Originally Posted By tinkerbellfly My family and I went on the Haunted Mansion for the first time and I don't know if this is part of the "act". We enter in a room with a group of people. Some are howling and making scarey noises. No big deal. We are at the back of the room, so I can't see anything. A cast member is yelling at the front group to stop making noises and that they are being disrespectful to the spirits of the mansion. He then yells to them to stop and to go into the next room. He was mainly talking to one group. We finally get into the other room and this cast member is face to face with one guy telling him to stop disturbing the spirits, stop with the howling and the noises,... It was hard to tell if he was joking cause he had that voice as if he was in character for this ride. I say that because he then starts talking in a normal tone to the guy that he was going to get security to remove him, which never happened. Is this part of the act to gear you up? Quite a few people weren't sure what to make of it and I noticed one kid start crying! It really freaked this poor kid out!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Sounds like a CM trying to deal with a moron.....usually they try once nicely than give up to those who just feel the need to talk loudly all the time-- because they obviously have something important to say. I am wondering if the unruly person was possibly also using profanities etc..---I feel bad for the CM's as some people just never shut the heck up -- it is notpart of the show and I have never heard tha line used on allmy trips -- but actually it is a pretty good one that stays in character. What was the kid crying about ? that part doesn't make sense unless that was his daddy....
Originally Posted By tinkerbellfly The kid was just watching the whole thing, he wasn't with that group. He seemed kinda young, so maybe with all the noises they were making, the atmosphere, the cm getting into it with that guy. I think that may of did it for the kid. But that could be it, the guy using profanities. I was all the way in the back and couldn't see what was going on. Plus with them making all those loud noises. It was just hard to tell at first if it was piped in or them actually making the noises.
Originally Posted By SJHYM I have found an annoying new thing in the Haunted Mansion where people scream and make howling noises during the stretch room. This is on top of the already loud talking that usually goes on among guests. An Open Note to Guests: Ok, so you have seen the preshow 6 times already and its your 54th time riding an attractions, but for gosh sakes...shut up. I cant tell you how many preshows I have sat thru where I cant hear a thing.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I agree SJHYM-- sometimes I just want to shout at the top of my lungs " Shut the **** up you morons !"
Originally Posted By Jim_n_Ruth Unfortunately, there's an idiot or two in every crowd. So long as they are not vulgar, intimidating or endangering anyone.....this too shall pass.
Originally Posted By gaston lives The HM is my favorite ride, and I HATE it when people scream...I take my kids on the ride, and the screaming is was scares them, not the ride itself.
Originally Posted By SJHYM I am not sure why or how this started but its annoying. I think the whole talking thru preshows is just another indication about how selfish people are. What could possibly give a person the idea that they can have a loud conversation in a preshow with the lights down low and other people watching? Its like the whole sitting in the middle of the row when you have been asked to move to the end because the show is full. However in that case I am guilty of taking out my frustrations by not watching where I am going and accidentally stepping on peoples feet. Gosh I am sooo sorry.
Originally Posted By SJHYM After I typed the above I remembered a day I was in the MK and a group of people got to the center of a row and sat down on a obviously busy day. The CM asked everyone to move down nicely, then walked into the center of the theater and pointed directly at the group and asked them to move down. There were people standing without seats. Well they decided to ignore the CM. This big bear of a man sitting behind them stood up and said..."Get up and move to the end of the row NOW!!! They turned around and looked at him but didnt move. He then said "Dont make me help you move!!!" At which point the looked at each other, stood up and moved. The entire audience started to clap and cheer. One of those great times when a guest says what the CM was thinking I am sure.
Originally Posted By basas <<The worst are Haunted Mansion, Test Track and Countdown to Extinction>> I always found RnRC bad...funny that guests don't seem to talk as much during MS preshow, or Soarin'...maybe because they're already lined up in order. Also, MS seems to play the preshow quite loud.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost "An Open Note to Guests: Ok, so you have seen the preshow 6 times already and its your 54th time riding an attractions, but for gosh sakes...shut up. I cant tell you how many preshows I have sat thru where I cant hear a thing." Amen to that!!! I have posted here before about the exuberance of the "veterans" in shows like the Country Bears. It is great for them they have been there a thousand times but for those that are making their first trip it is impossible to hear the words with the clapping, stomping and signing along. It makes for a nothing experience and when they go home the tell friends not to bother going to CBJ because you can't hear anything. Fewer guest go...Disney management looks at the numbers and like magic, it's gone. All that is needed is just a little common courtesy.
Originally Posted By LuvDatDisney The behavior makes me ill and I've tried shushing the crowd, but am afraid it will one day result in me being hospitalized, while the idiots get a free magical WDW vacation and some Disney Dollars! But it's the same thing in movie theaters. People are just so rude today, and if they aren't going to show some manners it's up to management to remove them. That goes for CMs at WDW.
Originally Posted By MrToadWildRider >>However in that case I am guilty of taking out my frustrations by not watching where I am going and accidentally stepping on peoples feet. Gosh I am sooo sorry. << I've done that before in Muppets 4d, Fantasmic, HISTA, and Beetlejuice Graveyard Revue at UO (I was ready to do it at the Terminator too but the UO CMs stopped everyone in the theater until the people who sat down moved and with an entire theater's worth of people waiting to get in getting quite annoyed at the offenders the people got up and moved to the end - everyone clapped) When I was at HISTA I think it was one of the people whose foot got accidently stepped on said "Hey, watch where the $&$@# your going!" and I said in the same tone mimicing him "Hey, next time you won't have to worry about 'accidents' like that if you just follow the rules"
Originally Posted By fkurucz I once had the opposite experience at DL's HM. Right after the narrator laughs in the stretch room and Master Gracey appears a small child got scared and stated to cry (up to this point everyone was quiet and polite). At that moment its seems like everyone in the room said "awww" in unison.
Originally Posted By disney pete I have shushed folk many times in the library in the tower of terror,people talking howling and just being a******S so if it's your 1st time on the tower you are missing some of the build up,also once in country bears had to bellow a family out coz they just plonked their fat asses in the middle of the row,i remember the first few times we went to WDW the CMs where all over this behaviour now they seem to turn a blind eye.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Probably because the behavior has gotten more prevalent and the guests more beligerent. Although I want the CM's to do something, I understand their concern for their own safety also -- and in the sue 'em world we live in- the jerks still make out.
Originally Posted By gaston lives When I was at CBJ this past summer, we were in one of the top rows, and we were first in. We went all the way to the end of the row. People continued coming in, and the CM told everybody to slide down even further. We went as far as we could go without sitting in the aisle. People were still coming in, and the CM pointed right at my dad (who was halfway in the aisle) and said, "You, right there, move to your right!" He did it in an angry fashion. My dad just kind of looked at him quizzically, and didn't do it since there was nowhere to go without being a fire hazard. They kept letting poeple in (way over the limit), and this kid came up and told my dad, "You have to slide over to make room for other people, right now!" My dad said to him, "Look, this is an aisle, and I'm already halfway in it, not sitting on a seat. I won't become a fire hazard because you guys forgot to shut the doors." Also, there were poeple in other aisles that had not slid down to this point. Well, the CM got ticked off, and during the show stood RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY DAD! My dad couldn't see the whole time. We asked him to move, and he just kept ignoring us. He was a teenage black kid, and I didnt' get his name, but he was totlally rude. EVen the people behind us were trying to get him to move. On the way out, I had some choice words with him, and all he said was, "I'm glad you're leaving my attraction." I replied, "I'm glad I'll never see your fat face here again, moron." I hate getting rude, but dang, some people deserve it.
