When you travel to Central Florida, you expect a late summer thunderstorm. Most people just throw on their ponchos and continue moving around Walt Disney World.
Despite the expectation of rain, guests expect Disney World to know how to deal with that much rain in such a short period. However, there are times when so much water comes down that not even the drainage at Disney World can handle it.
Over Labor Day weekend, Walt Disney World faced a massive rainstorm. The drainage system couldn’t handle it, and Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom flooded.
In a video posted to social media, guests can be seen wading through a few inches of water in Tomorrowland between Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor and the empty building that once housed Stitch’s Great Escape.
However, as guests commented on the video, one thing stuck out to them: an unsupervised child decided to start swimming in the stormwater. He can be seen on his stomach in the walkway, trying to swim through the water.
Petition to make Tomorrowland like this year round! pic.twitter.com/5vflR9K9o9
— Jake Coasters (@jake_coasters) August 31, 2024
One guest commented:
That kid in the blue shoes is gonna get sick as hell. It looks like he’s trying to build up his immune system.
Later in the short video, another child joins the first one in the water, and they appear to be wrestling in the water. This water wasn’t just rain; it was also sewage that came back up from the pipes after they flooded.
This wasn’t the first time unsupervised children caused problems at Walt Disney World over Labor Day Weekend. At the opening of EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival, the park created a Muppets photo op in the Odyssey Pavillion.
The Muppets photo op included a desk with props that were glued down to the table. After less than a day, unsupervised children removed all the objects on the table, started throwing them around, and broke them.
Disney has since removed the Muppets photo op from the Odyssey Pavilion. With guests concerned over the removal of MuppetVision 3D at Hollywood Studios, this was one of the few areas at Disney World to interact with anything Muppets related.
Disney World does have a chaperone policy. All guests under the age of 14 must enter the park with an adult; however, what happens after that is up to the accompanying adult.
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Disney security is diligent about removing guests who cause problems, but stories of parents being removed for what their kids have done are rare. Maybe it’s time for Disney to create that policy.
What’s the worst behavior you’ve seen from an unsupervised child at Disney World?