Just saw on the news that Disneyland officials have reopened the Roger Rabbit ride at Disneyland. Apparantly they installed new safety precautions on the ride to avoid unfortunate accidents like what occured 9 months ago which shut it down in the first place. I would also like to add, that even though a ride may appear safe, if you do have a child and want to take them on a ride you should take into serious considerations about the warnings they post. I've been on the Roger Rabbit ride and it's a great ride, but if you spin it fast enough I can see how it could throw a 4 year old boy. It isn't like most of the Fantasyland rides, but even with those rides I could see something happening to a small child if someone doesn't take precautions. It is a moving vehicle after all and they are quite heavy. I used to work at Universal Studios at the E.T. ride, and you wouldn't believe how irresponsible some parents can be. (I am in no way saying that what happened at the Roger Rabbit ride was the parents fault) You wouldn't believe how many parents tried to bring their children who were under the age requirement onto the ride. One lady went so far as to hide her infant in a blanket and placed the child in-between her lap and the lap bar. I was working at the exit at the time and one of the leads noticed it first. I know the vast majority of parents are very responsible with their kids, but I cannot stress enough how important it is to evaluate how safe a ride is for your child. When it comes to your child there really is no such thing as a safety free environment.
It was still closed when we were there late last week. One thing I did notice since the last time we were at DL (or maybe I just didn't notice before) was that the signs no longer said "A child under 7 must be acccompanied"; it now said "Young children...". I also saw lots of signs instructing "parents must supervise." That is unbelievable about the woman hiding the infant under a blanket. Some people are... for lack of a better word... stupid! That would be cause for prosecuting child endangerment, don't you think?
yeah DonnaS I agree that it was stupid. But I think that park officials would be really leary about going that far. Especially since there are a lot of international visitors that visit the parks, and it might be hard to prosecute and bad publicity, especially if no one was hurt. Plus the fact that so many people are sue happy nowadays, and with so many lawyers around, park officials hands are kinda tied. That's just speculation of course. The lady who did this to her child by the way, didn't speak English, or at the least claimed not to, and when we informed her she should not have done this, she looked kinda bewildered, then just walked away.
