Filthy ride vehicles...

[Monorail_Red_77]

I found a half eaten cheese burger from Mcdonalds on the seat of Splash . It was on the seat in front of us and no one was sitting there, im pretty sure it flew out at some point because I was going to tell a CM when we were off and I didn't see it any More

This story would have been even more interesting if it were the Haunted Mansion ride.

Ghosts gotta eat. LOL

 

[CastleBound]

Is it weird that I instantly thought of Gollum when I read this thread's title?

I can't really say I've had an issue on rides. I've seen trash throughout the parks here and there, but nothing too terrible. I do get a little weirded out using the guns on Buzz & TSM. Never know when they were last cleaned.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I feel like the queue of Buzz is always in rough shape with garbage all around.

That is true, however, there must be a reason other then lack of concern about it. None of the others are like that so why would that one be singled out. I think that it is the location and airflow (wind) dynamic that causes that. (along with the now established people are pigs observation). I have seen papers and the normal trash left by the slobs, but, I also have seen clumps of loose grasses, leafs, etc. I doubt those were brought in by the crowd. Just a theory on my part, but, I am at a loss to understand why it is always a problem in that specific location and has been for years.

 

[DfromATX]

Are you sure thats not another guests problem and not the ride itself.?

I'm pretty sure it was the man who left the ride before me, but I was trying not to be "ugly."

 

[Punzle]

Last time I was on Buzz there was a ton of trash in the queue and there was a little lizard eating a discarded churro right by the fastpass merge.

 

[brb1006]

Last time I was on Buzz there was a ton of trash in the queue and there was a little lizard eating a discarded churro right by the fastpass merge.

When I went to Buzz for the first time last year, it was surprisingly clean but the floor was very slippery.

 

[raven]

The other thing to look at is due to Disney constantly adding more after/early hours events and extending park hours, the night crew doesn't have enough time to clean certain areas. You will notice (only at MK) that there are some signs in the restrooms that indicate the floors may be wet. This is due to a rushed cleaning time and thy aren't given enough time to air dry like the other parks. So with those extra hours comes some give and take on cleanliness I guess but I guess it's all about getting more money out of their guests.

 

[Heffalump333]

The other thing to look at is due to Disney constantly adding more after/early hours events and extending park hours, the night crew doesn't have enough time to clean certain areas. You will notice (only at MK) that there are some signs in the restrooms that indicate the floors may be wet. This is due to a rushed cleaning time and thy aren't given enough time to air dry like the other parks. So with those extra hours comes some give and take on cleanliness I guess but I guess it's all about getting more money out of their guests.

Agreed.

 

[MississippiBelle]

I'm pretty sure it was the man who left the ride before me, but I was trying not to be "ugly."

Side note: you know you're from the south when you refer to being rude as "being ugly". love it!

 

[JIMINYCR]

Nothing Disney can do about slobs trashing ride cars during the time the rides are operating. The CM's could take a minute to scan the ride cars as they come to the loading areas and pick up trash thats left behind, wipe the seats down, etc. but that would delay the loading time and slow up the rides, adding to longer lines and wait times. They could add trash bags to the ride cars but guests would still deposit trash on the floor rather than using them.

 

[DfromATX]

Side note: you know you're from the south when you refer to being rude as "being ugly". love it!

LOL, yep... Texas! Bless your heart...

 

[Pixie VaVoom]

LOL, yep... Texas! Bless your heart...

Oh yeah! Bless your heart... and Lord luv ya!

 

[DfromATX]

Oh yeah! Bless your heart... and Lord luv ya!

Hi @Pixie VaVoom, may I ask about that rabbit snuggled in your bosom? I've wondered about that before and never had the courage to ask you, so now I am.

 

[Pixie VaVoom]

Hi @Pixie VaVoom, may I ask about that rabbit snuggled in your bosom? I've wondered about that before and never had the courage to ask you, so now I am.

Oh wow - there is a story. Ok, remember, you asked for it. That my friend, is not just ANY miniature rabbit, that is a Star trek fan of a JACKALOPE, named "Ace". Yep, he has a "yellow shirt" Star Trek uniform, a teeny tiny tricorder, and what with both the 'precarious perch' and his little antlers...he is indeed a H@&ny little critter!! He belongs to an entertainment web reporter that I have met a few times.

The Backstory is actually better. I am a woman of generous proportions but I LOVE to dance. In my late 30's I finally got too heavy to do the ballet and character dance thing - Like in the Rogers and Hammerstein Musicals. Age and girth had relegated me to the ranks of 'ugly stepsister' and "Mother Superior" and i got out of the amateur theater gig. But I still love dancing, so I tried bellydance in my mid 40's. I loved it. It is gentle on your joints and I already had the belly. So I did that for about 9 years, and my Tulsa based troupe actually got good at it, so we were often asked to perform at the local "Star Trek" conventions. That was FUN.

So in this picture, I am still in costume after a show and we are wandering around the conference hall doing "meet and greets". The group consists of my troupe of about 7 decked out women, the reporter, and my fiancee. The reporter is snapping photos here and there. We turn a corner and George Takei - yes Mr Sulu himself, strolls up to us and tells us that he enjoyed the performance, and chatters for a minute. The reporter wants a picture of Takei, and hands the Jackalope to my friend Deb, but she wants a picture too. So just being funny, she sticks Ace in my cleavage. Then my smart@$$ fiancee blurts out "well, that is where no man has gone before...except for me". They all burst out laughing, while I slug the crap out of my fiancee, and Takei does one of his classic "Oh My "! asides.

It is still one of my favorite pictures. I even got the false eyelashes on straight. Thanks for asking "DfromATX". It always brings a smile to my face.

 

[alissafalco]

You haven't noticed the obese people wandering around Disney have you? How do you think they got that way?

I know you're just joking, but low class people are low class people heavy or not.

 

[DfromATX]

Oh wow - there is a story. Ok, remember, you asked for it. That my friend, is not just ANY miniature rabbit, that is a Star trek fan of a JACKALOPE, named "Ace". Yep, he has a "yellow shirt" Star Trek uniform, a teeny tiny tricorder, and what with both the 'precarious perch' and his little antlers...he is indeed a H@&ny little critter!! He belongs to an entertainment web reporter that I have met a few times.

The Backstory is actually better. I am a woman of generous proportions but I LOVE to dance. In my late 30's I finally got too heavy to do the ballet and character dance thing - Like in the Rogers and Hammerstein Musicals. Age and girth had relegated me to the ranks of 'ugly stepsister' and "Mother Superior" and i got out of the amateur theater gig. But I still love dancing, so I tried bellydance in my mid 40's. I loved it. It is gentle on your joints and I already had the belly. So I did that for about 9 years, and my Tulsa based troupe actually got good at it, so we were often asked to perform at the local "Star Trek" conventions. That was FUN.

So in this picture, I am still in costume after a show and we are wandering around the conference hall doing "meet and greets". The group consists of my troupe of about 7 decked out women, the reporter, and my fiancee. The reporter is snapping photos here and there. We turn a corner and George Takei - yes Mr Sulu himself, strolls up to us and tells us that he enjoyed the performance, and chatters for a minute. The reporter wants a picture of Takei, and hands the Jackalope to my friend Deb, but she wants a picture too. So just being funny, she sticks Ace in my cleavage. Then my smart@$$ fiancee blurts out "well, that is where no man has gone before...except for me". They all burst out laughing, while I slug the crap out of my fiancee, and Takei does one of his classic "Oh My "! asides.

It is still one of my favorite pictures. I even got the false eyelashes on straight. Thanks for asking "DfromATX". It always brings a smile to my face.

You sound like quite the character! I've noticed your rabbit before and wondered "what the heck" - now I know LOL! Speaking of belly dancing, my husband is Iranian and we like to eat at this "Mediterranean" restaurant in town that has belly dancers, but sometimes they are blonde and skinny and he said that's very weird to him. Belly dancers are supposed to have a curvy shape!

 

[Pixie VaVoom]

You sound like quite the character! I've noticed your rabbit before and wondered "what the heck" - now I know LOL! Speaking of belly dancing, my husband is Iranian and we like to eat at this "Mediterranean" restaurant in town that has belly dancers, but sometimes they are blonde and skinny and he said that's very weird to him. Belly dancers are supposed to have a curvy shape!

Yeah some of my extended family thinks I am crazy, but I tell them "the sane ones are all dying of boredom". I actually had some women that would come talk to me after the shows, not the young slim dancers, and tell me that I seemed less threatening, and more approachable. I try to dance family friendly, I prefer ornate belly drapes to cover me to the hip line, (heck I don't want to look at it - why would I subject the public). But I tell women - especially larger ones, if you wait til you are skinnier to do what you dream of, you may never get there. Don't let anyone put the guilt on you. Make choices for health, not out of shame or what someone else might think. Love yourself now !!

and yes - being a good southern woman... I just have NOOO opinion about ANYTHING at ALL !!! Now pass the white gravy!

 

[Goofyernmost]

You haven't noticed the obese people wandering around Disney have you? How do you think they got that way?

Wrong on so many levels. Not worthy of a different response.

 

[BringMeTheHoriz]

Glad I'm not the only one who has noticed these things....

I went with my significant other on my birthday to the MK a couple weeks ago. The queue of Space Mountain was absolutely deplorable, as were the ride vehicles themselves. I've never seen the place treated so poorly, or the lack of cleanliness in general. My SO and I both left right after that single ride on SM, and we're not interested in going back to the MK anytime soon.

 

[Brad Bishop]

I think two things are happening:

1) You can make excuses for Disney all that you want but they charge a premium for a premium resort. They charge this because you know you're not going to Six Flags. It's their job (company) to keep it clean. I think this is just more cuts. You can make the argument that they have more nighttime things and all that but then you just hire more staff to clean at night. It's like the excuse for the monorails being dirty and people saying, "..but they run all the time and have 1000s of people going through them each day so there's no time to clean them.." Then Disney, the premium resort charging premium prices, really ought to buy more trains so that they can swap them out and have some being thoroughly cleaned/refurbished while others are out working. They should hire the staff to ensure that this happens.

2) You're right in that people are slobs - more-so today than in decades past. I think we were probably around our peak (USA) with the crying indian days of the late 1970s/early 1980s. Everyone seemed to be making a conscious effort not to litter because it was well out of control in the 1970s. About 15-20 years ago I noticed more and more people (young people, mostly) tossing their garbage out of the window of their care without a care in the world. You didn't see that in the 1980s as it was taboo. By the mid 1990s that taboo was starting to wane with the next generation. It's starting to become common place again. In the late 1970s and through most of the 1980s you could, and would, be ticketed for having trash fly out your window, even if you didn't intend for it to happen (windows down and the wind carries it out). When was the last time any of you ever heard of someone getting a ticket for littering? They're just signs now and, even then, there seem to be fewer of them than there were decades back.

In addition to all of that: Buzz is just gross now. I don't even go on it because it's so gross. This is Disney's "junker" ride, now. Things barely work. It's filthy. I live near Six Flags Over Georgia and I can't think of a worse-kept ride there. Buzz isn't even a well-themed ride. You have Buzz at the front (or you use to - they may have removed him) with the blurry face (it was really cool when he was new, though) and plywood cutouts for the most part on the inside. Also, it's in Tomorrowland. Everything is wrong with this ride.