POTC ride in the news...

[Mansion Butler]

Not necessarily. I should have added, the skippers who aren't on a boat and who are on break.

They are on break, so they're not going to be asked to do any evacing.

Also, there will only be a handful at most on break at any one time, and they'll only be on break for 15 minutes (or 30, in which case they're probably not even in the area). So, if you don't have them go back in to rotation once their break is over, someone else's break comes late, and there is no rotation, and now you have union grievances getting filed.

Trust when an attractions CM tells you this: you do not just pull people from a ride (unless you were budgeted to do so) without serious implications on capacity (including all the way down to 0).

I'm guessing when any ride breaks down, and they have to evac, they call everybody in the area who isn't actively working at an attraction.

Everyone is either actively working at an attraction, or on their mandated break.

 

[Xethos]

I try to be patient, Im an understanding person. I know things happen. But two hours? I think by around the hour and forty five minute mark I might just have to start becoming a bit "vocal" towards whoever is in charge of saying "ok, evac now".....

 

[Master Yoda]

I try to be patient, Im an understanding person. I know things happen. But two hours? I think by around the hour and forty five minute mark I might just have to start becoming a bit "vocal" towards whoever is in charge of saying "ok, evac now".....

The evac was started about 30 minutes after the ride went 101. It takes around an hour +/- to fully evac POTC under non emergency conditions.

 

[Xethos]

The evac was started about 30 minutes after the ride went 101. It takes around an hour +/- to fully evac POTC under non emergency conditions.

Thats different then, I was under the impression people where sitting there for two hours before any type of evac was started.

 

[Mansion Butler]

I try to be patient, Im an understanding person. I know things happen. But two hours? I think by around the hour and forty five minute mark I might just have to start becoming a bit "vocal" towards whoever is in charge of saying "ok, evac now".....

Be patient enough to read the rest of the thread and you would know it wasn't two hours.

:animwink:

 

[Master Yoda]

Thats different then, I was under the impression people where sitting there for two hours before any type of evac was started.

Understandable. This article is a great example of what is wrong with journalism today. All you have to do is leave out a little info and a ho-hum story becomes sensational.

 

[Mansion Butler]

Understandable. This article is a great example of what is wrong with journalism today. All you have to do is leave out a little info and a ho-hum story becomes sensational.

This article has, hard to believe, led to a lot of anger the last few days.

:brick:

 

[Master Yoda]

This article has, hard to believe, led to a lot of anger the last few days.

:brick:

Articles like this often do. Nothing sickens me more that news agencies essentially lying for effect. Report facts. If you have to tweak the facts to make the story worthy of reporting then don't report it.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Funniest one was Tower of Terror. Every time I use to ride ToT I would pull the seat belt all the way out and buckle it in so I could get a lot of "air" time on the drops. During spring break 2010 I did this and on the first drop FLEW out of my seat, almost hitting the top of the elevator. SO much fun. ToT stopped right then and told everybody to remain seated. We waited 5-10 minutes and were slowly brought down to the first floor, they told all of use to unbuckle the belts and buckle them again, making sure there were tight.

You realize that they stopped the ride because of you, right? The seatbelt is there for a reason.

 

[Mansion Butler]

Funniest one was Tower of Terror. Every time I use to ride ToT I would pull the seat belt all the way out and buckle it in so I could get a lot of "air" time on the drops. During spring break 2010 I did this and on the first drop FLEW out of my seat, almost hitting the top of the elevator. SO much fun. ToT stopped right then and told everybody to remain seated. We waited 5-10 minutes and were slowly brought down to the first floor, they told all of use to unbuckle the belts and buckle them again, making sure there were tight.

:brick::brick::brick::brick::brick:

I wonder if you know how saying this outloud makes you look.

 

[mp2bill]

I absolutely hate when stuff like this makes the news. The ride broke down, it happens, and the guests were compensated for their wasted time.

"There were no serious injuries." - nice. I think they meant there were ABSOLUTELY NO injuries.

Same here

Lol

 

[RavenLucifer]

my wife and I were on potc sunday night when it got stuck. we were in a boat that stopped right under the arch about 1 boat away from unload. there was one boat stuck near the jail scene and had a man trying to get the rest of the people in the boat to row to shore. pretty funny. after 15 minutes they turned the music and sound effects off, 10 minutes later they turned the lights on, and about 10 minutes after that cm's in waders came out to push the boats back to evac points. our boat was allowed to climb over rows and then over the railing to freedom. we were all given fastpasses to use by 9-15-11. stuck for only about 40 minutes not 2 hours. durring the entire process cm's were walking about the attraction asking if everybody in each boat were ok and if anyone had any issues. the cm's were joking and keeping the mood light, one even took a gold coin from the final scene and gave it to a young boy. my only beef was that we werent stuck earlier in the ride and didnt get to go behind the scenes.

Thank you for being so candid and honest about what really happened that night. It's comments like this that prove that we may never know what happened "backstage," but the Cast did the best they could with the situation they were in...and here's proof that the FOX story was grossly exaggerated. THANK YOU for helping to restore faith in the Pirates Cast. :sohappy::sohappy:

 

[janoimagine]

Being the disney junky that I am, I have been stuck on a couple of rides. Space Mountain, RnR featuring Aerosmith, Tower of Terror, and Mission Space. Funniest one was Tower of Terror. Every time I use to ride ToT I would pull the seat belt all the way out and buckle it in so I could get a lot of "air" time on the drops. During spring break 2010 I did this and on the first drop FLEW out of my seat, almost hitting the top of the elevator. SO much fun. ToT stopped right then and told everybody to remain seated. We waited 5-10 minutes and were slowly brought down to the first floor, they told all of use to unbuckle the belts and buckle them again, making sure there were tight.

Wow ... don't know where to even begin with this one ...

 

[GrumpyFan]

Funniest one was Tower of Terror. Every time I use to ride ToT I would pull the seat belt all the way out and buckle it in so I could get a lot of "air" time on the drops. During spring break 2010 I did this and on the first drop FLEW out of my seat, almost hitting the top of the elevator. SO much fun. ToT stopped right then and told everybody to remain seated. We waited 5-10 minutes and were slowly brought down to the first floor, they told all of use to unbuckle the belts and buckle them again, making sure there were tight.

THIS SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHAT NOT TO DO IN THE PARKS!

Call me a sourpuss or stick in the mud or whatever you want to, but the restraints are there for a reason, to keep you safe and free from harm. That may have been fun for you, but it was also a very foolish and dangerous thing to do. Your actions, while maybe fun at the time, endangered yourself and potentially others, and you're lucky Disney didn't catch you and throw you out of the park. It's things like this that get people injured or killed in parks, and I highly advise against doing anything like this again.

 

[Sigmundooze]

There is only one thing you can really say to the guests mentioned in the original post...


DON'T BE CHEEKIN!

 

[Mansion Butler]

THIS SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHAT NOT TO DO IN THE PARKS!

Call me a sourpuss or stick in the mud or whatever you want to, but the restraints are there for a reason, to keep you safe and free from harm. That may have been fun for you, but it was also a very foolish and dangerous thing to do. Your actions, while maybe fun at the time, endangered yourself and potentially others, and you're lucky Disney didn't catch you and throw you out of the park. It's things like this that get people injured or killed in parks, and I highly advise against doing anything like this again.

And even if you're not hurt, you ruin the ride for everyone else by causing a stoppage.

That is the best case scenario: ruining others' ride.

 

[ms mouse]

Ok I have just learned an important lesson, go to the restroom before getting on POC. :lol:

 

[HMF]

here's proof that the FOX story was grossly exaggerated.

Fox exaggerating? Stop the presses.:lookaroun

 

[Victor Kelly]

If all the press stopped exaggerating, they would have nothing to report. ROFL.

 

[TDF]

This really isn't a stuck story but it could of been one... we where on the Mexican ride once and all of a sudden the jets pushing the boats shut off... lights went on and we where told to remain seated someone would be around to get us off. We where still not near an evacuation zone so we where floating around... soon we where told to remain seated and we where be going shortly... it didn't seem longer then 2 minutes and was very weird.