What the hell??? You clearly are not a journalist. Please erase the word tragedy from your autocorrect. You don’t deserve to type it. I hate that I clicked this link.
I never comment but when I saw tragedy I thought someone was killed too. Def poor choice of a word with so much going on in the world. Disappointment might be a better choice???
Pretty sure Disney doesn’t give out Fastpasses for inconvenience anymore. We were stuck in line for Rise of the Resistance for an hour and a half and someone eventually came and opened the emergency exit so we could go back to the park.
I concur. The ride breakdown was unfortunate, and in my opnion symptomatic of the current neglect, but to call it a tragedy when children are being shelled is perhaps a regretable choice of words.
Oh my goodness THANK YOU for this! I seriously thought someone died. I love Disney and have rides that are very dear to my heart but I would never label it tragic if I missed an opportunity.
Tragedy is the war in Ukraine. Tragedy is innocent children dying because of power hungry adults. Disney guests not able to experience a ride is not a tragedy. A little perspective, please!
Granted it’s been several years since my last Disney excursion, but it seems like paying to be in the park and then spending half the day waiting in line for one ride would seem really annoying to me.
Tragedy? Very tone deaf for what is going on in the world.
Come on- they didn’t get to ride a ride. Upsetting- maybe. But tragedy? 🤦🏻♀️
Y’all need to do better when picking writers. This is absurd.
Other then the word tragedy being inappropriately used, this entire article is months old the lines are only 2 hours tops. May want to fact check before a post.
trag·e·dy
/ˈtrajədē/
Learn to pronounce
noun
1.
an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.
“a tragedy that killed 95 people”.
I don’t think a ride malfunction causing no physical harm applies to the word tragedy.
Tragedy? I thought someone died!
Boohoo! people didn’t get to ride a ride!
A poor senor got carjacked in New Orleans that ended in an actual tragedy.
Please fire this writer already!
ROTR not running is not a “tragedy.” Tragedy is what is happening in the Ukraine. Poorly written, queue lines have been an hour to two hours, not four. Again, delete the word “tragedy” and do not use again. What is wrong with you all?
I was thinking the same thing as others when I first saw the article. Half a world away, a country is going through pure anguish, pain and suffering, a real tragedy. I’m sorry but people waiting in line for 2 or 3 hours for a ride only to have it break down is not in that same realm.
So a ride for $20 AND get to burn the whole day waiting for it? Plus Disney park admission and parking and gas to get there? Then it breaks down often?
I’m sure there’s a demographic that sees the logic if the experience. I’m with the crowd who says screw that stupidity.
Please don’t use tragedy in the title of the article. Inconvenience is all it is considering the things going on around the world. Rein in the ‘sky is falling’ attitude in most of your articles.
So, if they were evac’ed off the ride, they would have got fast passes to ride it another day, right? Have to say I agree with pretty much all the other commenters here… Tragedy was not the word to use. I thought the tragedy would be that the ride broke down in the sense that part of the ride fell on someone and they were fighting for their life in the ER. I didn’t think an unfortunate but common point of irritation/disappointment warrants being classified a tragedy. It’s like saying a person who buys a lottery ticket just to find out at the time of drawing that they had picked the wrong numbers is a tragedy… Because, increasingly, going to WDW is like gambling on the hope of getting to do what you want.
Glad others have jumped on the ‘tragedy’ train. I was expecting to see someone died and instead people lost $20. Sweet lord, with all we’ve been through the last couple years….
Tragedy is what is happening in Ukraine. Senseless violence, fleeing their homes, and innocent people dying. A ride breaking down at a theme park is a disappointment, at best.
Count your first world “problems” as blessings and step away from the keyboard until you gain some perspective.
Oh, and your privilege is showing. You might want to tuck that back in.
At first I thought that someone was maimed or had expired! After reading the whole article, I thought to myself. We are going to be charged 20$ for an attraction or ride? Are you kidding me? This is not the WDW that I know and love! I have a vacation coming up. I’ve already bought The Birmbounds ( I might have spelled this incorrectly) Official Guide to WDW. I wanted to go in May. With the prices the way that they are, Costa Rica is sounding better. I’ve been there before and no children are coming on this vacation. I miss WDW before the Pandemic.
Short term, got me to click. Long term, I will never click on insidethemagic article again. A wannabe writer who starts with 3 long paragraphs of backstory and info before getting to the point. You’re not Mickey Spillane! You’re barely making $8/hr and trying to add preface backstory like you’re working for a real info outlet as opposed to 2 people and a laptop organization. Losing me isn’t a huge problem, but the $8/hr writing is a HUGE problem. Good luck with the backstories! 100 people could die on Slinky and this writer would spend 3 long paragraphs with “Slinky is a roller coaster with a slinky dog in the front where enthusiasts from around the world ride in a 2-minute long coaster. BTW, 100 people died”
I have to agree with all those that commented before me about the choice of wording… This is far from a tragedy! But I suppose for these over sensitive snowflakes that get offended by everything, maybe this is a tragedy in their eyes. Horrible writing!!!
Walt Disney a long ago became walt Greed. Money up front and just lines in front of you. Choose other parks or others options. Disney is not where your dreams come true. The true is when in Disney, your nigthmares become real. Over price, long lines not even sodas discounts. We are talking about an enterprise that bought everything, Marvel. ESPN, Statwars and so forth. Shareholder first and costumer last but their money upfront, of course.
Can we all agree that the term “tragedy” in a news article should be reserved for actual tragedies (i.e. millions dead from the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine, a horrible car accident etc.) and NOT used to describe the inconvenience and/or disappointment of a ride at a massively overpriced theme park breaking down during a vacation? Especially since this particular vacation locale is exclusively in the realm of first world problems. #readtheroom
Lol you think this is bad? I waited a whole day to get on it and it broke down halfway through. Then I came back next day and it broke down again. I finally rode it the second night and honestly it ruined the ride for me.
Poor choice of a word. I thought someone died on the ride too! Tragedy is not the word to use. And Disney is ripping off guests by charging 15.00 to $20.00 per ride. Iam done with Disney.
When ROTR continues to break down multiple times per day every day and Disney just shrugs their shoulders at patrons who saved for years just for the privilege of having their whole day thusly flushed down the toilet – you bet it’s a tragedy. They deserve all the negative press coming to them. I don’t care if somebody somewhere else has it worse; those things aren’t mutually exclusive.
Funny that most of the comments are related to the use of the word “tragedy” to describe an experience that is, at most, disappointing. Getting past the nomenclature, however, RoR breaks down A LOT and waiting hours to be turned away is a huge bummer. We bought LL tickets and got a little past the pre-show before we had to be evacuated. Our time slot for the ride was at 5:30 and we were so exhausted by the time we left the ride that we did not want to wait for the attraction to be back up and then wait through the, undoubtedly, very long back-up LL queue. With the number of ride closures that DW has, LL (and even the old free FF+ system) also “breaks down”. That is reason number one that we will not return to DW. Everyone else complains about the money. I will pay whatever the cost for a good experience, but DW ride break-downs ruin that experience and no amount of money can correct that.
Alessa Dufrense, what kind of website is this that would allow their writer to give a title like this, especially with so many real tragedies happening right now? Shame on you Alessa.
Disney allows guests that stay at a Disney hotel to book for Rise of R at 7am, and are gone in minutes. The only way to get on this ride then is to wait/waste almost half of your day trying to get on a ride that may break several times a day for hours at a time. This is what happened when we visited the park last week. The only tragedy would have been to waite for hours and get screwed. The lightning passes are gone in minutes, even hotel guests got screwed the day we went. Don’t pay over $100 to spend half your day in a line for a ride that will bust and leave you hanging.
What a joke. Jeep clickbating people with words like “tragedy” and nobody will trust you or visit your ad-laden sitw. You obviously dont know what a tragedy is.
Disney allows guests that stay at a Disney hotel to book for Rise of R at 7am, and are gone in minutes. The only way to get on this ride then is to wait/waste almost half of your day trying to get on a ride that may break several times a day for hours at a time. This is what happened when we visited the park last week. The only tragedy would have been to waite for hours and get screwed. The lightning passes are gone in minutes, even hotel guests got screwed the day we went. Don’t pay over $100 to spend half your day in a line for a ride that will bust and leave you hanging.
Poor choice of words for you title. I was their online with my family when we were told its closed, yes I was upset, yes my son was upset. Then I had to explain to a 12yo, that this is ok, their are innocent lives being lost in ukrain, and we are on vacation, living free with no real worries. Please choose better titles for less attraction.
Yikes. The tragedy here is this article. ITM is getting worse and worse with each article that they pump out. I haven’t unsubscribed from emails yet, but every time I across an article like this, it becomes very tempting.
Comments for Rise of the Resistance Breakdown Ends in Tragedy For Guests
JC
Tragedy ? Bad choice of wording , especially with what is happening in the world right now.
Pandy
Agreed… Especially the repeated use of it… I thought someone died.
T
What the hell??? You clearly are not a journalist. Please erase the word tragedy from your autocorrect. You don’t deserve to type it. I hate that I clicked this link.
Mary
Exactly what I was thinking. This author really needs to look up the definition of “tragedy”.
Frann
I never comment but when I saw tragedy I thought someone was killed too. Def poor choice of a word with so much going on in the world. Disappointment might be a better choice???
Eva
Same here…glad to see so many others are feeling the same way..i doubt it will change word choice in the future.
Terra
Tragedy? First world problem is more like it. 🤷♀️
Josh C
Pretty sure Disney doesn’t give out Fastpasses for inconvenience anymore. We were stuck in line for Rise of the Resistance for an hour and a half and someone eventually came and opened the emergency exit so we could go back to the park.
Joe
If you are going to go so far as to call this a tragedy, let’s talk about the amount of pop ups on this website.
Constable Jordan Ross
I concur. The ride breakdown was unfortunate, and in my opnion symptomatic of the current neglect, but to call it a tragedy when children are being shelled is perhaps a regretable choice of words.
Bxmamipr712
I’m sorry, I couldn’t imagine. I hope things get better. 🙏
Amelia Nichols
Oh my goodness THANK YOU for this! I seriously thought someone died. I love Disney and have rides that are very dear to my heart but I would never label it tragic if I missed an opportunity.
MH
Tragedy is the war in Ukraine. Tragedy is innocent children dying because of power hungry adults. Disney guests not able to experience a ride is not a tragedy. A little perspective, please!
Jim
Give her a break. Her biggest tragedy in life thus far is probably when Star Bucks gets her latte wrong. Poor thing.
SVB65
Good 👍 one!! Bad latte’s and ride closures are such horrible horrors.
Christina
This is exceptionally tone deaf at the moment. Having to exit a ride on vacation is not a tragedy. Jfc.
Jim Ash
Granted it’s been several years since my last Disney excursion, but it seems like paying to be in the park and then spending half the day waiting in line for one ride would seem really annoying to me.
Lisa
Tragedy? C’mon man. Back to the real world for you!
Not Tragic
Tragedy? Very tone deaf for what is going on in the world.
Come on- they didn’t get to ride a ride. Upsetting- maybe. But tragedy? 🤦🏻♀️
Y’all need to do better when picking writers. This is absurd.
John
Other then the word tragedy being inappropriately used, this entire article is months old the lines are only 2 hours tops. May want to fact check before a post.
Jep
The more I read about how Disney is looking for ever more ways to nickel and dime their guests, the more I will stay away.
Elaine
trag·e·dy
/ˈtrajədē/
Learn to pronounce
noun
1.
an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.
“a tragedy that killed 95 people”.
I don’t think a ride malfunction causing no physical harm applies to the word tragedy.
Rusty
While Disney fleecing people is a vacation crime, it’s no tragedy.
Angie C.
Tragedy? I thought someone died!
Boohoo! people didn’t get to ride a ride!
A poor senor got carjacked in New Orleans that ended in an actual tragedy.
Please fire this writer already!
Jessica Hansen
Tragedy?! Disappointment at best. A tragedy would be a missive hitting a maternity hospital in the Ukraine. Yikes!
Phil
Did you really have to say it was a “tragedy” just to get people to read your boring story?
JD
Agreed
Christine
ROTR not running is not a “tragedy.” Tragedy is what is happening in the Ukraine. Poorly written, queue lines have been an hour to two hours, not four. Again, delete the word “tragedy” and do not use again. What is wrong with you all?
Brett
I was thinking the same thing as others when I first saw the article. Half a world away, a country is going through pure anguish, pain and suffering, a real tragedy. I’m sorry but people waiting in line for 2 or 3 hours for a ride only to have it break down is not in that same realm.
Duhhhh
So a ride for $20 AND get to burn the whole day waiting for it? Plus Disney park admission and parking and gas to get there? Then it breaks down often?
I’m sure there’s a demographic that sees the logic if the experience. I’m with the crowd who says screw that stupidity.
Mike
Please don’t use tragedy in the title of the article. Inconvenience is all it is considering the things going on around the world. Rein in the ‘sky is falling’ attitude in most of your articles.
Doug
So, if they were evac’ed off the ride, they would have got fast passes to ride it another day, right? Have to say I agree with pretty much all the other commenters here… Tragedy was not the word to use. I thought the tragedy would be that the ride broke down in the sense that part of the ride fell on someone and they were fighting for their life in the ER. I didn’t think an unfortunate but common point of irritation/disappointment warrants being classified a tragedy. It’s like saying a person who buys a lottery ticket just to find out at the time of drawing that they had picked the wrong numbers is a tragedy… Because, increasingly, going to WDW is like gambling on the hope of getting to do what you want.
Disney Fans Privilege
Glad others have jumped on the ‘tragedy’ train. I was expecting to see someone died and instead people lost $20. Sweet lord, with all we’ve been through the last couple years….
John DeJones
The real tragedy here is Di$ney ripping off park guests!
Di$ney should make a multimillion dollar donation to Ukraine’s wartime tragedy!
Michael Losardo
Tragedy? People having to flee their country due to being invaded is a tragedy. Not getting in the ride at Disney is a first world problem
Deborah Klingler
Not a tragedy. Disappointed yes. No one died.
The war in Ukraine is a tragedy. Perspective please.
A.H.
Tragedy is what is happening in Ukraine. Senseless violence, fleeing their homes, and innocent people dying. A ride breaking down at a theme park is a disappointment, at best.
Count your first world “problems” as blessings and step away from the keyboard until you gain some perspective.
Oh, and your privilege is showing. You might want to tuck that back in.
Trish Suvino-D'Anna
At first I thought that someone was maimed or had expired! After reading the whole article, I thought to myself. We are going to be charged 20$ for an attraction or ride? Are you kidding me? This is not the WDW that I know and love! I have a vacation coming up. I’ve already bought The Birmbounds ( I might have spelled this incorrectly) Official Guide to WDW. I wanted to go in May. With the prices the way that they are, Costa Rica is sounding better. I’ve been there before and no children are coming on this vacation. I miss WDW before the Pandemic.
Kae S.
Tragedy….WTF?? Even though others expressed their outrage over misuse of this word, I just had to add mine too. Someone should get fired.
Ollie
That’s a pretty loose definition of the word “tragedy”
Homey
Short term, got me to click. Long term, I will never click on insidethemagic article again. A wannabe writer who starts with 3 long paragraphs of backstory and info before getting to the point. You’re not Mickey Spillane! You’re barely making $8/hr and trying to add preface backstory like you’re working for a real info outlet as opposed to 2 people and a laptop organization. Losing me isn’t a huge problem, but the $8/hr writing is a HUGE problem. Good luck with the backstories! 100 people could die on Slinky and this writer would spend 3 long paragraphs with “Slinky is a roller coaster with a slinky dog in the front where enthusiasts from around the world ride in a 2-minute long coaster. BTW, 100 people died”
Jayne
Tragic?? If someone died that would be tragic. Stop being so dramatic. Unfortunate might be a better description.
BFox
I have to agree with all those that commented before me about the choice of wording… This is far from a tragedy! But I suppose for these over sensitive snowflakes that get offended by everything, maybe this is a tragedy in their eyes. Horrible writing!!!
Mikey
guests will “gladly” wait in a 4 or 5 hour line? This is the 2nd most tone deaf usage of a word that I have ever read in an article about Disneyland
ManWithBrain
*laughs in been to Disney 20+ times and this happens everyday on every ride at the end of the day*
RICHEY
Tragedy is not a broken ride at a park. Maybe we should look at what is important!
Get a dictionary
Tragedy: an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.
Matcos
Walt Disney a long ago became walt Greed. Money up front and just lines in front of you. Choose other parks or others options. Disney is not where your dreams come true. The true is when in Disney, your nigthmares become real. Over price, long lines not even sodas discounts. We are talking about an enterprise that bought everything, Marvel. ESPN, Statwars and so forth. Shareholder first and costumer last but their money upfront, of course.
Lisa
This is a disappointment, not a tragedy.
Amy
The situation in Ukraine is tragic. Missing a ride at Disney is not. Please look up what words mean before you publish.
Barry
Tragedy, when the feeling’s gone and you can’t go on.
Luce
OK seriously, tragedy is what is happening in Ukraine. This is ridiculous.
R. Dev
The obvious tragedy is a professional writer does not know the definition of tragedy. What a travesty!
Nick
If you think that a ride breaking down is a tragedy, then you probably deserve less in life.
Denise
Can we all agree that the term “tragedy” in a news article should be reserved for actual tragedies (i.e. millions dead from the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine, a horrible car accident etc.) and NOT used to describe the inconvenience and/or disappointment of a ride at a massively overpriced theme park breaking down during a vacation? Especially since this particular vacation locale is exclusively in the realm of first world problems. #readtheroom
Richard
Lol you think this is bad? I waited a whole day to get on it and it broke down halfway through. Then I came back next day and it broke down again. I finally rode it the second night and honestly it ruined the ride for me.
Andrea Co ti
Poor choice of a word. I thought someone died on the ride too! Tragedy is not the word to use. And Disney is ripping off guests by charging 15.00 to $20.00 per ride. Iam done with Disney.
Aceline
Tragedy is hardly the word….. First world problems, people…
D
When ROTR continues to break down multiple times per day every day and Disney just shrugs their shoulders at patrons who saved for years just for the privilege of having their whole day thusly flushed down the toilet – you bet it’s a tragedy. They deserve all the negative press coming to them. I don’t care if somebody somewhere else has it worse; those things aren’t mutually exclusive.
Moonbeam
Disappointment**
Dot
Not being able to ride a damn ride is only a tragedy for small privileged spoiled toddlers. Why did you waste my time?
Done With DW
Funny that most of the comments are related to the use of the word “tragedy” to describe an experience that is, at most, disappointing. Getting past the nomenclature, however, RoR breaks down A LOT and waiting hours to be turned away is a huge bummer. We bought LL tickets and got a little past the pre-show before we had to be evacuated. Our time slot for the ride was at 5:30 and we were so exhausted by the time we left the ride that we did not want to wait for the attraction to be back up and then wait through the, undoubtedly, very long back-up LL queue. With the number of ride closures that DW has, LL (and even the old free FF+ system) also “breaks down”. That is reason number one that we will not return to DW. Everyone else complains about the money. I will pay whatever the cost for a good experience, but DW ride break-downs ruin that experience and no amount of money can correct that.
Anthony
Did the ride actually “go down” or did the employees pull a McDonald’s shake machine malfunction so they could go home early?
John
Alessa Dufrense, what kind of website is this that would allow their writer to give a title like this, especially with so many real tragedies happening right now? Shame on you Alessa.
Clare
The ‘author’ ought to give up that title. I honestly thought a tragedy occurred at WDW.
Paul
Disney allows guests that stay at a Disney hotel to book for Rise of R at 7am, and are gone in minutes. The only way to get on this ride then is to wait/waste almost half of your day trying to get on a ride that may break several times a day for hours at a time. This is what happened when we visited the park last week. The only tragedy would have been to waite for hours and get screwed. The lightning passes are gone in minutes, even hotel guests got screwed the day we went. Don’t pay over $100 to spend half your day in a line for a ride that will bust and leave you hanging.
Rod
Haha. Nerds. Who cares.
Cory
What a joke. Jeep clickbating people with words like “tragedy” and nobody will trust you or visit your ad-laden sitw. You obviously dont know what a tragedy is.
Paul
Disney allows guests that stay at a Disney hotel to book for Rise of R at 7am, and are gone in minutes. The only way to get on this ride then is to wait/waste almost half of your day trying to get on a ride that may break several times a day for hours at a time. This is what happened when we visited the park last week. The only tragedy would have been to waite for hours and get screwed. The lightning passes are gone in minutes, even hotel guests got screwed the day we went. Don’t pay over $100 to spend half your day in a line for a ride that will bust and leave you hanging.
Mike
Poor choice of words for you title. I was their online with my family when we were told its closed, yes I was upset, yes my son was upset. Then I had to explain to a 12yo, that this is ok, their are innocent lives being lost in ukrain, and we are on vacation, living free with no real worries. Please choose better titles for less attraction.
M.
Liz
Yikes. The tragedy here is this article. ITM is getting worse and worse with each article that they pump out. I haven’t unsubscribed from emails yet, but every time I across an article like this, it becomes very tempting.
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