Pranks on First Timers?

[DisneyOtaku]

Have you guys ever taken a first-timer on a trip with you and played a little with their minds about the park/certain rides?

This past December, I took a first timer with me (let me first add it was a group of three of us, and we're all grad students). We JUST got on Splash Mountain and came to the first little drop when my friend asked me "Is this the big one?"

We had just gotten on the ride and the large drop is the climax! So I gave him a funny look and said "Yes. Yes it is."

He BELIEVED me. He felt so dumb when he found out it wasn't the BIG drop! But the best part? I kept doing it and he KEPT believing me. My third friend (she was in the seat behind us) was laughing her head off. The gullible friend said he would stop listening to me until I told him "The Laughing Place" was it....which works, since it' is darker. He was holding on tight to the rail and when the drop was over, he just gave me a "I should hurt you" look.

It was really funny to keep psyching him out like that; so, I was wondering if you guys have any similar stories.

[Piglet822]

I like to get people to taste the Beverly over at Ice Station Cool at Epcot.

[SpecJoe Magic]

One of my favorite pranks to pull on first timers is to convince them that Beverly is a great flavor at Club Cool. The faces that they make when they realize that they have just been had are priceless. I know it's a little mean, but it's not often that one gets to share the joys of Beverly with a friend.

The planned backfired one time though. We convinced my wife's grandmother to try it on her first trip to WDW a few years ago, and she said that it wasn't too bad. She didn't even make a funny face. We were shocked to say the least.

[SpecJoe Magic]

I like to get people to taste the Beverly over at Ice Station Cool at Epcot.

Jeanne, you beat my post by mere seconds.

[magicofdisney]

I like to trick ppl on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Just before the short drop, I start saying, "Here it come, hold on..." a few times in a row. Then just before the drop, the kids and I start screaming our heads off. It's even more fun when others join in on the screaming then they realize the drop isn't so bad after all.

[TheAdventurer]

Heading to Dinosaur I told my friend it's a show with cute little AA dinosaurs singing pop hits like "Walk The Dinosaur."

Edit: ooo... this is my 800th post

[CanadianWDWFan]

I like to get people to taste the Beverly over at Ice Station Cool at Epcot.

Jeanne, you and I must be of the same mind!

I am always trying to get complete strangers to try the Beverly out.

[cinderellagrl]

Not my first trip, but my first experience with Space Mountain... I was/am terrified of heights, another above five feet high, and oh no! Well when I finally was tall enough to ride SM my parents convinced me it was a slow ride that talked about the planets..... last time I ever listened to them (well, it should have been, ha ha). I screamed the entire ride... poor guys behind us were plugging their ears the entire time!

[disneydeb]

Last October we took a friend of my DD that did not want to go on Splash, RnRC, ToT- you get the picture.

DD got her on Space Mountain (I don't know how) and she loved it! Go figure....

[Capt. Sparrow]

I like to get people to taste the Beverly over at Ice Station Cool at Epcot.

This is priceless! I do the same thing! It cracks me up every time.

Another good one is taking them to the Comedy Club in PI and getting them to sit next to a phone (it may not ring, but if it does....good laughs)...

[avantgardeinker]

I like to get people to taste the Beverly over at Ice Station Cool at Epcot.

That is the best!! My 2 neices went last year for the first time. I wasn't there with them, but we told them to be sure and go to Ice Station Cool and that The Beverly was the best one. They of course called soon after tasting it and threatened to hurt us when they got back. It was awesome!!

[AHOTE]

We were showing photos to friends from New York who had never been to WDW. They have never been amusement park types and we were hoping to show them that it was different at WDW. We had taken the pictures during one of the parades on Main Street just below the circle in front of Cinderella's Castle. Between the crowds and the floats my friend picked out an object in the background. It was the ornate top of one of the ice cream cart pavillions on the perimiter of the circle. He asked what it was and I told him it was the entrance to the subway linking the MK with other areas of the property. He seemed to accept it and it was never mentioned again until almost two years later when I got a surprised phone call. He was not amused. It seems they got to go to Florida on a business trip and they decided to try WDW for a couple of days before returning home. It was their last day there when my friend remembered the subway. I only wish I had been there to see the look on the cast members face and his when he asked for directions to the Subway. I'm now awaiting paybacks.

[Polynesian Dweller]

Nothing quite beats the Beverly setup. Every year I can pull that one on someone whose new to the drink. Problem is, I've done that so frequently I've started to get a tolerance for it and it doesn't taste as bad to me. Not sure that's a good thing.

[Imagineer1981]

I like to get people to taste the Beverly over at Ice Station Cool at Epcot.

HA HA...THATS WHAT I DO TOO!!!

[Jasper]

Unfortunately almost everyone we know has been to WDW more than once so they are pretty up to date on what goes on down there. However that didn't stop me from being able to pull the Beverly trick on my wife.

Ice Station Cool was put in during the year that my oldest son was born. That meant that my wife wasn't able to keep up with new things like I was. So, while she knew about Ice Station Cool she didn't really know about Beverly. All I can tell you is that I still have the bruises on my arm to show you her reaction!

[DISFREAKS]

We like to take newbies to 50's Prime Time. If you let the ladies at check in know you have a newbie with you, they'll usually set you up with a waitress that will play the Mom bit to the hilt.

[Princess Maggie]

Like most everyone here I tricked my DH with Beverly at Epcot.

[CU Tiger]

We talked my aunt to go on ToT and (believe it or not) she did not know about the drops. She left her seat during the first drop and you should have seen the look on her face. I still think she is trying to find a way to get us back for that one.

[PirateLover]

I got a few people with Beverly, but I'm such a bad prank puller that I can rarely keep a straight face and they start to figure out that something isn't quite right...

[wdwnomad]

Last year a friend of mine joined us on our trip. She has been before but never said on site or never really ate in the sit down places. We thought it would be great if we went to Whispering Canyon and 50's Prime Time. Of course, we didn't tell her what these places were all about. When we went to WCC she was getting so mad at the waitress because she kept bumping her chair hard. All we did was laugh. She soon enough firgured it all out and thought it was a hoot. Then at the Prime Time she wondered why a guy was standing against the wall. She then said is this one of these places!!!! It was very funny. She got in trouble for not eating her vegatables. I guess I forgot to tell her that.

Also, anytime someone asks me where they should eat at Disney I always mention those two places. I say they are really good! When they come back they say did you know they do this? I guess it slipped my mind.