Oops....Attraction Outtakes/Oddities

[wdwobsessed!]

Last year in April, I met up with my 2 friends that were there at the same time and we went on TTA. It was a late night and there was no one in the park (it was open until 3am). So we roda TTA and there was a group of teenagers pobably around 16-17 and they were just being jerks. Laughing really loud, making sexual jokes. So we're going through the tunnel at the part where it says "now approaching, mickey star traders" and all of a sudden a boy from that group JUMPS OUT OF MOVING TRAM AND RUNS ALONG SIDE OF IT! And then the tram just stops and the lights come on. We were so ticked off. We sat there for a good 20 minutes and CMs come and yell at him and ask him what happend and he of course denied any of it but they have it all on cameras and they actually waited for him at the end of the ride and kicked him out of the park.

 

[ktlm]

Luckily we've never managed any oddities or strange occurances on a ride... Although I created one when I was eight or nine. I was absolutely terrified when we entered the shrinking/growing/changing room inside HM. So much so that they had to stop the narration, open the doors and lead me out through one of the secret CM entrances. My parents were mortified. I was 15 and rode with my mother several years later. She shamed me the whole way through. Today it's my very favorite ride.

You aren't the only one. I had to be evacuated from that ride in a panic when I was 8 too! With me, I don't think they stopped the narration, as I'm not sure I even made it to the shrinking room. If I remember right, I think the portrait of Master Gracey that turns into a corpse got me before we even made it into a 2nd room. I may have gone on in the shrinking room and that one may have sent me over the edge, but I can't remember. That was back in the 70s when the CMs wore scary top hats and capes, so the poor guy was trying to lead me out through what I remember as a dark curtain to a side entrance and my Mom was trying to drag me out, and I was terrified and not following him because I was as scared of the CM as I was of the portrait. My 3 year old is apparently nothing like me as she requested to ride HM and wasn't scared a bit. When I asked her if she was sure she wanted to ride it, she looked at me like I was an idiot and said "Well they're not real ghosts they're just fake".

 

[rubato]

You aren't the only one. I had to be evacuated from that ride in a panic when I was 8 too! With me, I don't think they stopped the narration, as I'm not sure I even made it to the shrinking room. If I remember right, I think the portrait of Master Gracey that turns into a corpse got me before we even made it into a 2nd room. I may have gone on in the shrinking room and that one may have sent me over the edge, but I can't remember. That was back in the 70s when the CMs wore scary top hats and capes, so the poor guy was trying to lead me out through what I remember as a dark curtain to a side entrance and my Mom was trying to drag me out, and I was terrified and not following him because I was as scared of the CM as I was of the portrait. My 3 year old is apparently nothing like me as she requested to ride HM and wasn't scared a bit. When I asked her if she was sure she wanted to ride it, she looked at me like I was an idiot and said "Well they're not real ghosts they're just fake".

My then 8 yr old son made it all the way through, but he was SCREAMING crying the whole time. I'm sure it ruined the experience for some. Then, at the end, when we exited, he sat on the bench right outside and just bawled. Everyone kept walking by giving us dirty looks like we forced him. We didn't. I promise. He can't stand spooky, scary rides, but wanted to at least give it a try. A nice CM gave us all free ice cream and fastpasses, so my son was happy again and we moved on! I am, to this day, so grateful to that man!!!!

 

[rosiep]

I don't have kids, and I'm certain that's why I don't think it's that big of a deal. My opinion will probably change if I ever do.

I just think that if you know the kid is safe, and you're going to be on the ride for the same amount of time with or without the spiel, you may as well keep the spiel. If anything it would probably help keep everybody's mind off the situation. You could sit in silence and make small talk and dwell on the situation, or you could just accept it and carry on. I don't think anybody did anything wrong, I was just saying that if I were in that situation I would keep the spiel.

Thank you. You reply to my post was much more gracious than mine was to yours. Maybe next time I'll take a minute to remember that everyone is entitled to their point of view before I post.

 

[bgohre]

How could she not know that her child was not on a boat with only 7 other guests on it?

That is exactly what I was thinking!

 

[ironz]

Absolutely not!

Right now, just thinking about that little bitty 3 year old, wondering what was going on, being told by strangers that her parents were coming back but not really having the ability to truly understand that (my son's understanding at 3 seemed good, but the difference now at 5 is astonishing, and his understanding now will seem like nothing in 2 more years, etc)...just thinking about it now makes me sad.

I mean, AS big a deal? No. Still, however, a BIG deal? Yes.

Which is why I actually said "not AS big a deal"...so please do not take what I said and twist it. If I didn't think it was a BIG deal at all, I would have written exactly that.

ObiStriker worded it well...the child was safe with a CM, and per the OP, that fact had been conveyed to the JC skipper and the child's parents. Yes, they were probably scared, but nothing at that point was going to reunite the parents and child quicker than running the JC boat around its normal course, so they could just as well have done the spiel or not.

 

[marius97]

Nothing would have been quiet about the ride if my DH had left my DD3 on the dock. Because you know it is never the mom's fault!!

I generally am quick to jump on people for losing their kids, but at the same time I know that it can happen. Five years later I am still POed at DW. We were at the beach when newly potty trained DD3 said she had a potty emergency. We were at the water with DW DD5 and DS1. I scooped her up and started running for the bathrooms that were probably 1/4 mile away. Little did I know but DD5 told DW that she had to go too and DW said go with Dad...problem was, when she said that, I was already 50 yards away and never knew that I had DD5 following me. Twenty minutes later, I came back to the water and DD5 was not with DW and DS. I have never been so scared in my life. Luckily DD5 somehow had managed to find our beach blanket where grandma was and was fine. But I was 30 seconds from getting the life guards involved. DW still thinks it was my fault and I KNOW that it was her fault. If we ever want to have a good arguement, we just bring up the beach incident.

 

[CinRell]

Many years ago, I was with my parents and sister at WDW and on Peter Pan. Right in the room where you're flying above the city, the ride stopped and lights came on. Talk about ruining the affect

 

[d_lairson]

The worst experience I ever had at WDW was on my favorite ride, COP. We go to WDW dozens of times a year and we would always ride COP until a trip I took with my parents in Oct for my DW birthday. We got stuck in the 30's... we listened to the spiel 5 times before they let us out... IT WAS A NIGHTMARE!!! I know they script by heart, but still being forced to watch over and over... I have not been on the ride since, it kind of sucks...

 

[StrikerObi]

I always make a point of going on the Carousel of Progress. It's not because I'm a super huge fan. I like the ride, but the reason I don't miss it is that I'm afraid that every ride will be my last, and that on my next trip it'll be demolished and a new building will be going up in its place.

 

[tinkerbellmichelle]

We were watching FOLK last Jan and partway through the show they turned the lights on and evacuated us without an explanation.

We were sitting next to the exit and saw them open the doors to the now POURING RAIN (it was sunny when we went in) and some of the commotion around the door before they began escorting everyone out.

To this day my kids still think it was because it started to POUR but I think the guy with the fire may have miscalculated. Like I said - we were too busy watching the action with the CMs near the exit.

 

[ellie0311]

Carousel of Progress, someone tried to exit the ride (not in the room we were in). We had just started the show maybe the first or second part when it happened and we had to watch our scene again. Thankfully the CM turned the volume off so we just watched them move not talk. I just prayed that the person who wanted out so badly, didn't try again.

This happened to me too in Dec 2008. Unfortunately, we had to watch our time period 3 more times, during which a CM kept repeating "please stay in your seats", before moving on to the next decade.

 

[Must C Mickey]

My nephew and I were in line at Spaceship Earth in Epcot. We were being held up by a CM while an "out of order" car went by, she wasnt paying attention and waited til the last minute for us to jump onto the next one. By the time we got in the car and settled, the computer voice in the car had already asked which language to select. Somehow it defaulted or chose for us, FRENCH! That entire ride was narrated to us in French. We had no idea what she was saying and we didnt understand the questions to the answers we were choosing when it was asking about picking our future. It was hilarious to my nephew and he giggled all the way thru it. We had to play our own world history lesson to see how much we knew about what we were seeing. we ended up having a great time and loved it. Plus we told the CM and she let us get back on and have another ride, in English!

 

[amzking]

One time in Its a Small World, our boat stopped at the end of the "goodbye" section, and we could see the front of the ride. The ride was stopped for a good ten minutes and the other boats kept running into us. I was able to see far enough to see a CM with a giant pole on the bridge fishing out a purse that fell in the water. I will never understand why they didn't just get someone on the boat or on the side of the ride to get it out, instead of spending so much time fishing it out from the bridge..

Oh, now you made me remember one! We sat at the front of the line for about 15 minutes waiting to board our boat while a CM used a long reacher to fish out a WEDDING RING someone had dropped. I have no idea how she dropped her ring, but it was right where you load and the water runs pretty fast there, plus there are the moving belts and such, so we were all impressed when the CM finally got it out. It took a lot of patience. Everyone applauded, and the woman was so grateful.

I think the reason no one goes into the water to get things is that the water is pretty disgusting. I read a post once about CMs watching kids throw up in that water. So I wouldn't go in to retrieve anything.

 

[WDWCatMom]

You aren't the only one. I had to be evacuated from that ride in a panic when I was 8 too! With me, I don't think they stopped the narration, as I'm not sure I even made it to the shrinking room. If I remember right, I think the portrait of Master Gracey that turns into a corpse got me before we even made it into a 2nd room. I may have gone on in the shrinking room and that one may have sent me over the edge, but I can't remember. That was back in the 70s when the CMs wore scary top hats and capes, so the poor guy was trying to lead me out through what I remember as a dark curtain to a side entrance and my Mom was trying to drag me out, and I was terrified and not following him because I was as scared of the CM as I was of the portrait. My 3 year old is apparently nothing like me as she requested to ride HM and wasn't scared a bit. When I asked her if she was sure she wanted to ride it, she looked at me like I was an idiot and said "Well they're not real ghosts they're just fake".

LOL... We were there during Halloween and our 3 year old loved it too. A few years ago our (then) 8 year old daughter wanted to ride. I was nervous because she was such a scaredy cat at 4 with all of the shows when the villains came out. But she settled in and enjoyed the ride.

 

[wdwtweets]

The funniest WDW attraction oops for us was in the Country Bear Jamboree. I watched as one of the bear's pants slowly fell down. They didn't fall all the way to the ground but I found it amusing. When we went back after the recent rehab, they were fixed. I'm convinced that a large part of the rehab was crazy gluing his pants to his behind.

I've been on both the Backlot Tour and the Gran Fiesta Tour when fellow riders decided to stand up in the middle of the ride. CMs had to speak to them over the loud speaker. In Gran Fiesta the guilty party sat but on the Backlot Tour, the vehicle repeated stopped and the people were warned multiple times.