Have you ever had a name for a ride either then its real name?

[fyn]

I'm right there with you. It's still going to be MGM to me for a long while, changing some signage doesn't erase close to two decades of identity.

I think my biggest hurdle is the abbreviation "DHS" - I used to work in a hospital, and around here that means "Department of Human Services" and I just can't drop that "DHS" association in favor of this new one, as the concepts are such polar opposites to me LOL.

AEfx

+1. I've been trying to retrain myself to think of it as "Hollywood Studios" but I'm ready to give up. I figure if I say MGM, and you know what I'm talking about, we can have a mental high five. :animwink:

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

No.

 

[Gooch]

So I just noticed during my recent trip that me and my girlfriend both refer to Spaceship Earth as "The Ball." Hehe.

 

[DisneyLindz]

we all find ourselves using "old" names, like Marketplace or Peoplemover. Standard nicknames like "the big ball" "golf ball" "runaway train". More often than not we just shorten names like Splash, Buzz, Space, Safari.

Nothing too strange or different than others.

 

[jsfra209]

The "It's a great big beautful tommorow" ride :ROFLOL::ROFLOL::ROFLOL:

 

[abug'saunt]

This may bother many but when we were first trying to tell my then 2 year old neice we were going to Florida to see Mickey in 2003, we called WDW "Mickey's house". She had just began to understand that aunt and uncle had their own house and so calling WDW "Mickey's house" seemed okay and understood by her. Today, we still sometimes refer to WDW as "Mickey's house" when we tell my brother's young ones that one day they too will get to go.

The monorail = ma-morail. Got name in 2003 by neice. No matter how many times we tried, she kept saying "Ma-morail". To this day, we tease her about it. Luckily, she has a great sense of humor and doesn't let it bother her as much as the Chocolate milk incident (a whole 'nother story).

BTMRR = The "bumpy" ride. Got the name in 2005, when same neice, now 5, rode it for the first time, turned to her uncle as we were going up 1st hill and asked, "Does this ride have bumps?". Thinking she was refering to bumps as bouncing as if going over speed bumps, he told her no. So as we get off the ride, she started crying, and when asked what was wrong, she turned and pointed to her uncle and said, "Uncle gabe lied, there were too BUMPS!". Apparently she meant did it go up and down hills fast. She did ride the ride again a couple days later, wanting to ride the "bumpy" ride. Took papa on it last year at age 7.

 

[wbt06]

i go with my little cousins a lot so they always make up crazy names for rides.

1. parking-lot tram= long car (3 year olds favorite ride lol)
2. stitch= stitch burp
3. HM= nose picking( 5 year old got scared when seeing the ghost sitting there so i picked its nose and she laughed at that and now always does it)
4. Dumbo= elifants

 

[tiggerzgirl83]

We use to call TOT the demen drop!! And SSE the golf ball...

 

[Ilovewishes]

Most of our nicknames are just shortened versions, Pirates, Splash, and we use Exped for EE. It's just so much easier to say!

My DH, however, has his own name for Mrs Potts Ice Cream stall (and any soft scoop ice cream stall, for that matter) He always calls it Ma Potters ice cream. I correct him everytime, I've explained who Mrs Potts is, I've shown him pictures and actually made him stand in front of the sign and read "Mrs Potts Ice Cream" and it's still Ma Potters ice cream.

So infuriating! and now I call it Ma Potts ice cream too!

One bug bear for me is people getting the name of the Rock & Rollercoaster wrong. It is NOT the Rock & Roll Rollercoaster! It's a play on words, people!!! :fork:

Take deep breaths .... And I'm calm again.

 

[Tiggerfanatic]

This may bother many but when we were first trying to tell my then 2 year old neice we were going to Florida to see Mickey in 2003, we called WDW "Mickey's house". She had just began to understand that aunt and uncle had their own house and so calling WDW "Mickey's house" seemed okay and understood by her. Today, we still sometimes refer to WDW as "Mickey's house" when we tell my brother's young ones that one day they too will get to go.

We still call is this, too, and it started when DD was 3 and we were planning our first trip.

 

[Lunamis]

When my sister was very young she said her favorite ride was "Icky Toes". We could not figure out what she meant until we rode Pirates of the Caribbean and saw the one pirate whose foot in hanging over the bridge.
It was very icky...and we've called it that ever since:ROFLOL:

 

[colleen2997]

Maelstrom - my family calls it "The Norway Boat Ride". Whenver I called it Maelstrom, they would say "what??", so I even now say Norway Boat Ride.

 

[colleen2997]

we all find ourselves using "old" names, like Marketplace or Peoplemover. Standard nicknames like "the big ball" "golf ball" "runaway train". More often than not we just shorten names like Splash, Buzz, Space, Safari.

Nothing too strange or different than others.

What is up with people calling Thunder Mountain "Runaway Train" ? I know people who have been to Disney (though not the enthusiast like me) and they insist Thunder Mountain is called Runaway Train. Funny.

 

[disney21]

Maelstrom - my family calls it "The Norway Boat Ride". Whenver I called it Maelstrom, they would say "what??", so I even now say Norway Boat Ride.

Wow for the longest time my family did the same thing. Just up until recently have they actually been calling it 'Maelstrom' .

 

[disneygirl1]

Well, its not really a ride, but my son used to call the Magic Kingdom the "Beast's House", he was real into Beauty & the Beast at that time and though the castle was the Beast's. He still to this day sometimes refers to it as that... :ROFLOL:

 

[cococola44]

Well, its not really a ride, but my son used to call the Magic Kingdom the "Beast's House", he was real into Beauty & the Beast at that time and though the castle was the Beast's. He still to this day sometimes refers to it as that... :ROFLOL:

Now that is classic! :sohappy:

 

[Bob Connor]

I was going to call the current Journey Into Imagination "Figment's Basement" - It certainly looks like one.

 

[Elonwy]

Mr. Toads Wild Ride === To Hell with the Toad
Enchanted Tiki Room === (goshdarn) squawking birds (that's from my mother and I'm paraphrasing a bit)
20,000 leagues Under the Sea ==== shark on a rope
it's a Small World ==== naughty kid ride (that's because I told my neice if she misbehaves in the park they put you in there and make you sing all day) :lookaroun
SkyWay to Tomorrowland ==== Flying Buckets
Honey I shrunk the Audience ==== Dogsnot (yes all one word because that's what my little cousin kept saying after she got sneezed on)
Gran Fiesta ===== It's a little Mehico after all, senor
The many adventure of Winnie-the-pooh ===== Pooh-Pots
Mickey's Philharmagic ===== Mickey & Phil Are Magic (overheard by another guest and we thought it was hilarious) :ROFLOL: btw...who's Phil :shrug:

 

[tigfan]

What is up with people calling Thunder Mountain "Runaway Train" ? I know people who have been to Disney (though not the enthusiast like me) and they insist Thunder Mountain is called Runaway Train. Funny.

I'm also a roller coaster buff, and a "runaway train" or "runaway mine train" is actually a style of roller coaster. Lots of theme parks have runaway mine train coasters, and Big Thunder would actually fall into that category. In fact, Disney has often described Big Thunder as a runaway mine train. That's actually the theme of the attraction. So when you think about it, it's really not unusual that people would refer to it that way.

 

[Jellyfish]

It's A Small World soon became 'the annoying one' after a few hours, because the song was still going through our heads :lol:

My parents call Splash Mountain ''the log flume''

My brother calls Epcot 'the space place'

Oh and my mum hates Stitch so he got renamed to 'that f**king thing' :lol: