Mishaps or Strange Occurrences on the Rides

[pink]

I never actually got escorted out of a ride but I have been stuck on POTC before they redid it, and we were in the part where the cannon noise comes from the big boat. We were probally there for about 20 minutes but everytime the cannon went off it made me jump a little bit so it kind of got annoying after awhile!

We were also stuck on the HM once, in the graveyard scene where those things pop out behind the gravestones.

[AliceinDisney]

This isnt me getting stuck at Disney but I have gotten stuck for a couple mins on rides like Spaceship Earth, Pirates, Haunted M. I got stuck at MarineLand in Niagara Falls in Canada once on a ride like Dumbo but its much higher up in the air. I was in it with my bf, and Im deathly afraid of heights. Anyway I started to have a panic attack tears streaming down my cheeks and faint(I suffer from extreme vertigo) Needless to say I always get nervous going on rides of a great height.

[Monkey Magic]

We were on The Carousel of Progress and it got stuck on the same scene 3 times in a row... of all things to be stuck on. I don't like the song to begin with, but that was just horrible!

[breezysmom]

We were on The Carousel of Progress and it got stuck on the same scene 3 times in a row... of all things to be stuck on. I don't like the song to begin with, but that was just horrible!

Where we all there at the some time or does this happen alot!!!!

[SandmanGStefani24]

i'm sure this has happened to someone before, but at the end of El Rio de Tiempo, our boats got a little backed up and started to slam into eachother like a rush out chain reaction. We were more than a little jolted, but it was more funny than bad. Maybe the CM had to many .

[HockeyKat]

Wow that Summet Plummet story is scary. It took me a whole lot of DH calling me chicken before I would go down. I am also afraid of heights, so even getting up there was a feat!

We got stuck on the chair lift for 10 min or so... also scary.

I have had to walk off Spaceship Earth and IASW, back in the '90s.

We got stuck on TestTrack for a few minutes the last trip.

Also, we got seriously stuck on the Great Movie Ride. We were in the first part w/ the singing in the rain for probably 15 min, and the CM had to ad-lib a WHOLE lot. Music/AA kept stopping, then starting, then stopping. When we finally got going, two CMs had to manually push open each set of doors (including the one who is supposed to "surprise" you in the IJ scene). It took us close to 45 minutes to get through the ride!

[Jared]

About 10 years ago, we got stuck near the end of the dinosaur scene of Ellen's Energy Adventure. After waiting patiently for 20 minutes, a Cast Member came and manually drove the vehicle back to the theater. We did not watch the final segment and were evacuated.

The attraction remained closed until the next afternoon.

[Monkey Magic]

Where we all there at the some time or does this happen alot!!!!

Haha... actually, were you there in August? That's when we go.

[Meteora]

On our last trip, in December of '06, we got stuck in Buzz Lightyear for about twenty minutes. Now I'm a huge Buzz fan, but just sitting in one place, with all that neon and the sounds of lasers and such...well, it gets old, fast. Zurg was beghind us and kept yelling "Guards! Seize them!" My sister and I started joking after awhile--"Wait, what does he want the guards to do? I missed it." "I'm not sure! I wish he would say it again!" The sound flickered a few times, and little gates came up around the track. We eventually started moving again, but our scores were wiped clean. We went again two days later and again got stuck, but only for about five minutes.

On the same trip Test Track kept stalling, resulting in our waiting for twenty-five minutes just to be let into the little room that leads you to the ride. It stopped a few more times when we got back into line after the room finally opened, but worked perfectly while we were actually on it.

[Monkey Magic]

On our last trip, in December of '06, we got stuck in Buzz Lightyear for about twenty minutes. Now I'm a huge Buzz fan, but just sitting in one place, with all that neon and the sounds of lasers and such...well, it gets old, fast. Zurg was beghind us and kept yelling "Guards! Seize them!" My sister and I started joking after awhile--"Wait, what does he want the guards to do? I missed it." "I'm not sure! I wish he would say it again!" The sound flickered a few times, and little gates came up around the track. We eventually started moving again, but our scores were wiped clean. We went again two days later and again got stuck, but only for about five minutes.

On the same trip Test Track kept stalling, resulting in our waiting for twenty-five minutes just to be let into the little room that leads you to the ride. It stopped a few more times when we got back into line after the room finally opened, but worked perfectly while we were actually on it.

The same thing happened to us on Buzz Lightyear. I just shot right at the target the entire time... yet I still missed. Darn my horrible aim! :P

[MrPeetrie]

It was my parents' first time in Disney with us and we were on the Dinosaur ride when it broke down. Now I've been told that, even when the park is closed, the audio-animatronics in that ride remain in constant motion because it's better for the hydraulics. Whether that's the case or not, I don't know. But the ride was stopped for several minutes and you could still hear the Dinosaurs moving in the dark. It was a little eerie and surreal.

After 15 minutes, my mother blurts out, "Should I call 9-1-1?" She was truly starting to panic. We started to laugh and told her we were sure the CMs KNEW we were in there. "Maybe they don't!" That was the joke the rest of the trip.

But it was still eerie, in the dark, near those huge beasts, when you can hear them moving and the ride has stopped.

[huzzah4]

My Mom still gives me grief from when we went in 1988. To this day she contends that I broke all of the rides we went on. We were never escorted off, but in a 3 day span, we got stuck on or had technical difficulties with Imaginations, HM, BTMR, POTC, Rio Del Tiempo, Space Mountian, The Land, and the ride into Seabase Alpha (the name of which I have suddenly completely blanked out on). Every time I would get on a ride with my family, it would have a problem. By the end of the trip, they almost wouldn't let me ride with them (which really didn't bother me too much, being a rebellious teenager at the time anyway). It never happened to them when I was off being a teenager, and the only thing that happened to me solo was a little bit of sound distortion on the ride which I cannot rememeber the name of in Tommorrowland that had a rocket ship taking off (at least I think that happened, I can't find any record of this ride, and can't remember much more about it, maybe that was an earlier trip, or just one I took in my head).

[mmouse566]

Being stuck - Nemo 20 minutes in front of Bruce. It was sort of neat though since it was during the passholder preview and it was the first time riding. Buzz lightyear but I took advantage and got my score built up.

Ride malfunctions - worse for me was one of the water slides at BB. It was a tube slide where you are on a raft. Somehow the raft slid out from underneath me at the begining so I went down the entire tube on my back and those tubes are not smooth. They have ridges. I was sore the entire trip.

[Kenny1113]

Ride malfunctions - worse for me was one of the water slides at BB. It was a tube slide where you are on a raft. Somehow the raft slid out from underneath me at the begining so I went down the entire tube on my back and those tubes are not smooth. They have ridges. I was sore the entire trip.

owww!

I got stuck on POTC in DL, we were escorted out and got to see all of the backstage stuff, pretty neat .
It wasn't a ride break down, but while on Finding nemo we got held up 10-15 minutes in the bubble room
Also happened on Buzzlightyear in the space sequence

[Bill George]

In December we went on the Universe of Energy. The ride broke down just at the second to last scene. You know, right before they tell you the big final answer to the Jepardy Question. Anyway we sat there for about 20 minutes or so. One of the CMs came on the speaker system and was talking to us about other things in the park to see, trying to keep everyone calm. Finally he said "if you like to play with 12 year old boys, you can go next door"... He suddenly stopped as everyone broke out into heavy laughter. The manager came on and said that this sounds like a good time to get everyone off the ride. It was so funny. They had to bring in step ladders since the cars were so high off the ground.

[breezysmom]

Haha... actually, were you there in August? That's when we go.

Nope Feb. '05 I'm surprised how often it happens.

[breezysmom]

and the only thing that happened to me solo was a little bit of sound distortion on the ride which I cannot rememeber the name of in Tommorrowland that had a rocket ship taking off (at least I think that happened, I can't find any record of this ride, and can't remember much more about it, maybe that was an earlier trip, or just one I took in my head).

I take those kind of trips alot!!!!

[kadesha]

Last September we got stuck for about 20 minutes at the very end of POTC - right where Captain Jack is sitting in the treasure room drinking rum and singing. It was OK at first, but after 20 minutes of "A Pirate's Life For Me", we were all ready to get out of there!

This also happened to us last August!!!

[johnfunkwriter]

Now I've been told that, even when the park is closed, the audio-animatronics in that ride (Dinosaur!) remain in constant motion because it's better for the hydraulics. Whether that's the case or not, I don't know.

Does anyone know if that's true?
It certainly would be creepy for the night-shift security guards (like Night at the Museum or something!)

John

[Speedy1998]

About 15 years ago we were on Space Mountain, when we got to the end the lap bar would not release on my father seat. He tried to get the CM to send him on another trip around, but they sent his car to maintenance instead.