Video taping of rides?

[FigmentJason]

Hello. My mom just bought a new digital camcorder and was wondering if on our trip (that is coming up very shortly!!! ) we can video tape some parts of some of the rides. I know I have seen people doing this, BUT does Disney get mad? Basically my wife and future son and I want to be allowed back in the parks and not get kicked out!
I can understand no flash... would that be the only restriction?

 

[Terk-1]

It depends on the attraction. Some allow it & some don't. I know you cannot tape inside the Carousel of Progress, I don't believe you can inside Mickey's Philharmagic and am not sure where else in the Magic Kingdom. Oh, I know you can't take flash photography inside the Haunted Mansion, but can videotape without using extra lighting. At EPCOT, I believe it's Ellen's, Cranium Command, Honey I Shrunk, Soarin', & Impressions de France. At MGM, Sounds Dangerous, Muppet Vision, The Making of..., Magic of Disney Animation, Rock n'Roller Coaster and am not sure about ToT. At Animal Kingdom, Tough to be a Bug, & Dinosaur.

If I'm wrong about any of the one's listed above or if I missed any of them, please let me know.

 

[Jrabbit910]

As per the post above, there are only certain rides that you can use your video camera. You will be advised if you can not, so dont worry about getting kicked out. If they tell you that you cant and you try, its a different story.
We took our camera on a ToT, and everytime i watch it i still get sick
have fun!!

 

[mattmommy]

We videoed about 1/2 a minute on our sons first rides at Disney. Okay he was four months old and we did it with a night vision video. Pirates, small world, haunted mansion.

 

[disney junky]

Just a suggestion. I tried to video a lot years ago and found that I had missed much of the ride myself and that the videos didn't capture the essence of the ride when I tried to use it to show people how cool WDW is. FWIW.

 

[tmt martins]

I did video on almost every ride at both DL and WDW .

They will let you know the ones you can't.

As respect to others I kept the LCD closed and just tried to aim where I thought on the dark rides (in Nightvision Mode) .Most turned out great somke not so good so had to reshoot.

Most Shows and 3D's don't allow but thats it.


OT >US/IOA thats another story they didn't let me video on most rides there.

 

[Hannathy]

I imagine the new recorders are smaller but please don't hold it up between you if you are in front of little kids they can't see over it. My DS's first ride on Snow white was ruined by the adult man who sat in front of us -hard enough for a small child to see over and then held up a big video camera between him and his wife and taped the whole ride. I'm short also and we could barely see. Told a Cm but she couldn't of cared less - and the kicker was it was the longest line we had waited in because we didn't have FP and just as we neared the front a Philamagic show let out and they swarmed the ride. I'm still annoyed 3 yrs later!(last night-last chance had to wait in the line)

 

[Bill From PA]

My digital video cam is very small, has no red tally light and emits no light at all unless I open the LCD screen. By placing something on my lap and folding my hands on top of that I palm the camera in the upper part of my chest, blocking no ones' view including my own. In this manner I've filmed pretty much every interesting attraction in WDW, ToT, R'nR, Dinosour, HM, all the Mountains including Everest, Soarin' and so on. I do agree with the poster who said that if you're filming, you're missing the ride so I do this less and less as the years go by.

Bill From PA

 

[loriandmatt]

dittoing BillfromPA - if you don't use the onboard light (if your camera has a night or dark mode) and if you don't have any other visiable flashing or solid light on your camera AND if you use the viewfinder as opposed to the large view screen......most times you can get some pretty good videos of attractions and not bother any other guests.

i do however, ask the CM before i enter the attraction and mention that my camera has the above featues (assuring them that i will not disturb any other guests). just about every time, they have been cool with it and appreciative that i took the time to ask them and then been respectful enough to do as they asked if they said it still wan't cool.) i can't recall right now, but there were a few attractions where they still didn't want me to. (either the camera might disturb with some of the rides workings or something?!?!?)

to the poster who said about not being able to tape in the COP.....i asked, they said as long as no flash and other bothersome things above - cool. i did and it came out wonderful.

- lori

 

[4theloveofdisney]

I did video on almost every ride at both DL and WDW .

They will let you know the ones you can't.

As respect to others I kept the LCD closed and just tried to aim where I thought on the dark rides (in Nightvision Mode) .Most turned out great somke not so good so had to reshoot.

Most Shows and 3D's don't allow but thats it.


OT >US/IOA thats another story they didn't let me video on most rides there.

Just wanted to second this post! This was also my experience!

 

[phisigprincess]

On the plus side, when you video tape rides you get many rides that disappear over the years. We were watching our video from 1996 and I'll be 50% of the things we have on tape between WDW and Universal aren't there anymore. It's great to see them again! Also, it's the perfect Disney fix for me when I'm not planning a trip and need a pick me up.