Morbid Endings To Dark Rides

[MikeTaylorSound]

Best thing about Winnie-the-Pooh is the deluge scene when your ride vehicle moves around like you're in it. Too cool.

 

[Bairstow]

I think a lot of the reason for these two ride endings is that the "bad ending" was something of a convention of the Laff In the Dark rides these attractions were patterned after.

In much the same way a fairy tale ends in a marriage or a cowboy movie has them riding off into the sunset, a Bill Tracy ride "kills" the riders with one final scary gag.

http://www.laffinthedark.com/contents.htm

The newer convention, especially for non-scary dark rides, seems to be having as many characters as possible waving goodbye to the rider or each other.

 

[FettFan]

Also...Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland Paris has the pirates accidentally killing themselves in their drunken revelry.

Like its US counterparts, the finale of the show is a boat ride through the burning city. However....instead of Jack Sparrow cheerily rocking himself in a throne, DLP's version actually has a drop that brings you back to the "present". But as your boat goes down the flume, you hear an explosion and see flashes of orange light.

Skip to 16:30

The morons wound up blowing up the arsenal....and themselves with it. The next scenes you sail past are the skeleton sets from copied from the US with an additional shipwreck thrown in.

 

[FettFan]

Phantom Manor has the fall a clear and deliberate fall backwards into a hole in the ground in a cemetery.

Most. Nonchalant. Dead guy. Ever.

 

[m3owbox]

Everyone is dead at the end of the Haunted Mansion.

After you encounter Constance in the attic, you then fall to your death throughout the window.

The night watchman who is standing right by the Doombuggies path? Yeah, there's a reason he's not paying attention to all the other ghosts. He can't see them.

But he CAN see YOU. He just watched you fall out of the attic window to your death and is now staring at your ghost moving past him to enter the cemetery.

That "Swinging Wake" that the Ghost Host had to tend to?

It was in your honor. You didn't even need to volunteer, because you INSISTED on lagging behind.

You're dead now....which is why the Hitchhiking ghosts can now play with you. Pulling your head off and all that jazz.
And it's why Little Leota reminds you that when you come back you need to have your Death Certificate.

Is it terrible that I have been on this ride countless times and I've never ever realized this?

 

[Figments Friend]

WDW is not a shiny plastic toddler palace where two year olds look at bright shiny colourful objects and the parents in turn look at their kids. That is the modern travesty variant.

There are some peeps in upper management within P & R that need to read this over and over again...as a mantra.

 

[Disneydreamer23]

Well I was confused after reading the first post until I watched the video I never road this before the Less scary refurb but holy cow I am 25 and I think I would have crapped my pants if I road this Definitely scary~!

 

[Bairstow]

Is it terrible that I have been on this ride countless times and I've never ever realized this?

Not at all, especially since it was never a story element intended by the designers.

 

[unkadug]

Not at all, especially since it was never a story element intended by the designers.

...but merely made up by someone with too much time on their hands and it has become a Disney Urban Legend.

 

[FettFan]

...but merely made up by someone with too much time on their hands and it has become a Disney Urban Legend.

Not quite as it came from the cast members working over the years. And, much like the Wedding Ring, it will eventually be made canon.

 

[unkadug]

Not quite as it came from the cast members working over the years. And, much like the Wedding Ring, it will eventually be made canon.

Cast members heard it from someone themselves...this is NOT canon.