Anyone experience a lot of broken down rides lately? We went last week and two rides broken when we were on them (20 minute wait on one), 2 others while in line (Haunted Mansion twice in line) and the Winnie the pooh ride seemed broken most of the time we past it. Is Disney slipping on their maintenance? In the past I've never seen rides broken.
Posted May 6, 2013, 2:05 PM UTC
Rides don't stop only because something's wrong with them. Rides that are in continuous motion like Haunted Mansion often stop so people can transfer from wheelchairs and the like to the ride vehicle; they also have to be stopped when guests aren't paying attention and take forever to load (I see this almost every time). Sometimes they stop because a guest on the ride is doing something that isn't safe. Or because something fell onto the vehicle's track. Any number of things. As the park gets busier and more people are going through the rides, there's a higher chance of something like that happening.
Sometimes, yeah, rides break. Or maybe cast members suspect something isn't working correctly, and they have to follow certain procedures.
I was at Magic Kingdom yesterday, and none of the rides you mentioned had any problems that we saw.
All the rides that broke had mechanics working on them to fix them, I know they stop/slow down for loading, but these were rides that were emptied of visitors and then being fixed, then restarted. I guess we just were lucky enough to hit a bunch.
Wow, that is odd, then.
That is really odd though. They are usually pretty good at getting things fixed and moving again. Some times you just have those days, it's kind of like the weather. It's all a crap shoot for some days.
This is quite strange. I go to Disney a lot (live in Orlando, have a pass) and honestly I've only ever seen/been in line for a ride that has had mechanics go to it maybe two-three times. One was for Space Mountain and I only remember that distinctly because they had to turn the lights on and you could see the infrastructure. Another was Mount Everest and that was when it had first open.
You just went on a good/bad day! I say good because I'm always curious about how rides break down and I'd be all inquisitive to the cast members as to what happen. :)
Always Pirates of the Caribbean for me. Constantly breaks when I'm there, usually as I'm walking up to it. We didn't see anything else go down when we were there a few weeks ago.
I rode through POTC right when the audio broke once. They realised and shut the queue down right after we were away but we rode the whole thing in dead silence. Creepy with just the mechanical sounds. It was totally awesome!
Are you sure the ride was broken? They have to stop then to allow handicap people on.
No, I got to seem lots of Disney mechanics, plus when cast members walk by the ride with flashlights is a good sign there is an issue.
Just checking! One time we spend 15 on its a small world ride while they did a handicap loading/unloading