Getting stuck on a ride post

[kverlinger]

Stuck at the top of EE. I started freaking out because kept hearing what sounded like another train coming. I thought another train was going to come and push us off the ledge! lol Crazy, I know.

 

[Dis703]

I've never had to be evacuated from a ride, but the last couple of trips we seemed to have really bad luck with rides stopping for a significant amount of time. Ariel, HM, POTC, TSM, PP, and People Mover all stopped when we rode on our last trip.

 

[OhThePain]

The Gran Fiesta Tour stopped for a good 20 minutes a week and a half ago. I don't even think we could have been evacuated without them coming for us in a canoe. We were just very very very slowly drifting along, in silence, with no movies on the screens and no sounds, just the occasional announcement that someone was going to come and evacuate us. They eventually got us moving to finish up the ride.

Not at WDW, but at Sixflags (Great Adventure) about 18 years ago, some friends and I got stuck in the front row of the initial climb of Batman: The Ride, after we had passed the evacuation stairs and before you go down the hill. It is an inverted roller coaster, so we were basically left dangling with no way out for over an hour. A chain on the lift had snapped, so we had to wait for them to fix the chain enough to get the rest of the cars up the hill. I am not sure what is worse, dangling with nothing in front of you or under you for over an hour in mid-July or getting stuck on IASW for an hour.

 

[AngiTN]

This past April we got stuck on HM. Had to get evacuated
Then last week DH and I got on and dang if we didn't stop at the same exact spot we stopped on our April trip. A CM walked by after a few minutes and then back out. Thankfully got going again
Then later that night on Buzz, during the Evening After Hours event, we were the only guests in sight, when we came out of the shooting area and our car started jerking around a lot. Just after that the ride stopped. Turned out our car had "jumped the track". The CM came to the back and clicked on something, got it back in place and the ride resumed. I guessed that is the similar problem we had on HM earlier that night since it's a similar mechanism, and a CM walked by and back out.

 

[Kiren]

At DLR DH and I were on PPF. We made it almost all the way to the end (the room with the mermaids) when our boat stopped. We thought that was pretty cool and we were evacuated pretty quickly. A CM came by and said there would be a jerk as our boat started moving again to the exit. Once we got off we were giving an anytime FP for anything except RSR. So we decided to hop onto Pinocchio's ride and wouldn't you know it, we broke down on that one too! They turned all the lights on and a CM came to get us and walk us out. Didn't get a FP for that one as they cleared us out pretty quick. We decided to give the dark rides a break and went over to the other side of the park haha.

 

[MinniesYooHoo]

Our longest time being stuck was on Splash Mountain. We were stuck for around 40 minutes directly under the opossums that hang upside down over your head. We had to be evacuated and got to see quite a bit of behind the scenes stuff. It was actually pretty cool. We ended up outside the back of the ride building where they store all the extra logs with an anytime use fastpass.

 

[AngiTN]

The Gran Fiesta Tour stopped for a good 20 minutes a week and a half ago. I don't even think we could have been evacuated without them coming for us in a canoe. We were just very very very slowly drifting along, in silence, with no movies on the screens and no sounds, just the occasional announcement that someone was going to come and evacuate us. They eventually got us moving to finish up the ride.

Not at WDW, but at Sixflags (Great Adventure) about 18 years ago, some friends and I got stuck in the front row of the initial climb of Batman: The Ride, after we had passed the evacuation stairs and before you go down the hill. It is an inverted roller coaster, so we were basically left dangling with no way out for over an hour. A chain on the lift had snapped, so we had to wait for them to fix the chain enough to get the rest of the cars up the hill. I am not sure what is worse, dangling with nothing in front of you or under you for over an hour in mid-July or getting stuck on IASW for an hour.

I thought, while on Peter Pan last week, how would one get off here if it stopped? Then I noticed there are some stairs and platforms every so often. I guess they'd need to manually rotate the cars to the nearest platform to get you out.

 

[moremouse]

Stuck on Pirates for about 30 minutes once, right about where the cats are meowing. The cats are almost too real looking, lol.

We got stuck on that too. It was where the guy sits in the rocking chair with his accordian and sings that annoying, but catchy after about 30 minutes, song. I'm surprised I've forgotten it. Teenagers started rocking the boat...

At least it was in the AC, right? Nice and cool.

 

[maryj11]

Stuck at the top of EE. I started freaking out because kept hearing what sounded like another train coming. I thought another train was going to come and push us off the ledge! lol Crazy, I know.

This would be me too !

 

[KaSe]

Most exciting for us was Everest a few years ago. Ride stopped when we were at the very top before it goes backwards. Only stuck for 15 minutes before we got evacuated, and we were lucky enough to be in the shade so it wasn't bad at all. Got to walk down the stairs inside the mountain which was pretty cool.

My daughters (both teens) got stuck at the top of the incline of Everest (the one you can see standing just outside the gift shop) a couple years ago & had to be walked down some stairs to get down, too. I don't know if that's the same spot as you because I don't ride Everest (nope, no way, not a chance, see ya in the gift shop! LOL!), but that pretty much solidified it for me. Luckily, they both thought it was a pretty cool adventure. I was way more freaked out on the ground watching them just SIT there & not knowing what the situation was, but it all ended up fine. They were given fast passes to go back on once the ride was operational again & sure enough, a couple hours later, they were right back in line. I was about to protein spill just thinking about it. HaHaHaHa!

 

[prgal0715]

Here's my evacuation list so far:

Space Mountain: The rocket was just about to enter the first tunnel when it stopped. We waited for about five minutes and the lights came on. A CM came over and tried his darndest to entertain us with jokes and singing. Finally, after sitting in my rocket for a good 20 minutes, we had to get out which required shimmying over the side of the rocket to the ground. That was memorable! (PS - if I never see SM with the lights on again, that would be a-okay.)

Voyage of the Little Mermaid: Our clamshell stopped right after Ursula's scene. The lights came on and we were escorted out. Not nearly as eventful as Space Mountain!

Pirates of the Caribbean: This was an almost-evacuation. Our boat started to go backwards then stopped. Then started going backwards again. Then stopped. We floated there for a while, looking at the beach scene withe crabs and the seagulls. Just floated...then went backwards again! They finally got us going again but I was sure we were all climbing onto that beach.

 

[Jackie417]

I got evacuated from the People Mover this past Monday. Stuck on there with my two year old son for about 25 minutes. We also got stuck on the Haunted Mansion for about five minutes, also with my two year old, right in the graveyard area where the skeleton keeps popping up. That was fun!

 

[Shadowcat70]

We got stuck on the Carousel of Progress on a Halloween party night (Oct 2014). It was HILARIOUS! This was the trip we'd taken my parents on (Normally we don't go on it, but my folks wanted to see it at least once). It went through the spiel and the song started up again and the lighting dimmed, only we didn't rotate to the next part. Then the lighting came back up and it started the whole thing one more time. My dad and these fantastic east coast ladies behind us (I don't know who you were, but you ladies were a riot!!! ), just started cracking joke after joke about the spiel. Everyone in the theater was just about dying from laughter.

Almost missed the Boo to You parade, but it was so worth it!

 

[AtlantaDisneyDreamer]

When I first saw this thread I thought "What is a 'ride post' and how does someone get stuck on it?" Brought some interesting visuals to mind.