Making me walk way too far on rides

[lizard1]

I'm puzzled about the thunder mountain. Are you guys saying that sometimes you are getting off on the same side as where everyone else is getting on? I thought everyone got off on the "exit side". I'm having a hard time understanding that. I have only ridden twice in the last several years since it's just too hard on my body, so maybe they've changed how they're doing it?

BTMRR loads from 2 sides. Sometimes when the train pulls back into the station, it is on the same side you departed from, other times it ends on the opposite side you started on.

 

[bidnow5]

People with a wheelchair or ECV have to go to the exit get a return time about the same as the standby time then go in on the exit side and up until this year the train always finished on the same side so we don't have as far to walk to get back to our mobility device

 

[SueM in MN]

People with a wheelchair or ECV have to go to the exit get a return time about the same as the standby time then go in on the exit side and up until this year the train always finished on the same side so we don't have as far to walk to get back to our mobility device

Yes.
That is how it works.
Did you go in the exit or walk thru the Fastpass queue? I didn't quite understand.

 

[bidnow5]

We walked in thru the exit I can't push myself in a wheel chair and my wife can't push me she has issues also. We had to wait for 5 trains including one that was added and took a while to test it for operation. There was no one in front of us in line

 

[MulanMom]

My husband has mobility issues and uses his ECV. We've had both happen to us at BTMRR. Often, at the suggestion of the CM, we'd get two rides so we end up on the side we started on. Seems when it's busy, they let us out on the other side without warning. Isn't as big of a problem for us because either myself or my son can get the ECV for him and drive it up.

What is problematic for DH is when he has to stand and wait. Wish they had a fold down seat he could use while waiting for his turn to be placed on the train. Like many in this thread, long walks and long waits while standing cause pain and tire him out.

 

[bidnow5]

My husband has mobility issues and uses his ECV. We've had both happen to us at BTMRR. Often, at the suggestion of the CM, we'd get two rides so we end up on the side we started on. Seems when it's busy, they let us out on the other side without warning. Isn't as big of a problem for us because either myself or my son can get the ECV for him and drive it up. What is problematic for DH is when he has to stand and wait. Wish they had a fold down seat he could use while waiting for his turn to be placed on the train. Like many in this thread, long walks and long waits while standing cause pain and tire him out.

I have a problem standing also I miss taking my ECV in the ride I was in pain when I got on the ride from standing waiting for 5 trains. It's one of my favorite rides but not sure I can go on it again

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

My only issue has been with the new little mermaid ride. After waiting at the rope, the attendant told us to park the wheelchair and then move up to the boarding area. Ok, I can handle that just fine, but then he left us standing there almost 15 minutes! I was so miserable. That only happened once, though. The rest of the time my husband has been told to wheel the wheelchair up to the boarding area and then they take it from him to park (or he does it himself) once they're ready for us to board.

Though I will say once I did get a bit of attitude at spaceship earth when I said I couldn't walk up the hill. But only once out of dozens and dozens of rides

This happened to us on Big Thunder. He asked if I could transfer. Yes. He asked if I could walk a short distance. Yes, if it is truly short. He then lead us in to the waiting area. Behind a number of people.

We ended up waiting 20 minutes, just standing there. I didn't have my cane, my walker or my scooter. He didn't understand why I was upset. Well, dude, you should have mentioned that the wait was longer than the standby line. And that there wasn't anywhere to sit.

I had a fast pass, and honestly, it would have been easier for me to take my cane and have my family help me up the steps through the regular line, rather than waiting in one place for 20 minutes.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

I had a fast pass, and honestly, it would have been easier for me to take my cane and have my family help me up the steps through the regular line, rather than waiting in one place for 20 minutes.

Just read that there aren't steps. Great, now I know it would have been better to use my cane to walk rather than wait the 20 minutes.

 

[Friend of a Mouse]

As for the walkways, it depends on the ride. Peter Pan was a no because the age of the ride. The stop is very abrupt and can cause the other people on the walkways to lose their balance. It also brings the entire ride to a stop and is a harder stop than we like. IIRC, many of the other "continual dispatch rides" will slow down but not necessarily completely stop if the belt is stopped. At the very least, the stop is gentler.

 

[bidnow5]

I was on Peter Pan once years ago when it stopped just as we were getting to the end I hit my head hard on the sail I hurt my neck and ended up with a splitting headache so I understand why they don't stop it

 

[SirDuff]

As for the walkways, it depends on the ride. Peter Pan was a no because the age of the ride. The stop is very abrupt and can cause the other people on the walkways to lose their balance. It also brings the entire ride to a stop and is a harder stop than we like. IIRC, many of the other "continual dispatch rides" will slow down but not necessarily completely stop if the belt is stopped. At the very least, the stop is gentler.

I thought that the issue with Peter Pan is that the boats are hanging, therefore having them stopped would not be safe?

 

[SueM in MN]

Peter Pan can be emergency stopped (for example, if someone falls), but is not normally stopped for a variety of reasons. We took our daughter on in the past when she was little and we could carry her. We stopped once it became to difficult to get her off the attraction. The moving walkway at the exit side is relatively short and actually ends at a barrier.
The last time we rode with our daughter, my DH almost ran out of moving walkway. The CMs (who knew we had lifted her in), only yelled him that he was getting close to the end and needed to hurry. He made it off the moving walkway just a few steps before the walkway would have carried them into the barrier.

Most of the other moving walkway rides can be slowed pretty much to a crawl. As far as I know from talking to CMs, Peter Pan is either going or not going and can only be emergency stopped. That is an issue because of the abruptness of the stop, the transition between the ride being on the ground and airborne.

The biggest is due is that the boats are hanging, with only a single bar restraint keeping people in the boat.

We have been told that people with disabilities that prevent them from getting on because of the moving walkway might be able to request to ride the very first or very last time of the day. On those trips, they can have the other boats empty, so that the moving walkway can be safely stopped with no one in other boats inside the attraction. They would load only the boats that are on the stopped walkway in the load zone, then send them on their way and stop the moving walkway again to get out.