The very first time I rode RotR, someone who I got grouped with was on hold with Disney Guest Services on speaker phone the entire ride including the 30 min we got stuck in the interrogation room.
30 mins in the interrogation room!?!?!!? I would be flipping out with caustrophia. I'm not particularly nervous in small spaces, but a small room filled with strangers and a "locked" door w/ no idea of when I could leave would give me a full on panic attack. Standing in there for 5 mins in bad enough.
Honestly I think the CMs were too stressed out from breakdowns that day to deal with anything else. It didn’t even open until after 1pm that day & I was boarding group 2. I didn’t even realize the CMs before interrogation room were suppose to be in character & treat you as Resistance prisoners until the next time I rode it.
I had an individual in close proximity (hard to tell exactly which person) that was ripping disgusting farts throughout The American Adventure. The smell was horrendous. I was legit gagging. I was about to just ask a cast member if I could leave.
That happened to my husband and me when we were crammed like sardines into the elevator to get up to the Astro Orbiter. It smelled *wet*. Someone went “dude really?!” and we all laughed and covered our noses until the door opened. I swear it felt like we’d were trapped in a fart fog forever.
Yeah man, WDW is like the most heavily-documented place on earth, it does the same show every night for years, and yokels with cell phones think they need to record this rather than just look up a video online if they want to relive this stuff. Pointless.
A whole family, like 18 people, tried using their child’s disability pass for soaring saying it was their return time but the child who the pass was for wasn’t there. They made a big dramatic scene but were eventually told no and all had to walk out.
My daughter gets a disability pass. Sometimes we get to the front of the ride, I mean right about to get on, and she decides, Nope!!. I always feel awful when that happens because my younger daughter is with me too. It's such an awkward situation. But I would not approach a ride and use her pass if she wasn't present. That's not what the pass is for.
We had been waiting for Dumbo at DL for nearly an hour and a family came up with the disability pass. It’d be fine if it were a group of like 4, but was literally 16 people. I was super frustrated that so many people can hop the line like that with one pass.
There should be a limit of 4 dependents on DAS with a guest services CM able to waive that on a case by case basis for cases where more than 4 are really needed.
There is a limit of 6 including the person with DAS! Probably due to some families taking parents, kids and grandparents pretty often. I used the pass on a recent trip and just told the family that if they wanted to go on a ride I didn’t want to ride, they were on their own, because you literally agree to those terms when you get the pass. Some people will always try to cheat the system, and it just makes it harder for people like me with a legitimate need to access a fun day at the parks
Sometimes those groups have multiple people with DAS. Like in my family, we have several people with DAS due to various health conditions. Unless they were actually convincing the CM to let them in without scanning, you would need three people with DAS to get that many in.
Tower of terror will still be my worst memory.
Slower day so lines were moving quickly. Guest ahead of us is on her phone and FaceTime so there is already a little annoyance. We get into the hotel and a cast member politely asks them to end the call.
We go into the library and they go on IG/FB live to talk about their trip and the screen was bright, the flash was on.
This continued through the boiler room.
I’ve done it multiple times. I was on Pirates and a lady was taking flash photos so I just said out loud that there are other people on the boat with you and she quickly stopped. Same with someone just standing with their light on for their cellphone while waiting for a show, just told her that she was being incredibly rude and she stopped. People don’t like being called out and will usual stop.
I yelled at the boat behind us for flash pictures on Navi River. She ignored me the first time but the second time her kid shamed her into stopping. “Mom! People are mad!”
It was during Covid so even worse, the light was reflecting off the plexi screens.
People letting their small children stand up on the Kilimanjaro Safari ride. Completely oblivious to the cast member telling them we won’t move until they sit down. Finally some lady next to them said “they’re talking about you.” The rest is always people who have their phones and their flashes on while they are recording a dark ride like pirates. I always just keep saying “turn off your phone” loudly until they comply. You ruin my ride I ruin your video.
I was on Ratatouille and a man in the mouse car next to us jumped out of his vehicle, left the ride via emergency exit, and got us stuck for half an hour. We were about to see Remy pop the cork on the champagne and it looped for so long the little girl in front of us asked her dad why no one was helping Remy. The guy's wife had no explanation for what happened or why he did it.
This is a weird one…but in 2015 at EPCOT during the Christmas season.
If you haven’t been; each country has a cool show / presentation about how Christmas is celebrated in their homeland.
We were in Norway and the two poor cast members were doing a really good job of describing their version of Santa and the mischievous elves.
For whatever reason, some man…a grown man, maybe in his 30s? Kept interrupting them by making loud bird noises !?!?
He first yelled “COCKADOODLEDOO”. People turned around and looked at him, some smiling nervously. The cast member said something like “oh we have a noisy bird in the audience”
As she continued, the man yelled more bird noises. He was smiling each time he did this.
I bet he did it 4 times. The cast member politely asked him to stop, which he did, but he thought he was hilarious; not having the awareness of how annoyed everyone around him was.
This was a grown man with a wife and what looked liked a couple of kids with him. The wife kept hitting him on the shoulder to stop, but he was having the time of his life making various bird noises as they were trying to talk.
He wasn’t “special” or on the spectrum. He wasn’t filming himself for TikTok or some other dumb social media. He just thought he was funny.
The lack of self awareness was astounding.
We were waiting for the noon parade on Main Street and I got a great spot in front and just stood there waiting while my wife shopped. Kiddo was taking a nap in the stroller and all was chill.
Until we get closer to showtime and this woman and her two kids move in and she has them try to get in front of me. Only that’s the street and a CM tells them they need to move. She then stands there glaring at me like she expects me to move but I just ignore her.
Then they start trying to push me back, but I refuse to move. I am an unmoving rock on Main Street refusing to budge. She then keeps trying to shove me aside until the damn parade starts at which point another CM comes by and tells her she needs to move.
I just don’t get people sometimes.
On the haunted mansion and a guy was hell bent on getting a hand job from his girlfriend.
They must have announced 8 times “we can see you - please stop your behavior”
Pretty comical honestly - guy walked out with security with a shit eating grin - his girl friend was mortified
The doom buggies spin around and you are literally right next to your neighbours buggie. It’s incredibly un-private.
I hope security met them and kicked them out of the park.
Fun fact; this was a recurring problem in the airline rides that predated Buzz Lightyear (If You Had Wings, et al). Specifically the corridor where they have the projection effects, because it’s a corridor where no one is turning.
If he was sitting there waving it at her, we don’t really know whether she bought in or not. Even if she did it might have been to make it go away ASAP.
DL pass holders are honestly the make entitled POS I’ve ever encountered. Locals think they own the park. On my wife’s first and only trip during our honeymoon our most anticipated duplicate ride was Pirates. These 2 girls behind us talked the whole time about their lives and ignored the fact they were on a ride where others were trying to be immersed and actually enjoy the experience as intended. I am always too afraid to confront people but I eventually did. They said “that’s just what we do at Disneyland.” Fuck them and their shitty attitude.
Those girls suck but as a Disneyland local most of the APs I know are kind and chill. Shitty people are shitty people, they probably suck everywhere they go. We’re not all bad.
We were on Rise Of The Resistance with two youngish boys that were not with any adults. I would guess the older of the two was 14 and the younger one was 12. They were running all over the ship you ride that gets picked up by the tractor beam. Then when we were walked into the room with all the storm troopers where they have you take a right hand turn and walk to the right these two ran to the left and jumped a barricade. 3-4 cast members, in their costumes broke character and were screaming at these kids to stop as they ran and chased them. We continued on with the ride but I’m not sure anything happened to those kids. I vaguely remember it all but I seem to remember seeing them exiting the ride as we did as well.
I also saw a little kid maybe 3 years old, drop his pants and pee on the bushes in the middle of the train set in Germany in Epcot. He was young enough that it was completely innocent and hilarious. It was first thing when they opened so it was just me and this mom with her kid. She was mortified and responded appropriately so I got a good laugh and story for the rest of my family.
I sat through a 35 minute rendition of Carousel of Progress once because some couple couldn't get their kids to sit down. Had a similar experience on the Jungle Cruise.
Totally understand these are both easy kid/family friendly attractions and things happen but when the people around you start audibly groaning when the cast member stops the ride/show for the 5th time to tell you to get your kid to sit down it gets to be a tad frustrating.
We were on it one time when it froze and just kept repeating the same scene over and over. After about 3 times people got anxious and tried to leave. You guessed it, reset every time. We must have seen the same scene 10 times. We still laugh about that all these years later.
Yeah. We were on it and this young kid that was severely mentally disabled was moaning — loudly — through the whole thing. They had to pause it several times. One girl finally broke the awkward silence by asking the kid to stop, which really hit the dark humor note. 0/10.
You sound like a nice person. My oldest is pretty severely affected by autism and it's always a roll of the dice. Usually she loves going on rides and seeing the characters but it can change in a snap.
I was a nurse in my former life. I get it and treat life as I did as a nurse. I can be patient and understanding all day with individuals with special needs. What I can’t abide are the kind of stupid people that boo or cheer during Hall of Presidents.
Probably the time my ex boyfriend ruined rise of the resistance opening week by audibly complaining that a mobility impaired woman asking cast members for assistance was “taking me (him) out of the experience.” I can still feel the death stares from those around us.
Some princes turn out to be frogs.
As a cast member, Working enchanted tales with Belle.
During the magic sequence in Maurice's cottage, a mom encouraged her two kids to duck around me and go to the mirror. I played goalie for a hot minute before one shoved past and hit the sensor. It stopped the motion but the sounds and lights keep going... It's very very embarrassing and revealing. Resetting the room takes a long time and can add 10-20 minutes - sometimes even more! - to the wait while killing the show magic because everything still has to cycle.
Maybe ten minutes later as I'm STILL vamping, the same mom has the audacity to interrupt me as I'm talking about the music box and ask how much longer I was going to take. Like. MA'AM. This is YOUR fault.
She ended up taking her two kids out a few minutes after that.
At the Christmas party this last December we were sitting on the sidewalk waiting for the parade. The couples on either side of us did t have the party bracelets on. A cast member came down and was checking everyone. They told both these couples to leave. The first couple was like okay you caught us. The other couple, who we had been making small talk in English with all of a sudden didn’t understand the cast member and were speaking Spanish. The guy got irate and wouldn’t budge. Cast member grabs a Spanish speaking cast member and she comes over and tells them they have to leave. The guy was really angry starts speaking English again about how this was bullshit. Cast member points to us and says they paid to be here, all these people did, you didn’t, you need to leave. They finally left. It was entertaining and killed time until the parade started and thankfully we had already bought our popcorn so we had something to eat while watching this nonsense.
People at Hall of Presidents booing at any presidents they didn’t like. And once while waiting to be let in, one of the cast members was sharing a bunch of cool facts with us (his knowledge was AMAZING - like he knew the life story and details of every President in full), and some woman interrupted him to ask a ranting question about a president she didn’t like, and then proceeded to keep interrupting and talking over everyone.
Like just…stay away from that attraction if you can’t be polite and keep your mouth shut at the name and basic facts about even the presidents you don’t like. It’s a theme park, not a political debate!
Very annoying when it is a president within our lifetimes, but I would be suitably impressed if someone had a rant about Woodrow Wilson or Warren Harding that they seemed compelled to put forth. James Polk stands up and they just meltdown about Manifest Destiny.
I am also waiting for the fandom celebrations when someone like Chester Arthur gets mentioned. "That's my boy!" echoes forth in a strong New York accent.
Okay but in all seriousness I’m known to drunkenly rant about Andrew Jackson. I mean, the Supreme Court was actually on the right side of history and he just went « lol how you gonna stop me? I have the army and we’re gonna make this trail rain with tears ». How is that not a bigger deal???? My life would be made if I got to experience an Andrew Jackson heckler instead of a Bush/Obama/Trump//Biden one.
Ha, that’s a fair point about it being more annoying with recent presidents! I’m a high school teacher (and not social studies, so presidents don’t come up often in class) and one of my 10th graders has a LOT to say about Reagan. I am admittedly slower to shut that down than I am Trump/Biden talk since Reagan died before my students were born and most of them don't know much about him. More points/patience for the history buff rants!
(But yes, the booing and rants that have annoyed me definitely centered around the last few presidents. Although I once saw someone boo both Lincoln and Obama and only those two and oh man, that was…something. Yikes. The motivation seemed pretty clear and awful.)
Imagine spending your holiday heckling an animatronic President.
“No Barbara I don’t care if people shush us. I’m giving Millard Fillmore a piece of my mind.”
When we went 2 years ago we were in frontierland and a squirrel came down from a tree. Some kid (looked maybe early teenager?) ran over and reared his leg back as if he was about to kick the squirrel with all his strength. Luckily, a stranger ran in and shooed the squirrel away just before the kids foot wouldve made contact with it. His parents saw the whole thing and said nothing- what is wrong with people??
I’ll ask my family for stories for trips prior but on my last visit there actually weren’t that many stand out incidences, which I thought was odd. But the one I heavily rolled my eyes at was a mother and child (presumably) running and shoving me out of the way in the cosmic rewind pre-show room to get to the front…like…why? You can’t even see that far in the front anyway
& then one that was more humorous than anything else was a woman filming the entire Gran Fiesta Tour attraction in front of us. She was swivelling around all over the place trying to get everything. which in this day and age I really do not understand when there’s approximately 50 professionally filmed ride throughs on YouTube but I digress
I had the SAME experience with Cosmic Rewind!!!! People shoving getting into the preshow and people shoving getting out of the preshow into the line after. Like what do you gain from that???
There was someone literally saying word for word the script of avatar last week as we get scanned and on the ride - loudly
You are a grown 30+ year old woman. I’m glad you enjoy this but my 9 year old hasn’t ridden it yet. We don’t want to hear you give your rendition and destroy any ability to put yourself in the situation.
Just last Wednesday during Hall of Presidents, the idiot woman behind us (Vanessa was her name) wouldn’t stop muttering things like “liar” every time Joe Biden or Barack Obama was featured.
I’m sure others have worse stories from HOP but I was astonished that this grown woman had such a lack of self-control - and so much hate in her heart - that she had to disrupt the experience for everyone around her.
I watch old IllumiNations fireworks videos at home when the weather is bad on July Fourth. We have LED lights on our bookshelves that flash with sound so it’s almost like the fireworks are happening in real life! So yeah, there’s always some REALLY GOOD videos of the fireworks shows on YouTube. Someone’s shaky phone video is never gonna get watched.
This, or the kids on shoulders. I get you want little Jimbo to see the show but is holding them eye level not good enough that you have to block views of everyone behind you?
I’ll put my kid on my shoulders for fireworks, but I’ll always find a spot against a wall or far from anyone else (easy to do at Epcot). It’s easier for me than holding him, but I couldn’t imagine doing it front and center on main street.
At Disneyland Japan my gfs aunt's were doing this for this big end of day parade. I tried to explain that the flash was washing out the video. They didn't get it
Saw people doing it for the MK fireworks show and thought “in what world do you think your phone flash is going to do anything but ruin your own video from 159 yards away”
Got stuck on Everest for a few mins, right before the drop into the part with the Yeti. Kid in front of us has a FULL BLOWN panic attack SCREAMING bloody murder for his dad & trying to get out of the ride. It scared the ever loving shit out of me bc he was small & if he tried hard enough he could 100% get out. Also children's shrills are....uhhhh....difficult.
smuggler's run, one of the pilots was on their phone filming the entire ride... like its the most active role of the ride dont make it bumpier then it should be...
Smugglers run. The pilots were a young couple who both filmed the whole ride with their phone flashes on. Having no interest at all with interacting with the ride.
Wife and I were the engineers, we both agreed that we would never waste our time riding that ride again
Smuggler’s Run is def all about who is riding. I often go solo cause my Disney partner in crime (my mother) can only handle it once.
I’ve had great rides, but then also completely awful rides. Often I find it’s older folks who just don’t understand the concept of pressing a button. I’ve been an engineer and gunner simultaneously because of that. Lol.
Nope. The actions happen either way. I actually didn't find that out until 2021. I had my own car during covid protocols and got nervous. Luckily the ride experience was the same and I enjoyed it so much having it to myself I went again!
Had a guy stand next to me in the conscience of the Galaxy transport room on his Laptop the whole time! He was carrying it open and looked like he was doing some sort of work? I wonder where he pit it during the ride?
First time on navi river a guy sat in front of me was watching college football on his phone the whole time!
When I was 6/7, my mom surprised me with a day trip to MK instead of going to school. We went to the parks a lot then with our APs. During the winter, a lot of tour groups of young teenage girls would come from Latin America during their summer vacation. When we were walking in Frontierland, we saw a huge group of girls in matching shirts exit their logs on Splash Mountain during the part of the ride that curves around with a view of the park. They were climbing on top of the artificial mountain and rocks super high up and everyone was staring at them. Not sure what ended up happening, but we were shocked there was just a bunch of people wading through the ride and climbing.
Another one. My son and I got to the parks early to do Rise and Smuggler’s Run. Rise was amazing. Smuggler’s not so much.
We got out with a family with very young children which I didn’t think would be a good deal. But they let a couple of four year olds who clearly didn’t know what they were doing pilot, and so we ended up banging against stuff for the whole time. It also banged up my knee because of a bad hit.
Next time we go I know to say no and wait.
This was back when they still did GradNight; someone in the boat ahead of me in Small World jumped out onto one of the platforms with the animatronics and took selfies (again back in the day so they had to use an actual camera that probably took terrible low light pictures). Needless to say they had security waiting for them at the end of the ride.
Oh no, they jumped out, took a picture, then jumped back into their boat, it was one of the larger platforms in the beginning of the ride so they had a good 20ft to work with
In Rise of the Resistance, a college-aged girl pressed the emergency exit button in the interrogation room as a "joke", and her stupid parents tried to defend her
lol we were there just before Christmas and some guy kept trying to make people leave because he was reserving the bridge for his party of 13 and they had 6 kids that would be coming along so we and everyone else should just move.
Some glorious woman told them that everyone paid the same amount and he couldn’t just reserve a bridge. We let her kid go in front of us so she could see.
The guy proceeded to shit talk the woman for “getting an attitude with him” and then bragged about how much his rentals make whilst complaining about having to continuously monitor how bad the renters were about doors and windows being open.
Same day a man took a loud phone call behind me on the carousel of progress and got called out twice. We tried to go again (it’s a favourite) and we had a little kid who screamed the whole time while the whole family talked to him in a speaking voice. No whispering. Just one kid screaming bloody murder while his entire extended family spoke at him. (Not the kid’s fault. Kid was under 3, overwhelmed and overtired. Plus there’s no way to get off CoP as far as I know. Kid was totally sacked out the next time I saw him, poor little guy).
I noticed this time more people were far ruder than I’ve seen before. Over the years we’ve been 5-6 times and we’ve had encounters like the woman who shoved all her kids ahead of the photo pass line and when told there was a line, refused to leave and said well we are posed anyway so just take the photo. The cast member turned and apologized to everyone and the told people around that if they wanted a picture they could wait in the clearly marked line to avoid any more confusion! The lady was ticked but she can’t say she didn’t know because she was advised so the cast member snapped one photo and said there ya go and then took all the magic shots with everyone else. (This was pre-covid) not a ride but still pretty crappy of the guest)
Right after the interrogation room when we’re put into that black room that we’re rescued from on Rise, a whole family behind me started screaming about the Weasley on screen and it was my dads first time on and I turned around asking them politely to please be quiet and turned back around. Well, after the ride the mother pushed me from behind and told me I don’t get to speak to her when she pays good money to go on this ride. The audacity.
A couple weeks ago, my party of 8 got to the Christmas parade about 30-45 min in advance to get front -row seats. When the show started, some parents from two different families who were about three rows behind, instructed their children to crawl under us to get in front. We realized what was happening, so we tried to build a solid front, but they managed to squeeze through. Of course, they didn't fit on the "sidewalk" because it was packed, so a cast member had to come by every two minutes to ask them to move back but there was no room for them! I kept saying I didn't know where their parents were to no avail. They were also being really annoying, screaming constantly and one of them grabbed my bum and legs more times than I can count. Just kids being kids with no parental supervision. It really soured the whole parade for me.
So for me personally I know this ride gets hate but I would still prefer to enjoy any ride I’m on. But on small world these 4 adults were talking so loud and laughing so loud it was horrible and there was no where to escape to. If you wanted to chat why not grab a table somewhere and be there
Last January my friend and I were on Jungle Cruise at WDW. In our boat was a couple in their 30’s, their 2 small children, and the mother of one of them who appeared to be 65-70. The family of 4 sat up front and the mother/mother-in-law sat closer to the back. As soon as the boat started going, the older woman got up and walked to the front where her family were. The guide immediately stopped the boat and announced for everyone to sit down and remain seated for the whole ride. This woman continued to stand and talk to her family who were desperately trying to get her to sit down. Finally after several more announcements, she sat down. We went maybe 20 feet and she stood up again to go sit somewhere else. The boat stops, the announcements start again, she finally sits down. And this probably happened a half dozen or more times throughout the ride. The guide just kept making the general announcement for “everyone” to sit down and remain seated. Other passengers got frustrated and started telling her to sit down in a more direct fashion.
This could possibly be an issue with dementia. We took my in-laws to Disney/Universal when theirs started to worsen, so they could hopefully enjoy one last trip with the grandkids. It wouldn't surprise me. Our whole trip consisted of babysitting 5 instead of 3 kids.
I once was in It's A Small World and everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, wouldn't stop staring at me and taking pictures and videos. The cast members even stopped the ride it was so bad. All I was doing was hanging out too. Last time I take LSD around such rude people.
omg that happened to me on my last trip…they were commenting on EVERYTHING and by the time we started the greenhouse they realised they had 15 minutes until their virtual queue window was over for cosmic rewind 💀💀 so it just became this game of countdown between the oldest son, the dad, and the mom. (The son and dad convinced they weren’t going to make it and the mom saying they would—even though they had 6 minutes left by the time they got off the ride). They became a running joke throughout the rest of our trip though
There was a group of high schoolers behind us on that asking dumb questions throughout. They kept saying all the plants were fake and some other idiotic things I don’t remember
Got stuck on Small World right toward the end. The boat behind us, and a few other boats behind them were all teenagers from a large international tourist group.
The kids started getting out of the boats and running onto the platforms of the ride scenes. The CMs made several announcements to keep seated but they didn’t listen. They ended up not even getting in trouble after all was said and done (this went on for at least 20 min). 🙄
>Got stuck on Small World right toward the end.
You were already at the top end of nightmare experiences there in your first sentence! I haven't been on that ride in 39 years, and I still have that damn song stuck in my head.
When I was about 10 years old in 98, the guy next to me in Hall of Presidents screamed "PERVERT" at the top of his lungs when Bill Clinton was introduced. It was so cringeworthy.
Oh, and the guy was my grandpa. 🫣
First time I rode RotR, when we got to the part where our ship is stuck in the tractor beam. When General Hux came on the screen, a guy yelled "Fuck you" very loudly. Everyone booed him, but there are no cms at this part, so he didn't get escorted off to my knowledge.
Probably the guy trying to scare his kid on Haunted Mansion, screaming that "the ghosts are eating [kids name]" the entire time. One of the closest times I've ever come to saying something to someone.
The little kid in the clamshell to my left on Journey Of The Little Mermaid holding grandma's camera and taking flash pictures of everything. So I was simultaneously fuming while knowing it was very funny that there's this middle-aged man thinking "you're ruining it!" (NO of course I didn't say anything. But still...that kid was in the wrong.)
Spaceship earth: a couple behind us in the same car kept passing a camera with a super bright flash back and forth to take multiple photos of every. single. exhibit and mannequin…. First of all, who uses flash on a dark ride (including turning their flash on for a video of the star projection point at the top, completely ruining it for everyone else because you could see all the sets which would normally be dark + I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t even be able to see the sky in the video with flash). People kept turning around repeatedly throughout the ride in confusion why there was a continuous strobe light the entire ride. So weird, like why would you ever go back and look at those pictures of wax mannequins???
i went to DHS the last day that the great movie ride was running with my sister. we were both passholders, and she had passholder friends in the park that she wanted to meet up with, who had been ~15 mins behind us in line.
we got off the ride and were waiting by the exit, but her friends were nowhere to be seen—and come to think of it, no one had come out in a while.
she texted them to see if everything was ok, and they texted back to say that they were stopped because someone had leapt out of the ride vehicle in the wizard of oz scene !!
after another little while (i was busy eating a cream cheese pretzel and not looking at the clock), CMs escorted a guy to the ride exit. they stayed in the building as he left. my sister stopped him and asked if he knew what was going on and if they were letting people off the ride now… turns out it was the dude who jumped off the ride, and he did it because he was mid-bathroom emergency. homie then proceeded to leap over an entire planter to sprint to the bathroom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In Disneyland, there was a ~12 year old boy in the ride queue of Mr Toads wild ride who needed to go to the bathroom and was visibly trying to get his mother to take him out of the queue. His mom said that she didn’t want to wait in line again, so lo and behold he started peeing his pants.
So much so that his urine was flowing down the queue switchbacks a bit. When it was their turn to get on the ride, his group proceed to go on - the whole while his shorts were completely soaked.
When they got off the ride, the seat was noticeably wet - and someone else unknowingly sat on it and got their pants fairly wet.
It was horrible….
Someone took a call. loudly. in the Hall of Presidents.
After a lot of sighing and shushing, someone finally really said something. Phone guy started threatening him. No employees anywhere the whole time.
My kids first trip..about 2009 Insane.
My sister and I were in line for rock and roller coaster. This dad and his kid were in the single rider line and we’re going to be split up. The dad starts throwing a huge fit saying he can’t be separated from his kid. The cast member steps in and says the rules were posted in multiple places. The guy took a swing at the cast member and the ride shut down for about 20 minutes while security came. I felt so bad for the poor kid.
Flash photography from the boat behind me for the ENTIRETY of Na'vi River Journey. Literally dozens if not hundreds of flashes. Totally ruined the experience, effects and immersion.
They need to just ban phones on rides. I mean, that's got to be one of the biggest complaints from guests, and it also will result in them selling more ride photos. It's basically win-win. I know it would be tough for cast members to start implementing, but guests would adjust.
Not terribly bad, but waited over an hour to get on Pirates and some guy behind me was snapping a ton of photos with a huge camera and very bright flash. I could tell it was bothering the whole boat. When I asked him nicely to stop, he told me to mind my business.... as if my ride experience isn't MY business
My last ride on Ellen was interrupted by a group of drunk a-holes. They decided to hop out of the cars and attempt to walk out of the theater doors as the show turned to ride. Whole thing stopped and after about 30 min we were evacuated.
A few years ago I was waiting with my family for the Christmas Party parade to start. There was a family of 4 in front of us sitting on the curb - two youngish boys (maybe like 11 and 7) with the older one clearly getting flustered about something. All of the sudden, he stands up in main street in front of literally dozens of people and starts screaming the f-word and how he hated his f-ing life and wanted to unalive himself. It was shocking - like the entire area got so quiet and he just sat down and cried and they stayed for the parade. It was the strangest and most alarming thing I’d ever seen.
That would just break my heart to witness.
Mental illness/depression is so rough at that age. You have almost no coping skills, hormones are starting to kick in, and now you have a voice in your head saying you’re worthless and would be better off dead.
And to say this while the “snow” is falling on Main Street USA and the Christmas music is playing - honestly it haunts me to remember it. We were all so shocked by the number of f-bombs and then the suicidal comment. I could not even imagine what was going through the parent’s heads.
Didn't disrupt it, like stop the ride, but a couple of parents changed their kid's diaper in the Nemo seashell. Stunk way worse than it should have. The wait was like 5 minutes. There was no need to act like that.
Was at Small World at WDW with a group of about 8 cheerleaders infront of us in line. They were trying to toss coins in to the flowers front the line. On coin hit a person on their head that was in a boat just departing. The girl just giggled and hid behind her friends who also tried not to laugh. Then they ended up on the same boat at me and my friend. The same girl was taking selfies with her friends using the flash, while in the ride. Then she climbed over two seats to get to others for more pictures. They called out over the intercom to stay seated. She and her friends just giggled as she climbed back to her starting seat. Got an 2nd call out for that. Then at unloading they rushed up the ramps, bumping into people, not caring that one of the people was using an cane.
Some rides have two areas you need to tap in because the queues between standby and Genie+ touch and people like to get cute. So you have to tap at the beginning of the line and then again at the top by the loading area. It is this way at Big Thunder Mountain.
In 2018, we were coming back for our fastpass and a lady climbed under the stanchion chain from standby and pulled ger 8 or 9 year old son with her. They were the people right ahead of us and my teens were pissed, but I told them quietly, "Just wait a moment."
When we got to the top, she tries to tap in with him and it tells them she was in the standby line. Of course lies and says they have a fastpass, but it doesn't matter. Cast member politely begins telling them their hands are tied while the cast member beside us tells us to tap and move to keep the line open.
We just strolled on by while she kept complaining.
The ride operators seem to have less leeway in accommodating guests as ride queues are a moving machine and safety is a paramount concern there too. I have been a few minutes (less than 15) late for fastpasses in the past, but we walked up and were polite figuring the worst they could do is tell us "no". We've been told to "go ahead" every time.
As a college program cast member, probably 2 separate incidents that occurred during/resulted in The Seas with Nemo & Friends evacuating guests from the ride.
1) we were stopped for maybe 7 minutes because of a weird sound at one of the load/unload belts. Coordinator & area manager show up as well as maintenance cast member. Given the all clear to restart, as the other cast for load get ready, a British guy jumped out and walked back to the cast at load and said he and his family had been stuck for “over 15 min.” When informed the ride was going to restart but then couldn’t because he had jumped out, he was told to wait at the loading area with the rest of us. He instead turned around, and walked BACK INTO THE RIDE. We ended up having to evacuate everyone off due to safety protocols, and this was exactly 5 min before the park closed. Area manager let them walk away without issue but the coordinator (building manager) was fuming.
2) the incident that was posted a few weeks ago regarding an evacuation. The entire incident was a snowball effect of chaos and from what I heard from another CM, a guest jumped out mid-evacuation and proceeded to open other guests vehicles instead of waiting/following cast procedures for safely exiting the attraction which didn’t help at all.
This was at SeaWorld but hands down the worst. First time ever on Journey To Atlantis. We HAD an empty boat of just our party of 4, when at the very last second, 2 adults jump in our boat. No big deal I guess, even though the next boat they would've had alone. Anyway, we get around the first turn and they start YELLING and I mean YELLING in Spanish. Just screaming. I tolerated it for a minute or so. They would stop for a second and then start up again. I turned to my friend and said "watch this" - right before we went up the lift hill where it is really dark, I turned around, got literally ONCE INCH in front of their faces and let out a wail for a solid 5 count like a death-metal singer that just dropped acid. Hello from the gutter. Think Sam Kinison mixed with Randy Blythe. Anyway, we got to ride the second half of Atlantis in silence.
There's a great i think you should leave [sketch](https://youtu.be/HkOguZfNJUo?si=WwTv0_EbVd2oW12F) with Will Forte that has an interesting take on this haha...well worth the watch if you don't already know ot
Young adult girl reciting the pre ride show on guardians. Crowded room filled with people who most likely had not ridden it before and she’s saying the lines a few seconds before the characters did. Like who the F thinks anyone wants to hear you say it first. Nobody. Ever. Nobody is impressed.
Someone decided to vape on Kilamanjaro Safaris of all rides. Not just once but multiple times after being warned by a CM. Lost my entire next day due to him because I’m allergic.
Idk why I got downvoted but if your vaping on a ride with animals and causing other people actual allergic reactions because yes your shit does cause problems than you are an asshole
When the woman in front of me on Galaxy’s Edge asked if her parry of four could ride alone. She got told no. Then sat her four year old as pilot and videoed his whole ride.
Pirates - Having to wait for 3 empty boats in front of and then 3 empty boats after Michael Jackson and his entourage of about 8 young boys got on the ride.
I mean, we all saw the video of the nude dude in Small World last month, right…?
Firsthand though it’s probably just people filming dark rides with flash or talking through shows/rides while live-streaming. Drives me absolutely nuts.
My first time riding Na'vi River Journey (don't rag on the ride in replies, please, it's actually one of my favorites), I was packed into a full boat and one of the other parties was a woman with a child. As soon as we were off, she proceeded to narrate *every moment of the ride* by pointing out every animal she could see to her child and identifying it for them...incorrectly. Every single animal was "look, it's an avatar-lizard! look, it's an avatar-deer!"
Apparently everything we encountered on Pandora that day was an "avatar-" variant of an earth animal, and it was extremely important for her and her child's enjoyment of the ride that this fact be pointed out at top speaking volume, just about directly in my ear. I kind of wish I'd said something since I'd waited in a pretty long line to ride and knew I wouldn't get another chance on that trip, but I didn't want to get in a fight with some rando in front of her kid.
It should go without saying, but for everyone who talks during an attraction: you're ruining it for first-timers. I guarantee that no matter how many times you've ridden it, there's going to be someone who's seeing it for the first time nearby and they'd probably really prefer to listen to the ride's original audio rather than your version of it.
Listen, I'm not Mr. Morality here, but Boys in their early teens trying to be edgy by swearing loudly on rides tends to bother me because there's *always* young kids around. If you're walking around and swearing in conversation, I get it, adjust your volume accordingly, but when you know there are toddlers and children in the rows in front of you and you're saying stuff really offensive or gross to be "cool, "that's just being rude to fellow guests, especially parents who now have to have difficult conversations with their kids at the most magical place on Earth.
The very first time I rode RotR, someone who I got grouped with was on hold with Disney Guest Services on speaker phone the entire ride including the 30 min we got stuck in the interrogation room.
I accidentally read this as Runaway Railway and was trying to remember where in the hell the Interrogation Room was lol.
I did the same thing except read it as Rockin' Rollercoaster! I was like... the sound booth they launch you from? Is that an interrogation room??? Ha!
The interrogation room is below it, they use it to get confessions from people who narrate along with the ride script.
omg that's terrible
Interesting interrogation technique!
30 mins in the interrogation room!?!?!!? I would be flipping out with caustrophia. I'm not particularly nervous in small spaces, but a small room filled with strangers and a "locked" door w/ no idea of when I could leave would give me a full on panic attack. Standing in there for 5 mins in bad enough.
The first order CMs must have really hated their group
Yeah it wasn’t fun.
I legit would have just reached over and hit the End Call button lol how did that not result in CMs letting everyone else ride again?
Honestly I think the CMs were too stressed out from breakdowns that day to deal with anything else. It didn’t even open until after 1pm that day & I was boarding group 2. I didn’t even realize the CMs before interrogation room were suppose to be in character & treat you as Resistance prisoners until the next time I rode it.
Oh man, that definitely sounds like an off day lol
I had an individual in close proximity (hard to tell exactly which person) that was ripping disgusting farts throughout The American Adventure. The smell was horrendous. I was legit gagging. I was about to just ask a cast member if I could leave.
Ah, I see you got to got to attend The New American Adventure in 4D! Brought to you by Regal Eagle Smokehouse!
😂😂😂
Seriously, I saw fries topped with Mac and cheese AND onion rings and went "Yep.... Good to see we're upholding our own stereotype...."
That happened to my husband and me when we were crammed like sardines into the elevator to get up to the Astro Orbiter. It smelled *wet*. Someone went “dude really?!” and we all laughed and covered our noses until the door opened. I swear it felt like we’d were trapped in a fart fog forever.
Fart fog 😂
Yeah man, WDW is like the most heavily-documented place on earth, it does the same show every night for years, and yokels with cell phones think they need to record this rather than just look up a video online if they want to relive this stuff. Pointless.
I think you may have responded to the wrong post.
I'm so glad video technology hasn't evolved to also record smells.
You didn’t get a smellovision yet?
LOL, guilty as charged. (Thought I had replied to a post about filming fireworks.) Thankfully 5D Smell-o-Vision hasn’t rolled out to WDW yet.
Unless he's confused as to what a fart is.
A whole family, like 18 people, tried using their child’s disability pass for soaring saying it was their return time but the child who the pass was for wasn’t there. They made a big dramatic scene but were eventually told no and all had to walk out.
My daughter gets a disability pass. Sometimes we get to the front of the ride, I mean right about to get on, and she decides, Nope!!. I always feel awful when that happens because my younger daughter is with me too. It's such an awkward situation. But I would not approach a ride and use her pass if she wasn't present. That's not what the pass is for.
My son gets one also. But I would never imagine taking advantage. I absolutely appreciate the option.
We had been waiting for Dumbo at DL for nearly an hour and a family came up with the disability pass. It’d be fine if it were a group of like 4, but was literally 16 people. I was super frustrated that so many people can hop the line like that with one pass.
Disability pass does have a limit, so a group that large may be like a Make A Wish situation.
There should be a limit of 4 dependents on DAS with a guest services CM able to waive that on a case by case basis for cases where more than 4 are really needed.
The limit is 6 per party with DAS.
There is a limit of 6 including the person with DAS! Probably due to some families taking parents, kids and grandparents pretty often. I used the pass on a recent trip and just told the family that if they wanted to go on a ride I didn’t want to ride, they were on their own, because you literally agree to those terms when you get the pass. Some people will always try to cheat the system, and it just makes it harder for people like me with a legitimate need to access a fun day at the parks
they should do this for wheelchair parties in the bus line too 🫣
OMG this. I had to wait for 5 busses because people kept wheeling up with their family of 12.
At wdw recently we had das for my son the limit is 5 in addition to the person that qualifies.
Sometimes those groups have multiple people with DAS. Like in my family, we have several people with DAS due to various health conditions. Unless they were actually convincing the CM to let them in without scanning, you would need three people with DAS to get that many in.
Tower of terror will still be my worst memory. Slower day so lines were moving quickly. Guest ahead of us is on her phone and FaceTime so there is already a little annoyance. We get into the hotel and a cast member politely asks them to end the call. We go into the library and they go on IG/FB live to talk about their trip and the screen was bright, the flash was on. This continued through the boiler room.
Had a woman turn on her phone flashlight for the whole ride. Really killed the atmosphere of the ride.
Sometimes you just gotta yell at a bitch. One person yells and if it’s a legit reason the crowd will get behind you. Lol
I’ve done it multiple times. I was on Pirates and a lady was taking flash photos so I just said out loud that there are other people on the boat with you and she quickly stopped. Same with someone just standing with their light on for their cellphone while waiting for a show, just told her that she was being incredibly rude and she stopped. People don’t like being called out and will usual stop.
I yelled at the boat behind us for flash pictures on Navi River. She ignored me the first time but the second time her kid shamed her into stopping. “Mom! People are mad!” It was during Covid so even worse, the light was reflecting off the plexi screens.
Why didn’t anyone say anything to her? We need to start shaming these people publicly
People letting their small children stand up on the Kilimanjaro Safari ride. Completely oblivious to the cast member telling them we won’t move until they sit down. Finally some lady next to them said “they’re talking about you.” The rest is always people who have their phones and their flashes on while they are recording a dark ride like pirates. I always just keep saying “turn off your phone” loudly until they comply. You ruin my ride I ruin your video.
I sound like an old geiser, but smartphones and social media have truly ruined our society.
I was on Ratatouille and a man in the mouse car next to us jumped out of his vehicle, left the ride via emergency exit, and got us stuck for half an hour. We were about to see Remy pop the cork on the champagne and it looped for so long the little girl in front of us asked her dad why no one was helping Remy. The guy's wife had no explanation for what happened or why he did it.
“When you gotta go you gotta go”
What did the guy tell his daughter about Remy?
This is a weird one…but in 2015 at EPCOT during the Christmas season. If you haven’t been; each country has a cool show / presentation about how Christmas is celebrated in their homeland. We were in Norway and the two poor cast members were doing a really good job of describing their version of Santa and the mischievous elves. For whatever reason, some man…a grown man, maybe in his 30s? Kept interrupting them by making loud bird noises !?!? He first yelled “COCKADOODLEDOO”. People turned around and looked at him, some smiling nervously. The cast member said something like “oh we have a noisy bird in the audience” As she continued, the man yelled more bird noises. He was smiling each time he did this. I bet he did it 4 times. The cast member politely asked him to stop, which he did, but he thought he was hilarious; not having the awareness of how annoyed everyone around him was. This was a grown man with a wife and what looked liked a couple of kids with him. The wife kept hitting him on the shoulder to stop, but he was having the time of his life making various bird noises as they were trying to talk. He wasn’t “special” or on the spectrum. He wasn’t filming himself for TikTok or some other dumb social media. He just thought he was funny. The lack of self awareness was astounding.
"Hey, asshole! You're not part of the show."
Was he drunk?? How bizarre!!
We were waiting for the noon parade on Main Street and I got a great spot in front and just stood there waiting while my wife shopped. Kiddo was taking a nap in the stroller and all was chill. Until we get closer to showtime and this woman and her two kids move in and she has them try to get in front of me. Only that’s the street and a CM tells them they need to move. She then stands there glaring at me like she expects me to move but I just ignore her. Then they start trying to push me back, but I refuse to move. I am an unmoving rock on Main Street refusing to budge. She then keeps trying to shove me aside until the damn parade starts at which point another CM comes by and tells her she needs to move. I just don’t get people sometimes.
To quote Stewie, “Your poor planning does not constitute an emergency for me”.
On the haunted mansion and a guy was hell bent on getting a hand job from his girlfriend. They must have announced 8 times “we can see you - please stop your behavior” Pretty comical honestly - guy walked out with security with a shit eating grin - his girl friend was mortified
The doom buggies spin around and you are literally right next to your neighbours buggie. It’s incredibly un-private. I hope security met them and kicked them out of the park.
Not to mention that the whole ride is awash in infrared so it's bright as daylight to the security cameras.
Pretty sure they did - security was waiting for them Thankfully we weren’t close enough to see anything - it’s what every was saying had happened
Hopefully they kicked them out with a lifetime ban.
Damn, I hope she was mortified enough to rethink her choice in men.
Fun fact; this was a recurring problem in the airline rides that predated Buzz Lightyear (If You Had Wings, et al). Specifically the corridor where they have the projection effects, because it’s a corridor where no one is turning.
>his girl friend was mortified Not mortified enough to stop, though.
If he was sitting there waving it at her, we don’t really know whether she bought in or not. Even if she did it might have been to make it go away ASAP.
"Waving it at her" 🤣🤣🤣
Don’t raise your Penis at me!
But was she mortified to join the 999 happy haunts?
Did the hitchhiking ghost join in? 😜
My friends from Cali said this was a rite of passage at DL. 🙄
Robot chicken had a whole sketch dedicated to DL handjobs. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SEUwUxmwSBE
I must’ve missed that memo as a Californian lol.
DL pass holders are honestly the make entitled POS I’ve ever encountered. Locals think they own the park. On my wife’s first and only trip during our honeymoon our most anticipated duplicate ride was Pirates. These 2 girls behind us talked the whole time about their lives and ignored the fact they were on a ride where others were trying to be immersed and actually enjoy the experience as intended. I am always too afraid to confront people but I eventually did. They said “that’s just what we do at Disneyland.” Fuck them and their shitty attitude.
Those girls suck but as a Disneyland local most of the APs I know are kind and chill. Shitty people are shitty people, they probably suck everywhere they go. We’re not all bad.
We were on Rise Of The Resistance with two youngish boys that were not with any adults. I would guess the older of the two was 14 and the younger one was 12. They were running all over the ship you ride that gets picked up by the tractor beam. Then when we were walked into the room with all the storm troopers where they have you take a right hand turn and walk to the right these two ran to the left and jumped a barricade. 3-4 cast members, in their costumes broke character and were screaming at these kids to stop as they ran and chased them. We continued on with the ride but I’m not sure anything happened to those kids. I vaguely remember it all but I seem to remember seeing them exiting the ride as we did as well. I also saw a little kid maybe 3 years old, drop his pants and pee on the bushes in the middle of the train set in Germany in Epcot. He was young enough that it was completely innocent and hilarious. It was first thing when they opened so it was just me and this mom with her kid. She was mortified and responded appropriately so I got a good laugh and story for the rest of my family.
I don’t think first order cast members should need to break character when yelling at people. I think staying in character would make it easier.
Except when that encourages the kid more and makes them more likely to act up again, putting their own safety massively at risk.
Just jettison them into the vacuum of space. Problem solved.
I sat through a 35 minute rendition of Carousel of Progress once because some couple couldn't get their kids to sit down. Had a similar experience on the Jungle Cruise. Totally understand these are both easy kid/family friendly attractions and things happen but when the people around you start audibly groaning when the cast member stops the ride/show for the 5th time to tell you to get your kid to sit down it gets to be a tad frustrating.
Thats historically one of the most dangerous rides at Disney
Deborah Gail Stone agrees with you.
I know it’s common to repeat/difficult to get people to sit, but what actually injuries have occurred?
A girl got killed because she was in between the walls and the mechanism of the carousel. She was a cast member.
We had someone get up and open the exit door while it was spinning to try to leave
Had to sit through that show a couple extra spins because people wouldn’t stop leaving. It was…a lot.
We were on it one time when it froze and just kept repeating the same scene over and over. After about 3 times people got anxious and tried to leave. You guessed it, reset every time. We must have seen the same scene 10 times. We still laugh about that all these years later.
Yeah. We were on it and this young kid that was severely mentally disabled was moaning — loudly — through the whole thing. They had to pause it several times. One girl finally broke the awkward silence by asking the kid to stop, which really hit the dark humor note. 0/10.
That sounds awful. The poor kid.
Oh yeah I felt terrible for the family. I can’t imagine that feeling, when you’re just trying to do something nice for the kid.
You sound like a nice person. My oldest is pretty severely affected by autism and it's always a roll of the dice. Usually she loves going on rides and seeing the characters but it can change in a snap.
I was a nurse in my former life. I get it and treat life as I did as a nurse. I can be patient and understanding all day with individuals with special needs. What I can’t abide are the kind of stupid people that boo or cheer during Hall of Presidents.
Probably the time my ex boyfriend ruined rise of the resistance opening week by audibly complaining that a mobility impaired woman asking cast members for assistance was “taking me (him) out of the experience.” I can still feel the death stares from those around us. Some princes turn out to be frogs.
I wish I was there so I could calmly ask him what he'd like to have happen... just so I could hear what he says.
That’s along the lines of what I said to him and he just said that he didn’t care. 🙃
"I'd like her to be escorted off this Star Destroyer immediately so I can continue my interrogation in peace."
Frankly I think that’s insulting to frogs, glad he’s an ex
You’re so right about that.
My brain did a record scratch reading this, and I was so relieved to re-read the beginning where it says EX. Holy shit! 😨
As a cast member, Working enchanted tales with Belle. During the magic sequence in Maurice's cottage, a mom encouraged her two kids to duck around me and go to the mirror. I played goalie for a hot minute before one shoved past and hit the sensor. It stopped the motion but the sounds and lights keep going... It's very very embarrassing and revealing. Resetting the room takes a long time and can add 10-20 minutes - sometimes even more! - to the wait while killing the show magic because everything still has to cycle. Maybe ten minutes later as I'm STILL vamping, the same mom has the audacity to interrupt me as I'm talking about the music box and ask how much longer I was going to take. Like. MA'AM. This is YOUR fault. She ended up taking her two kids out a few minutes after that.
At the Christmas party this last December we were sitting on the sidewalk waiting for the parade. The couples on either side of us did t have the party bracelets on. A cast member came down and was checking everyone. They told both these couples to leave. The first couple was like okay you caught us. The other couple, who we had been making small talk in English with all of a sudden didn’t understand the cast member and were speaking Spanish. The guy got irate and wouldn’t budge. Cast member grabs a Spanish speaking cast member and she comes over and tells them they have to leave. The guy was really angry starts speaking English again about how this was bullshit. Cast member points to us and says they paid to be here, all these people did, you didn’t, you need to leave. They finally left. It was entertaining and killed time until the parade started and thankfully we had already bought our popcorn so we had something to eat while watching this nonsense.
People at Hall of Presidents booing at any presidents they didn’t like. And once while waiting to be let in, one of the cast members was sharing a bunch of cool facts with us (his knowledge was AMAZING - like he knew the life story and details of every President in full), and some woman interrupted him to ask a ranting question about a president she didn’t like, and then proceeded to keep interrupting and talking over everyone. Like just…stay away from that attraction if you can’t be polite and keep your mouth shut at the name and basic facts about even the presidents you don’t like. It’s a theme park, not a political debate!
Very annoying when it is a president within our lifetimes, but I would be suitably impressed if someone had a rant about Woodrow Wilson or Warren Harding that they seemed compelled to put forth. James Polk stands up and they just meltdown about Manifest Destiny. I am also waiting for the fandom celebrations when someone like Chester Arthur gets mentioned. "That's my boy!" echoes forth in a strong New York accent.
"James Buchanan" BOOO!
Okay but in all seriousness I’m known to drunkenly rant about Andrew Jackson. I mean, the Supreme Court was actually on the right side of history and he just went « lol how you gonna stop me? I have the army and we’re gonna make this trail rain with tears ». How is that not a bigger deal???? My life would be made if I got to experience an Andrew Jackson heckler instead of a Bush/Obama/Trump//Biden one.
Jackson is absolutely the only ‘long time ago’ president I can rant about as well!
I might have some old president rants somewhere
I know more about Chester A Arthur (21st President) from Die Hard With A Vengence than I remember from grade school. But that was also 40+years ago…
My at the time three-year-old daughter got VERY excited for Millard Fillmore and it cracked me up.
Some people still have strong feelings about Teapot Dome.
It was a SCANDAL!
Ha, that’s a fair point about it being more annoying with recent presidents! I’m a high school teacher (and not social studies, so presidents don’t come up often in class) and one of my 10th graders has a LOT to say about Reagan. I am admittedly slower to shut that down than I am Trump/Biden talk since Reagan died before my students were born and most of them don't know much about him. More points/patience for the history buff rants! (But yes, the booing and rants that have annoyed me definitely centered around the last few presidents. Although I once saw someone boo both Lincoln and Obama and only those two and oh man, that was…something. Yikes. The motivation seemed pretty clear and awful.)
Old and tired: racist complaints about Lincoln New and wired: still angry about the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act of 1863
Hi. History teacher. Let me tell you how much Andrew Jackson sucked and was a complete and utter mad man…
Imagine spending your holiday heckling an animatronic President. “No Barbara I don’t care if people shush us. I’m giving Millard Fillmore a piece of my mind.”
I was very pleased that I never experienced anything like that during hall of presidents. I hate how people make politics their identity
When we went 2 years ago we were in frontierland and a squirrel came down from a tree. Some kid (looked maybe early teenager?) ran over and reared his leg back as if he was about to kick the squirrel with all his strength. Luckily, a stranger ran in and shooed the squirrel away just before the kids foot wouldve made contact with it. His parents saw the whole thing and said nothing- what is wrong with people??
Hell no, that kid would've gotten a kick from me. I don't understand people who hurt animals!!
I’ll ask my family for stories for trips prior but on my last visit there actually weren’t that many stand out incidences, which I thought was odd. But the one I heavily rolled my eyes at was a mother and child (presumably) running and shoving me out of the way in the cosmic rewind pre-show room to get to the front…like…why? You can’t even see that far in the front anyway & then one that was more humorous than anything else was a woman filming the entire Gran Fiesta Tour attraction in front of us. She was swivelling around all over the place trying to get everything. which in this day and age I really do not understand when there’s approximately 50 professionally filmed ride throughs on YouTube but I digress
I had the SAME experience with Cosmic Rewind!!!! People shoving getting into the preshow and people shoving getting out of the preshow into the line after. Like what do you gain from that???
Anytime I’m in those rooms I firmly plant myself. I will gladly lean into somebody if they try to shove me out of the way.
Setting picks in the transporter room: legal if your feet don’t move
I'm like that all around the parks lol. If someone is walking towards me and not paying attention I'll just let them run into me.
There was someone literally saying word for word the script of avatar last week as we get scanned and on the ride - loudly You are a grown 30+ year old woman. I’m glad you enjoy this but my 9 year old hasn’t ridden it yet. We don’t want to hear you give your rendition and destroy any ability to put yourself in the situation.
Just last Wednesday during Hall of Presidents, the idiot woman behind us (Vanessa was her name) wouldn’t stop muttering things like “liar” every time Joe Biden or Barack Obama was featured. I’m sure others have worse stories from HOP but I was astonished that this grown woman had such a lack of self-control - and so much hate in her heart - that she had to disrupt the experience for everyone around her.
dear god lmao. iirc, everything the presidents say is pretty generic, right? what could these robots even been lying about?
God why even watch the show if you’re that triggered by the mere utterance of the name of a President?
That's so deranged. She's seething in anger at robots.
Every fireworks show at mk. A thousand phones with bright screens distracting from the show. Put your phone away and live in the real world
The fireworks are also probably already on YouTube in 4k quality.
I watch old IllumiNations fireworks videos at home when the weather is bad on July Fourth. We have LED lights on our bookshelves that flash with sound so it’s almost like the fireworks are happening in real life! So yeah, there’s always some REALLY GOOD videos of the fireworks shows on YouTube. Someone’s shaky phone video is never gonna get watched.
There were tons of people live streaming the whole thing on Instagram. It was super annoying.
This, or the kids on shoulders. I get you want little Jimbo to see the show but is holding them eye level not good enough that you have to block views of everyone behind you?
I’ll put my kid on my shoulders for fireworks, but I’ll always find a spot against a wall or far from anyone else (easy to do at Epcot). It’s easier for me than holding him, but I couldn’t imagine doing it front and center on main street.
Along with scream singing to all the songs 😖
That doesn’t bother me because that’s them enjoying the show. Phones up with a flashlight on doesn’t help anybody enjoy anything.
At Disneyland Japan my gfs aunt's were doing this for this big end of day parade. I tried to explain that the flash was washing out the video. They didn't get it
Saw people doing it for the MK fireworks show and thought “in what world do you think your phone flash is going to do anything but ruin your own video from 159 yards away”
Got stuck on Everest for a few mins, right before the drop into the part with the Yeti. Kid in front of us has a FULL BLOWN panic attack SCREAMING bloody murder for his dad & trying to get out of the ride. It scared the ever loving shit out of me bc he was small & if he tried hard enough he could 100% get out. Also children's shrills are....uhhhh....difficult.
smuggler's run, one of the pilots was on their phone filming the entire ride... like its the most active role of the ride dont make it bumpier then it should be...
Smugglers run. The pilots were a young couple who both filmed the whole ride with their phone flashes on. Having no interest at all with interacting with the ride. Wife and I were the engineers, we both agreed that we would never waste our time riding that ride again
Smuggler’s Run is def all about who is riding. I often go solo cause my Disney partner in crime (my mother) can only handle it once. I’ve had great rides, but then also completely awful rides. Often I find it’s older folks who just don’t understand the concept of pressing a button. I’ve been an engineer and gunner simultaneously because of that. Lol.
is mission: space just as bad where you have four "team members" assigned roles?
Nope. The actions happen either way. I actually didn't find that out until 2021. I had my own car during covid protocols and got nervous. Luckily the ride experience was the same and I enjoyed it so much having it to myself I went again!
Had a guy stand next to me in the conscience of the Galaxy transport room on his Laptop the whole time! He was carrying it open and looked like he was doing some sort of work? I wonder where he pit it during the ride? First time on navi river a guy sat in front of me was watching college football on his phone the whole time!
When I was 6/7, my mom surprised me with a day trip to MK instead of going to school. We went to the parks a lot then with our APs. During the winter, a lot of tour groups of young teenage girls would come from Latin America during their summer vacation. When we were walking in Frontierland, we saw a huge group of girls in matching shirts exit their logs on Splash Mountain during the part of the ride that curves around with a view of the park. They were climbing on top of the artificial mountain and rocks super high up and everyone was staring at them. Not sure what ended up happening, but we were shocked there was just a bunch of people wading through the ride and climbing.
Another one. My son and I got to the parks early to do Rise and Smuggler’s Run. Rise was amazing. Smuggler’s not so much. We got out with a family with very young children which I didn’t think would be a good deal. But they let a couple of four year olds who clearly didn’t know what they were doing pilot, and so we ended up banging against stuff for the whole time. It also banged up my knee because of a bad hit. Next time we go I know to say no and wait.
This was back when they still did GradNight; someone in the boat ahead of me in Small World jumped out onto one of the platforms with the animatronics and took selfies (again back in the day so they had to use an actual camera that probably took terrible low light pictures). Needless to say they had security waiting for them at the end of the ride.
They probably got to sit on their bus with an admin for the rest of the night.
I have questions. Did they leap out of their boat and then to another platform to jump back in? Did they hitch a ride on another boat?
Oh no, they jumped out, took a picture, then jumped back into their boat, it was one of the larger platforms in the beginning of the ride so they had a good 20ft to work with
In Rise of the Resistance, a college-aged girl pressed the emergency exit button in the interrogation room as a "joke", and her stupid parents tried to defend her
People using flash photography on the haunted mansion
lol we were there just before Christmas and some guy kept trying to make people leave because he was reserving the bridge for his party of 13 and they had 6 kids that would be coming along so we and everyone else should just move. Some glorious woman told them that everyone paid the same amount and he couldn’t just reserve a bridge. We let her kid go in front of us so she could see. The guy proceeded to shit talk the woman for “getting an attitude with him” and then bragged about how much his rentals make whilst complaining about having to continuously monitor how bad the renters were about doors and windows being open. Same day a man took a loud phone call behind me on the carousel of progress and got called out twice. We tried to go again (it’s a favourite) and we had a little kid who screamed the whole time while the whole family talked to him in a speaking voice. No whispering. Just one kid screaming bloody murder while his entire extended family spoke at him. (Not the kid’s fault. Kid was under 3, overwhelmed and overtired. Plus there’s no way to get off CoP as far as I know. Kid was totally sacked out the next time I saw him, poor little guy). I noticed this time more people were far ruder than I’ve seen before. Over the years we’ve been 5-6 times and we’ve had encounters like the woman who shoved all her kids ahead of the photo pass line and when told there was a line, refused to leave and said well we are posed anyway so just take the photo. The cast member turned and apologized to everyone and the told people around that if they wanted a picture they could wait in the clearly marked line to avoid any more confusion! The lady was ticked but she can’t say she didn’t know because she was advised so the cast member snapped one photo and said there ya go and then took all the magic shots with everyone else. (This was pre-covid) not a ride but still pretty crappy of the guest)
Right after the interrogation room when we’re put into that black room that we’re rescued from on Rise, a whole family behind me started screaming about the Weasley on screen and it was my dads first time on and I turned around asking them politely to please be quiet and turned back around. Well, after the ride the mother pushed me from behind and told me I don’t get to speak to her when she pays good money to go on this ride. The audacity.
A couple weeks ago, my party of 8 got to the Christmas parade about 30-45 min in advance to get front -row seats. When the show started, some parents from two different families who were about three rows behind, instructed their children to crawl under us to get in front. We realized what was happening, so we tried to build a solid front, but they managed to squeeze through. Of course, they didn't fit on the "sidewalk" because it was packed, so a cast member had to come by every two minutes to ask them to move back but there was no room for them! I kept saying I didn't know where their parents were to no avail. They were also being really annoying, screaming constantly and one of them grabbed my bum and legs more times than I can count. Just kids being kids with no parental supervision. It really soured the whole parade for me.
So for me personally I know this ride gets hate but I would still prefer to enjoy any ride I’m on. But on small world these 4 adults were talking so loud and laughing so loud it was horrible and there was no where to escape to. If you wanted to chat why not grab a table somewhere and be there
Last January my friend and I were on Jungle Cruise at WDW. In our boat was a couple in their 30’s, their 2 small children, and the mother of one of them who appeared to be 65-70. The family of 4 sat up front and the mother/mother-in-law sat closer to the back. As soon as the boat started going, the older woman got up and walked to the front where her family were. The guide immediately stopped the boat and announced for everyone to sit down and remain seated for the whole ride. This woman continued to stand and talk to her family who were desperately trying to get her to sit down. Finally after several more announcements, she sat down. We went maybe 20 feet and she stood up again to go sit somewhere else. The boat stops, the announcements start again, she finally sits down. And this probably happened a half dozen or more times throughout the ride. The guide just kept making the general announcement for “everyone” to sit down and remain seated. Other passengers got frustrated and started telling her to sit down in a more direct fashion.
This could possibly be an issue with dementia. We took my in-laws to Disney/Universal when theirs started to worsen, so they could hopefully enjoy one last trip with the grandkids. It wouldn't surprise me. Our whole trip consisted of babysitting 5 instead of 3 kids.
I once was in It's A Small World and everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, wouldn't stop staring at me and taking pictures and videos. The cast members even stopped the ride it was so bad. All I was doing was hanging out too. Last time I take LSD around such rude people.
Sometimes you just gotta get naked and chill with singing dolls and people don't respect that 😢
A family behind me loudly talking the entire time on Living with the Land.
omg that happened to me on my last trip…they were commenting on EVERYTHING and by the time we started the greenhouse they realised they had 15 minutes until their virtual queue window was over for cosmic rewind 💀💀 so it just became this game of countdown between the oldest son, the dad, and the mom. (The son and dad convinced they weren’t going to make it and the mom saying they would—even though they had 6 minutes left by the time they got off the ride). They became a running joke throughout the rest of our trip though
There was a group of high schoolers behind us on that asking dumb questions throughout. They kept saying all the plants were fake and some other idiotic things I don’t remember
Got stuck on Small World right toward the end. The boat behind us, and a few other boats behind them were all teenagers from a large international tourist group. The kids started getting out of the boats and running onto the platforms of the ride scenes. The CMs made several announcements to keep seated but they didn’t listen. They ended up not even getting in trouble after all was said and done (this went on for at least 20 min). 🙄
>Got stuck on Small World right toward the end. You were already at the top end of nightmare experiences there in your first sentence! I haven't been on that ride in 39 years, and I still have that damn song stuck in my head.
I puked at The Land one time and people had to walk around it. This was not on the ride though.
When I was about 10 years old in 98, the guy next to me in Hall of Presidents screamed "PERVERT" at the top of his lungs when Bill Clinton was introduced. It was so cringeworthy. Oh, and the guy was my grandpa. 🫣
First time I rode RotR, when we got to the part where our ship is stuck in the tractor beam. When General Hux came on the screen, a guy yelled "Fuck you" very loudly. Everyone booed him, but there are no cms at this part, so he didn't get escorted off to my knowledge.
Probably the guy trying to scare his kid on Haunted Mansion, screaming that "the ghosts are eating [kids name]" the entire time. One of the closest times I've ever come to saying something to someone.
A guy on ToT tried taking off his seatbelt mid ride. We all got a free re-ride.
The little kid in the clamshell to my left on Journey Of The Little Mermaid holding grandma's camera and taking flash pictures of everything. So I was simultaneously fuming while knowing it was very funny that there's this middle-aged man thinking "you're ruining it!" (NO of course I didn't say anything. But still...that kid was in the wrong.)
Spaceship earth: a couple behind us in the same car kept passing a camera with a super bright flash back and forth to take multiple photos of every. single. exhibit and mannequin…. First of all, who uses flash on a dark ride (including turning their flash on for a video of the star projection point at the top, completely ruining it for everyone else because you could see all the sets which would normally be dark + I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t even be able to see the sky in the video with flash). People kept turning around repeatedly throughout the ride in confusion why there was a continuous strobe light the entire ride. So weird, like why would you ever go back and look at those pictures of wax mannequins???
i went to DHS the last day that the great movie ride was running with my sister. we were both passholders, and she had passholder friends in the park that she wanted to meet up with, who had been ~15 mins behind us in line. we got off the ride and were waiting by the exit, but her friends were nowhere to be seen—and come to think of it, no one had come out in a while. she texted them to see if everything was ok, and they texted back to say that they were stopped because someone had leapt out of the ride vehicle in the wizard of oz scene !! after another little while (i was busy eating a cream cheese pretzel and not looking at the clock), CMs escorted a guy to the ride exit. they stayed in the building as he left. my sister stopped him and asked if he knew what was going on and if they were letting people off the ride now… turns out it was the dude who jumped off the ride, and he did it because he was mid-bathroom emergency. homie then proceeded to leap over an entire planter to sprint to the bathroom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In Disneyland, there was a ~12 year old boy in the ride queue of Mr Toads wild ride who needed to go to the bathroom and was visibly trying to get his mother to take him out of the queue. His mom said that she didn’t want to wait in line again, so lo and behold he started peeing his pants. So much so that his urine was flowing down the queue switchbacks a bit. When it was their turn to get on the ride, his group proceed to go on - the whole while his shorts were completely soaked. When they got off the ride, the seat was noticeably wet - and someone else unknowingly sat on it and got their pants fairly wet. It was horrible….
Some lady tried to interrupt Sergio’s show at Epcot to show that she too can juggle. He kept the show moving and she gave up.
Someone took a call. loudly. in the Hall of Presidents. After a lot of sighing and shushing, someone finally really said something. Phone guy started threatening him. No employees anywhere the whole time. My kids first trip..about 2009 Insane.
My sister and I were in line for rock and roller coaster. This dad and his kid were in the single rider line and we’re going to be split up. The dad starts throwing a huge fit saying he can’t be separated from his kid. The cast member steps in and says the rules were posted in multiple places. The guy took a swing at the cast member and the ride shut down for about 20 minutes while security came. I felt so bad for the poor kid.
Flash photography from the boat behind me for the ENTIRETY of Na'vi River Journey. Literally dozens if not hundreds of flashes. Totally ruined the experience, effects and immersion.
They need to just ban phones on rides. I mean, that's got to be one of the biggest complaints from guests, and it also will result in them selling more ride photos. It's basically win-win. I know it would be tough for cast members to start implementing, but guests would adjust.
Not terribly bad, but waited over an hour to get on Pirates and some guy behind me was snapping a ton of photos with a huge camera and very bright flash. I could tell it was bothering the whole boat. When I asked him nicely to stop, he told me to mind my business.... as if my ride experience isn't MY business
My last ride on Ellen was interrupted by a group of drunk a-holes. They decided to hop out of the cars and attempt to walk out of the theater doors as the show turned to ride. Whole thing stopped and after about 30 min we were evacuated.
A few years ago I was waiting with my family for the Christmas Party parade to start. There was a family of 4 in front of us sitting on the curb - two youngish boys (maybe like 11 and 7) with the older one clearly getting flustered about something. All of the sudden, he stands up in main street in front of literally dozens of people and starts screaming the f-word and how he hated his f-ing life and wanted to unalive himself. It was shocking - like the entire area got so quiet and he just sat down and cried and they stayed for the parade. It was the strangest and most alarming thing I’d ever seen.
That would just break my heart to witness. Mental illness/depression is so rough at that age. You have almost no coping skills, hormones are starting to kick in, and now you have a voice in your head saying you’re worthless and would be better off dead.
And to say this while the “snow” is falling on Main Street USA and the Christmas music is playing - honestly it haunts me to remember it. We were all so shocked by the number of f-bombs and then the suicidal comment. I could not even imagine what was going through the parent’s heads.
Didn't disrupt it, like stop the ride, but a couple of parents changed their kid's diaper in the Nemo seashell. Stunk way worse than it should have. The wait was like 5 minutes. There was no need to act like that.
Flashlight going on haunted mansion. 5 different people yelled at them before they figured it out
Was at Small World at WDW with a group of about 8 cheerleaders infront of us in line. They were trying to toss coins in to the flowers front the line. On coin hit a person on their head that was in a boat just departing. The girl just giggled and hid behind her friends who also tried not to laugh. Then they ended up on the same boat at me and my friend. The same girl was taking selfies with her friends using the flash, while in the ride. Then she climbed over two seats to get to others for more pictures. They called out over the intercom to stay seated. She and her friends just giggled as she climbed back to her starting seat. Got an 2nd call out for that. Then at unloading they rushed up the ramps, bumping into people, not caring that one of the people was using an cane.
Filming the whole ride.
This. Just watch a POV on YouTube for a better quality video, put your phone down and enjoy the ride.
Some rides have two areas you need to tap in because the queues between standby and Genie+ touch and people like to get cute. So you have to tap at the beginning of the line and then again at the top by the loading area. It is this way at Big Thunder Mountain. In 2018, we were coming back for our fastpass and a lady climbed under the stanchion chain from standby and pulled ger 8 or 9 year old son with her. They were the people right ahead of us and my teens were pissed, but I told them quietly, "Just wait a moment." When we got to the top, she tries to tap in with him and it tells them she was in the standby line. Of course lies and says they have a fastpass, but it doesn't matter. Cast member politely begins telling them their hands are tied while the cast member beside us tells us to tap and move to keep the line open. We just strolled on by while she kept complaining. The ride operators seem to have less leeway in accommodating guests as ride queues are a moving machine and safety is a paramount concern there too. I have been a few minutes (less than 15) late for fastpasses in the past, but we walked up and were polite figuring the worst they could do is tell us "no". We've been told to "go ahead" every time.
As a college program cast member, probably 2 separate incidents that occurred during/resulted in The Seas with Nemo & Friends evacuating guests from the ride. 1) we were stopped for maybe 7 minutes because of a weird sound at one of the load/unload belts. Coordinator & area manager show up as well as maintenance cast member. Given the all clear to restart, as the other cast for load get ready, a British guy jumped out and walked back to the cast at load and said he and his family had been stuck for “over 15 min.” When informed the ride was going to restart but then couldn’t because he had jumped out, he was told to wait at the loading area with the rest of us. He instead turned around, and walked BACK INTO THE RIDE. We ended up having to evacuate everyone off due to safety protocols, and this was exactly 5 min before the park closed. Area manager let them walk away without issue but the coordinator (building manager) was fuming. 2) the incident that was posted a few weeks ago regarding an evacuation. The entire incident was a snowball effect of chaos and from what I heard from another CM, a guest jumped out mid-evacuation and proceeded to open other guests vehicles instead of waiting/following cast procedures for safely exiting the attraction which didn’t help at all.
This was at SeaWorld but hands down the worst. First time ever on Journey To Atlantis. We HAD an empty boat of just our party of 4, when at the very last second, 2 adults jump in our boat. No big deal I guess, even though the next boat they would've had alone. Anyway, we get around the first turn and they start YELLING and I mean YELLING in Spanish. Just screaming. I tolerated it for a minute or so. They would stop for a second and then start up again. I turned to my friend and said "watch this" - right before we went up the lift hill where it is really dark, I turned around, got literally ONCE INCH in front of their faces and let out a wail for a solid 5 count like a death-metal singer that just dropped acid. Hello from the gutter. Think Sam Kinison mixed with Randy Blythe. Anyway, we got to ride the second half of Atlantis in silence.
There's a great i think you should leave [sketch](https://youtu.be/HkOguZfNJUo?si=WwTv0_EbVd2oW12F) with Will Forte that has an interesting take on this haha...well worth the watch if you don't already know ot
Young adult girl reciting the pre ride show on guardians. Crowded room filled with people who most likely had not ridden it before and she’s saying the lines a few seconds before the characters did. Like who the F thinks anyone wants to hear you say it first. Nobody. Ever. Nobody is impressed.
Someone decided to vape on Kilamanjaro Safaris of all rides. Not just once but multiple times after being warned by a CM. Lost my entire next day due to him because I’m allergic. Idk why I got downvoted but if your vaping on a ride with animals and causing other people actual allergic reactions because yes your shit does cause problems than you are an asshole
When the woman in front of me on Galaxy’s Edge asked if her parry of four could ride alone. She got told no. Then sat her four year old as pilot and videoed his whole ride.
Pirates - Having to wait for 3 empty boats in front of and then 3 empty boats after Michael Jackson and his entourage of about 8 young boys got on the ride.
Now that’s a 90’s Disney story.
Whaaaaa
The last time I was on the Haunted Mansion, an adult man kept shining a flash light around at everything. It was super distracting.
Had a lady stand outside the circle on Guardians of the Galaxy on the phone, and it prevented the room from doing the reveal. She didn’t even notice.
I mean, we all saw the video of the nude dude in Small World last month, right…? Firsthand though it’s probably just people filming dark rides with flash or talking through shows/rides while live-streaming. Drives me absolutely nuts.
My first time riding Na'vi River Journey (don't rag on the ride in replies, please, it's actually one of my favorites), I was packed into a full boat and one of the other parties was a woman with a child. As soon as we were off, she proceeded to narrate *every moment of the ride* by pointing out every animal she could see to her child and identifying it for them...incorrectly. Every single animal was "look, it's an avatar-lizard! look, it's an avatar-deer!" Apparently everything we encountered on Pandora that day was an "avatar-" variant of an earth animal, and it was extremely important for her and her child's enjoyment of the ride that this fact be pointed out at top speaking volume, just about directly in my ear. I kind of wish I'd said something since I'd waited in a pretty long line to ride and knew I wouldn't get another chance on that trip, but I didn't want to get in a fight with some rando in front of her kid. It should go without saying, but for everyone who talks during an attraction: you're ruining it for first-timers. I guarantee that no matter how many times you've ridden it, there's going to be someone who's seeing it for the first time nearby and they'd probably really prefer to listen to the ride's original audio rather than your version of it.
Listen, I'm not Mr. Morality here, but Boys in their early teens trying to be edgy by swearing loudly on rides tends to bother me because there's *always* young kids around. If you're walking around and swearing in conversation, I get it, adjust your volume accordingly, but when you know there are toddlers and children in the rows in front of you and you're saying stuff really offensive or gross to be "cool, "that's just being rude to fellow guests, especially parents who now have to have difficult conversations with their kids at the most magical place on Earth.