Another idiot another day. I really hope they ban this person for life for the reckless endangerment. If this guy had gotten hurt he would’ve tried to sue Disney
Whoever just wrote people who go to Disney without children should be banned is a total moron!!! My family and I go once a year for a family reunion and we are all adults now!! Whoever you are you should be banned from making stupid comments
As deapicable as the guest was, as a rider I wouldn’t have looked on it as a wasted experience. It must have been really cool to see some of the inner workings of the ride, which you wouldn’t normally get to do.
At Disneyland, I was ride-evaced (do they still call it that?), from Splash Mountain, Indiana Jones, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Different days of course. Had the best time seeing the backstages of potc and splash. The walk along the tracks of the last half of Indiana Jones was amazing.. got a close up look at the boulder and moving walls – no pics, they were watching us very closely, oh well, still, the memories I have are fantastic.
When I read ladders, as a person with a significant mobility impairment, I wonder how I would have been evacuated given water drained, ladders and getting back to the exit.
Disney is known to be inclusive to special needs. No place can accommodate any/every situation but I’m now wondering what the evacuation plan is for anyone with mobility impairments. When you get boarded on the ride, it’s typically known that you have a mobility impairment, however, people can still have one that isn’t obvious yet would cause a issue with a ladder!
Eons ago, before they did the ticket time pass to get on a ride, people with mobility equipment go to the exit to enter especially bc lines are typically not that accessible and they offer extra boarding help. It’s amazing to see how many people get pissy when you are allowed to bored before them! So judgmental staring to make sure you LOOK disabled enough. Anyways, that’s a different topic but I now want to know how they evacuate people with special needs …
Back in the mid 1990s, I was with a group of people from my church in Modesto, California. One of the guys was in a wheelchair and got to go through the wheelchair line in most of the rides. We had decided to go on Space Mountain and while waiting in the wheelchair line, the ride broke down. Since Space Mountain was broke down, we decided to walk all the way to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. When we got to the entrance, a worker for the ride said the ride was broke down and it would be at least an hour before the ride was open. Later that evening, we decided to go on Splash Mountain. We got in the wheelchair line and then got on the ride. Right when we were about to go over the big waterfall, we got about half way up the conveyor belt, the ride broke down. Staff led the group through an employee exit and offered free tickets to come back the next day; the church had other plans and had to decline the tickets.
Back in 2007, my mom and I took a trip to Disneyland Resort and flew from Portland Oregon to Los Angeles, California. I was excited to go on Splash Mountain. I got a catalog in the mailbox saying a list of rides that would be closed for maintenance during the time we would be there and Splash Mountain was one of those rides; I had to see for myself. When I got to Splash Mountain, a sign said the ride was closed due to maintenance. I was very disappointed.
I was just posting about how they evacuate people with mobility issues. I’m sure they have a plan of sorts but draining the water seems worrisome. I would expect, unless a safety issue was the problem, they would keep ppl with mobility impairments embarked and return them to the start vs trying to have special equipment that can access any area for any size person and then have a transport chair to transition safely through the evacuation paths.
Looks like you all missed a actual evacuation with your friend tho. At least the disability access line was likely much shorter so you didn’t wait in a standard line for a longer period before finding out the ride closed. I assume it might take longer to get people reversing in the standard line.
Was evacuated off of Splash Mountain a few years back due to a breakdown. Was pretty incredible. They KNEW my mom was a handicap rider and brought fire staff to help her navigate her way through the inerds of the ride and had her rented wheelchair at the exit when we got there. Pretty impressive really!!! Got to see the back side of the ride where they stash all the broken parts. They did a great job in my opinion!!!
@Bruce
Ty for posting this. It contributes to My posts inquiries about evacuation for people with disabilities.
I have additional questions regarding people who use a wheelchair or walker etc (kids, adults erc) that can’t walk or in my case, I’m a ambulatory wheelchair user and so I can’t walk far without my wheelchair or sometimes I can or can’t at all depending on how my body is acting at any given point (multiple autoimmune diseases with chronic pain and fluctuating symptoms). But at least I now know they have professional medics to prevent potential lawsuits and can accommodate multiple needs
It’s just basic ride safety procedures. Anyone who is in the ride path, even for a second, means that the emergency stop must be hit and the ride evacuated. For water rides, its easier to evacuate when the water is drained. Also water + electricity doesn’t mix, they don’t want guests to be potentially put in harms way. It’s Disney, they try to think of everything.
Got evacuated off of Test Track at Epcot once. Something happened at the end when it was in high speed mode and the brakes came on hard, stopping the vehicle very very hard and actually hitting the vehicle in front of us. A few minutes passed before we were taken off the ride and walked along a catwalk that runs next to the track.
Had to be evacuated from the Matterhorn bobsleds last year. Pretty cool actually. The man in charge of Fantasyland actually led the evacuation. I asked him (unsuccessfully) if we could see the mystical bball court up top. He teased me with the fact that we were right below it but no guests allowed. Can’t blame a girl for trying though, lol!
We had this ride (river rapids ride) close down at Dreamworld in Australia ..freak accident combined with inexperienced operators, where one of the boats tipped over near the end and 3 people went under and into the machinery that loads the boats back up the ramp. Was absolutely horrid. The clown jumping out probably didn’t realise the carnage that could have resulted…Dreamworld has never really recovered as a theme park since.
Evacuated off of this ride on June 27th at the very end of the day. One of the very last go around for the ride that day. We weren’t sure but EMS was called in. And there was whispering amongst the cast members that so.eone got stuck and died. We can’t find anything on it. But we were all worried for the person.
Evacuated off of this ride on June 25th at the very end of the day. One of the very last go around for the ride that day. We weren’t sure but EMS was called in. And there was whispering amongst the cast members that so.eone got stuck and died. We can’t find anything on it. But we were all worried for the person.
At least 3 ppl die at a disney property per day. This is why cast members are sworn to such secrecy and to NEVER break character.. Even when it comes to murder! They have multiple incinerators on each property and dispose of the bodies after harvesting the organs for big money on the black market.. They do this of course during the cover if night. Walt 33rd°
The CRAZIEST thing about this video?.. NO KIDS!! When did Disney become a sanctuary for strange adults? I knew a guy who went on his honeymoon to universal for harry potter world or whatever.. Fresh out of college.. 0 kids.. just married.. A grown man.. can go anywhere in the world.. & went w Orlando Fl!!! Place is so lame its the only city in Fl ppl flock to WITHOUT a beach. Big hot stinky concrete jungle.. standing in lines for hours w other adults wearing mickey ears eating corn dogs staring at each other wondering what went wrong.. Yuck! I’d jump too!.. From the top of the castle so I know it would be over!! This reality has gotten beyond absurd.
$150? Talk about a waste of money, between two people that’s an easy $500 for one day and more if you have kids. I’m so glad I decided a longtime again to never go back.
After events at Dreamworld in Gold Coast, Australia with the same ride, venues have been very cautious about safety and the welfare of guests… well done to the organisers who identified it n were able to avoid any issues… can understand the disappointment n frustration of the guests but safety comes first…
We broke down several years on the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland. It was so interesting to see inside the normally dark dome with the lights on. We could barely believe how close the tracks were together and how interwoven everything was. We were very near the end of the ride when it suddenly stopped. So we didn’t have any trouble exiting the cars once we were told to do so.
A few years ago, my wife and I were able to convince our 5-year old(?) son to ride Splash Mountain. He was nervous but wore a brave face. At the very peak, as we are ready to drop, the ride stopped. We were literally teetering over the edge with the front half of our log hanging into thin air.
My younger sister had tagged along for that trip and was on the ride with us. She started FREAKING OUT, screaming and crying. We told her to stop because she was getting her nephew worked up, but she was too far gone at that point.
Eventually a worker showed up to check on us, and seeing her panic, he chained our log to the metal structure and stated that we could not drop.
He came back 5-minutes later and helped us unload. We walked down the inside of the tunnel that leads up to the big drop, then through a disguised door and into the pump rooms and mechanical areas under the ride. Eventually we exited, and we were all given 2 passes to cut to the front of the line for any ride.
Turns out a rider dropped his sunglasses in the water where you board the ride, so he jumped in to find them. The employee said when they hit the emergency stop button like they did, it takes a significant amount of time to get the ride going again.
Comments for Guest Jumps From Disneyland Ride, Water Drained And Guests Evacuated
Rteker
Another idiot another day. I really hope they ban this person for life for the reckless endangerment. If this guy had gotten hurt he would’ve tried to sue Disney
Where are the Adults?
Adults who go w/o children should be banned.. This is not for you.. We are not peter pan.. Lets get back to work people!!
DC
Yeah, that’s not your call to make. Leave your kids at home when you go to Vegas and we’ll talk
Mark
Oh shush. You’re just mad because you see the adults without kids in tow having an actual good time.
Barbara
Whoever just wrote people who go to Disney without children should be banned is a total moron!!! My family and I go once a year for a family reunion and we are all adults now!! Whoever you are you should be banned from making stupid comments
Paul W
As deapicable as the guest was, as a rider I wouldn’t have looked on it as a wasted experience. It must have been really cool to see some of the inner workings of the ride, which you wouldn’t normally get to do.
Harold H
At Disneyland, I was ride-evaced (do they still call it that?), from Splash Mountain, Indiana Jones, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Different days of course. Had the best time seeing the backstages of potc and splash. The walk along the tracks of the last half of Indiana Jones was amazing.. got a close up look at the boulder and moving walls – no pics, they were watching us very closely, oh well, still, the memories I have are fantastic.
Its me Mickey seriously Karen kiss me.. Im MICKEY
Harold look at you w the hip lingo & abbreviations.. You are a pro!.. Let me guess you frequent here w/o kids.. Only w a childlike since of wonder?
KD
Paul W, I was thinking of that too, really cool to see how things work, especially Tower of Terror. There was a video of how it works.
Angela
We were stuck on Space Mountain and they turned the lights on. It was SO strange to see everything!
Issadora
When I read ladders, as a person with a significant mobility impairment, I wonder how I would have been evacuated given water drained, ladders and getting back to the exit.
Disney is known to be inclusive to special needs. No place can accommodate any/every situation but I’m now wondering what the evacuation plan is for anyone with mobility impairments. When you get boarded on the ride, it’s typically known that you have a mobility impairment, however, people can still have one that isn’t obvious yet would cause a issue with a ladder!
Eons ago, before they did the ticket time pass to get on a ride, people with mobility equipment go to the exit to enter especially bc lines are typically not that accessible and they offer extra boarding help. It’s amazing to see how many people get pissy when you are allowed to bored before them! So judgmental staring to make sure you LOOK disabled enough. Anyways, that’s a different topic but I now want to know how they evacuate people with special needs …
Nicole
This is one of my favorite rides
Carol
Am I missing something? Why did the ride have to be drained?
Fangirl
Probably because it would have been tough to evacuate guests by having them swim out. ;).
Joshua Gibson
Back in the mid 1990s, I was with a group of people from my church in Modesto, California. One of the guys was in a wheelchair and got to go through the wheelchair line in most of the rides. We had decided to go on Space Mountain and while waiting in the wheelchair line, the ride broke down. Since Space Mountain was broke down, we decided to walk all the way to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. When we got to the entrance, a worker for the ride said the ride was broke down and it would be at least an hour before the ride was open. Later that evening, we decided to go on Splash Mountain. We got in the wheelchair line and then got on the ride. Right when we were about to go over the big waterfall, we got about half way up the conveyor belt, the ride broke down. Staff led the group through an employee exit and offered free tickets to come back the next day; the church had other plans and had to decline the tickets.
Back in 2007, my mom and I took a trip to Disneyland Resort and flew from Portland Oregon to Los Angeles, California. I was excited to go on Splash Mountain. I got a catalog in the mailbox saying a list of rides that would be closed for maintenance during the time we would be there and Splash Mountain was one of those rides; I had to see for myself. When I got to Splash Mountain, a sign said the ride was closed due to maintenance. I was very disappointed.
Walt 33rd°
They had to recover the bodies at the bottom.
Issadora
@carol
What a bust!!
I was just posting about how they evacuate people with mobility issues. I’m sure they have a plan of sorts but draining the water seems worrisome. I would expect, unless a safety issue was the problem, they would keep ppl with mobility impairments embarked and return them to the start vs trying to have special equipment that can access any area for any size person and then have a transport chair to transition safely through the evacuation paths.
Looks like you all missed a actual evacuation with your friend tho. At least the disability access line was likely much shorter so you didn’t wait in a standard line for a longer period before finding out the ride closed. I assume it might take longer to get people reversing in the standard line.
Issadora
@Joshua Gibson .. mmm not sure why I saw a Carol with your post but I commented to you about the wheelchair lines and ride closures.
Bruce
Was evacuated off of Splash Mountain a few years back due to a breakdown. Was pretty incredible. They KNEW my mom was a handicap rider and brought fire staff to help her navigate her way through the inerds of the ride and had her rented wheelchair at the exit when we got there. Pretty impressive really!!! Got to see the back side of the ride where they stash all the broken parts. They did a great job in my opinion!!!
Issadora
@Bruce
Ty for posting this. It contributes to My posts inquiries about evacuation for people with disabilities.
I have additional questions regarding people who use a wheelchair or walker etc (kids, adults erc) that can’t walk or in my case, I’m a ambulatory wheelchair user and so I can’t walk far without my wheelchair or sometimes I can or can’t at all depending on how my body is acting at any given point (multiple autoimmune diseases with chronic pain and fluctuating symptoms). But at least I now know they have professional medics to prevent potential lawsuits and can accommodate multiple needs
Mark
But why did the ride and all riders have to be evacuated because one person got off? Seems like an immense waste of money, water, and time.
CMS
It’s just basic ride safety procedures. Anyone who is in the ride path, even for a second, means that the emergency stop must be hit and the ride evacuated. For water rides, its easier to evacuate when the water is drained. Also water + electricity doesn’t mix, they don’t want guests to be potentially put in harms way. It’s Disney, they try to think of everything.
Ann
When they drain the water it goes into a holding tank.
Todd
Got evacuated off of Test Track at Epcot once. Something happened at the end when it was in high speed mode and the brakes came on hard, stopping the vehicle very very hard and actually hitting the vehicle in front of us. A few minutes passed before we were taken off the ride and walked along a catwalk that runs next to the track.
Nicole
Had to be evacuated from the Matterhorn bobsleds last year. Pretty cool actually. The man in charge of Fantasyland actually led the evacuation. I asked him (unsuccessfully) if we could see the mystical bball court up top. He teased me with the fact that we were right below it but no guests allowed. Can’t blame a girl for trying though, lol!
Nicole H
We had this ride (river rapids ride) close down at Dreamworld in Australia ..freak accident combined with inexperienced operators, where one of the boats tipped over near the end and 3 people went under and into the machinery that loads the boats back up the ramp. Was absolutely horrid. The clown jumping out probably didn’t realise the carnage that could have resulted…Dreamworld has never really recovered as a theme park since.
J
I’m confused. They had to drain the ride because someone jumped off? Couldn’t they just pull him out of the water?
Olivia
They can’t do that due to safety issues cause the rafts aren’t really connected to anything from what I understand
KATHY
Evacuated off of this ride on June 27th at the very end of the day. One of the very last go around for the ride that day. We weren’t sure but EMS was called in. And there was whispering amongst the cast members that so.eone got stuck and died. We can’t find anything on it. But we were all worried for the person.
KATHY
Evacuated off of this ride on June 25th at the very end of the day. One of the very last go around for the ride that day. We weren’t sure but EMS was called in. And there was whispering amongst the cast members that so.eone got stuck and died. We can’t find anything on it. But we were all worried for the person.
Roger Rabbit
At least 3 ppl die at a disney property per day. This is why cast members are sworn to such secrecy and to NEVER break character.. Even when it comes to murder! They have multiple incinerators on each property and dispose of the bodies after harvesting the organs for big money on the black market.. They do this of course during the cover if night. Walt 33rd°
Brandon Marlowe
Yes, Roger, and the election was stolen, vaccines include a microchip, and Walt’s head is cryogenically frozen.
Candy
Evacuated off Big Thunder railroad ..stopped on first steep climb. Tough getting out at that angle then down the stairs…
Roger Rabbit
The CRAZIEST thing about this video?.. NO KIDS!! When did Disney become a sanctuary for strange adults? I knew a guy who went on his honeymoon to universal for harry potter world or whatever.. Fresh out of college.. 0 kids.. just married.. A grown man.. can go anywhere in the world.. & went w Orlando Fl!!! Place is so lame its the only city in Fl ppl flock to WITHOUT a beach. Big hot stinky concrete jungle.. standing in lines for hours w other adults wearing mickey ears eating corn dogs staring at each other wondering what went wrong.. Yuck! I’d jump too!.. From the top of the castle so I know it would be over!! This reality has gotten beyond absurd.
Lauren
What other options are there in Florida for rides besides Disney parks and Busch Gardens? Most of the beaches are just beaches.
The truth
$150? Talk about a waste of money, between two people that’s an easy $500 for one day and more if you have kids. I’m so glad I decided a longtime again to never go back.
TROJAN
After events at Dreamworld in Gold Coast, Australia with the same ride, venues have been very cautious about safety and the welfare of guests… well done to the organisers who identified it n were able to avoid any issues… can understand the disappointment n frustration of the guests but safety comes first…
Marilyn
Got evacuated off the Matterhorn ride about 50 years ago. It was very exciting and scary. We had to walk down a LOT of steps.
Kathy Birdwell
We broke down several years on the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland. It was so interesting to see inside the normally dark dome with the lights on. We could barely believe how close the tracks were together and how interwoven everything was. We were very near the end of the ride when it suddenly stopped. So we didn’t have any trouble exiting the cars once we were told to do so.
David
A few years ago, my wife and I were able to convince our 5-year old(?) son to ride Splash Mountain. He was nervous but wore a brave face. At the very peak, as we are ready to drop, the ride stopped. We were literally teetering over the edge with the front half of our log hanging into thin air.
My younger sister had tagged along for that trip and was on the ride with us. She started FREAKING OUT, screaming and crying. We told her to stop because she was getting her nephew worked up, but she was too far gone at that point.
Eventually a worker showed up to check on us, and seeing her panic, he chained our log to the metal structure and stated that we could not drop.
He came back 5-minutes later and helped us unload. We walked down the inside of the tunnel that leads up to the big drop, then through a disguised door and into the pump rooms and mechanical areas under the ride. Eventually we exited, and we were all given 2 passes to cut to the front of the line for any ride.
Turns out a rider dropped his sunglasses in the water where you board the ride, so he jumped in to find them. The employee said when they hit the emergency stop button like they did, it takes a significant amount of time to get the ride going again.
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