Malfunction! Malfunction!

[Nansafan]

We were at WDW from 6/23/02 - 6/30/02. We attributed the following break downs to the full moon which occurred during our stay. On 6/23, we waited app. 10 minutes to board Buzz, all cars had been stopped. Once on, my cousin riding with me, scored 999,999 and then we stopped and the scores were reset. After a couple minutes we started and she again scored 999,999. We stopped and the scores reset again. Third start, she shot at peoples heads, other cars, an exit sign and again scored 999,999 and we stopped again. This time we sat for 15 minutes (timed on my brother's watch) the lights came on and a CM arrived, opened our car and said please follow me. We walked off ride. The next day at AK we were on dinosaur ride when right after our picture was taken, the ride stopped, lights came on and we sat for a few minutes with the lights on and our video camera rolling. On the 27th we were riding TTA when we rode through Space with the lights on, got some video of that. We were walked off Test Track on the 30th (ride was stopped due to inclement weather). We were only 4 cars from the exit but they walked us off anyway and gave us a "first in line" pass for the ride. This was the most breakdowns I have ever experienced in one trip.

 

[Jerm]

longest

Hummmmmm the worst was when I was stuck in the Tiki room for an hour cause they had problems with the birds!!!:lol:

Jerm

p.s.--that is a joke!!!!

 

[all_good_chic]

this is very Coincidental but the only time any breakdowns occur when I am on a ride is when my friend chris is on it with me. Its very strange but it only happens with him so now we make fun of him everytime the ride breaks down and call him "the cursed one"

 

[figmentmom]

I've been stuck on lots of rides, but the WORST one was Small World. Our boat stopped right beside the hula dolls from Hawaii; after 20 minutes (we timed it) we were all blithering idiots.:lol:

 

[figmentbaby]

Originally posted by Married@WDW
Not to defend Test Track (I hate the darn ride -- a big waste of money for Disney IMHO, just drive on a highway in a convertible for the same or better effect), but I believe the "breakdowns" are actually the safety measures switching on, which shuts down the ride. The cars have to stay a certain distance apart and if they get too close, the ride's safety sensors shut down the computer system. The system is very sensitive, so this happens frequently. They aren't able to make it less sensitive or turn it off, because that would be dangerous. And the reason it takes so long every time it goes down is because they have to find out where the problem was then restart the whole ride -- computers can take a while to boot up.

If I'm mistaken, please feel free to correct me. I've gotten this explanation from several people on this site, as well as cast members at the ride, so I think I got it basically right. Hope this helps a little!

Even though that makes a lot of sense, it's wrong...sowwie :animwink: The only reason I know is because my sister is a cast member and took a tour of the ride as a training lesson. They told her that the way test track works is through the weight of the passengers combined. When the car gets filled, it calculates the amount of weight in the car so that when the car goes outside, the speed is the same with every car. A lot of times the cars stop because someone moves and the weight will change...making it necessary to recalculate.

If you ask me, it sounds kind of dumb, but this is what Disney did on the training tour. I definitely wouldnt've believed it otherwise. Yours sounds much more logical to me.

 

[Legacy]

Originally Posted By figmentbaby-

Even though that makes a lot of sense, it's wrong...sowwie The only reason I know is because my sister is a cast member and took a tour of the ride as a training lesson. They told her that the way test track works is through the weight of the passengers combined. When the car gets filled, it calculates the amount of weight in the car so that when the car goes outside, the speed is the same with every car. A lot of times the cars stop because someone moves and the weight will change...making it necessary to recalculate.

If that is true, that has got to be the stupidest idea for a safety measure I have ever heard... they should have known people are going to move around on a ride like that, especially with only a seatbelt holding them in.

And on the thread's subject...

I must be lucky, I have never had a bad breakdown while I was on something. The worst one I have to say on Small World where stopped in the final sign room. We could still hear the blasted song, and sanctuary was like 15 feet away... We were like that for a little over five minutes, but that was the most torturous position I have ever been in.

 

[jmarc63]

I got one !!!

This ones from the retired section.

Was on if you had wings in the '70s the ride stoped in the mirror projector room showing the action sports( water skiing, snow mobiling ect.) and with the effect of having the action on all four sides of you you still felt like you were moving because of the perception of the action all around you. When the ride is going It was so cool too, especially for a teenager in thoes years

 

[wanabeimagineer]

Originally posted by jmarc63
I got one !!!

This ones from the retired section.

Was on if you had wings in the '70s the ride stoped in the mirror projector room showing the action sports( water skiing, snow mobiling ect.) and with the effect of having the action on all four sides of you you still felt like you were moving because of the perception of the action all around you. When the ride is going It was so cool too, especially for a teenager in thoes years

You get that same feeling on Buzz if it stops in that big room with the movie playing all around you. Ive gotten stopped there, but with the movie, it felt like we were still moving.

 

[disneyman15]

My car malfunctioned on Test Track when we went around the final corner inside our car slowed down and we thought they were just having a little problem. We went to the crash dummy scene and we moved at about 5 mph and the doors opened and and they took our picture before we were close to the door. We went outside and went around the hairpin turns at about 5 mph still so we knew something was up. We got to the straightaway and just before the radar tells you how fast you are going we stopped. A mechanic was there and told us that we had a flat tire on our car. We sat there for ten minutes while three guys came and fixed our car. We started up again and we slowly made our way back inside where we recieved a big round of applause from the people waiting in line because they were told that we had a flat tire. Unfortunatly we missed Illuminations because if this but they gave us a pass to go to the front of the line whenever we wanted too.

 

[movie777]

I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I WENT ON TEST TRACK AND WELL, I WASN'T VERY WARM. DUE TO A MALFUCTION WE WERE STUCK 20 MINUTES IN THE ICE COLD CHAMBER!!! IT DID SUCK BUT THEY GAVE US A PASS. In 1997 ME AND THE PEOPLE IN MY CAR{THE REST OF MY FAMILY] AND WE WERE STUCK FOR 20 MINUTES ON THE ORIGNAL JII BECAUSE SOMEBODY WITH A CANE DROPED IT UNDER THE CAR. WE WERE IN THE ROOM WERE WE MEET DREAMFINDER AND FIGMENT.

 

[WDWspider]

I just remembered...

I got stuck on Swiss family Treehouse once:lol:

There were lots of people in front of me, and lots of people behind me. I was on a section of stairs and no body was moving for some reason. It was weird, but for some reason the Small World Incident reminded me of that.

Question:

Does the jungle Cruise ever break down, if so, how do they get the boats back (since they are on a track and lots of other boats are on the track also)?

 

[joROurA]

Re: Re: Malfunction! Malfunction!

Originally posted by Mr.Nutz


Doesn't It Take You A Long Time To Capitalise The First Letter Of Every Word? I Don't Have A Problem With It, It Just Seems A Little Strange.

No It Doesn't,
It Just Come Natural
BAD HABBIT!!!:lookaroun

 

[Kenan]

actually, ive been real lucky on test track. ive been on countless times (close to about 200) and not once did i ever get stopped on the ride. is it luck? maybe. but i love that ride a lot. its my most favorite in the world. (unless mission:space takes its spot)

 

[mousecar]

the first three times on TEST TRACK, I never made it because it either broke down or started to rain. The most memorable was actually getting on the ride and having it slow to a crawl and eventually stop in the dark tunnel where the truck is supposed to startle you for about 10 minutes. Needless to say we weren't startled. They wouldn't even let us ride it again without getting back in line.

 

[WeirdOne]

I have several cool stories actually.

One time on R'N'RC, me and my brother with in the middle of the train just dispatched.We got to the launch area and the music went dead quiet. Me and him were like "ok, no music, no biggie!" and then I looked at my watch - 12:30. When I looked at it again it was 12:42 and then CM's turned the house lights on in the ride portion. Then the CM's began to drone to us a spiel and the music came on and she kept droning, "This is all precaution." and as she droned, we blasted off into a lighted ride. Then as soon as we began to hit the first inversion the lights went out and the music scrambled and the lighting inside went berzerk. It was the coolest ride I've ever done. They then had to close the ride for 45 min to an 1 hr for technical reasons.

Another cool one that I've had was when we were on ToT. We went up as normal and the fifth dimension room, it was kinda odd, something was not working, but we took it as normal. Then we got to the shaft and the doors opened (false ones) and we entered the shaft. We stood there for a while in the dark. Then about 5 min later. We dropped. Then we stopped at the bottom we didn't go up. The lightning was going off in its interval. It was weird. then we went up. Did the flase drop and stopped. Then we dropped and watched the closing vidoe for about 5 minutes. Then the ride ended. The elevator doors where the exit CM is didn't open for about a couple of minutes. It was very very odd.

- The WeirdOne

 

[figmentmom]

Wow - that ToT experience would have freaked me right out. How did everyone else react?

 

[Goofy_nut]

WedWa people mover

My wife and I got stopped on the people mover one afternoon. The ride stopped for about 15 minutes. We were in a car just above the Carousel of Progress. It was fun to just sit up there and watch the people in the park. I love that ride. It is a great way to just chill for awhile.

 

[Nintendo18]

When i was at disney december 2001 with my family we decided to spilt up at Epcot. I went with my brother to TT and my parents went to go on Spaceship Earth. They told us after they got back that they got stuck on the ride and had to leave the vehicles. The way they got down was by going through this corridor that had pictures of all the disney imagineers on the wall. As for my brother and I, we had no problem on TT.

 

[andymation]

peoplemover malfunction

in 1990 or '91, I was at Disneyland and was riding the Peoplemover. It stopped and after about 15 or 20 minutes, some CM's came out onto the "highway in the sky" and helped us walk ever-so-carefully into the circlevision building where we went through a backstage door and down the stairs. That was a strange but memorable malfunction!!

 

[WeirdOne]

Originally posted by figmentmom
Wow - that ToT experience would have freaked me right out. How did everyone else react?

Since our elevator was my family only. It was late in the day. They were freaked out. I had to explain to them as the video was going off that this was a malfunction. They seemed pretty freaked out. Until we did it again after they gave us free passes. - The WeirdOne