Code 101

[Theme Park Where]

I was going to mention the bats in RnR. We were actually 101 for quite awhile while they chased the darn things around.

We had a fun day of 101s at Muppets. A guest came up to the exit and showed the cm there that she had something greasy spilled on her during the show. We looked and it appeared to be hydrolic fluid. Sure enough, the balcony where Bean Bunny sits was leaking. We took the attraction 101 and called maintenance. They came out, spent about 2 minutes, then declaired it fixed. Wow, we thought. Must have been a small leak. Glad we were only down one cycle of the show. We powered back up. Now, for those of you who haven't seen the show, Bean is an aa. During the show, Sweetums comes out looking for him. He eventually "finds" him in the balcony. All of this is on a prerecorded soundtrack. The show was underway. "Bunny ran away ..." Sweetums began the search. The curtain to the box opens, Sweetums shines his flashlight into the box, "There's bunny!" Nope, wrong. No Bunny! Seems the Einsteins in maintenance decided to just REMOVE Bean to fix him later! He couldn't be THAT important to the show, could he?! Sweetums was livid, we went 101 again and called Maintenance. You HAVE to bring Bean back - we need him! They returned and again signed off on the show. "You've brought back the bunny?" Yes, of course. Another show in progress ... "Bunny ran away..." There's the bunny! The curtain opens, the flashlight shines into the box. Yep, there's Bean Bunny. The rocket scientists in maintenance had gone to the gift shop, bought a stuffed BB toy, stuck a ruler into it, and were lying in the bottom of the box waving it like a stick puppet! We thought we were going to have to do CPR on Sweetums! For the longest time, the Sweetums greenroom had a plastic tupperware container duct taped to the wall with the stuffed BB inside. A simple sign on it read "In Case of Emergency, Break Glass!"

[GuestJockey]

I was going to mention the bats in RnR. We were actually 101 for quite awhile while they chased the darn things around.

We had a fun day of 101s at Muppets. A guest came up to the exit and showed the cm there that she had something greasy spilled on her during the show. We looked and it appeared to be hydrolic fluid. Sure enough, the balcony where Bean Bunny sits was leaking. We took the attraction 101 and called maintenance. They came out, spent about 2 minutes, then declaired it fixed. Wow, we thought. Must have been a small leak. Glad we were only down one cycle of the show. We powered back up. Now, for those of you who haven't seen the show, Bean is an aa. During the show, Sweetums comes out looking for him. He eventually "finds" him in the balcony. All of this is on a prerecorded soundtrack. The show was underway. "Bunny ran away ..." Sweetums began the search. The curtain to the box opens, Sweetums shines his flashlight into the box, "There's bunny!" Nope, wrong. No Bunny! Seems the Einsteins in maintenance decided to just REMOVE Bean to fix him later! He couldn't be THAT important to the show, could he?! Sweetums was livid, we went 101 again and called Maintenance. You HAVE to bring Bean back - we need him! They returned and again signed off on the show. "You've brought back the bunny?" Yes, of course. Another show in progress ... "Bunny ran away..." There's the bunny! The curtain opens, the flashlight shines into the box. Yep, there's Bean Bunny. The rocket scientists in maintenance had gone to the gift shop, bought a stuffed BB toy, stuck a ruler into it, and were lying in the bottom of the box waving it like a stick puppet! We thought we were going to have to do CPR on Sweetums! For the longest time, the Sweetums greenroom had a plastic tupperware container duct taped to the wall with the stuffed BB inside. A simple sign on it read "In Case of Emergency, Break Glass!"

LOL! That's awesomely bad show.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I was going to mention the bats in RnR. We were actually 101 for quite awhile while they chased the darn things around.

For the longest time, the Sweetums greenroom had a plastic tupperware container duct taped to the wall with the stuffed BB inside. A simple sign on it read "In Case of Emergency, Break Glass!"

Well, the show must go on...


hehehe

you have to hand it to them, at least they tried!!!

[accioetoile]

We've had some stupid radio calls.
CM: "Soarin' 10, Epcot 57 I just had to 10-7 a boat because it had...um...pee-pee in it."
Epcot 57: "Did you honestly just use the word pee-pee?"

or

CM: "Soarin' 10, Epcot 57 three seats in Soarin' Theater B are 10-7"
S10: "Why?"
CM: "A guest took a leak in row 1 and it trickled down to rows 2 and 3"

Oh, we've had lots of code yellows and browns on Mission: Space.

[AlpineDL]

My favorite radio call so far was "____________, 101, the station stop button has become detached and fallen into the station track area." Something about the "has become detached" just cracks me up.

[EeyoresButterfly]

The Bean Bunny story reminded me of nightmares I used to have when I was doing parades and shows. Namely, what if something happens to somebody I'm supposed to be talking to and they forget to turn off the audio? My favorite bad show was when Ursula in spectro fainted. The poor sea witch was out cold for over half the route, and either nobody alerted the driver or the driver forgot, but the audio was going the entire time.

BW: You're right, that should not have been called out over the readio like that, but maybe the CM figured since it was a statue and not a real person, it would be okay? I remember when I worked entertainment, we had codes for everything. If you had to call a malfunction of some kind, you used code.

[EeyoresButterfly]

My favorite radio call so far was "____________, 101, the station stop button has become detached and fallen into the station track area." Something about the "has become detached" just cracks me up.[quote][/QUOTE]

This happened to met at Snow White! They require us to stand with our hand over the station stop, and I guess I had somehow managed to unscrew it. This was when the panel was located on the other side of the track (we had to cross the track to get there.) It fell off, I e-stopped the ride and called maintenance. I was too scared to try to put it back on myself because I was scared that I would break it. The maintenance guy came, looked at me, looked at the station stop, and screwed it back in. I felt like such an idiot, but he was kind of a jerk about it. I would have thought they would rather me call them to fix it than try to fix it myself and break the panel.

[joanna71985]

There's a call that should never have happened over radio... That's like if they were to say that a Mickey was having issues and could not come out. Makes my blood boil just at the idea. Joanna, care to comment on that one?

Ah, the memories. I had several times where the character couldn't go back out after getting a snack, and I got to go tell the line that the character would not be coming out. Most of the time it was at Pooh's Playground with Pooh. Let me tell you, they were NOT happy. But I would never say: "Oh, we don't have a Pooh yet; we're waiting for him". Or, "Pooh got sick". I would tell them that Pooh had to assist Piglet with something, and will be awhile. Or Pooh got stuck in his honey pot.

I was going to mention the bats in RnR. We were actually 101 for quite awhile while they chased the darn things around.

We had a fun day of 101s at Muppets. A guest came up to the exit and showed the cm there that she had something greasy spilled on her during the show. We looked and it appeared to be hydrolic fluid. Sure enough, the balcony where Bean Bunny sits was leaking. We took the attraction 101 and called maintenance. They came out, spent about 2 minutes, then declaired it fixed. Wow, we thought. Must have been a small leak. Glad we were only down one cycle of the show. We powered back up. Now, for those of you who haven't seen the show, Bean is an aa. During the show, Sweetums comes out looking for him. He eventually "finds" him in the balcony. All of this is on a prerecorded soundtrack. The show was underway. "Bunny ran away ..." Sweetums began the search. The curtain to the box opens, Sweetums shines his flashlight into the box, "There's bunny!" Nope, wrong. No Bunny! Seems the Einsteins in maintenance decided to just REMOVE Bean to fix him later! He couldn't be THAT important to the show, could he?! Sweetums was livid, we went 101 again and called Maintenance. You HAVE to bring Bean back - we need him! They returned and again signed off on the show. "You've brought back the bunny?" Yes, of course. Another show in progress ... "Bunny ran away..." There's the bunny! The curtain opens, the flashlight shines into the box. Yep, there's Bean Bunny. The rocket scientists in maintenance had gone to the gift shop, bought a stuffed BB toy, stuck a ruler into it, and were lying in the bottom of the box waving it like a stick puppet! We thought we were going to have to do CPR on Sweetums! For the longest time, the Sweetums greenroom had a plastic tupperware container duct taped to the wall with the stuffed BB inside. A simple sign on it read "In Case of Emergency, Break Glass!"

Oh my gosh. I know that's bad, but I am seriously rolling around here! Poor Sweetums! :hysteria:

[Theme Park Where]

You thought Bean Bunny was bad show ....

The Pocahontas show at DHS was a major spectacle and very well attended each show (for those who didn't know there was one, it was in the Backlot Theatre, right behind the Muppets - where the Hunchback show was). In fact, we usually had a 45 minute to an hour wait for each show. One particular day, we had guests arriving for the first show of the day about an hour before to make sure they got seats. We usually had to wait until the techs set up the pyro for the show before we could let the queue into the theatre. That usually happened about 15 minutes before. This particular day, we're on a "show hold" waiting to find out why we weren't loading the theatre. At about five minutes before show time, they told us to load the theatre but to tell people we had a delay. Finally, after the guests had been seated in the theatre, and were getting pretty upset about the delay, the stage manager pulled our manager and a few of us aside. It seems that the actress who played Pocahontas had fallen during morning rehearsal and had sprained her ankle. They were trying to find an understudy who lived close enough to get over to the theatre. The house manager agreed to the hold, and told us to continue telling people “technical difficulties.” Then the stage manager decided to make people’s wait more entertaining. He called in the characters. That was terrific, except we were at a hold, had every seat filled, had a stand-by line already queuing for the next show, and were turning people away from ducking under the ropes to snag an empty seat every time someone abandoned it to use the restroom or get refreshments. When the characters came in, EVERYONE started jumping up out of their seats to see them, and many returned to find their seats taken by someone who had ducked under a rope on one side of the theatre while we were kicking people out on the other. Finally, the stage manager made an announcement asking people to return to their seats so the characters could come around to them. We got everyone seated, but by then it was past time the characters could be out and they ended up only seeing a few people. So now the stage manager decided that he needed to explain what was going on. He pulled the ops manager and us into another huddle. He was going on stage to make an announcement. Horrified, the ops manager reminded him that he couldn’t really TELL an audience full of kids what had really happened. Oh, no, the stage manager agreed. He’d just explain that they had some technical problems, had a fix on the way (Pocahontas was driving I-4 at 100 mph at that time!) and we would get the show going as soon as we could. The ops manager agreed that we needed to be sure to give the guests the option to leave if they wanted to, so an announcement was called for. The stage manager took to the stage with his microphone. He introduced himself and thanked everyone for staying. He offered them the option to stay if they wanted for a while longer, or to come back for a later show. He explained that they were waiting because Pocahontas had injured her leg. WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kids looked to their parents for comfort all over the theatre. The ops manager looked like he wanted to scalp the stage manager.

About 10 minutes later, after explaining to frightened children that Pocahontas was fine, Meeko had helped her, she was not hurt too badly, etc. the word came down the wire that we were go for show. We all rushed to our places. The lights came up. The first part of the show was a chorus of the Indian storytellers doing a song. Then John Smith appeared. The Indians then conjured Pocahontas out of the fire and she did Just Around the Riverbend and Colors of the Wind. Then they did a fight scene with Savages, a reprise of Colors of the Wind with the whole cast, and that was the show. Except they went straight from the first scene to a really weird version of savages without Pocahontas, and into the finale (with a love duet with John Smith basically singing to himself). No Pocahontas at all. The show was 15 minutes long. It was normally 35. The other cms and I stared at each other in shock. After making everyone wait 30 minutes over the 45 minutes they had already waited, after terrorizing small children who still weren’t convinced Pocahontas wasn’t dying in the woods somewhere, we did HALF a show WITHOUT the title character! We never forgave that stage manager!

[joanna71985]

Oh my goodness! What a fiasco!