Am I a bad person if...

[copcarguyp71]

I have a habit of lingering a little while at the exit of Tower of Terror and frequently I see parents leave the ride with hysterical children who they lied to, bribed or forced to go on the ride and are now trying to make amends mere moments after the event with a clearly distraught kid. I don't see this happening anywhere else in any of the parks but ToT seems to have this happen a lot. Discuss...or post your little "Am I a bad person if" moments...this could be fun!

 

[wdwmomma10]

I noticed that a lot while I was working at Disney. I've never understood it. Why let your kid have the crap scared out of them? It would just be easier to skip the ride and have a happy kid.

OOOOORRRRR....maybe said parents just have a twisted sense of humor and enjoy seeing the terror on their children's faces.

 

[Britt]

I think because the parents want their kids to experience everything, or the parent themselves would have to sit out if the child does? Im not sure!

We had to convince my boys to get on the Haunted Mansion, and the ONLY reason I did, was knowing it wasn't scary and they would enjoy it and laugh. Lo and behold, they loved it and it's now one of their favorite rides, but I can only IMAGINE what parents must have thought of me in the stretching room when it gets dark and getting into the doom buggies. haha.

Orrrrr when my middle son convinced me he MUST go on Dinosaur. His brother had gone the previous year and he couldn't. He was deadset on it and super excited to go on it. My husband had to physically carry him out shaking and crying once the ride was over.

 

[wdwmomma10]

I think because the parents want their kids to experience everything, or the parent themselves would have to sit out if the child does? Im not sure!

We had to convince my boys to get on the Haunted Mansion, and the ONLY reason I did, was knowing it wasn't scary and they would enjoy it and laugh. Lo and behold, they loved it and it's now one of their favorite rides, but I can only IMAGINE what parents must have thought of me in the stretching room when it gets dark and getting into the doom buggies. haha.

Orrrrr when my middle son convinced me he MUST go on Dinosaur. His brother had gone the previous year and he couldn't. He was deadset on it and super excited to go on it. My husband had to physically carry him out shaking and crying once the ride was over.

Gotta love the sibling factor! I remember my brother wanting to go on things because I did. It was a rather hilarious experience for me. My parents, however, were a different story. ha!

 

[copcarguyp71]

I noticed that a lot while I was working at Disney. I've never understood it. Why let your kid have the crap scared out of them? It would just be easier to skip the ride and have a happy kid.

OOOOORRRRR....maybe said parents just have a twisted sense of humor and enjoy seeing the terror on their children's faces.

What did you do there? What did you see? DO TELL MORE?????

 

[George]

I'm not sure if this makes me a bad person, but during a family reunion we emerged from MILF and my parents and my sister's family ran over to SGE while my family just stood there in the middle of the walkway and watched. They didn't even notice we didn't join them until they were already in the theatre.

We don't make our kids do any rides they don't want. However, my daughter drove us all crazy when she was 5 and was demanding that the CM at ITTBaB give her a complete script so she could confirm that my claim Hopper really wasn't super scary.

 

[Pocahontas]

In September, there was a foreign couple who had two sons (about 5 and 8) in front of us in line at ToT. Once we got into the library, the smaller kid WAS NOT having it. As soon as the doors shut, he screamed and cried and yelled. A CM was trying to calm him down. I felt bad. Once we left the library, I didn't see them again. That is, until I got off the ride. The two sons were standing with a CM by the exit, waiting for their parents to come off. The little guy was still crying, and the other one looked pretty embarrassed. I don't know why the parents would leave their sons (one of them in tears) with a CM and ride it by themselves. I don't know if the little boy knew that the ride was scary, but his parents should have known better. I thought that was kind of selfish.

 

[wdwmomma10]

What did you do there? What did you see? DO TELL MORE?????

I wish I did something cool...but I was down there the first year they launched the Career Start program and we didn't get the option to be characters or anything like the College Program kids did.

Anywho...I was a hostess at Mama Melrose's. I loved it. As for what I saw...too much. FAAAAAAAAR too much!

 

[Britt]

Gotta love the sibling factor! I remember my brother wanting to go on things because I did. It was a rather hilarious experience for me. My parents, however, were a different story. ha!

He hated missing out the previous year! I felt TERRIBLE afterwards and how scared he was! Our ride picture is of him clinging to my arm, look of sheer terror on his face! I couldnt buy it than, thinking it was cruel, and now I wish I had...just to show him now. lol

I DO have this though: In line waiting for the ride

Annnnd exiting the ride:

 

[copcarguyp71]

I noticed that a lot while I was working at Disney. I've never understood it. Why let your kid have the crap scared out of them? It would just be easier to skip the ride and have a happy kid.

OOOOORRRRR....maybe said parents just have a twisted sense of humor and enjoy seeing the terror on their children's faces.

I tend to think (just from the people I have seen) that it was selfishness that the parents wanted to ride it and talked their child into it with "oh it's not so bad" or some other such thing. Two years ago we wanted to do it but DD (9 at the time) informed us she was not ready for it so we were OK with that. This past September we rode and she LOVED IT...we must have rode it 12 times while we were there. I doubt she would want to do it a second time until she was an adult if we had pushed her to do it when she was 9.

 

[copcarguyp71]

I wish I did something cool...but I was down there the first year they launched the Career Start program and we didn't get the option to be characters or anything like the College Program kids did.

Anywho...I was a hostess at Mama Melrose's. I loved it. As for what I saw...too much. FAAAAAAAAR too much!

Even though it gets mediocre reviews we loved Mama's and their calamari was very good IMO. Glad to have you on the boards here!!!

 

[wdwmomma10]

Even though it gets mediocre reviews we loved Mama's and their calamari was very good IMO. Glad to have you on the boards here!!!

I loved the food. I always have a hard time choosing between it, Sci Fi, and Prime Time. My roommate (and still best friend) worked at Sci Fi so we would always split where we ate when we were at the park.

Glad to be on the boards. I'm planning a trip back for the first time since '08. It's going to be my son's first and I'm so excited!

 

[Goofyernmost]

Orrrrrrrr...maybe the kid was upset because they wouldn't buy him something he saw in the gift shop.

 

[copcarguyp71]

Orrrrrrrr...maybe the kid was upset because they wouldn't buy him something he saw in the gift shop.

not too sure about that but we saw this time and again with parents making apologies and offering up amends in the form of souvenirs at ToT and in fact friends of ours we were with last trip tricked their kid too. Although some could be the lack of purchased chachki I think at least an equal-to amount are the other end of the spectrum.

 

[sweetpee_1993]

I got stuck going with my dad on BTMRR when I was a kid and the ride was new. My aunt couldn't go on it. My brother and cousin wouldn't go. Dad said we'd leave if someone didn't go. I guess I was the most desperate to stay. Or the most gullible. I was terrified thru the whole line. When the ride started I wrapped my little arms around the lap bar and screamed hysterically until it stopped. It was awful. I truly thought I was going to die. I remember Dad carrying me out the exit. I was flipped. To this day Dad swears it's one of the worst things he's ever done and wishes he could take it back. I didn't step foot on another coaster of any size or variety again until I was 12 or so and I was bribed. Back on BTMRR. Mom & step-dad bribed me with a pair of mouse ears. I convinced myself that every person I'd ever seen go into the entrance came out the exit so even if it was awful I'd survive. So, I went and faced my fear. Loved all coasters ever since.

 

[The Mom]

My husband, son, and I talked my daughter into riding Jurassic Park at US/IoA. She was terrified and still hasn't forgiven us.


It was during her college break.

 

[Nemo14]

We've witnessed time after time parents forcing their kids to go on rides. Sometimes the kids come out smiling, sometimes not. I know that my 2 kids are as different as night and day when it comes to thrill rides, and we pretty much did what we thought they could handle. I do have one funny story about my mother though.

When my daughter was about 7, she was the apple of my mother's eye, and she knew it. We had gone to the MK and she convinced my mother to go on BTMR with her, telling her that it was not that fast, not scary, etc, and my mom, who is the queen of the chickens when it comes to anything remotely related to a coaster, agreed to go with her. So my husband and I stayed with our young son at the exit while my mom and DD headed for the ride. When they came off the ride, there was Mom with her hair literally standing up on end, slightly windblown, and her glasses all eskew, skipping with my daughter while muttering to us something to the effect of "never again!!!" I still chuckle when I think about it.

 

[brokedad]

My 5 year old is the exact opposite, im pretty sure I get lied to and bribed to go on rides with her, except tot.Btmrr was her first big coaster, little scared at first, but then that was it, its alwsys the first snd last ride of the day at MK.Atleast when I get bribed from her its a hug and kiss.

 

[RMichael21]

It's not the tot, but when I was a bit younger I hated roller Coasters that went backwards. So, this made my family trick me into riding Expedition Everest. I'll just say that I was terrified and I was screaming so hard, my throat was on fire for the rest of the day.

 

[TubaGeek]

I've got three.
I love to watch kids run up to give Beast a hug and bounce off his very un-squishy chest.
I loved to hang around Bicycle Girl at HHN and listen to people (wrongly) guess at how the effect was done.
I love to watch Donkey insult people who don't speak English and they have no idea.