Originally Posted By ImTempest Went to DLR yesterday on a spur-of-the-moment trip, and while we were on POTC some of the animatronics stopped working. The soundtrack was fine, the boats were moving, but we came around the corner and saw the first Jack Sparrow (the one next to the dress dummy) with his head bowed. As we moved through the ride, we saw everything was working except the pirates - they all had their heads down. I said to my husband "Oh, they're all not working" (disappointed) and he responds with "That, or they're all checking to see if their flies are done up." Darned if he wasn't right (I mean, the heads were all bowed and the hands frozen about waist high), and the people in the row behind us started laughing hard enough to rock the boat! We returned to the dock, and as we exited the Cast Member apologized for the "sleeping pirates", and that only set us off again! I love when stuff like that happens - it "freshens" the ride for me.
Originally Posted By skywilliams It's kind of funny how some of the fondest memories we have of Disneyland come from mishaps. When the show doesn't happen the way it is supposed to seems, for me, to be the best memories since I feel I got a different show than everyone else gets. I would have loved to see the 'sleeping pirates'!
Originally Posted By PirateLover When I went to DL and went on the HM and the beginning of the ride the narrator was talking and all of a sudden the ride froze and a guy on a inercom said stay in your doombuggy and said the ghosts were playing around with something on the ride.
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 I'll always remember the "stretching room" in the mansion taking us down one time without dialog or music. Then right as we were wondering if the lightening would still go off it did and scared the poop out of everyone in the elevator. Priceless!
Originally Posted By tashajilek The scariest for me was being the boat at the top of splash moutain just about to take the plunge and it stopped. Getting out of the boat at a steep incline was kinda scary but the backlot tour was cool. We got to see all the dirty water with leaves that splashes everybody lol.
Originally Posted By tynkrbell1977 That would have been cool tasha! We had a similar experience on Big Thunder. It was in the last tunnel as the train was climbing the hill and the rocks are "falling". The train just stopped and we had to get out and walk back down the hill but we got to see some cool stuff!
Originally Posted By ophellia nice stories all! PirateLover...I always get with someone in line in a WheelChair or with a mobility issue...its the only time they stop the track to let them board safely and you are then 'stuck' inside the attraction somewhere for a moment...Love that!
Originally Posted By tynkrbell1977 LOL.. Have any of you got to go back UP in the stretching room in the Mansion? It actually happened to us once on accident and the CM was like "you lucky mortals got to see something no one does here in Disneyland" LOL And then again we had someone in our group in a wheelchair and got to do it again. It was pretty cool. And with the wheelchair time we didnt get off where we all normally get off because they have no way to get the chair there so we got to ride the doom buggy all the way back around and down the stairs. Totally awesome to see the stuff back there.
Originally Posted By tashajilek i think everyone has been stuck in the masion like a zillion times lol. I remember when i was 11 and the snow white ride shut down and all the lights went on i looked up and there was all this like black dirt and cob webs hanging down. I said wow they do a good job making it look old and scary and my brother was like thats not supposed to be there haha.
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 ^^Same with Alice! We got stuck in there and they turned the lights on and the sounds off and it was NOT the same. LOL. <<Getting out of the boat at a steep incline was kinda scary>> That happened to me on Big Thunder. We got stuck on the hill by the turtles. The cruddy part was it was July and so hot and the sun was beating down on us. Uck.
Originally Posted By KittyPrincess1206 In March I had gone on the Jungle Cruise by myself, right around sunset. At the gorilla camp part, the warning shots sounded, letting our skipper know that something was wrong. All of the animals stopped moving and we got to ride the boat backwards to the dock. It was kinda fun to see all the animals "sleeping"
Originally Posted By tashajilek I think we all agree that getting stuck on a ride at disneyland is memorable lol and it will continue to happen.
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 We went on Pirates on Saturday and a couple things were a little off. The lighting on the scene after the second waterfall was really dark. You could barely see the skeletons. Then the mist screen with Davy Jones wasn't on. It was kinda trippy going through that long tunnel in total darkness. I forgot what that was like!
Originally Posted By Roger55 Pirates on Sunday.... Missing howling/singing dog. Missing pirate on the bridge dangling his bare foot.
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 I forgot, the singing dog was missing on Saturday too. My fiance pointed it out. The pirate dangling his leg was probably missing too. I know this one is scheduled for a refurb at the end of September. Maybe they're doing little things now so it's a short one later.
Originally Posted By KittyPrincess1206 Has anyone noticed if they've fixed the giraffe in the Jungle Cruise? Last time I visited the park, in April, one of the giraffes was just kinda dangling by his neck!
