Wild SGs at The World famous Jungle Cruise

[Zazu]

I assure you whatever the problem was that wasn't it. The Jungle Cruise boats are all on tracks and the skippers only have control of the throttle.

They're all on tracks until they come *off* the tracks. Yeah, there's a reason that skippers get sharp with their passengers if they start rocking the boat or moving around too much. One crosswise boat can take a big chunk out of a lot of guests' day!

[Mayonnaise]

Jungle Cruise CMs are awesome... although I have to say my favorite encounter with one wasn't a Skipper at all... or at least, she wasn't being a Skipper at the time (I presume there's some rotation going on.)

There was this girl at the unload who was a real card, full of energy, dancing on the dock as we pulled up, and getting smart with our Skipper as she helped us out of the boat. Really topped off the trip.

8^)

[goofyjoe]

They're all on tracks until they come *off* the tracks. Yeah, there's a reason that skippers get sharp with their passengers if they start rocking the boat or moving around too much. One crosswise boat can take a big chunk out of a lot of guests' day!

Wonder if the boat that sank also came off the tracks.

I believe the sloop was called Sankaru Sadie. It really put the "sank" in Sankaru! :D:

[ifoundnemo]

Wonder if the boat that sank also came off the tracks.

I believe the sloop was called Sankaru Sadie. It really put the "sank" in Sankaru! :D:

Actually the Sankaru Sadie is the one boat in our fleet that has actually "sunk!"

And yes, if a CM isn't paying attention when switching track, boats can get stuck, turn backwards, all sorts of shenanigans!

[albino_pygmy]

The Sadie was my favorite. We had a thing going on that no other boat and skipper had. It was pure magic. I'll never forget how it starts to smoke and act up on all the other skippers, but then behaved beautifully for only me. I love you Sadie. :lovestruc

[ifoundnemo]

The Sadie was my favorite. We had a thing going on that no other boat and skipper had. It was pure magic. I'll never forget how it starts to smoke and act up on all the other skippers, but then behaved beautifully for only me. I love you Sadie. :lovestruc

Well the boats that are giving us problems now are the Ida, the Annie, and the Nellie... Annie's now a speed demon (she was faster than Val at one point... and would die all the time) Ida just likes to die on Skippers, and the Nellie... well, it's the Nellie (she's slow, she dies, etc).

[twitch]

We were there last week, and our skipper told us about some of the games that the skippers play with each other... Easter Egg hunts, changing the props/scenery just a bit to see if anyone notices... she had left behind a rubber ducky on her first trip out that day, and pointed it out to us.

I know that this is "Stupid Guest Tricks," and not "Cast Member Secrets," but I wondered if anyone had any fun stories that they would be willing to share.

[ifoundnemo]

We were there last week, and our skipper told us about some of the games that the skippers play with each other... Easter Egg hunts, changing the props/scenery just a bit to see if anyone notices... she had left behind a rubber ducky on her first trip out that day, and pointed it out to us.

I know that this is "Stupid Guest Tricks," and not "Cast Member Secrets," but I wondered if anyone had any fun stories that they would be willing to share.

I may have been your skipper... I know I told a couple people about the rubber ducky that another skipper (not me) planted.

[twitch]

I may have been your skipper... I know I told a couple people about the rubber ducky that another skipper (not me) planted.

Ah... perhaps. My wife says that it wasn't our skipper who planted the ducky... so it could have been.

At the end of the ride, did I thank you (and call you by the wrong name?) (And promptly get mocked by the skipper of the boat in front of us for my outburst of laughter?!?)

[albino_pygmy]

Well the boats that are giving us problems now are the Ida, the Annie, and the Nellie... Annie's now a speed demon (she was faster than Val at one point... and would die all the time) Ida just likes to die on Skippers, and the Nellie... well, it's the Nellie (she's slow, she dies, etc).

Ida was already the problematic boat, loud, obnoxious, and slow. She was the first boat they installed those new engines in, and they screwed up something to where it's much louder than the older ones, so anyone who was stuck with the Ida in their rotation goes home with a massive migraine. It took them 5 months to figure out they installed it incorrectly and now it runs quieter, and so does a few of the other boats with the newer engines. Nellie ran fine for me, never had a problem with her either, but that was before they swapped engines.

I know that this is "Stupid Guest Tricks," and not "Cast Member Secrets," but I wondered if anyone had any fun stories that they would be willing to share.

I have a Cast Member Secret for you twitch. Ready? I love disco. I'm the tallest in my class. And yes, I was that one strange kid in your kindergarten class that ate brown crayons thinking it was chocolate. That is all.