Stupid Guest Tricks

Back when we used to staff the exit of Star Tours, we'd hop in people's wheelchairs and ride them around the exit area until one of the cabins would come out.

The exit used to be a safety position - it had to be staffed at all times. But now, to save money, it's suddenly not a safety position, and is rarely staffed.

We used to joke that "obviously the guests act a lot more safe nowadays." :roll:

I remember some guys from my end of the park saying that they tried to hang onto the outside of the cabins on Star Tours while the ride was running - not that any supervisors were in the area when they were doing *that.* I don't know - I used to get a kick out of watching the guests flop around in the cabins at the monitors there...seems like the a.p.'s would make the stupidest moves because they were anticipating them...

BirdMom wrote:I remember some guys from my end of the park saying that they tried to hang onto the outside of the cabins on Star Tours while the ride was running

They were lying. There's a computer setup that won't let you launch the cabins if the ramps aren't clear. Unless these guys you're referring to were maintenance people, who could disable/override the safety system.

And those damn simulators move like a mechanical bull. I doubt anyone would be so foolish with a hard concrete floor waiting for them. It's a long, long drop if they fall....

I'd feel safer standing up on Space Mountain!

Dante101 wrote: I'd feel safer standing up on Space Mountain!

hmmmmmm...what about the stories about riding space on the floor of the sled, backwards, etc? We had pictures in Splash of c.m.'s doing just that (among other things...lol)

I never did anything like that (I'd admit it - I got nothing to lose), but I've heard of CMs riding the ride after hours, standing up and doing stuff like that. Once a group of CMs got in trouble for it. I think they might have been fired - I forget...

All I did on Space was complain when I couldn't ER...

Working on rafts could get pretty boring just going back and forth. We would make up fake signals to confuse the other raft (things like: After... Twain...crushes...canoes...come over). To the guests it looked like we had a really intense set of hand signals but we knew better. We also had raft races where we would drive like a bat out of hell to land on the other side first. Finally, we had rope wars. These always escalated out of control, going from "rope wrapped tightly around peg" to "rope in water" to the inevitable "rope gone". Ah, the good old days of being willing to risk the guests' lives.

Righthander wrote: Ah, the good old days of being willing to risk the guests' lives.

I remember getting trained on rafts - "if they're still standing, it's a landing."

One of our ODV cm's that quit a few months ago, did something funny. He made his way into the Jungle Cruise and started dancing with one of the headhunter guys on the ride. He hauled ass out of there as soon as he saw a boat turn the corner.

goose wrote: One of our ODV cm's that quit a few months ago, did something funny.
He made his way into the Jungle Cruise and started dancing with one of
the headhunter guys on the ride. He hauled ass out of there as soon as
he saw a boat turn the corner.

Haha that reminds me of a friend's story. They were wondering where
some random dark staircase led to. So they grabbed a flashlight and
went. Sure enough they ended up in one of the Jungle Cruise animatronic
sets. I think a boat ended up going by and the skipper just made fun of
them.