I've been meaning to post about this since I got back from The World, but never got around to it until now. I wanted to see if this has ever happened to anyone else...
On 01/16/08 I went by myself to DHS. The first thing I did was head to Tower of Terror. There was NO wait and I was able to walk right into the preshow. Once I was loading the elevator, I got the left side front row, aisle seat. There was a mother with a very young girl sitting behind me. The little girl was crying and the woman asked to take her daughter off the ride. The CM let them off and found 2 new people to take their place.
Well, at this point, the CM forgot to close the front gate to our actual elevator cart. (So basically, my right foot didn't have any sort of barrier in front of it!) Everything was awesome as usual on ToT, but once we hit the place where you should move into the drop shaft nothing happened. The music stopped. It was pitch black.
Then all of the lights come on and a maintenance man comes out of a door to the left of the shaft (never knew there was a room there!). He starts inspecting our cart. No one is saying a word because (I'm sure) most thought it was broken and were terrified. He looks at me and at the person who is on the right side front aisle seat and asks which one of us opened the gate. I said, "The CM let a woman and her daughter off and must have forgotten to close it." He says, "Sure he did," and rolled his eyes at me! He asked again who opened it and when no one spoke he closed the gate, walked back to his room, and slammed his door.
After that, the lights went back down and a voice spoke saying for us not to panic and that we'd get the full effects of the drop. We made it safely back down after a few half dozen or so heart racing drop sequences.
I thought it was really cool to see it with the lights on, but it stinks the maintenance guy was mean. Has anyone else seen ToT with the lights on? Has the gate been left open for anyone else's ride?
Have a magical day! :wave:
On 01/16/08 I went by myself to DHS. The first thing I did was head to Tower of Terror. There was NO wait and I was able to walk right into the preshow. Once I was loading the elevator, I got the left side front row, aisle seat. There was a mother with a very young girl sitting behind me. The little girl was crying and the woman asked to take her daughter off the ride. The CM let them off and found 2 new people to take their place.
Well, at this point, the CM forgot to close the front gate to our actual elevator cart. (So basically, my right foot didn't have any sort of barrier in front of it!) Everything was awesome as usual on ToT, but once we hit the place where you should move into the drop shaft nothing happened. The music stopped. It was pitch black.
Then all of the lights come on and a maintenance man comes out of a door to the left of the shaft (never knew there was a room there!). He starts inspecting our cart. No one is saying a word because (I'm sure) most thought it was broken and were terrified. He looks at me and at the person who is on the right side front aisle seat and asks which one of us opened the gate. I said, "The CM let a woman and her daughter off and must have forgotten to close it." He says, "Sure he did," and rolled his eyes at me! He asked again who opened it and when no one spoke he closed the gate, walked back to his room, and slammed his door.
After that, the lights went back down and a voice spoke saying for us not to panic and that we'd get the full effects of the drop. We made it safely back down after a few half dozen or so heart racing drop sequences.
I thought it was really cool to see it with the lights on, but it stinks the maintenance guy was mean. Has anyone else seen ToT with the lights on? Has the gate been left open for anyone else's ride?
Have a magical day! :wave:
