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At POTC last January the ride operators where having a jolly time with the boats. They kept crashing our boat into the one in front of use. We hit hard 3 times.
We were sitting in the boat with our paws, antennae, and appendages inside.
The castmember at the end of the ride was acting a fool when we got off. Someone said if they had a sore neck the next day so would he. POTC was our second ride after we had planned a visit for several years. It was such a big disappointment.
I wonder if an overhaul of how everyone behaves on that ride might not be in order.
At POTC last January the ride operators where having a jolly time with the boats. They kept crashing our boat into the one in front of use. We hit hard 3 times.
We were sitting in the boat with our paws, antennae, and appendages inside.
The castmember at the end of the ride was acting a fool when we got off. Someone said if they had a sore neck the next day so would he. POTC was our second ride after we had planned a visit for several years. It was such a big disappointment.
I wonder if an overhaul of how everyone behaves on that ride might not be in order.
Wow! I hope you reported what happened asap. CM's behaving recklessly is something Disney definitely would want to correct.
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Yeah, that sort of behavior? Find another CM, let them know you need to speak to a manager immediately about an urgent safety issue. Go to guest services if you have to. And give a thorough, detailed description of the problem, the CM, and their behavior.
I would be surprised if there's an inch of the ride not under constant video surveillance. As such, I would be surprised if it took an hour for that CM to be officially reprimanded, and probably removed from ride-operator duty. Maybe forever. Maybe even in the form of a pink slip - which they would fully deserve.
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yah...I would have definitely reported that. Not everyone on these rides are 20 years old in perfect health. What if you got jostled so much you harmed your back, or neck, or if it caused other maladies?
Sometimes kids don't think so much. I keep wondering if all young things - doesn't matter, human, dog, cat, etc. - start off with all their brains in each appendage (meaning hands & feet) and as the child ages, the brains slooooooowly migrate to the cranium.
Don't believe me? Watch a puppy run across a floor. You'd swear each paw had it's own brain, and not a very smart one at that!
it's one thing to be a goofball...it's another thing to do things affecting a lot of people that could potentially hurt them. I don't know if that CM would deserve a pink slip, but a cuff to the back of the head might do the trick.
At POTC last January the ride operators where having a jolly time with the boats. They kept crashing our boat into the one in front of use. We hit hard 3 times.
We were sitting in the boat with our paws, antennae, and appendages inside.
The castmember at the end of the ride was acting a fool when we got off. Someone said if they had a sore neck the next day so would he. POTC was our second ride after we had planned a visit for several years. It was such a big disappointment.
I wonder if an overhaul of how everyone behaves on that ride might not be in order.
If the CM at the end of the ride was acting inappropriately, it should definitely be reported. But I don't think they control the boats in the ride and can cause one to crash into the one in front of it. If there is a stoppage at the load-out area, there is nothing to stop the boats further back from bumping into the ones that are stopped. The water keeps flowing and the boats keep moving. I've been on POTC when there have been issues, in the auction scene, and the canal was end-to-end boats. The only thing they can do to control boat spacing is timing the launches. Once past the drop, I don't think there is anything to control spacing.
This post reminds me of that classic Simpson's episode at Duff Gardens. Bart is bugging Lisa to drink the water on their version of iasw. The aunt says "Bart,shut up. Lisa, drink the water". Lisa procedes to have a psychedelic adventure that ends with her swimming naked and quoting Jim Morrison. Great Disney spoofs in this episode.
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If the CM at the end of the ride was acting inappropriately, it should definitely be reported. But I don't think they control the boats in the ride and can cause one to crash into the one in front of it. If there is a stoppage at the load-out area, there is nothing to stop the boats further back from bumping into the ones that are stopped. The water keeps flowing and the boats keep moving. I've been on POTC when there have been issues, in the auction scene, and the canal was end-to-end boats. The only thing they can do to control boat spacing is timing the launches. Once past the drop, I don't think there is anything to control spacing.
I agree with this; this is how I believe it works at the end of the ride as well. We've had plenty of 'crashes' on POTC and Splash because of it. In fact my DS got a bloody lip on Splash one year when he was sitting forward a bit and the boat was hit from behind causing him to hit the handlebar in the boat.
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