Broken Rides

[floogen6]

Kali River Rapids and we were stuck for 20 minutes before they drained the ride and walked us out the secret backway (kinda cool to see all the behind the scenes stuff) got a fast pass that was good for the rest of the day for all in our party

[MickeysEars]

We got stuck a few years ago on Test Track. The bad part was we were outside going around the sharp bank. Stopped. I was on the right side trying to hold my weight off my son. It was terrible. but it only lasted about 5 minutes. The cars were brought in slowly, turns out another car had caught fire and they had to remove it from the ride. They just let us stay in the car and ride again, without the stopping!

caught fire??!!?? Can you imagine being in that car?

[MickeyMousse]

Always seems to happen to us on The Universe of Energy...3 times to be exact! We've stopped going since we feel like a curse.

[*Pepper*]

Summer of last year....Pirates of the Caribbean broke down. We sat in the boats about 15 minutes, the lights were turned on, and then walking through the water, in hip-waders, was one of the CMs. One by one she put the boats in place so we could step out and then exit through a door. We ended up behind the building in the back lot and had to walk around. Pretty cool experience!

[Kenny1113]

About 15 years ago at DL we were stuckon Pirates, lights came on and we were escorted though backdoors out of the ride, behind the building. Pretty cool being able to see all that.

[Georgesgirl1]

I have always wanted to be escorted off a ride! I think it would be so cool to get to see the "backstage" areas of the rides.

This last trip we had to wait on Spaceship Earth for about 20 minutes and I kept hoping that they would come and escort us out so I could walk the ride, but no such luck!

Maybe someday....

[dmosher]

I have had it happen a few times but remembering them is difficult. THe one that really stands out was TTA at the Space Mountain viewing area. Was there for about 10-15 min's while they got it up and running. A Cm walked by and asked if I wanted to get out, but I was enjoying watching SM so much I asked if I could just stay where I was. He said "sure", then walked down the track. It was pretty cool watching SM that whole time. Also, I got stuck on the Jungle Cruise once. There were only 3 of us on the boat so it was no big deal. The boat shut down inside the temple. Very Very Cool!

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[Followthatmouse]

I have had it happen a few times but remembering them is difficult. THe one that really stands out was TTA at the Space Mountain viewing area. Was there for about 10-15 min's while they got it up and running. A Cm walked by and asked if I wanted to get out, but I was enjoying watching SM so much I asked if I could just stay where I was. He said "sure", then walked down the track. It was pretty cool watching SM that whole time.
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We had a similar experience. The only difference was that SM was also in the midst of some trouble. So, we sat and watched as the crews worked on a ride vehicle on the SM track. We were not stopped long.

[thumperbug]

We;ve been lucky. Worst thing that has happen was 5-10 mins halts on Peter Pan and SE. One time on SE we were in the backwards/going back down mode.

One time on TTA when we went thru SM that ride was broken/down and they had the main lights on. Got to see all the tracks and inner workings. Pretty cool.

[IloveDisney71]

I've been stuck on lots of different rides but I've only had to evacuate off of the Great Movie Ride.

[love2teach]

We were stuck on Pirates for about an hour a few weeks ago! We were closing out the MNSSHP and decided to go on POTC for our last ride. We were stalled where the pirate says "here kitty kitty have some rum". After him saying that 500 times and hearing the pirate song we wanted to jump in the water. Our boat moved backwards a few times and then forward a few times into the fiery part. Castmembers put on water overalls/boots and climbed into the water to help us evacuate the boats. I guess the boats can tip over so they had to evacuate rows by weight/group size. We then went around the backlot and saw parade floats and other cool "behind the scenes things"

[Disneyfan1971]

The last time I was at Epcot (1995) my cousin and I were on World Of Motion. Now the first time I rode this, it was pretty cool. Then in 1986, I rode it again and it was the same. And nine years later, it was still the same. Anyways, the ride stopped at least four times..not sure what was going on but it took us twenty-five minutes for that stupid ride

[goofygirl67]

I have been on EE when it stopped twice, getting the lap bar shoved into your mid section was unpleasent.
The only time I had to be escorted off was on MS, back then there was only 1 version. We sat for 45 minutes in restraints and they kept telling us 'to sit tight we will get to you as soon as we can' , like we were going some place. Luckily we still had the AC on. We kept hearing metal banging around outside of the cabin, it turns out that on the spinning ride the floor drops out. We had to go down 1 ladder then climb up another just to get out.
Other than that I've just had the usual 10-15 minute waits.

[AdventurerKim]

We were on Horizons and had to be walked off. The CM opened the back of the ride vehicle, and we had to climb out that way. We came out behind the building and had to walk up back to the park. Since that was pre-fastpasses, we didn't get anything except a cool and memorable experience.

Once in Buzz, the lights came on, a buzzer went off, and these chain gates popped up all around us which was really freaky. We stopped for a little while but didn't have to get off. It's never happened again while we've been on the ride, but, again, another memorable experience.

[NJdisney]

At Magic Kingdom on the night of Saturday 11/8/08, we were on line for the Tea Cup ride, and it was closed after someone vomited in one of the cups. After attempting to cover the Tea Cup, they ran it once, so we stayed in line. After waiting in line a long time (we were then near the front of the line), they let everyone off the line. Immediately after, we walked to Tomorrowland Transit Authority, which had just closed it's ride. Then walked to Carousel of Progress, which also broke down shortly after the first scene. All riders left through a back hallway. Moments later, I complained to a Disney manager that we had been on three rides in a row that broke down that night. He seemed annoyed and did not even offer an apology, no fastpass, nothing. Very very disappointed with his attitude, which is a reflection of Disney Really bad way to handle my complaint.

[Tinkerbelly84]

My DM and I got stuck on the Winnie the Pooh ride for about an hour and we had to be escorted out. We were stuck and the music continued it was really annoying after the first ten times through.

[joanna71985]

I got stuck on EE, and we had to be escorted off. That's the only time I've been evacuated from a ride.

[mouselover93]

primerval whirl i dont know why it broke down but it took 2 hours to get off

[Simba's Mom]

primerval whirl i dont know why it broke down but it took 2 hours to get off

Wow, two hours! That really puts a crimp in your touring plans! What about people who missed ADRs or other one-time events as a result of being stuck on the ride? One time, I had reservations for an Annual Pass event at AK,and I would have been really upset if I missed it as a result of being stuck on a ride.

[ojeilatan]

Never had this experience in WDW. We were on Dinosaur, and right as you hear 'The meteor's about to hit! Brace yourselves!' everything - the jeep, the lights, the sounds- shut off for about 3 minutes, then came back on and we took off.
DisneyLAND is a whole 'nother story, however - stuck for 45 minutes just after the drop in Splash, and got walked out through the water pump room; stuck on Indiana Jones and had the work lights turned on (which just about induced me to tears when the magic was gone luckily, we were in a small hallway, so not much was given away ) but we didn't have to walk out - they came out, checked on us, got us going again, and let us go again without getting off.