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strobe
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If they were in the back row, how did you see them? No disrespect, but I have worked at a company that makes seats and safety restraint systems. If the belts lock on both sides, you can't squirm out in just a few seconds. It's 'possible' to squirm out, but it would take a lot of work and contorting.
I think you may have saw what happened wrong. Even in your car, try to squirm out of your lap belt! Skinny or not, the angles of the seats and the belt make it nearly impossible. Not to mention that the CM's verify they are on tight at the beginning of the ride and monitor everything carefully on camera.
Again, no disrespect, but I find this to be almost impossible.
EmeraldDolphin
New Member
this sooo could have been my daughter, that's happened to her more than 1x...
No disrespect taken, but as an earlier post stated they make the seatbelt loose in order to fly up higher. And I didn't want to make this a CM issue but no the CM at the ride did not really check to see if all belts were fastened. I was in the row in front of them and could se clearly right over my shoulder.
And lets forget about strollers as weapons and lets talk about those machines that cart around old people who can't walk very well. Good fine. But what about the overweight people who choose not to walk. Or the lazy people who don't want to walk. Anybody can get one of these ramming machines and expect specail treatment. I can't tell you how many people I saw get out out of the seat and try to drag the scooter after they got it stuck. And that anoying horn....
And lets forget about strollers as weapons and lets talk about those machines that cart around old people who can't walk very well. Good fine. But what about the overweight people who choose not to walk. Or the lazy people who don't want to walk. Anybody can get one of these ramming machines and expect specail treatment. I can't tell you how many people I saw get out out of the seat and try to drag the scooter after they got it stuck. And that anoying horn....
Tornado
New Member
Not much really annoys me in WDW, as i'm always in a good mood there.
However, people (usually teenage girls, no offence) who scream excessivly. Screaming on rides is ok, all part of the fun, but sometimes the do it a bit too much. Also, people who swear loudly. I swear all the time, but I try to refrain from doing it in WDW, afterall, there are so many kids about.
However, people (usually teenage girls, no offence) who scream excessivly. Screaming on rides is ok, all part of the fun, but sometimes the do it a bit too much. Also, people who swear loudly. I swear all the time, but I try to refrain from doing it in WDW, afterall, there are so many kids about.
Tramp
New Member
I haven't been on the ride since last August but I seem to recall that the lapbelt, as in my automobile, has a tendency to slowly get tighter around you and does not retract until it's released. (at least it got tighter around my big belly) The CMs always check that the seat belt is snug to your body so I don't know how they could loosen the belt.
The more important question, Mr. tds4ever, is what were you doing looking at those teenage girls....huh? huh? huh?:lol:
About the strollers, I have more of a beef with people abusing the use of wheelchairs. People rent a wheelchair when their child is too big for a stroller and then they use the wheelchair to enter rides via the handicap route. I recently read that Disney was going to try to crack down on this abuse but don't know what they've done about it.
DDuckFan130
Well-Known Member
tattletale! :lol: jk!
I hate when that happens that sucks
Soorryyyy
...again just kidding :lol: We all scream come on but not all the time because it gets redundant and boring lol. But on Grad Nite I rode with my non-screaming friends and it was quiet the whole ride I'm like what is this?!?!
LadyDarling
New Member
Disneyland vs. Disneyworld guests -
Ha! I've seen more rude guests in Disneyland in CA any day of the week and twice on weekends. People pay a lot to go to Disneyworld and have fun. I try not to let the little annoyances bug me. If someone is taking flash pictures, I ask them to stop if it's really bugging me (usually they do). If they don't stop, I try to block thier shots (even shot my hand in a couple times). In Disneyland, people pay a little less (and it's situated right in the middle of a huge city, so the clientel is different). Line cutting (parents first, dragging thier kids with them) is a common issue. The screaming on rides I don't mind (it's part of the fun), and little kids talking don't bother me (I know they are just like me when I was little and really excited - I usually smile 'cuase it's another "Disneyfreak" in the making). The cell phone thing I hate, but my cell phones don't get reception in most rides at Disneyland. I get better reception in Disneyworld, but I hate even having the thing ON in the park personally. Everyone knows I'm there and I tell them not to call me unless it's an emergency. it doesn't stop my mom from calling wish us a happy anniversary, but I'd never talk through a ride.
~Jay
Ha! I've seen more rude guests in Disneyland in CA any day of the week and twice on weekends. People pay a lot to go to Disneyworld and have fun. I try not to let the little annoyances bug me. If someone is taking flash pictures, I ask them to stop if it's really bugging me (usually they do). If they don't stop, I try to block thier shots (even shot my hand in a couple times). In Disneyland, people pay a little less (and it's situated right in the middle of a huge city, so the clientel is different). Line cutting (parents first, dragging thier kids with them) is a common issue. The screaming on rides I don't mind (it's part of the fun), and little kids talking don't bother me (I know they are just like me when I was little and really excited - I usually smile 'cuase it's another "Disneyfreak" in the making). The cell phone thing I hate, but my cell phones don't get reception in most rides at Disneyland. I get better reception in Disneyworld, but I hate even having the thing ON in the park personally. Everyone knows I'm there and I tell them not to call me unless it's an emergency. it doesn't stop my mom from calling wish us a happy anniversary, but I'd never talk through a ride.
~Jay
BeachClubVillas
Well-Known Member
Last summer I was there with my parents and my little cousin who is five. He was dying to see the afternoon parade at the MK because he wanted to see "Mickey in the big snowy ball." We got there realy early and got a front row seat in Liberty Square. Just as the floats started coming towards us, this women who was probably in her early 20s, pushed her way to the front of the line with this big camera to take a picture of the Mickey float. In the process, she knocked my poor cousin over. He ended up with two scraped knees and a scraped elbow and never got to see Mickey. 
I wanted to kick that woman. We saw her later that night, and I so wanted to go over to her and trip her and tell her off but I didn't because she was there with little children too. I just don't understand some people.
And the people with carriages are nuts! Most of them seem to think carriages are weapons. I have been run over more times than I can count.
I wanted to kick that woman. We saw her later that night, and I so wanted to go over to her and trip her and tell her off but I didn't because she was there with little children too. I just don't understand some people.And the people with carriages are nuts! Most of them seem to think carriages are weapons. I have been run over more times than I can count.
meanmice
Member
Last time i was at the world, i brought along a friend. it was his first time. we went on pirates and this woman ahead of us was taking pictures constantly, which helped the guy next to her (i assume husband) film the ride. the boat behind us was empty and i didn't see anyone ahead, so i decided in my annoying way to sing along as loud as i could. I know it wasn't the best thing to do, but it made me feel better. the cm's kept comming on the loud speaker telling them to quit and at the end of the ride they told the couple that they weren't allowed on for the rest of the day.
aim
New Member
What a great thread! :lol: I must agree with some one earlier on saying that overall WDW has some GREAT guests. Compared to amusement parks. I find it VERY rude when tall people stand right in front of short people. Or, you've been waiting for a parade and like 15 minutes before people shove their kids right on top of you. I had a very bad experience with this in December. We were going to watch the Share a Dream parade and I was planning on taping. We got there maybe 45 minutes before it started. There were people in front of us who had been waiting longer, so we made sure we stood back. Then 10 minutes after the parade had started, a woman pushed not one but 3 kids in front of me. And one girl was much taller than me. This really bugged me. I'm a pretty nice person, so if there's a kid that can't see, I usually let them get in front of me, or make room so they can see. Just because I know what it's like to be so short. But to shove your kids in front of others? What is going on through these people's mind? Also, flash photos even after the CM said no flash photos! But I think that the guests who think they are the only ones there and don't seem to care about the other guests are the ones that annoy me the most.
figmentmom
Well-Known Member
Two summers ago, I was waiting in line at Maelstrom, and a teenaged girl of maybe 14 or 15 was sitting on top of a large trash can, screaming her head off and kicking the trash can as hard as she possibly could. Several cast members glanced at her, then glanced away quickly, and no one said a word to her. I had the impression that no one was willing to risk a confrontation. She kept it up for the duration of my wait - a good 25 minutes or so - never budging from the top of the trash can! (She didn't seem interested in riding Maelstrom in the least.) I didn't spot anyone who was willing to let on that they were related to her, either. (Had she been two, I would have assumed it was simply a temper tantrum, and looked around for a parent.)
Kiwi Dreamer
Member
I know exactly what you mean,i've seen it before when my little sis has been sitting at the front for a good hour when a "butch" man stood right in her view of the floats with a camcorder, there was no way that my sister or the other kids could get a view and, did he move? of course not he was completely oblivious.
i think there must have been something in the air that day, because we had also gone to see fantasmic but were a little late getting there so had to stand at the back, fair enough i personally have no problem with that, but then a quite large party 40 plus maybe all turned round and started chanting "we got seats"!, i thought we were in wdw not a soccer stadium,
jonny
DisneyJukebox
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Just this past Saturday I was in Liberty Square waiting for the parade. We just got off the Liberty Belle at about 2:50 so I didn't think we'd get a good spot to watch the parade since so many people were already lined up watching this group of twirlers that were starting the parade. I wanted my daughter to be able to see the parade so I put her on my shoulders and walked up to the pillory. On top of the pillory platform was a nice man who was there with his kids and grandkids. He saw me and my daughter standing behind and below him and he was nice enough to give up his spot on top of the pillory platform (the only one left) to allow us on. Well, after the parade has started I hear a guy say, "Excuse me." I guess he wanted to get closer to the parade by walking over the pillory platform. And so I say "I'm right on the edge here." Instead of trying to find another route he tries to push his way through and I am concentrating on not falling off the pillory platform with my daughter on my shoulders. In my old pre-child days I would have given him a good shove to the pavement, but considering I was in the Magic Kingdom and my daughter was busy waving at Donald Duck I just let it go.
Brian_B
Member
Fear and Loathing in the Magic Kingdom
A lot here has been said that serves as an excellent window into group mentality. Someone said that crowds in the past behaved better than the crowds of today, and this sadly ain't so.
The thing you have to remember is that you absolutely can't qualify people. I know it's cliche, but it's true. Take the man who pushed his way through the crowded pillory/shackles platform in liberty square. I know he may have seemed rude, but what if his daughter was throwing up or something, or his elderly father fell down and was injured, and he had to go find his wife? You don't know, and that's why you can't qualify people; nothing in this world is black and white: people aren't "good" and "bad". Everyone has great days and bad days. The jerk taking pictures one day is the nice guy high-fiving a CM the next day, and vice-versa. There are exceptions: some people are simply the worst, and are always jerks. But for the majority of people, it's variable. When you get that many people together in one small area, you tend to see the entire spectrum of human behavoir.
It's a waste of time to worry about it, really (but we do anyway, heh), because a Disney World in which EVERYONE behaves themselves 100% is idealistic and unrealistic. A nice thought, but it's impossible. And as for the devolution of human behavior, how about the guy who propped a ladder up to one of the walls of Disneyland, opening day 1954, and charged people $5 to climb in illegally? When you're a kid, everything seems perfect and you assume everyone is good and happy, because that's how you are.
Of course, all that being said, there is only ONE type of guest I cannot tolerate, nor understand. I don't mind the mad ones, because we all lose our tempers at wrong times now and then. I don't mind the stupid ones, cause they're easy to help out. I don't mind the picture-takers, cell-phone talkers, or loud-mouths, because they don't do what they do just to be rude; they're just not thinking (you want a better ride experience? Go on the ride again). No, friends, the one type of guest I can't possibly tolerate are the people (usually kids aged 15-25) who are nasty on purpose; kids who think CMs are "dorks" or "uncool" and then make fun of them, not in a good-natured way, but in a hateful way. The type of person who would kick a character walk-around in the @$$. You know, kids who purposely try to ruin people's day just for the sake of the pleasure of doing so. I've witnessed this firsthand, and it's not pretty. All part of the spectrum, though; it'd be foolish to expect them to not exist.
Again, I didn't mean to write War and Peace II :lol:
...I promise to write quick posts from now on! :zipit:
-Brian
A lot here has been said that serves as an excellent window into group mentality. Someone said that crowds in the past behaved better than the crowds of today, and this sadly ain't so.
The thing you have to remember is that you absolutely can't qualify people. I know it's cliche, but it's true. Take the man who pushed his way through the crowded pillory/shackles platform in liberty square. I know he may have seemed rude, but what if his daughter was throwing up or something, or his elderly father fell down and was injured, and he had to go find his wife? You don't know, and that's why you can't qualify people; nothing in this world is black and white: people aren't "good" and "bad". Everyone has great days and bad days. The jerk taking pictures one day is the nice guy high-fiving a CM the next day, and vice-versa. There are exceptions: some people are simply the worst, and are always jerks. But for the majority of people, it's variable. When you get that many people together in one small area, you tend to see the entire spectrum of human behavoir.
It's a waste of time to worry about it, really (but we do anyway, heh), because a Disney World in which EVERYONE behaves themselves 100% is idealistic and unrealistic. A nice thought, but it's impossible. And as for the devolution of human behavior, how about the guy who propped a ladder up to one of the walls of Disneyland, opening day 1954, and charged people $5 to climb in illegally? When you're a kid, everything seems perfect and you assume everyone is good and happy, because that's how you are.
Of course, all that being said, there is only ONE type of guest I cannot tolerate, nor understand. I don't mind the mad ones, because we all lose our tempers at wrong times now and then. I don't mind the stupid ones, cause they're easy to help out. I don't mind the picture-takers, cell-phone talkers, or loud-mouths, because they don't do what they do just to be rude; they're just not thinking (you want a better ride experience? Go on the ride again). No, friends, the one type of guest I can't possibly tolerate are the people (usually kids aged 15-25) who are nasty on purpose; kids who think CMs are "dorks" or "uncool" and then make fun of them, not in a good-natured way, but in a hateful way. The type of person who would kick a character walk-around in the @$$. You know, kids who purposely try to ruin people's day just for the sake of the pleasure of doing so. I've witnessed this firsthand, and it's not pretty. All part of the spectrum, though; it'd be foolish to expect them to not exist.
Again, I didn't mean to write War and Peace II :lol:
...I promise to write quick posts from now on! :zipit:
-Brian
LadyDarling
New Member
Yes - but this goes both ways! Take our last trip for example. I took a friend of mine who is TERMINALLY ILL but is able to walk around the parks. It was his first and probably will end up being his ONLY trip to Disneyworld (as it took me over a year, a 2nd job, and selling my CDs to do pay for his trip - there is no "make a wish" for adults). Yet, when our turn came to see Mickey, a mother actually SHOVED us out of the way and patted little Joey on the shoulder, saying "hurry up now. Run ahead of these people." UGH! By then, it was packed and all the parents took a cue from it and ran up ahead of us. We gave up, due to our priority seating time closing in on us, and the fact that we had already waited about 1/2 an hour. It was sad! What was the big emergency?! Nothing. It was just that little kids getting thier picture taken with Mickey is more important than adults (we are all in our 20's) who had waited patiently. They didn't know that Matt was as ill as he was and that we had limited time before our reservation - but there is one thing that stands as a fact:
People just need to remember to be polite. Somewhere along the line, "manners" take a vacation with some guests on vacation.
~Jay
DonaldDuck
Member
It's the cell phone users that really bother me. It's getting to be annoying everywhere, especially because people tend to talk louder on a cell. People who drive while using them drive me nuts. There is no way you can drive better while using one (and I was nearly hit recently by someone using a cellphone while driving). But in WDW, it's rude. Sitting down on a bench, or leaning against a railing, that is fine - you're not bothering anyone (unless you're shouting). But when you're wandering around using one, weaving back and forth or walking extra slow, it is rude, perhaps ignorant though. The topper of it is using a darn cellphone in a ride. What the heck do you need to have one in a ride for? "Hey sweety, guess what I see right now? There's a pirate. Wait, he wasn't in the movie!" I mean, come on, aren't most people who go to WDW on vacation? And isn't a vacation supposedly to be an escape from daily life? Are you that paranoid or insecure so that you need to speak to someone else every moment of the day? I understand that there are exceptions, and I can perfectly understand them. But for the most part, it's just so annoying. A lot of cell phone users need to be shown that their cells have this thing called an "Off Button". They should learn how to use it.
Sorry for all this, it's just something I've wanted to get off my chest for a long time.
Sorry for all this, it's just something I've wanted to get off my chest for a long time.
Disney2002
New Member
Cell Phone Blockers
I think Disney should look into cell phone blockers for attractions. The technology has been around for a while now. They would merely need to install them to affect the inside of rides.
I'm not sure how this would affect radio frequency for communication between cast members. It's definitely something to look in to.
I must say, I love that cell phones are illegal in theatres, museums, etc in NYC. Knowing that a nasty fine awaits the jerk with the awful cell phone ring during a performance of 'Wicked' does my heart proud.
I think Disney should look into cell phone blockers for attractions. The technology has been around for a while now. They would merely need to install them to affect the inside of rides.
I'm not sure how this would affect radio frequency for communication between cast members. It's definitely something to look in to.
I must say, I love that cell phones are illegal in theatres, museums, etc in NYC. Knowing that a nasty fine awaits the jerk with the awful cell phone ring during a performance of 'Wicked' does my heart proud.