Irrational Disney fears.

[mfd25wife]

I have an irrational fear of that dang clown slide at BW. I swear it looks like it is spitting or vomitting out kids.

 

[lauran cameron]

I love to raise my hands on coasters...but not on SM.

It's dark and I always feel like my hand is going to get whacked on a overhead bar or something.

I have always felt the same way...or I hold them up to my ears like a dork just so I could out do my little brother when we were kids

 

[ILoveDisney&Cruising]

I never should have read this thread. Now *I'm* getting new irrational fears!

ME TOO!!!!!!! I was JUST thinking that!!!!!!!

 

[mfd25wife]

If I'm flying, I constantly check for my tickets and/or boarding passes. I fear I'm going to get to Orlando and forget my CC or my ID because you absolutely cannot use a CC without an ID down there (that's a good thing) and you need them to check in to fly back out.

At WDW, I worry constantly that I'm going to lose my CC, ID, KTTW, AP, etc. I carry all of them with me in the lanyard but constantly fear they will fall out. I used to worry about my phone and I still do some, but I seem to have a bigger more pressing fear that I'll lose my Disney tickets and/or those dang special party tickets . It's not like Disney won't fix it, but I guess deep down I fear I will get the one sadistic CM who will watch me turn into a blubbering idiot and laugh at me hysterically because I can't get into WDW.

 

[lauran cameron]

I also have the fear of leaning on the monorail doors too hard, not purposefully like as if I got knocked into the doors too hard, that they would open and I would fall out into the 7 seas lagoon

 

[arielchickenofthesea]

I get that same Monorail fear under the Monorail track at Disneyland Resort in the California Adventure Park when you are standing in line waiting for Soarin'. It just gives me the creeps when the Monorail goes overhead.

 

[annej]

I'll join the ones that are scared of Soarin'. Rode it the first time and loved it. Rode again with my mom - who hates heights - I worried about her the whole time and she loved it!!! I now can't ride it myself. Afraid i will fall out and I hate the dangling feet sensation. I have tried again but had to take the chicken exit.

Also, fear of getting stuck on Test Track. The corrosion room - My DS has asthma - or getting stuck on the slant outside for a long period of time.

 

[flyslyw]

I always tie my shows really tight before I get on Soarin' and I still feel like they're gonna fall off my feet, plus I'm always scared my hat is gonna fly off too and I don't even know how that would happen on Soarin'....

 

[zhazhazsu]

Elephants on the safari! I have yet to ride because I am sure they will go insane and stampede me! I know there are invisible barriers in place but for gods sake these are elephants people! Huge and strong! I am sure there is some way they will get me!

 

[ocean134]

Ok, I wasn't going to admit this, but after reading through some pages on this thread, Ill share. It's not particularly Disney specific.

I have a fear that while riding on a rollercoaster that the train will come unattached from the track and the train will go off on a wild, high-flying adventure before it plummets to the Earth. I think CSI did an episode about this and I just about lost it.

 

[Haley]

I don't think anything scares me at WDW-- only time I've been nervous is riding in the front seat of BTMRR at DL because someone was killed there (decapitated I think) so that freaked me out a little....

 

[Florida Dreamin']

Putting my hands up on Space Mountain, I used to have a huge fear of getting stuck on the backwards part of Haunted Mansion.

 

[sydsmom1997]

While I'm not afraid of them, you can't deny that the IASW dolls look at you like you're meat.

So do the Presidents in Hall of Presidents, for that matter. Quite a few look really angry that you walked in on them and they look like they would come across the stage for you if they could.

I have thought the same exact thing! It reminds me of the SNL skit where the ride gets stuck in front of the singing barbershop quartet and they creepily attack the rider. Too funny! Yet kind of disturbing.

 

[wishing4PA]

Thanks so much, dear people!
It's been 15 months since my last trip, and I was suffering from severe Disney Need-to-get-back-itis.
Now, perhaps I can wait a while longer...

Until reading this, though, my only irrational Disney fear was the apparently common fear of falling out of Soarin'. Sure, the top row is great, but I don't want to fall onto the concrete from there.
I used to have a fear of getting hit by a spitball or something else while walking under the Skyway, but that's not an issue anymore.

 

[Vivianne]

The only irrational fear for me was on Haunted Mansion.

I could swear I felt a kick while getting off the buggy at the end of the ride. But, maybe it was just me. But it was a strong kick.....why didn't DH feel it, maybe because he had just gotten off....I'm not going to forget that one easily....

 

[BrerMama]

I was just sharing this thread with my 15 year old daughter and she told me she has a fear of characters. I had no idea! Apparently Stitch messed up her hair. She doesn't want to see any next trip. Except Pooh. He's OK.

 

[wen8jr]

My biggest fear is about the restraints...but I think it is a rational fear.

Not Disney specific but a long time ago...20 years ago at a large well known local amusement park...we were on a ride that was like a helicopter and once you were on it went out of the docking/loading area on arms and you controlled it with a stick, you could flip the cart upside down, etc. You have to go up to board and it is about 30 feet off the ground. Anyway, the first time I rode it my harness would not latch and I had to scream for them to fix it...I mean they were going to start that ride...and there I was. I went back 2 months later on a senior school trip and I swear I got in the same cart and same seat and it done the same exact thing! Well a month later we heard that a girl fell out and did not survive due to a harness not latching...the ride was shut down immediately and tore down after that. I've always wonder if it was that same cart I rode in twice. Not a pretty story, I know...but sometimes fears are there for a reason so yell out if something doesn't feel right!

I still love amusement parks and ride the rides... but I really don't take anything for granted when it comes to being latched in. And I have to ride the small rides to get warmed up first...

I also hate heights and the inclines on roller coasters...like someone else said...I grit my teeth and white knuckle it to the top... and then love it once we are going.

I hate pressing crowds and tight restraints as well, the older I get the more I feel like I could have a major panic attack...I break out in a cold sick sweat and everything. It's embarrassing.

 

[RalphinSC]

You guys do realize that if you put your hands up on Spac eMountain you WILL hit something if you are of sufficient height and arm reach?

You can rub against the roof of both tunnels in the attraction as you zoom through them. I try to do it each time for luck.

My logic is I figure the ride has been running for years and if someone's arms were getting routinely lopped off, they would of removed or padded the offending piece of infrastructure by the tenth or fifteenth armless rider.

 

[RalphinSC]

And just to be fair, my greatest fear is to get a tired, crabby Jungle Cruise skipper.

 

[CarrieR]

I am a thinker... I love thrill rides, but I'm constantly thinking of all of the dangers of them. So, I did as much research as I could on how the ride systems worked, and it did lots of good... I find the click, click, click reassuring up the hill as I think of the anti-rollbacks locking us into place, or how we've randomly stopped in the middle of the ride due to a block violation -- which will kindly NOT let the car behind us slam into us. LOL

However, this did have an unintended side effect, of knowing too much about certain things... like river rapids rides. They terrify the heck out of me. Most of the time, I acquise to my friends and ride them anyways, but the whole time, I'm sooo scared we're going to flip and I'll drown. Ugh.

And did you know that you're in more danger riding in your car TO the amusement park than AT the amusement park? Yep, I am now neurotic about motor vehicle safetly. Awesome. :/ But hey, I can ride BTMRR without worrying that my riding buddy will fly out due to the lap bar not pinning her in...

I guess those are all kind of rational, so as far as irrational goes -- I'm also afraid of the Hippo on IASW. Thank you, Epic Mickey. IASW is my favorite ride -- like, there is no good reason for my extreme love of this ride -- except I'm afraid of the dang hippos. And the vortexes. Sigh.

I had forgotten about my fear of the BWI pool slide. My BFF is afraid of it, too.

She's the one I thought of when I read the thread title, as she has lots of random fears. One of them is the hot air balloon at DTD. Not sure why, although in generally she's afraid of things that are "bigger than they should be." Regardless, we have to be careful to keep an eye out for it and make sure she doesn't look at it when we're there... and we can never stay at a DTD-area hotel or SSR. Too much work to keep her pointed in the right direction.

ETA: BTW, the girl who fell out of the helicopter ride... my understanding of that was that a) there was alcohol involved, and b) it wasn't her restraint, but rather, the restraint next to her wasn't put down (there was no rider) which allowed her to slip out sideways. Terrifying, nonetheless!