I was wondering how you would be able to bypass the stretching room since at DL it is an elevator. I don't think there is another way to get down to loading without going through it.
A little off topic, but I'm wondering if you know how that works? When we went with a wheelchair we were asked if we could stand and climb the stairs onto the porch that leads to the elevator, and stand for the rest of the queue. I assumed that if we said no to the stairs, there would have been another option but that we would have missed the elevator scene. We regretted agreeing to the stairs because there's still a bit of line to wait through afterwards, and we couldn't figure out how to get the wheelchair back after the ride since you don't exit back into the queue (I'm still not sure how we were supposed to do it, we ended up sending someone through a CM queue entrance to carry the chair back out, but that wouldn't have worked with an ECV). If there's no alternative to the elevator, then do people who can't take stairs have to be carried up? I'm wondering if we should just skip this ride from now on.
There's a ramp that leads to the porch. Then you have to wait with a CM at the bottom of the elevator until the hallway clears enough for them to walk you to the HA queue. They will only stop the ride once per cycle to load from the HA area, and only 2-3 buggies. I think they ask because if you can load through the standard queue it's a lot faster. But they should direct you to leave the WC or ECV closer to the exit before bringing you up to the porch.
That makes sense. We must have been dealing with a less experienced CM, because they had us leave the wheelchair in the queue by the porch, and no one was there to direct us at the exit (I thought they were going to bring it to the exit for us, like happens at some other rides). I'm still not sure how it would work with ECV's, since there were stairs between the exit and the queue (through the CM entrance we snuck through). This was the one ride that was really difficult with the wheelchair, so next time I'll ask to use the ramp and keep the chair, and deal with the extra wait.
I acknowledge there's no easy solution since spontaneous screaming if you're scared is only natural. But there are the intentional screamers who are way louder than necessary. I stood next to one once and it left my ears ringing so badly I couldn't hear the narrator on the ride. There's no easy way to make a rule against it as you pointed out, but I wish they could find a way to discourage it, like maybe make a statement about general courtesy as people enter the elevator.
