stuck on a ride?

Ms Brer Rabbit

New Member
I was doing single rider for Test track and I ended up in a car with a family from Japan who didn't speak any English. Our car got stopped right in the middle of the cold chambers for about 20 minutes or so. Let's just say that gestures and expressions meaning "this situation stinks!" can transcend ALL language barriers.

<3 Ms Brer Rabbit.
 

ndiniz

Active Member
Wow!

Talk about funny! Let's see, if I ever want to get stuck on a ride (and I hope I do in June '08), it'd be the one where you kill the enemies with Buzz lightyear!
 

hansel1

Member
Expedition Everest! It was this past january on my first ride. We stopped at the top of the lifthill prior to the cave. 15 minutes later workers came and secured the train to the hill with straps and then had us walk up the track stairs into the cave where there was a door on the left. We walked down a stairwell 8 flights, when we got to the bottom you could look straight up to the top of the mountain. Mostly steel beams. We then walked out near the area the trains come flying out of the mountain. They gave us fastpasses to return anytime in the next 6 days.
 

tooltime

Member
we just came back from a nine day trip and at the front of the que to rock'n roller coaster the ride broke down for twenty minutes.

the cm pulled out a book and read wdw trivia. it was so much fun.

we got some of the answerers right and it was a blast. next thing we knew the ride was back up.

:sohappy:
 

PeoplemoverTTA

Well-Known Member
I've been evacuated from two attractions:

-First one was Dinosaur, back in 2004. It stopped in front of the scary one on your left (um, how embarrassing I don't know which dinosaur it was!). We thought it might start up again until the lights came on. No announcements were made about pictures so I took one. It's a magic killer, to be sure (don't worry, I won't post it, , but PM me if you want to see it). We waited about 20 minutes for someone to come and assist us out of the Time Rover and through the rest of the attraction. We received FPs for any WDW attraction for our "troubles."

-Second time was in Aug. 2006, on PoTC. We stopped right after the drunk with the cats, and we kept floating back a few feet, then forward a few feet. The lights never came on, but the music volume went down from a '10' to a '2,' and the AAs kept moving. It kept on for about a half hour to 45 minutes (it was long). People started climbing out of the boats and going through the 'exit' signs located throughout the attraction (which really ticked me off - how disrespectful and dangerous!). CMs came over the speaker to politely ask us to hold on, for our own safety (ignorant guests were screaming to the 'heavens' and kept getting out...just terrible). A female CM came out to apologize and ask us to hang in there face-to-face. The people in the front of our boat were SCREAMING at her, ripping her a new one (sorry, but that's the description). The lady in front of me (who my sister and I had been talking to) told them to lighten up and wait, it was for our own safety, and don't be mean to the girl as it wasn't her fault. The rude people's kid was crying, and the parents turned their anger toward the woman in front of me, "You don't have a screaming child (side note**we had to hear your screaming kid too) starting calling her an "expletive American" and making threats (her husband sat silent). Holy Awkwardness, Batman!

I called my brother, a former Fantasyland CM, and told him what was going on...he said, "If men come out in wet suits, you know you're in trouble." Next thing you know, here come the wet suits! Our boat was pulled back and we exited to the left of the boat (across from the drunk and cats). We went up stairs, and emerged backstage (we saw the parade floats). There were about 25 CMs guiding us down a path back into the park (I assume it took awhile for them to find the number of CMs necessary to ensure all the guests wouldn't be left alone to wander backstage...although I wonder about the hoodlums who got out on their own. I find it hard to believe they could find their way back on their own (a CM told me they were probably escorted from the park).

We again received FPs for any attraction (not just FP attractions) so we used it for Speedway, which we never do (figured we can get a FP for anything, so why not do an attraction we don't normally do?).

Oh, and the father of the mean people up front was following the woman who sat in front of me all the way back into the park, getting in her face, and literally threatening her. I don't know if the CMs guiding us (they stood in a line all the way back into the park) thought he was with her or what, but I finally stopped and explained that the man was threatening that woman and I was afraid he might become violent. I didn't want to get anymore involved, so my sister and I walked slowly to avoid them.

Whew, that one was quite dramatic!
 

kmdisney

Member
I've been stuck on CTE/Dinosaur three separate times. The latest being right in the middle. We had to wait for the CMs to come and release us from the cars. We had to walk out. Seeing it all lit up really ruined the illusion. I was, however, surprised at how hilly the environment is. The ride vehicle goes up and down some seriously steep slopes. I tried to take some pictures, but this pencil-necked, acne-faced, self empowered kid threatened to have security confiscate my camera and gear. I really didn't feel like testing his threat.


I have never been on the Dinosaur ride and will be back at WDW in March 2008. I am not fond of roller coasters. Does this ride have a roller coaster feel to it? I saw you mentioned it had some steep slopes.
 

PeoplemoverTTA

Well-Known Member
I have never been on the Dinosaur ride and will be back at WDW in March 2008. I am not fond of roller coasters. Does this ride have a roller coaster feel to it? I saw you mentioned it had some steep slopes.

Have you been on Indiana Jones in DL? If so, this is exactly the same ride vehicle and experience (at least physically). It is not very similar to a roller coaster at all, IMO. It is very jerky and bumpy (all simulated by the vehicle), and if you're prone to motion sickness, this may affect you, but there are not really any steep slopes (some slight downhill movement is about it, and some dips).

Hope this helps!
 

celticdog

Well-Known Member
I have never been on the Dinosaur ride and will be back at WDW in March 2008. I am not fond of roller coasters. Does this ride have a roller coaster feel to it? I saw you mentioned it had some steep slopes.

It doesn't have long drops like a roller coaster. The vehicle moves up and down along a roadbed. The verticle change is only about 10 feet. It also doesn't have any speed to it. You don't ever get that freefal feeling. It's just a lot of bumps.
 

Thiger

New Member
06' was stuck in the laughing place for about 30 mins...it was kinda rough but better than being on small world...

a few weeks ago i was stuck on: buzz lightyear, potc and COP repeated a scene (totally weird)

luckily it was only for 5 mins or so and no walk offs...

the coolest was being on the Peoplemover and seeing Space Mountain all lit up. Man its scary looking with the lights on...the ride itself is more like a kiddie coaster to me though, lol
 

RNRguy

New Member
just got back last night from disney and i rode it wed . it does have some bumps and jaring. but the only thing is the last part and the little drop. not terribly big!, but its very intense. and aslo got stuck on haunted mansion twice when we rode it monday. once at the hill in the grave yard ,back wards. and the last time at the panio scene at the start of the ride. after the libary..
 

Disney_Belle

Well-Known Member
Last year we got stuck on Dinosaur!. It was right before the t-rex comes headfirst at you. He never came out :(. We just stopped.... and sat there, for about 10 minutes. It was pitch black and I was just waiting for him to come out and I am one who doesn't like unexpected scares lol. So as you can imagine I was pretty nervous. But then we were up and running again, but Mr. T rex never visited.


Also, in the same trip, we got stuck between two scenes of CoP. It was interesting, and confusing all at the same time, two dialogues, two scenes all at the same time.

I too have also been stuck on Test Track (Right before you speed up to burst through the barrier), that definitely lost a lot of magic :( PoC for about 15 minutes, Journey into Imagination (the original one) for about 20 minutes. But we never had to evacuate.
 

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