Cinerama261 said:
My wife is very much afraid of snakes. Even a picture of one on the internet, newspaper, in a movie, on a drawing, etc. Please let me know which rides, places, etc. to avoid. We will be visiting Disney World and Seaworld 8/13-8/20. I know the following at Disney World have or might have snakes in them:
Honey I Shrunk the Audience 3-D movie
Someplace in the Animal Kingdom has snakes in a cage and a drawing on a wall.
Fear Factor I think has snakes.
Thanks,
Roland
Hi, Roland! I have the same phobia as your wife. My older sister and a cousin used to scare me constantly with rubber snakes (throwing them around my neck, putting them on me while sleeping, etc.) so that now I have an irrational fear of any thing to do with snakes. I'll give a list of where I've run into snakes in the parks.
Magic Kindgdom:
1) I've never seen the bench mentioned above, but you can bet I'll avoid it!
2) On the train passing through the Frontierland section, there are rattle snakes on a rock and they are rattling and making hissing noises and poised ready to strike.
3) The Jungle Cruise has a big snake wrapped around a tree plus when the boat goes through the temple there is a section with a row of cobras lined on each side. I rode this once when I was 13 and I went crazy and got down on the floor of the boat screaming!
4) Rubber cobras are sold in the other parks and people bring them to MK so be on the lookout.
MGM Studios:
1) The Great Movie Ride has the India Jones room and I think leaving that room the car goes through a giant cobra.
2) Rubber cobras are sold at a stand outside the Indiana Jones show.
3) Fantasmic has Jafar turning into a large cobra somewhere in it. I don't watch this part.
Epcot:
1) The Energy Pavilion has a big giant snake looking prehistoric serpent of some type when the ride goes through the dinosaur animatronic area.
2) Honey I Shrunk the Audience has a 3-D garden snake.
Animal Kingdom:
We had to leave because there were so many rubber snakes being swung around by people. I couldn't take it and was freaking out not enjoying anything.
It seems like I'm forgetting some things. I get laughed at and made fun of quite a bit (and it has happened here on the Disboards) for my fear of snakes. My fear is very real to me and your wife's level of phobia sounds pretty close to mine. I don't like being afraid of "pieces of rubber" and I wish I wasn't. I've almost been run over by a parade float because a kid came up beside me and had one wrapped around his neck and put the snakes head in my face. I was on the rope and it scared me so bad I flipped over the rope trying to run. Some CM's dragged me out of the way and they had seen what the kid did to me.
Another time I got onto the tram and as I was sitting down a kid in front of me pulled one out of a shopping bag. I freaked and was trying to get off but my Dh was getting on and blocking my exit. I shoved him down and I fell off the tram skinning myself up.
