Oops....Attraction Outtakes/Oddities

[rosiep]

So the mom freaked out so much that nobody else on the boat wanted to hear the spiel? What the heck? There's nothing anybody can do so why sit and fret for the rest of the ride? Why not just enjoy it? Nixing the spiel isn't going to get you back any sooner. Very strange...

But if they had already confirmed (per the OP) that the child was fine and with a CM...not as big a deal, right?
Prob threw the CM for a loop though, and maybe he couldn't get back on track.

Do you people have children???? Because I've never seen a more callous response...

 

[dalt01]

doesnt it ever amaze you that we cant get through one page of a thread without somebody getting ticked off about something?

 

[Planogirl]

I'd like to read about more experiences.... We can debate the good or bad mother or whether something like this ever happened but what would be the point?

 

[rosiep]

I apologize..because you're right...my post added nothing to the OP's thread except negativity.

 

[bwilcox]

I totally respect Robo, but the "Mom thinks Dad has the kid, Dad thinks Mom has the kid" thing has happened to us before. I see no reason to question the OP's story.

My husband got stuck on Dinosaur right at the end where the meteor is supposed to hit. He said it was very anti-climactic. My DH and son, 3, got stuck on POTC during the cannon scene for a few minutes. My son thinks a pirate swam in the water and was holding on to their boat!

 

[Practically_Perfect]

My first time on EE, the train stopped when you're inside the mountain, right at the end of the backwards part. We were just sitting there for a bit, waiting for the brakes to let us go down the rest of the ride and nothing was happening. I had taken my 8 yo brother with me, who likes these kinds of rides, but needs to know what's going to happen on them first, so he kept turning to me and asking "Is this what supposed to happen? Are we stuck here? Can the yeti get us now?" It was my first ride too, though, so I had no idea.

Finally an announcement came on about "technical difficulties...ride will start again soon".

When we got back to base camp someone started a "Send us up again" chant, but it didn't work

 

[butterfly15]

Three years ago we were riding ToT and right before we dropped we felt a weird jerk like the car had jumped the track or something (before anyone corrects me I have no idea if the car is on a track or how the ride works).

Anyways when the ride was over and we were going to get out the doors didn't open....we had overshot our exit. People started lighting up their cell phones, and we realized we were surrounded by old props. There was old dolls and tables. The dolls were freaky looking!! We all started screaming...when the CM came to let us know they knew we were stuck and was working on it he said "welcome to the behind the scenes tour of ToT." We stayed stuck for about 15 minutes and then we were allowed to go back to the front of the line and ride again.

 

[sabrecmc]

We were recently at Belle's storytime and one of the "little helpers" that was playing Gaston started freaking out, just sobbing and asking for his mom. Belle handled it really well though.

Back in November during the MVMCP, we rode the Pooh ride and right at the end noticed a water bottle that had fallen or been thrown out of one of the cars. There was almost no line, so we got right back in the queue. However, right as we were about to be assigned to our honeypot, a Disney CM with one of those grabber things comes out and gets to ride and there is the announcement that the ride has been temporarily shut down. A couple minutes later, out he comes, presumably with the water bottle and off we go. I definitely thought that was an odd way to clean up, but I guess it worked!

We've also had to walk out of Spaceship Earth. Lots of stairs, but I guess we must have been at one of the highest points of the ride.

We were on the train ride to Rafiki's at AK when the conductor came over to tell a guest to sit down. Then again, a moment later, with a warning that the train would stop. Then again. Then the train stopped and a very PO'd conductor came over saying we weren't moving until the person sat down and if they stood up again, they would have to leave the park. At the end of the ride, the conductor lady thanked everyone who "cooperated" during the ride. Heh.

 

[secretsquirrel]

Three years ago we were riding ToT ...

Anyways when the ride was over and we were going to get out the doors didn't open....we had overshot our exit. People started lighting up their cell phones, and we realized we were surrounded by old props. There was old dolls and tables. The dolls were freaky looking!! We all started screaming...when the CM came to let us know they knew we were stuck and was working on it he said "welcome to the behind the scenes tour of ToT." We stayed stuck for about 15 minutes and then we were allowed to go back to the front of the line and ride again.

That's awesome! Creepy but cool!

 

[GiGi30]

I can certainly understand how the few seconds of everyone thinking a child was missing would ruin the ride for everyone. Being a parent myself, I have seen parents freaking out in the mall because their kid wasn't in sight. Made me have a knot in my stomach as well. Glad the little mermaid was okay!

Funny side note-on our last trip to Disney World a few weeks ago, my parents took my daughter to AK and my hubby took my son to nap, so I had a few hours to myself in Epcot. I can't tell you how many times I thought for a split second that I had left one of my kids somewhere. My heart would drop then I would just laugh. I am never without them, so it was odd for me.

 

[ktlm]

Robo is one of my absolute favorite Disers, but I do believe this could happen (even though it shouldn't). I have actually seen 2 parents look at each other in a store and each say to the other "where is Madison I thought she was with you", and then watched a frantic search unfold for a wayward 2 or 3 year old who was hiding under some clothes racks. If they had more than one kid, I can see Mom thinking Dad got her on the boat and Dad thinking Mom had her. I would bet that she wandered a little bit away from the edge of the boarding area where the CMs didn't notice her and that the parents were messing with other kids or doing something else. Based on our experience last week with some of the walk on rides, I would bet with only 8 people on the boat that the family walked up as they were loading the boat and were kind of rushed on. I know we had a few last week where the gates were open to load when we walked up and we were rushed on and barely had time to sit before the ride started moving.
We also had 3 experiences at WDW last week that make me think this was possible. The first was I retrieved a little one whose parents had left him behind and deposited him back with his parents. They had about 3-4 other kids they were trying to keep up with and just had not watched that he had been trailing behind them and got separated from them. The 2nd was I watched a father leave his sleeping son on the magical express bus when he got off. He had told the sister to be sure her brother got off the bus and she poked him and he didn't wake up so she left him. I had to wake the kid up and get him to get off the bus. I'm sure his Dad would have noticed hed wasn't with them and would have gotten back on and retrieved him before the bus left-- at least I hope so! The 3rd one happened to us. DH, DD(3) and I were at the gate to get on Splash Mountain. It was the day of the "Monsoon" and the ride was walk on with the boats not filling up. I got on, and the CM closed the gate before DH could pass DD in to me and get in the boat. If I hadn't yelled, both she and DH would have been left behind and I would have been riding by myself. (Of course the gate closing on her freaked out my usually fearless DD out and then she wouldn't get on the boat so we all wound up exiting so as not to hold up the few people who were actually coming down the queqe).

 

[HMGar]

On Star Tours once, we were supposed to go to Endor but we ended up flying off and missing Endor and instead we were in a battle. It was pretty freaky! But we made it back OK.

-Dorothy (LadyZolt)

LOL. That happened to me too!

 

[bumbershoot]

But if they had already confirmed (per the OP) that the child was fine and with a CM...not as big a deal, right?

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.

On Star Tours once, we were supposed to go to Endor but we ended up flying off and missing Endor and instead we were in a battle. It was pretty freaky! But we made it back OK.

-Dorothy (LadyZolt)

I haven't had any attraction oddities, except for the abusive father with a terrified child (b/c of the ride and ride stop, b/c she was seated with her unemotional and unhelpful father, and b/c she was being hit for being scared), when the Roger Rabbit ride (DL) stopped *just* before we got to the exit, and we were the last group evacuated. I would really like to forget that one...

 

[Jobie]

Three years ago we were riding ToT....

Yeah, that would have freaked me out to. I personally hate drop rides. I will ride any roller coaster you place before me, but drop rides? I usually pass (unless the party with me really wants to ride I will suck it up and do it once, but it is never a fun time for me). TOT is different for me though. I love it. I think it is because you are "enclosed" during the drop part and the visual is not as strong with the drop. But, being stuck on a drop ride in an area that you are not supposed to be in or see? That would freak me out!

 

[ktlm]

Three years ago we were riding ToT and right before we dropped we felt a weird jerk like the car had jumped the track or something (before anyone corrects me I have no idea if the car is on a track or how the ride works).

Anyways when the ride was over and we were going to get out the doors didn't open....we had overshot our exit. People started lighting up their cell phones, and we realized we were surrounded by old props. There was old dolls and tables. The dolls were freaky looking!! We all started screaming...when the CM came to let us know they knew we were stuck and was working on it he said "welcome to the behind the scenes tour of ToT." We stayed stuck for about 15 minutes and then we were allowed to go back to the front of the line and ride again.

And you actually rode it again?!? No way I would have gotten right back on after that!

 

[Mickey's Best Girl]

During SM "soft opening" mid Nov. this year we were just reaching the top of the main hill when the lights came on. Now I have seen SM with the lights on many times via the TTA but riding with the lights on..... majorly lacking in the thrill dept.

 

[squirrel]

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.

 

[Doc CW]

On JC a college girl was texting her boyfriend when the CM took her phone, he was in his mid twenties, and said it was rude that she would text while he was on stage, he then began to pretend to text the boyfriend that she was in WDW and the CM she was with was "yummy" and then gave her the phone back. During the same trip in the cave seen he began to do the theme from the Tower of Terror and began to sing "It's a small world after all" over and over. It was hilarious the best JC trip for sure.

 

[bwilcox]

There was the story and accompanying youtube video someone posted a few months ago about the kids in the boat with them on IASW chunking coins at the dolls during the ride. I mean not tossing them like into a fountain, but throwing them hard enough to knock over a sign. And the parents just kept giving the kids more coins!

 

[Stucas]

we were on the carousel of progress where we saw the 3rd scene like 5 times because we couldn't move. They just kept singing!!!!!!! At least everyone thought it was funny and many people were talking in sync with it by the 3rd round.