Once I was using the bank machine at the little hut inside Frontierland, and the payphone made that noise.

I picked it up, and someone said 'hello!'. Of course, I said 'hello' back, laughing that someone had 'misdialled' and reached a payphone at DL. The caller asked how I was, and I laughed, and said fine, but he'd misdialled and reached a stranger at DL.

He assured me that he had not misdialled, but was a DL CM, calling to see how I was enjoying my morning. He asked for my name, what rides I had been on, and encouraged me to go on a few more.

Of course I paid attention to the payphones on future visits, and occaissionally heard the noise but never answered another one.

Now, I never heard that at WDW. But in December 2004 I was on a payphone in the lobby of CR next to the washrooms, trying to make changes to my resort reservation. I was getting over pneumonia, and kept coughing and coughing, and wiping down the phone with anti bacterial gel and kleenex. When I got off the phone, the payphone next to it started to 'sproing', but I was coughing so much that I didn't answer it.

Was it a pixie dust call? Don't know....

 

[bavaria]

I had a very odd experience once at DL and got to hear Mickey talk!

It was park closing on a very quiet night, and I was wandering down Main Street, one of the last to leave. Suddenly Pluto rushed by me, with a man chasing him. Of course I had to see what was going on!

Pluto had the man's shoe, which he had apparently taken off to remove a stone or something. The man asked for it back, and Pluto darted into the exit area of Great Moments with Mr Lincoln. He started to pretend to bury the shoe in a planter.

Now the man was begging for his shoe back, as his friends were waiting for him in the parking lot. Mickey was dashing around Pluto, and their handler was nowhere to be seen.

Man keeps begging. Finally Mickey goes into the hat shop and offers the man a hat instead. Man gets a little ticked off.

Mickey finally bursts out in his high little voice 'Pluto! Pluto! give the man his shoe back!'

I think that Pluto was as surprised as I was to hear Mickey talk, because the man got his shoe back very quickly. Pluto gave a bad dog look, Mickey shook his finger at him, the man stalked off, and I continued to stare.

Had my own little private show of something very unusual at Disneyland!!!

 

[Tink33]

I wasn't going to share this, but we are all friends...right?

My DD and I went to the ABC Primetime Preview last year. She wanted to see the Phil of the Future Q & A session so we went straight there. We sat right on the ground in front of the stage. All was going well. Lily was picked for the hula hoop competition and she won a prize. We were sitting just feet from all of the stars from one of her favorite shows. We even got near the front of the line for autographs after the Q & A session.

We saw the television crews taping that day. And boy were we excited when the Disney Channel had a 911 feature from the event. Lily and I were watching the clip when all of a sudden I noticed that I was on tv and it was not my best side. I had been leaning over to get my camera during the shot and there was my derriere for all of the country to see. Of course my DD had to share that bit of information with her everyone she knew. So all of her friends were on the lookout for my backside for the 2 weeks that Disney 911 was broadcast. I was the butt of jokes for weeks.

 

[Lollipop's Mom]

Ok I have one from this past weekend. I probably should have put this in my trip report, but was too tired to type too much.
Last Friday we ran all over DL and DCA, lots of energy and having a grand time. We watched the Elec. Parade at 845 and then zipped over to DL for Fantasmic. We got great spots for the 1030 show and were sitting from 930-11pm. We got up and something hurt......really really badly.... My Feet!!!!!!! I could not walk. It felt like i was walking on glass. We went over and sat down and I see the biggest blisters on the bottom of my feet I have ever seen. About 4 on each foot. OUCH!!!! I guess they developed while we sat for so long. I waddled back over to the Desert Inn & Suites (longest walk of my life!) with tears streaming down my face. I have never had blisters like this. I should not have worn these cheapie sandals that had a vinyl type sole - they must have gotten sweaty and rubbed my feet all day. Anyway I won't get into gory details, but I soaked my feet and tried to drain the blisters. I didn't know what to do! I went to bed and woke up about 2am in absolute pain. I took some advil and got back to sleep. Woke up around 900am not too bad. I had bandaids and literally covered my feet in them. It was quite funny looking. So off we went, walking slowly. I made it until about 130 and couldn't take it anymore....the pain was excrutiating. Soooo.....we rented an electric wheelchair! That was the best $30 I ever spent!!! We laughed soooo hard, and DD took pics of me on it (no...I am NOT sharing!). I went up to the rental place and told them my story, and said I wasn't 'disabled' but needed a scooter and they said they hear this all the time, and hooked me up!
So off we went. Wasn't long before I put DD on my lap and we were bombing around DCA at full rabbit speed and a security guy 'pulled us over' and lectured me on the dangers of having a passenger,etc.... He went off into bugs land, and once out of site, DD was back on my knee (yah I know....breaking the rules) and we were flying down that hill near paradise pier full throttle!!! We were in DL later on, and guess what happens? The battery is dying......so I am trying to get this darn thing out so I can get my $20 deposit back and it was moving soooooooo slooooooooooow. The rental lady was laughing so hard and is yelling to me 'Turn up the speed!!' - and I am yelling back 'I am out of battery!!!'. She was almost crying she was laughing so hard.
My left foot is still in pain and hard to walk on btw....I sure did a number on these poor feet!!!
Next time.. SOCKS and shoes!!! No vinyl sandals!!!!

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

Mine's actually from WDW, but we DH and I thought this was cute. We took a spontaneous Columbus Day weekend trip in 2001 without telling the kids where we were going, we just said we were going to Florida (we lived in GA at the time). My DD was 4 at the time and just learning to read so when she saw a sign for Magic Kingdom she said "Maybe we can go there sometime." Well, the next morning we got the kids up and let them in on the secret and headed down to have breakfast in a restaraunt in the hotel. On the way there we passed the pool and DD said "I don't want to go to some little Mickey Mouse park, I want to stay here and go swimming." Needless to say she's been eating those words ever since!

 

[Buckimion]

In January of '94, a friend and I went to a cartoonist's convention. We left Columbus, OH when the regular outdoor temperature was -20F (wind chill of 'minus oh my god')...and flew into the chaos of the Northridge quake. (I once mentioned in a previous post about those of us East Coast earlybirds sitting in the hotel bar at 5am racing waterglasses to the aftershocks.)

Several of us overgrown kids planned a group trip to DL just before the convention really got going. (My friend and I worked freelance on scripts for Tiny Toons and Animainiacs at the time. I would write the story and my friend would crank out rough storyboards to show key points in the action. We went with several other animators, writers etc. including some that worked for Disney.)

While we tried to watch ourselves around families, when we were alone, well...(I can tell one in 2 words - Flash Mountain) (But it was all guys. And no, they wouldn't let us have the picture citing 'technical difficulties'.)

What started as an impromptu disco dance in a Small World boat turned into an 'In the Navy' dance/floor show by the time the boat reached the exit. (We got a warning and a threat of ejection over that one. Some of the guys went back later and did a rendition of 'Don't Rock the Boat'. I think they did get booted for that one.)

We did get treated to a special sneak peek at the then new 'Roger Rabbit's Toon Car Spin'.

On our Honeymoon in '96, my wife and I went to WDW. For some reason, I thought there was a shortcut to the Haunted Mansion through Tom Sawyer's Island. After romping around for 30 minutes or so, my wife made some comment about "never getting off the island Gilligan". I had worn a red (polo) shirt that day. But that wasn't nearly as bad as the choice my wife had made to wear sort of a gingham dress and pony tails and promptly got tagged "Mary-Ann". We had a handfull of people following us that ended up in stitches as we went into character and started trashing each other but eventually started complaining about the 'other' castaways.

 

[iheartdisney]

My mothers favorite story to tell about my first trip to Disneyland:
I was about 3 years old, so my mom wrote my name and the phone number and adress where we were staying on a piece of paper for in case I got lost(fatal mistake here) she told me what it was, and then attempted to put it in my pocket. I threw a kicking and screaming fit, because in my toddler mind, I believed that if she put it in my pocket, I WOULD get lost, and would not, under any circumstances after that, let her put ANYTHING into my pockets.

We went out to CA again when my grandfather passed away. It rained all day, seriously, ALL DAY LONG!!!! We didn't care, and had a blast anyway, we went on Star Tours 6 times in a row that day, there were no lines for anything. At the end of the day when my dad came to pick us up from our soggy day, he commented that with every guest in the yellow ponchos with the pointed tops, underneath the yellow street lamps, we looked like the "Mickey Mouse KKK" flooding out of the parks! I love that story!