Chicken Doors

[webmomom]

Can anyone tell me: I don't go on rides like SplashMtn. Thunder Mtn RnR, rollercoaster, etc. I know the theming before you go onto these rides in most of them is great and I would love to see it, instead of reading about it.

Do all of these types rides have chicken doors?

 

[SamanthaL]

I have never seen Chicken Doors. I wish they did because I love TOT but can't stand to drop.
As far as Thunder Mtn goes, no. You are on a rollercoaster that doesn't have a show before it. It is simply a coaster. It starts the moment you get on.
I would be interested if anyone else knows about the other rides.

 

[Debs5angels]

I had asked the same questions last year before going to Disney these are the rides that I was told that had chicken exits:

Tower of Terror
Rock N Rollercoaster
Space Mt.
Splash Mt.
Haunted Mansion
Dinosaur

I never used them to chicken!!!

 

[vicb]

I used chicken exit on Star Tours. Also used child swap (read chicken exit for DS) at RNRC.

 

[petula]

You can chicken out on any ride you want. Nobody's going to force you onto something if you don't want to go or if you change your mind. Whether you want to stand in line for something that doesn't have a preshow or very much to look at (Thunder Mtn.) is another question.

Might I suggest that if this is truly a case of chickenness (rather than health concerns), you consider trying some of these rides? A lot of non-thrill-ridey people (me included) have found that they love the Disney thrills. Start at pirates or norway and work your way up.

 

[seashoreCM]

On Splash Mtn. the chicken exit is the stairs by the sign "Last chance to exit if yer still skeered of gitten wet", just before the boarding area.

On Tower of Terror, the chicken exit is the express elevator(!) between the service elevators (the rides).

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

 

[boston1029]

I've used ToT's chicken door. It's really cool to see the story before the drop.

 

[webmomom]

Originally posted by petula
You can chicken out on any ride you want. Nobody's going to force you onto something if you don't want to go or if you change your mind. Whether you want to stand in line for something that doesn't have a preshow or very much to look at (Thunder Mtn.) is another question.

Might I suggest that if this is truly a case of chickenness (rather than health concerns), you consider trying some of these rides? A lot of non-thrill-ridey people (me included) have found that they love the Disney thrills. Start at pirates or norway and work your way up.

I am one who has never had any desire to ride thrill rides. Personlly they could take them all our of the parks and it would not bother me. I have done all of the other non thrill rides. It just want to see the theming that I read about on these boards. I am one who wants to know and see as much of Disney as my little brain will allow. I am truly a Disney nut. I talk, eat and sleep Disney. I know Disney has to put in thrill rides for the ones who would not even try Disney if they did not have "thrill" rides.\I just want to see the theming.

 

[petula]

Originally posted by webmomom
I am one who wants to know and see as much of Disney as my little brain will allow.

See, that's the reason I got on any of those rides at all and would even think of recommending getting on them to anyone uninterested in thrill rides. The heck if I'd get on a freefall ride without some incentive! lol It would just be sort of sad to go through the queue at Splash Mountain, for instance, for the theming (which is definitely well done as an environment, but isn't really a sightseeing opportunity) and then miss out on the REAL theming inside the ride. I wasn't saying you should go for the thrill of being thrilled; I just meant that aside from Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain, where the queues do show you probably everything you need to know about the rides, for the rest of these, the majority of the show is in the ride. Kind of like if you stood in line for Pirates and then didn't get on the boat. Know what I mean? <i>I</i> would be sad for you if you didn't get to see such brilliance.

 

[twocat]

I read somewhere (maybe Passporter) that Star Tours has a seating area that is stationary. You can take advantage of the show without that motion-sickness inducing (for me anyway) herky-jerky movement.

 

[SamanthaL]

i would love to ride TOT to see the ghosts and such but I would love to be able to get off right before the drop. Why don't they offer that?

 

[B'rer Karen]

Because it would ruin the show for everyone else. Can't you just see it? First you see the ghosts, then you move up and to the floor that disappears into the star field. Now your elevator is moving forward. You're moving towards the drop shaft. Is it coming now? How much longer do I have? Oops, time to stop, turn on the lights, let people who want off, off. Make sure everyone is buckled back in. You, back there in row 5, are you buckled in tight? Okay, let's go again. Turn the lights off and then drop. Yeah, that sounds like a fun ride