handicapped passes

lady ulrike · Post by **lady ulrike** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:35 am

Well okay, not fully accessible, but up until the last five minutes of line. Wheelchairs get sent through the normal queue and at the turnstyle they're taken out and sent to the lift. If they're are a few wheelchairs in a row though those last few will actually wait longer than that last five minutes of line. And even if you're the first the wait's going to be about the same, cause you have to go down the lift and then wait until the grouper gives you a car.

windmillguy · Post by **windmillguy** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:36 am

Aw, man, now I feel bad about using that pass once back in 8th grade cuz of this thread. Oh well, shame on the road is written off.

Anyway, I am sick of fakers clogging up the handicap line also. For example: Pirates of The Caribbean, where the Handicap Line can be twice as long of a wait as the normal line( Speaking From experience). I always want to do two things while exiting that ride:

1) Spot the Fakers and pull them out of line.
2) Tell them their little stunt cost them and eveyone else in that line a buttload of time.

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 9:40 pm

Ah yes the GAC card. I'm at gate at the mansion before they pulled out fastpass (thank you gods) and a party of about 4 comes up to me with a gac card with the symbol that states they can't do stairs. At the time the wait was about 20 minutes. I told them we don't have stairs so they would have to use the regualr queue. They got mad and stormed off.

Oh and then at Grounds I got a wheelchair party of 11 (you can only do a party of 6) I told them they would have to be separated they got mad, and said no one told them this yadda yadda yadda. What ended up happening was 6 waited by the ramp while the other 5 waited in the 10 minute line they then all went into the ER together, I was so glad I was not the ER cast member who had to inform then they were going to be separated. (I told them that 6 times before they went in)

1team1dream · Post by **1team1dream** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:58 am

GMC wrote:you can always sort the bullshitters, and the ones that are for real, when theire bitching at you after climbing the stairs at main street station, about the fact that there is no ramp, key words CLMIBING THE STAIRS, if you can get up the stairs, you don't need to go in the exit, or use a ramp, and it isn't the end of the world if you wait 15 minutes like every one else.

there are exceptions such as myself. I have a brain tumor and after surgery I had to relearn to stand, walk, write, etc. while I can climb stairs and walk certain distances I can't really stand for more than 10 minutes at a time. I am currently on a MLOA because my department cannot accomodate my restrictions. :?

Yfoog · Post by **Yfoog** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:46 am

I have a bud with MDS and is confined to a wheelchair. Unfortunately he can't transfer to and from attraction seats. It's a bummer that the park has lost a couple of wheelchair friendly attractions such as Circle Vision and Country Bear Jamboree. He enjoys the parks but wishes more theatre style attractions would be imagineered.

abc · Post by **abc** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:39 am

Pooh is a ride where you can roll right on into the special vehicle (is there like just 1?) no transfer necessary. don't know if ecv's will fit. Buzz lightyear might be the same, with a wheelchair accessible car, but since its hm style ride system it might not be the case. I think IASW has this too.

DLRFantasmic!Dan · Post by **DLRFantasmic!Dan** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:03 am

GMC wrote:umm, how is Auto's queue fully accesable, if i recall there are quite a bit of stairs...

The Auto queue is mostly of ramps. The wheelchairs just go thorught the regular line, then when they get to the turnstile, they are directed to a Lift, an elevator, then taken to the loading dock. Sure, there are stairs, but not until they get to the pit.

It's basically the smae thing for astro Orbitor, the wheel chairs go through the regular line, except for the ECVs, and when they get to the turnstile, they divert to a handicap area.

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:56 pm

abc wrote:Pooh is a ride where you can roll right on into the special vehicle (is there like just 1?) no transfer necessary. don't know if ecv's will fit. Buzz lightyear might be the same, with a wheelchair accessible car, but since its hm style ride system it might not be the case. I think IASW has this too.

Yes its called the WAV at Pooh. Electric Wheelchairs can go on it as long as they fit. ECVs cannot (yes there is a difference). You can sit up to 4 guests (including the Wheelchair bound one) in the WAV.

Small World has one too but I am not sure what thier restrictions on it are.

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:19 pm

Yfoog wrote:I have a bud with MDS and is confined to a wheelchair. Unfortunately he can't transfer to and from attraction seats. It's a bummer that the park has lost a couple of wheelchair friendly attractions such as Circle Vision and Country Bear Jamboree. He enjoys the parks but wishes more theatre style attractions would be imagineered.

i'm with your friend on the more show attractions bit, not b/c of accesability (which is a nice aspect) but b/c they're fun, even tho nobdy goes to see them.

Roger Rabbit · Post by **Roger Rabbit** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:58 pm

I can spot the fakers a mile away! Trust me on that!