We were on EEA (Universe of Energy) on Saturday, April 15th and had a "JUMPER" in the row right in front of us! This was a first for us in almost 20 years of WDW vacations.
We were sitting in the second row of the "travelling theater car" to the far left. A family with 3 kids was in front of us. Despite the "keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times warning" one kid had her feet up on the front wall of the car and was dangling her flip flops from her shaking feet.
Before the theater cars started their journey into the "dino room" one of the girl's flip flops fell to the floor. Dad gets up and leans over the front of the vehicle to retrieve the flip flop. Not realizing that the floor of the theater is lower than the floor of the vehicle, he is precariously perched on the front wall of the car. From somewhere in the dark came "Sir, sit down! SIR! SIT DOWN!" Seems a CM is watching from a podium that you can not see in the dark.
The lights come up, but the film portion of the attraction continues. Dad is now berating child. Film stops and the doors to the the theater open. The CM tells guests to remain seated. There is silence for several minutes when the phone rings on the CM's podium. "It's the banker," I tell my kids. They laugh, understanding the reference to "Deal or No Deal." The CM says into the phone, "We have jumper. A man just tried to crawl over the front of the car."
Eventually they spun us back to our original position and made us leave. The attraction was then shut down for at least 30 minutes - all because of a flip flop and not keeping your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times!
We were sitting in the second row of the "travelling theater car" to the far left. A family with 3 kids was in front of us. Despite the "keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times warning" one kid had her feet up on the front wall of the car and was dangling her flip flops from her shaking feet.
Before the theater cars started their journey into the "dino room" one of the girl's flip flops fell to the floor. Dad gets up and leans over the front of the vehicle to retrieve the flip flop. Not realizing that the floor of the theater is lower than the floor of the vehicle, he is precariously perched on the front wall of the car. From somewhere in the dark came "Sir, sit down! SIR! SIT DOWN!" Seems a CM is watching from a podium that you can not see in the dark.
The lights come up, but the film portion of the attraction continues. Dad is now berating child. Film stops and the doors to the the theater open. The CM tells guests to remain seated. There is silence for several minutes when the phone rings on the CM's podium. "It's the banker," I tell my kids. They laugh, understanding the reference to "Deal or No Deal." The CM says into the phone, "We have jumper. A man just tried to crawl over the front of the car."
Eventually they spun us back to our original position and made us leave. The attraction was then shut down for at least 30 minutes - all because of a flip flop and not keeping your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times!
Pleeeeeeease, like they don't have enough to do. I didn't want to lie to DH so I just kinda mumbled to the CM "DH lost his hat in here, any chance? Mumble mumble mumble" and the CM just said "sorry it would be very hard to track it down but I could speak to my manager (or someone)". I told him that it was no problem at all, not to worry about it, we'd get another one. So when I got back to DH I told him I and the CM had done absolutely everything in our power to get the hat back but no luck. 
