Funny things that happened on rides..

[maxiesmom]

The 2nd time my nephew rode Star Tours he commented "Why do we keep getting the same crazy driver?" Made me and my sis laugh out loud!

 

[Simba's Mom]

My tag, "Keep me off the high horses" says it all. It wasn't really funny to me, but the CM had the hugest smile-I could tell she was trying not to laugh. I always ride Cinderella's Carousel when I'm solo. But now that I'm in my 50s, sometimes those horses are just too high when they're stopped. So there I am one morning, trying hard to haul my old body up onto this horse. I think everyone else had to wait for me (at least it felt that way as I was struggling) and that CM had such a big grin. At least SHE thought it was funny! Now I make sure the horse I want at Cinderella's Carousel isn't up too high.

 

[Jerseygirl63]

One New Years Eve night we were on the Great Movie Ride in MGM and it broke down(surprise, surprise, surprise ). This time we actually had to walk out of the middle of the ride. Our car broke down right in front of the Wizard of Oz set and we told our kids to go up on the yellow brick road and Daddy will take a picture. Just as my hubby clicked the picture we hear this booming vioce say,"GET OFF THE YELLOW BRICK ROADDDDDDD! I never saw our kids run so fast before in my life They will never forget that night!

 

[crystalblue705]

We just got back from WDW. Our first week there we went on Test Track. Now, my younger daughter loved this ride last year and rode it as often as we did. But this year for some reason she didn't want to go on it . The truth came out. She does'nt like the part outside because it goes almost sideways on the track. Well, we finally convinced her to try it again. All is well, she's sitting between me and my older daughter and away we go. Out the door,on the track,racing away,coming to the sideways track, and it screeches to a stop,rubber burning ,smoking tires,and there we are. Her worst nightmare. Stopped on the track leaning sideways. (felt like 100 degrees sitting there). She will never go on again. It figures that after all that convincing it had to happen on the first ride. Oh well.

 

[gems_smiling]

Bump! These are really funny!

 

[bluejasmine]

We just got back from WDW. Our first week there we went on Test Track. Now, my younger daughter loved this ride last year and rode it as often as we did. But this year for some reason she didn't want to go on it . The truth came out. She does'nt like the part outside because it goes almost sideways on the track. Well, we finally convinced her to try it again. All is well, she's sitting between me and my older daughter and away we go. Out the door,on the track,racing away,coming to the sideways track, and it screeches to a stop,rubber burning ,smoking tires,and there we are. Her worst nightmare. Stopped on the track leaning sideways. (felt like 100 degrees sitting there). She will never go on again. It figures that after all that convincing it had to happen on the first ride. Oh well.

Lord that my nightmare about TT! I like the ride and always do it with my family but I always worry about that! Poor girl now she'll never believe you again..lol

 

[blumaroo]

My DH and I were on Dinosaur and right when the big dinosaur pops out it stopped. After that wehear this loud flushing sound and a guy walks out and was like ,"I just couldn't hold it."

 

[emer95]

When we were on Dinosaur, my dd5 saw the T-Rex with the smaller dinosaur flailing in it's mouth. When we got off the ride she looked at us with hope in her eyes and said, "That's just the way the Mama dinosaur carries her baby, right?" Ummm, sure, honey!

 

[Ride Junkie]

My mom and I spent an entire IASW trip behind an Asian father and son. The son was trying, successfully, to practice the pronounciation of the ride name. "Small World, is that right? Small World?" Dad was extremely vexed and kept prodding the kid to "Say it right! It's "Small Willow. Willow WILLOW!!!. Say again."
And the poor kid would say, once again with perfect diction "Small World." And then dad would yell "NO! NO! Say again-small WillloooOOOw." Repeat, ad nauseum. Worse than the theme song.

OMG, that is so funny!! I was suddenly taken back to the movie "A Christmas Story", where the guys in the restaurant are trying to sing "Deck The Halls". Heh heh!!!

How did I miss this thread?!

 

[hidmickey:myantidrug]

My dad went on Dumbo the Flying Elephant. While all the little kids are laughing, you hear him screaming, "PUT IT DOWN, NOW!! PUT IT DOWN, NOW!!" over and over again.

Ok, that story has tears rolling down my face! I can hear him yelling it in that tone! So funny.

 

[dmk1021]

Time to add my ToT story, but first, I don't know anyone on these boards, do I?

Anyway, it was April 1996, my high school band trip to WDW. My brother, best friend, and I (with 3 or 4 other friends) went to go on ToT for the first time ever.

My brother and I hadn't been to WDW since 1990, and all we knew about ToT was from a special preview on TGIF I remember from ABC. Of course, I knew that it was a drop, and scary, so I knew what to expect...I guess.

Well, once we got in line, I felt the need to let my brother and BF know that I had to use the restroom after we finished (you can probably see where this is going...I can't believe I'm sharing this on here!).

So, we get on the ride. Again, everyone knows the "big" drop, but how about that first "little" drop (back then it was just the little drop and the big one. of course now you don't know which way it'll go). I didn't know it was coming, and at that moment, well, an accident occured.

Now I was 15, on a band trip, it's not like I had extra clothes....

that story still makes the family rounds, "how the ToT scared the **** out of Di" (oh my family is so funny....why do I have to have a twin brother that of course witnessed the whole thing?)

Now to pick on my mom (and make me feel better):

In May 2003, we had a mini-Magical Gathering with 10 of us. Now, we usually decided in line who was riding with who. We all got in line for Peter Pan, and I guess we forgot to decide. So my brother and I are talking to my mom, and my brother and I go to get into our ship. My mom follows us, talking, not really paying attention. Next thing you know, it's almost the end of the moving walkway! She literally had to dive into the boat with my brother and I! (my sister, Aunt, and Grandma, describe the actual diving quite humorously!). We came very close that day to crushing the rooftops of London, that boat was so heavy!

I guess that story makes me feel better...still, perhaps I should take my picture out of my sig?

 

[Mad_Kay]

A couple of my friends went to Disney World for a orchestra trip and decided to ride Dinosaur. Their photo at the end consists of everyone else in the car screaming and jerking away from the big dino, and my friends sitting calmly and peering at it with mild curiousity.


And these aren't Disney, but:

My family was riding the Jurassic Park ride at Universal, and when the recorded narration begins my mom perks up, turns her head to each side, looks up, and says, "God?" The college age kid behind us cracked up.


Some of my friends and I were at a local fair being big goofs and we manage to get our apparently scared of heights friend on the ferris wheel. I'm looking over the edge while it's loading and see a food stand with the sign reading 'Steak on a Stick,' and I randomly start singing a song with those words. Apparently scared of heights friend blurts out, "HOW CAN YOU BE SINGING ABOUT FOOD RIGHT NOW?!"

 

[Tiffer]

When I was in 4th grade, we finally went to DL after annual trips to WDW many times. I was always adventurous, as my DD 9 is now, and wanted go go on the Mattrerhorn. Os my mom and my 19 yr old cousinf went on together. My mom who was 41 ish at the time, wet her pants when the yetti roars in your face.

SHE WOULD KILL ME IF WHE EVER KNEW I TOLD!!!!! We still have an ongoing joke about it til this day!

 

[Moonpie]

When I was in 4th grade, we finally went to DL after annual trips to WDW many times. I was always adventurous, as my DD 9 is now, and wanted go go on the Mattrerhorn. Os my mom and my 19 yr old cousinf went on together. My mom who was 41 ish at the time, wet her pants when the yetti roars in your face.

SHE WOULD KILL ME IF WHE EVER KNEW I TOLD!!!!! We still have an ongoing joke about it til this day!

*sigh* That's a great ride! I haven't gone on that one in a long time.

I have a POTC story:
When I was a little girl I went to Disneyland with my family, and the POTC scared the beegeez out of me. I was sitting in the front with my grandma, clutching her arm, while my two cousins were sitting/jumping around in the back of the boat. Then when we get to the part where the skull talks to you, instead of hearing the pirate voice we heard..."Would the two boys who are playing musical chairs please take their seat so we may resume the ride." Now I just about wet myself because I was such a little girl that I thought the skull was actually talking to us! It's a lasting memory, and we never took my cousins on another trip like that again.

 

[billsfan]

The funniest thing that has happened to me was I went on ToT by myself (Because nobody in my party would go on that ride with me) as I was waiting in line they called out for a single rider and I volunteered. I was loaded onto an elevator with a family of 30 from somewhere in Central America (I think). Nobody else in the elevator spoke english. Everybody in the elevator was speaking spanish. I sat next to the Grandmother of the family. I don't think anyone exactly knew what was going to happen. As the doors opened and we dropped the first time the grandmother latched onto my arm and I believe started to pray. She held on tightly the whole ride.

After the ride as I was walking out I stopped to look at the picture that was taken and the look on the Grandmother's face (and pretty much the rest of the elevator) was priceless. I was sitting there with a huge smile on my face. The family had caught up to me and all started to laugh at the picture. I believe it was her husband that came up to me and shook my hand and said "gracias".

 

[Luthien]

Last December while in line for SM with DS11 there was a group of teen-age boys behind us in line. They looked to be about 13 or 14 and were talking smack, saying that SM isn't so bad as well as other things I can't repeat on a family board. Well, they were in the same train as my son and I and a very large, "tough-looking" boy was right behind me and from the moment the we took off until the ride ended this kid screamed like a little girl! He had a very shrill scream and yelled several times "Oh Lordy help me" DS and I thought it was the funniest thing - as did his friends who teased him terribly when we got off.

Cheers-
~Luthien