To the %(#)@ soul who continued to use flash photography

[tmt martins]

Ok 1st Thanks for the nightvision on my CC it works great and doesn't bother anyone.
2Nd as my understanding as on most timing rides are controled by optical sensors your boat trips the optical beam and the computer decides where you are and what happens.(timing of shows same thing direct light (remote )
SO when YOU FLASH it could hit the pickup and throw off the timing thus shutting down the ride .
next time you ride look for small holes in boxes or just a small flashlight type devise right across from it will be another .

 

[sleepyone]

Slightly off topic..but there was a guy who "ruined the magic" at the Ariel show at MGM. He kept going out & opening the exit door..he did this a few times & you can see the puppeteers on stage when there is light. Finally a CM came over & asked him to stop. I was annoyed because my 4 & 6 year old were really into the show.

I just posted something similar on another thread!

 

[tmt martins]

crying her eyes out and whimpering. Maybe these other folks were just oblivious to EVERYONE around them as they were "special guests" while on the ride.

The ride eventually began again but it was hard to get her to go on any indoor rides/atractions after that!

It will be at least a year before we go back to WDW and by then I hope she won't remember it ... although her sister still remembers when "Buzz" broke down and asks us will it happen again. which it did right after I promised it wouldn't.

Judy

Don't mean to repost but what I tell my DD is that the ride is not BROKEN until they come to take you off.If it just stops it 's to help a Special person to get on or off Since then she is fine with the stopping and starting

 

[philaround]

Big peeve of mine... It's rare for me to go on PoTC and not have a "flasher" in a boat around me.

I also find it amazing that a number of times I see WDW web sites sporting flash photos taken in WDW "dark rides" where photography is prohibited. The people that took them should know even better than the general public.

I feel I must comment on this post. Some of these sites, while not Disney sanctioned, are legitimate legal sites and the photos posted on them were taken during special media events at the park. The only people on the ride when the pictures where taken were people from the media and while the pictures may look as if they were flash pictures they were most likely taken with very high end equipment and no flash was actually used. This is not to say that falsh pictures have never been posted on various web sites, just that not all of the pictures are flash pictures.

 

[momsgoofy]

I have not had the pleasure of flash hounds during the dark rides and hope that I do not. I have taken photos myself, for example of It's a Small World, but I turn off my flash and hope that I get a few good shots. I have seen the sensors ther previous poster mentioned and I agree that may be one of the reasons flashes are not allowed as well as it can ruin the magic Disney tries so hard to keep magical for all the park guests. I remember the first time I went to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa painting...they actually had an employee seated next to the portrait who could tell you "no foto" in any language.

 

[Ilovestitch]

OMG, on our last trip it seemed like everyone was taking pictures on the dark rides. The people in front of us on Spaceship Earth did it every 10 seconds through the whole ride. So annoying!

 

[julfre]

People who use the LCD on their video cameras is what gets me. In POTC when it is dark, if the video guy is sitting in front of you-all you see is the glare from the video camera they are holding up in the air right in front of you. This happened the last time I was there. It may not be as annoying as the flash, but he had the camera sholder height and to the left of him so he could see good, but this put the glare from that little screen right in my eyes. I didn't say anything since he had a couple of little kids with him and I didn't want to ruin their ride. So people using video cameras in the dark, please close the lcd door when the light level is low.

 

[lillygator]

You scared the (#@)$*&!"*% out of my dd who has NEVER been scared of it before and WOULDN'T ride it the rest of the trip.

Your DD was scared because of flash photos?

 

[cruisin'Mike]

I feel I must comment on this post. Some of these sites, while not Disney sanctioned, are legitimate legal sites and the photos posted on them were taken during special media events at the park. The only people on the ride when the pictures where taken were people from the media and while the pictures may look as if they were flash pictures they were most likely taken with very high end equipment and no flash was actually used. This is not to say that falsh pictures have never been posted on various web sites, just that not all of the pictures are flash pictures.

I'm glad you posted this. Since I know next to nothing about cameras, I just assumed they were flash pictures and wondered why some of these webmasters would feel like they had the right to take flash pictures. Guess I need to get me one of those high end cameras, and then someone to teach me how to use it.

 

[mickeysgal]

You gotta love those who think no one else around them matters. Our most annoying incident was when we were at the MVMCP one year. We had sat down on an aisle seat at the Tommorrowland Stage to see the xmas show there. A couple in front of us with their two children proceeded to let their children STAND UP on the seats so that they could see better. No mind to the rest of us BEHIND them (including our children who were not allowed to stand) that would like to see the show. Further, the mom then stepped into the aisle, faced her kids, and started shooting flash pictures of them. Not once, not twice, but over and over throughout the show. Right in our faces. Just what are these kind of people thinking? That we don't need to see the attraction or show as long as they're having a great time? Thats its ok to infringe on our time?

 

[helenk]

This past June I was on the Great Movie Ride in MGM, in the beginning of the ride they tell you no flash photography. There was a woman a few seats in front of me that kept taking pictures, the CM made the announcement 2 more times during the ride, but this woman kept taking pictures with her flash.
It was annoying for me, but I really felt bad for the people who were right behind her, and I was surprised that the CM did not say something directly to the woman while we were on the ride.
Once the ride was over, 2 other CMs came over and talked to the woman, I do not know what they said but the woman was upset.

 

[Nennie]

I had to laugh on Soarin when a CM came over the PA to tell some woman to stop taking flash pictures. I'm not sure what exactly she was trying to take a picture of....the movie screen??? It's not like pictures can even do the ride justice.

 

[xmelissax]

Your DD was scared because of flash photos?

That's what I wondered too. It's definately not ok to take flash photos as it is rude to others,but why would that scare your daughter?

 

[Geoff_M]

I feel I must comment on this post. Some of these sites, while not Disney sanctioned, are legitimate legal sites and the photos posted on them were taken during special media events at the park. The only people on the ride when the pictures where taken were people from the media and while the pictures may look as if they were flash pictures they were most likely taken with very high end equipment and no flash was actually used. This is not to say that falsh pictures have never been posted on various web sites, just that not all of the pictures are flash pictures.

I understand what you're saying, but as a semi-professional photographer I've got a pretty good idea when a shot is taken using ambient light vs. flash. When I see a photo in a "dark ride" that contains uniform "flash temperature" lighting instead of using theater style incandescent lighting using colored gels, reflections that are consistent with the light source being bearly offset from the camera lens, and people in cars/boats up ahead clearly illuminated.... I feel confident in saying that the taker was using flash. I own and use such "high end" equipment and I can tell you that when such equipment is used with ambient light it doesn't produce images with all of the attraction's lighting designer's work washed out.

I understand about press previews and such, but I don't have in mind articles concerning the latest or recently opened attractions. I've seen plenty of such images from "classic" Disney attractions. If you'd like I can PM you some examples.

 

[aubriee]

This past June I was on the Great Movie Ride in MGM, in the beginning of the ride they tell you no flash photography. There was a woman a few seats in front of me that kept taking pictures, the CM made the announcement 2 more times during the ride, but this woman kept taking pictures with her flash.
It was annoying for me, but I really felt bad for the people who were right behind her, and I was surprised that the CM did not say something directly to the woman while we were on the ride.
Once the ride was over, 2 other CMs came over and talked to the woman, I do not know what they said but the woman was upset.

This happened on the same ride in Sept. Right after the ride started the CM made the announcement again that no flash photography was allowed, but a lady two seats in front of us kept snapping away. After the car jacking scene where the first CM is kicked off the tram and the gangster highjacks the visitors, the lady took a picture of the gangster. The gangster pointed her gun at her and said "lady you snap that camera again and you're losing it". Everyone on the tram laughed and the lady put her camera up.

 

[Nancyg56]

crying her eyes out and whimpering. Maybe these other folks were just oblivious to EVERYONE around them as they were "special guests" while on the ride.

The ride eventually began again but it was hard to get her to go on any indoor rides/atractions after that!

It will be at least a year before we go back to WDW and by then I hope she won't remember it ... although her sister still remembers when "Buzz" broke down and asks us will it happen again. which it did right after I promised it wouldn't.

Judy

Oh Judy, so sorry that your DD was scared. Disney is supposed to be a magical place for everyone, but I think that children are especially enchanted. For a thoughtless individual to ruin an experience for all is obnoxious....but to continue to frighten a child is obscene!

Hope that she "forgets" this portion of the trip.

 

[MareSINY]

I'm sorry that your daughter was so scared. My niece went on POTC once and has refused to go on ever since, she was really scared of the ride.

I'm a bit confused though, are you sure your daughter was frightened by the flash photography and not by being stuck in a dark ride for 15 minutes? I can even imagine her being frightened by the roudy people, but why would the flash scare her? I would think the experience of being stuck on the ride and having noisey people around her would cause her more trauma than the flash of a camera.

I hope she forgets about it by the time you go back next.

 

[wuv tigger]

Your DD was scared because of flash photos?

This group was LOUD, and had a VERY annoying flash that went off every couple of seconds. BTW, she is only 3 years old.

It can be scary to have lights flash in your eyes while the rest of the area is pretty dark.

 

[BCVOwner2002]

This happened on the same ride in Sept. Right after the ride started the CM made the announcement again that no flash photography was allowed, but a lady two seats in front of us kept snapping away. After the car jacking scene where the first CM is kicked off the tram and the gangster highjacks the visitors, the lady took a picture of the gangster. The gangster pointed her gun at her and said "lady you snap that camera again and you're losing it". Everyone on the tram laughed and the lady put her camera up.

We were there in June and the same thing happened to us. It also happend on POTC. It is so annoying! Annmarie

 

[wuv tigger]

I'm a bit confused though, are you sure your daughter was frightened by the flash photography and not by being stuck in a dark ride for 15 minutes? I can even imagine her being frightened by the roudy people, but why would the flash scare her? I would think the experience of being stuck on the ride and having noisey people around her would cause her more trauma than the flash of a camera.

I hope she forgets about it by the time you go back next.

She is our brave daughter ~ the one who lets spiders and such crawl on her. The "photographers" were sitting right behind us in the next boat. She knows that sometimes people next extra time to get on the ride.

It was the lights flashing in her face that scared her. She loves POC. See, her favorite characters are Capn. Hook and the rest of the Peter Pan gang.

She has been in all the dimly lit rides and never had a problem.