Just so you know, no flash pictures on GMR.

[KumbaRider]

I feel that the CM went too far by breaking character

Although it was important for the CM to perform the show, the safety and courtesy of the guests takes greater priority.

Besides, he was a bad guy anyway, so it may be considered part of the show.

 

[ConstanceIrene]

I totally support the CM in this situation. I am curious, though, as to whether any other guests on the ride tried to back him up or did they just sit there and say nothing?

 

[stankly182]

I think she should have been asked to leave if there was a way. How stupid do you have to be that when you hear NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY, then you go ahead and do it anyway, and are asked to stop, to actually have the nerve to say NO? I have seen some of the biggest idiots at WDW, sorry to be so blunt. Case in point, two weeks ago we were at MGM and saw a guy STEALING anything he could get his hands on in Villians in Vogue store. He stole a purse, pens, and tons of other little things that he put in his bag. I looked right at him and he STILL kept putting things in his bag. My mom ran and told the CM working, and she left her station and went somewhere I assume to alert security.If I had been the cast member at GMR I would have done and said a lot worse. He was completely in the right to act that way.

 

[ssidiouss@mac.c]

Today at MGM, we were riding the Great Movie Ride. We got the cowboy hijacking rather than the gangster. The cowboy was a younger, slightly overweight male. A woman about halfway back had been taking flash photos a few times throughout the ride to this point. The original driver had ignored this, but the cowboy decided to address it. He told her to stop at first, but then, at the scene where the driver makes his return, she took a picture. He pointed at her and said "Stop that already lady!"

She replied with "No!"

At this point, the man actually stood up on the driver's seat, pointed at her, with one finger, mind you :lookaroun , and told her something along the lines of "I'm serious, no flash pictures, now stop!" He then shot her a look as he went up to the jewel.

I understand that flash photography is not allowed, but I felt that the actions this CM took to try to get the lady to stop was too much. It was mentioned to a CM at the loading area when we get off, and he told us that he'd let a supervisor know about the situation.

She wasn't following the rules.. I wish they would have thrown the lady out of the park.. who the hell keeps doing something against the rules after they are warned over and over. The yelling "No!" thing was pretty childish too. You know, I saw a sign on a ride.. I think it was SpaceShip Earth that said if you don't follow the rules you can be asked to leave the park. I wish they would have used that rule on the ignorant lady taking pictures on GMR. She sounds like a perfect fit for Six Flaggs.

 

[AEfx]

It's not for enjoyment, it's FOR SAFETY.

You know, of the people running around trying to entertain you while jumping and running around inside a highly volitile enviornment?

One mis-step because they were distracted/blinded by a flash and they could fall and smash their skull open. The reason the CM was so insistent is because at the very moment in the ride described something like that actually happened once from what I understand, while one of the actors was coming down the stairs in front of the jewel.

On most rides it's for preserving the illusion, but on GMR it's a real safety issue as real actors are running around.

AEfx

 

[aeillill]

I have to admit that there's nothing more annoying than some rube lighting up a ride with a camera flash. I rode HM a few trips back with some idiot in the doom buggy ahead of me snapping pics all thru the ride. I was ready to throttle him. With regards to the CM on GMR, if she was taking pics of him while he was performing, I would think he was concerned about being blinded by the flash while he was moving. Just my personal thought though. At any rate, kudos to him for being persistent with her. And shame on her for refusing to listen to him.

You should have asked the person in front of you to stop on the Haunted Mansion. I've done it before and will do it again if I have to. I don't care if I come off as rude or anything, but them taking the flash photos ruined the last ride of the HM I was taking before I went home.

If I saw the CM and that lady on the GMR I would have applauded the CM, her taking those flash photos were not only dangerous for him, but annoying for every other person on that ride.

 

[coastermaster83]

I think as a whole our world is becoming a bunch of holyer then thou jerks. I personally thing both are out of line in this, first the lady shouldnt have been taking the photos with a flash correct but second the CM should have told her twice and then if she didnt listen report it too his super. to confront the lady at the end of the ride. But all in all our world is insane and I can think of one big example Driving speed limts are posted for a reason and when you are on the highway if it says 55mph that doesnt mean thats not for me and I can do 70 that means 55 for all and people need to realize that and also look at texas instead of inforcing the speed limit they want to raise it to 80 on two of there major highways so people wont speed, But heck if you raise it to 80 what does that do but tell the holyer idiots that they can do 90 or 100. In closing I think we all need to just step back and look at what we are all becoming a bunch of igorant self rightious morons.Ok I will step off my soap box for a while.

 

[AEfx]

I think as a whole our world is becoming a bunch of holyer then thou jerks. I personally thing both are out of line in this,

I don't think you understand the safety issue to the CM's.

At this point in the ride, LIVE actors are running around the sets which are full of dangerous electronics as well as slippery surfaces. One slip and someone could seriously injure themselves.

Personally, I wish they'd stop the ride and yank the idiots off. Unfortunately, from talking to GMR CM's it's clear it happens all the time, constantly.

I do like your analogy of driving on the highway, though - 99.9% of the time nothing comes out of it, but it's not worth taking the chance because it's a very real safety issue. When it's something as easy to do as not driving like a maniac and leaving your house five minutes earlier instead, or to not taking flash pictures on a ride, I think it's a small price to pay for not having the possibility of such an unnecessary selfish act lead to hearing sirens or having to watch EMT's work on a bloddy victim.

AEfx

 

[bsandersjr]

What is so hard to understand the simple rule of "NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY"?

Back in Jan.06, while on the GMR, we had encountered a similar incident. A lady in the back of the transport vehicle kept taking pictures with a flash. The CM repeatedly asked her kindly to refrain from using her flash. As we entered the room with Tarzan, she snapped another shot. He slammed down on the emergency stop button, jumped put of the vehicle, and went back there to make sure she understands that flash photography is not allowed in that particular attraction.

I felt he was correct to do so, as well as the CM in the above mentioned incident.

People today have a huge problem with following rules.

Just my opinion.

 

[barnum42]

Good for the CM. Rude arrogant people, even if they are "guests" don't have a free licence to put the CM in danger.

The "guest" should have been reported at the loading bay.

 

[coastermaster83]

Something else came to mind while reading over all this again. We are talking about disney world folks and sometime people are from other countrys and dont even speaka the englash so that can be a issue too. Oh and as far as the safety issue I understand it fulling. Ive worked stageshows before that are pitch black and people are flashing like crazying and your a stagehand trying to get things off set and you about kill yourself doing it, so I understand that one all too well, but again just a thought maybe somepoint just dont understand the CM when they dont speak our language. Its a thought folks.

Maybe disney could spend some money and come up with a Universal wait no Disneyversal Translater for all the CM's to Wear

 

[Captain Chaos]

I assume this woman understood English because she replied NO... She was wrong and deserved to be tossed out of the ride....

 

[KevinFSU]

Bravo to the CM. Idiots like this deserve to be treated like the idiots they are. :sohappy:

 

[Since1976]

As the bad guy, the cowboy surely realized he could get away with being playfully stern the first couple of times that the woman took her shots. But when she continued doing it despite the warnings -- from him, a CM, an official representative of the park -- I'm guess he said to himself enough was enough.

He was fully in the right to do this, as the woman's actions were already ruining the experience for the other guests, as well as endangering cast members.

I wish I could have been the guest in front of her when she got scolded... That would have been a picture worth taking.

BTW, I admit that when I was a pre-teen, I took plenty of Flash shots on HM and POTC. My idiotic rationale was that the Flash only lasted less than a second (as if there was any other kind -- this was pre-redeye reduction), so it was no big deal. I look at my shots from these rides in my family photo album, and I hang my head in shame...

 

[Ducky_Love]

Aside from the obvious safety issue, I would imagine that smoke effect doesn't look quite as convincing when hit with a bright light. Maybe the cowboy didn't want to ruin the show for the entire ride car by a flash making the wall flip visible. Just a thought.. :lookaroun

 

[Tim G]

Today at MGM, we were riding the Great Movie Ride. We got the cowboy hijacking rather than the gangster. The cowboy was a younger, slightly overweight male. A woman about halfway back had been taking flash photos a few times throughout the ride to this point. The original driver had ignored this, but the cowboy decided to address it. He told her to stop at first, but then, at the scene where the driver makes his return, she took a picture. He pointed at her and said "Stop that already lady!"

She replied with "No!"

At this point, the man actually stood up on the driver's seat, pointed at her, with one finger, mind you :lookaroun , and told her something along the lines of "I'm serious, no flash pictures, now stop!" He then shot her a look as he went up to the jewel.

I understand that flash photography is not allowed, but I felt that the actions this CM took to try to get the lady to stop was too much. It was mentioned to a CM at the loading area when we get off, and he told us that he'd let a supervisor know about the situation.

IMO that alway has been the rule...

 

[Edeyore]

I think the CM should have stayed in character with something along the lines of "Ma'am there ain't no flash photography allowed on this here excursion. Now, either you drop that thang or I may have to shoot you!" :lol:

 

[Thunder Kz]

I agree that the guest was wrong in taking flash pictures after being told not to multiple times, but at the same time I feel that the CM went too far by breaking character to yell at the guest in the middle of the attraction for it.

I totally agree. He should have had her drawn and quartered.

 

[hcswingfield]

If we would have been on the car with her, she would have been drawn and quartered!

 

[Thunder Kz]

If we would have been on the car with her, she would have been drawn and quartered!

Lol. Or, perhaps in a gesture of pure irony, hanged from the Tree of Life?