Funniest or Strangest reason for ride interruption

[jack hannah bananah]

Just last week we were on Splash Mountain (DS 7, DD 5, and myself). There were three other adults (average to small build). When we reached the end of the ride, the boat would not catch onto the chains that pull us into the loading area. The first CM told us to rock side to side to get it moving. I was convinced we were being filmed for some show like Funniest Videos or Punk'd. We just didn't have the weight to get it moving. The next CM told us to rock forwards and backwards (this eventually worked). After about 5-10 minutes of rocking and looking like total fools, we finally got the boat moving.

 

[Moonpie]

When I was a little girl, and visiting Disneyland, while on the POC the ride stopped because my cousins were moving around and trying to change seats. I remember that we stopped at the first little drop, right where the skull talks to you. I swear I thought the voice was coming from the skull..."Would the boys who are playing musical chairs in the back of the boat please sit down so the ride can continue." It freaked me out! For years I thought that skull would speak to you if provoked!

 

[oliviansmom17]

when we were little we made my grandma ride splash mountain with us. right before the drop she passed out. the drop didnt revive her and neither did our shaking, yelling, and splashing water on her while we went around toward the exit. they had to stop the ride to revive her and let her get out of the boat. the cast members were pretty calm and had the smelling salts right there, so i assume it wasn't the first time it happened. it only took a few seconds, but i felt bad for the people stopped in the ride.

needless to say, we let grandma pick the rides for the rest of the day

While it must have been seriously scary at the time,

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Ugh, the only time something like this happened was a few weeks ago. I had planned just enough time for a ride on Splash with a FP at 5:10 and a 5:35 ADR at LTT. If all went according to plan, it would have worked. Well we got right to the part where we were waiting for our boat to pull up and the ride stopped for like 15 minutes! The CMs were speculating what it could be but it turned out that some geniuses decided to dip their shoes in the water and throw it at people in other boats. Idiots. And thanks to them, we missed our ADR and had to wait 45 minutes for a table.

 

[Timmy Boy]

When I worked at Tower of Terror, there would be incidents where people would hide slack on their seatbelts when it locks, then when they get to the drop shaft, they would hold their seatbelt WAAYYY above them so theyd get a good 2 feet of airtime.

Obviously this is a huge safety thing, as they could slip out of the elevator car and down the shaft and die. So we would Lift Stop and it would stop the ride sequence, thus causing the elevator to slowly lower down. When the elevator came to unload, a manager was there to council the people doing it, and then we would reride the entire elevator, except the group who did it.

It's a shame sometimes that 30 year old grown men would do that, then get put in time-out because they were doing something stupid.

 

[MountainMan73]

A specific reason was never given why (it might have been the weather?), but last year on Splash Mountain, we were riding and right as we got to the beginning of the incline, we just stpped and just sat there waiting for maybe 3 or 4 minutes (note that those birds in top hats become increasingly creepier minute by minute) Finally we started going up, half way up the incline, we stopped again for 3 or 4 minutes. Once again, we begin, the boat in front of us goes down. . . and we stop, for a good period of time. This made it not so irritating, you usually only have a second or two to observe the view from the top of the mountain, it was really cool to just look around at literally everything in the park, we also noticed the hidden mickey in the opening. Then we started up again, immediatly starting down the mountian. It was frustrating at first, stopping three times on the incline, but the view at the top of the mountain made it all worth while.

 

[astrostan]

Well once we went on Spaceship Earth and we were having a great time and around the last scene we stopped for quite along time. Turns out some genius 18 year olds decided that it was boring and walked through the last part.

 

[DebbieTN]

Several years ago my daughter worked at Universe of Energy. She said they had to evac the ride quite often because people would just get out the cars. She said that one time a little girl had to go to the bathroom, so her mother took her and just stepped over the side of the ride. What you may not know about that ride is that where the the rooms come together where the walls open up, there are gaps in the floor that you can see through. If you were to accidentally step on one of the gaps you would fall through the floor and it was a long way down before you would stop. My daughter took us through there one time with the lights on and it was quite scary to look down through those gaps. They told us to be very careful and watch where we were going. And that was with the lights on.

 

[Laura.bora]

Well, nothing that anybody did, but the last time I was at Disney, we got stuck in Journey into Imagination. Specifically, the part where they are on that machine that makes figment and they sing the song Imaaaaaaaaginaaaaaaation, Imaaaaaginaaaaaation". We were sitting there for about 3 song lengths, then the songs started shorting out and such, and then a CM came and told us that they we needed to evacuate the ride because of a fire. We got to go in a hidden door in the wall, and go down a stairway and through an underground passage before we came out towards the eend of the ride where there was a giant TV screen of some sort. We thought it was the coolest part of our trip!!

 

[XxDisneyFan00xX]

Good Evening Everyone,

I would first like to say that reading these comments made me laugh. Some of them made me question peoples saineness e.g, taking of shirts on rides. But that comment is NOT posing any offense to anyone on here. I just don't understand what people were thinking at that time.

I have never had a ride interrupted for a strange reason, but i'm hoping that when I go in December there will be one, so I can share it on here.

Have A Magical Day,

 

[MintShakes]

Oh I've been on a few of these recently...

In August we were on POTC in the room where the 'fire' is right by the donkey. I am not sure what exactly the malfunction was but it must have been something mechanical. We sat for a long time in boat to boat traffic not moving listening to A Pirate's Life for Me when a voice came on and told us they were going to have to power down the entire ride and it was going to get very dark. You could not only see but hear as they cut the power and all the animitronics went down. It was weird.

In January we were attempting to ride Maelstrom. We had just loaded the boat and JUST barely caught the chain to go up when we heard this horrible alarm. We saw some CMs start running around by the load area. The ride started but all the lights were on and the audio and animitronics were off. My husband and I kept trying to figure out what was going on. As we got further along, we figured it out... the fire alarm was going off! We were herded off the boat very quickly and out of the building. They evacuated all of Norway!

And last, just a few weeks ago we were on Spaceship Earth when we stopped in the very last scene with the stars. We sat for a LONG time when CMs started coming by and asking all of us if we had seen anyone get out of the cars and searching all over with a flashlight. Never found out if they found the person

 

[JESW]

One time during Carousel of Progress two young (11 or 12 year old) unattended boys were in the front row and were daring each other to touch the stage. One did and it stopped the ride. The poor cm was in a panic when he came in to see what had happened. It took a while for them to get it operational and we were all stuck in there.

That incident is why it gives me pause to say it is a good idea to let kids run free in the parks.

Jill

 

[iheartdisney]

i was cleaning out my subbed threads, and i found this one too good to delete! Any new stories in the last 3 years?

 

[starlionblue]

I was once on COP and the ride stopped halfway through. Then, we heard a faint voice (obviously a CM) shout "Turn it back on!" I was chuckling through the rest of the ride. Nobody else found it funny. I guess some people reallly need a sense of humor.

 

[justakrazymom]

great thread...didn't even notice it was 3 years old.. bumping it up..there must be more stories!

 

[cuchu2005]

Didn't realize either that this thread was old.

Come to think of it, lap bars at Splash Mountain are clearly explained by the behaviours commented on this thread.

Contest: Read this thread and try to guess the next safety measure to be implemented by WDW based on guest lack of common sense.

Mx

 

[tink774]

It wasn't on a day I worked, but once we had some ducklings make their way into the Splash Mountain flume! The ride was stopped for a bit so they could be safely removed.

The worst thing I ever saw a guest do to interrupt the ride was stand up on the back of the log. Not on his seat, on the very back! He was about to go up the main lift to the huge drop when he did it and had his hands up like "This will be so cool!" Even stopping the ride almost knocked him backwards into the flume so I don't know how he expected to make it up the lift. So of course we had to send another CM up to escort him out of the ride.

 

[DisneyChristmas]

My First Visit to EPCOT was on a Friday in October, and a huge group of students were everywhere in the park.

At that time Living Seas had a slow ride with a number of cars strung together through the aquariam area. A group of students continued to stick their hands and feet outside of the cars. This caused an automatic stop each time. First someone in a car ahead of us, then someone behind, then someone further up. You get the idea. Each time that the ride shut down, the CM would announce that the vehicles couldn't go forward until this stopped.

That same day more students (the same ones, different ones??) caused interruptions on El Rio del Tiemp and Maelstrom while we were riding Could we have been unlucky enough to encounter this same group three times?

BTW - you may be wondering - they were American and spoke English

 

[DisneyChristmas]

DH and I were riding SM at night. The ride stopped while we in the long up-incline tunnel. It was fairly dark, and after a few minutes leaning backwards stopped being fun. Every few minutes a CM would pop out of the wall with a flashlight and tell us to hang on for just a few more minutes.

Eventually we started again and finished the ride. Never knew what held us up for so long.

 

[lovebug33]

When I worked at Tower of Terror, there would be incidents where people would hide slack on their seatbelts when it locks, then when they get to the drop shaft, they would hold their seatbelt WAAYYY above them so theyd get a good 2 feet of airtime.

Obviously this is a huge safety thing, as they could slip out of the elevator car and down the shaft and die. So we would Lift Stop and it would stop the ride sequence, thus causing the elevator to slowly lower down. When the elevator came to unload, a manager was there to council the people doing it, and then we would reride the entire elevator, except the group who did it.

It's a shame sometimes that 30 year old grown men would do that, then get put in time-out because they were doing something stupid.

That is totally insane! I hate the little bit of lift you get. And, you know their families will try to sue if they die!