Space Mountain will re-open Spring 2005 ... yes 2005

[Space Man K7]

Dear God are some of these people dumb or what. After the closure of Space Mt. for it's 2 year rehab, there were a couple of us standing out there in wonderful PR shifts... My all time favorite was someone asking me "Is the Ride going to open today?" So I replied, "no, we're scheduled to open in the Spring of 2005" then they asked "will it be open later tongiht?" once again I replied "No, we are going to reopen Spring of 2005." Still confused, they went to the next cast member who told them to return in 30 minutes. I did see my fair share of stupid guests those days and after hearing so many "I CAME ALL THE WAY FROM..... FOR THIS RIDE!" I started to reply with the "well you can always come back in 2 years." or If they said that they came from Flordia, I would ask if they knew that there was a Space Mountain in Flordia.

[mahaihai]

This is now become one on the things I dread hearing everyday. "I came all the way from....to ride Space." People aren't happy when you tell them that is closed until 2005 to make sure it is safe to ride. In fact today i had one man tell me he didn't care if the ride was unsafe he just wanted to ride it and we had to mopen it right now for him because he was (big surpise) a PREMIUM ANNUAL PASSHOLE!!!!!!!! Better yet he had been in the park 3 times since the ride closed and was only now complaining. GRRR!
:bang:

[tabacco]

Try making up a blatantly untrue story and stick to it ;)

"I'm sorry sir, but Mickey has reserved the whole attraction for a private party for the next two years. As you can guess, when Mickey gives an order, we listen. I'm sorry sir, but there's nothing we can do. You can visit him in his house at ToonTown and file a complaint if you'd like."

[Weeble]

I like that one :pbjtime:


I'm sorry sir, due to the current alignment of Jupiter and Venus, the sun seems to be dispersing an inordinate amount of gamma rays. These rays react with the insulation in our space mountain attraction in such as manner as to cause large boils to randomly appear on our guests behinds. This affliction is known in laymen's terms as "pain in the ass". I'm afraid I can't let you ride for fear you may develop into a bad case of pain in the ass....wait, did you already ride?

:pbjtime:

[mahaihai]

I have always favored "If you are unhappy with the price of admission today please see my boss. You know the 5 foot mouse in a tuxedo." It usually shuts people up :P

[tabacco]

Actually, I always referred people to Minnie, on the assumption that she was secretly running the whole organization and just using Mickey as a PR puppet to distract the world from her devious plans.

[DisneyFan25863]

Actually, I always referred people to Minnie, on the assumption that she was secretly running the whole organization and just using Mickey as a PR puppet to distract the world from her devious plans.

Funny :lol:

[BirdMom]

"I came all the way from....to ride ..."

Yeah, we always loved that one on the West side. If we had a 101 in the afternoon, some of the guys would ask the p-o'd guest if they'd been there all day, usually get a positive reply and then retort with "well, where were ya all day?! The ride broke down 15 minutes ago - why didn't you come here earlier if you came all the way from ---?"

:roll:

[Space Man K7]

Ok, so after being moved away from my home... I heard some other cast member replys to why space was closed... I think the funniest one I heard was from the cast member that voices STICH in INNOVENTIONS. Apparently a guest asked Stich why Space was closed and Stick told him that he did it cause he was mad and went on a rampage in the mountain.

I personally enjoyed telling people that "we are ripping of the backside of the mountain and gutting out the chewy, gooey nougat center."

[Guest Relations King]

I did see my fair share of stupid guests those days and after hearing so many "I CAME ALL THE WAY FROM..... FOR THIS RIDE!"

Working at the Disneyland Information Board at the end of Main Street is fun. Guests come up to us after the park first opens and tells us, "We came all the way from.....so that we could ride the ride." My response, "Well sir, how about if we refund your tickets for you. Just so you know, you'll be escorted out the park after we've completed the refund." I have yet to have someone take me up on that offer. :D

[BirdMom]

Do they still post the closures out at the ticket booths? You know - the listing of all the rides that are closed for maintenance/rehab/whatever?
Not that it does any good anyway, gawd forbid that some of those dopes actually take the time to read and digest the information that is available to them...

[Polar33]

Yep, attraction rehab closures are still listed out on the ticket booths. As well as the info line and the internet. Anyone who is smart would check before their trip...but then, if everyone who visited Disneyland was smart we wouldn't have this website. :wink:

[BirdMom]

Gee...

I guess that means that Disneyland guests are A) illiterate or B) imbicilic
hmmmmmmm...which could it be??? And where would this site (not to mention countless hours spent in bars telling stories) be without those paying pests...I mean...guests.

:bang:

[SRT_GB]

Not that it does any good anyway, gawd forbid that some of those dopes actually take the time to read and digest the information that is available to them...
If only you knew how much that kinda thing irritates me at Strollers. About 95% of the questions we get are answered either 1) by a very visible sign at our shop, or 2) on their rental receipt.

btw i agree with you guys: if guests came to Disneyland with the same intellect that I damn well hope they have in their normal lives, this website wouldnt exist and we wouldnt be able to share the fun stories at bars, Denny's until 5am, or alki parties at someone's house for those under 21.

[Fritter]

ya, why the hell can't people read signs? Sheesh! I was on a frozen lemonade push cart today, with three signs that say "Soft Frozen Lemonade $3.50." And for some reason, I still got guests asking me how much they were :roll:

[BirdMom]

ya, why the hell can't people read signs? Sheesh! I was on a frozen lemonade push cart today, with three signs that say "Soft Frozen Lemonade $3.50." And for some reason, I still got guests asking me how much they were :roll:

Oh jeeze...that sounds so familiar. For anyone who's had the misfortune to work merchandise locations that have the teeny low priced souvineers that kids go for. I can remember one summer day having a line at my register going off in the distance about two or three deep, and in the meantime, this kid who looked to be at least 8 years old (so you'd assume he'd been to school by that time and could read) asking me every thirty seconds how much this toy and that toy were. After about the 10th interruption I had to point out to this boy genius that there were prices taped to each of the plexiglass cubes that he was plucking those pieces of junk out of...in BIG RED NUMBERS...like .50 cents... .05 cents... .85 cents. Of course, the kid probably didn't understand how many pennies made up a dollar at that point yet. :roll:

[SRT_GB]

After about the 10th interruption I had to point out to this boy genius that there were prices taped to each of the plexiglass cubes that he was plucking those pieces of junk out of...in BIG RED NUMBERS...like .50 cents... .05 cents... .85 cents.
10th interruption?? I usually tell people that on the second or even first time I get asked! You think they'd get the point when we have to look on the back to tell them the price, but noooo.

[Weeble]

Tiggers are made for bouncing.........on.....by...errrr goofy?


:pbjtime:

[BirdMom]

You think they'd get the point when we have to look on the back to tell them the price, but noooo.

You obviously weren't Homerized! We used to have what they called the character detailer, pretty much the guy in charge of buying and keeping stock levels up of all the character merchandise that we used to carry in the shops. He had every friggin' stock number and price memorized. And yes, his name was Homer...can't recall what his last name was. Anyway, after you've been there in merch. a very long time, you not only have the prices of every doo-dad memorized, but the price with tax and various combinations with tax as well.

And if you've been there even longer, you can estimate the freight cost of some of the more unusual items. For instance, the humungous people sized plush that used to sell for about $450 back in the early 80's - back then it was cheaper to buy the thing it's own plane ticket than to ship it UPS or FedEx back home to Europe. Strange, but true. :wink:

[Dante101]

For instance, the humungous people sized plush that used to sell for about $450 back in the early 80's - back then it was cheaper to buy the thing it's own plane ticket than to ship it UPS or FedEx back home to Europe. Strange, but true. :wink:
I heard that people would buy it, do a "Jack the Ripper" on it, throw away the stuffing, and get it restuffed back in their home country.

[BirdMom]

I heard that people would buy it, do a "Jack the Ripper" on it, throw away the stuffing, and get it restuffed back in their home country.

Now that's a new one on me. Most of the people that I met who bought the plush didn't seem to have the kind of issues that called for saving space/cutting down shipping cost. I can recall one particular man from Switzerland who bought both the big Mickey and Minnie about five minutes before closing time. He didn't blink at the frieght charge to ship them home to his kids. If freight wasn't a problem, I doubt the seats on PanAm or whatever would have been a problem either... 8)

[SRT_GB]

Anyway, after you've been there in merch. a very long time, you not only have the prices of every doo-dad memorized, but the price with tax and various combinations with tax as well.

the worst was in 2000 when I memorized a buncha those prices after tax, then they lowered the sales tax rate to 7.50% in 2001, and after a year of memorizing prices after tax on that tax rate, they raised it back to 7.75% like it was before.

[BirdMom]

the worst was in 2000 when I memorized a buncha those prices after tax, then they lowered the sales tax rate to 7.50% in 2001, and after a year of memorizing prices after tax on that tax rate, they raised it back to 7.75% like it was before.


This will show my age...I really miss the days of the straight 5% sales tax. I don't think it's been around since I was in high school, but dang it was easy to calculate mentally...

...and to think that when I started in Merch. we still had the old fashioned cash registers that were non-computerized, 3 sales categories...character merchandise, non-character taxable merchandise and non-taxable merchandise. And every register had a teeny little chart taped to it so that you could figure the tax in a jiffy if you weren't a math wiz...lol (of course, it only went up to $100, so you'd have to do a teeny bit of addition as needed...Japanese tour groups buying 20 of the same item everyone?).

[BB Blueyes]

ya, why the hell can't people read signs? Sheesh! I was on a frozen lemonade push cart today, with three signs that say "Soft Frozen Lemonade $3.50." And for some reason, I still got guests asking me how much they were :roll:

How much are they?

I'm kidding...don't hurt me.

[BB Blueyes]

I heard that people would buy it, do a "Jack the Ripper" on it, throw away the stuffing, and get it restuffed back in their home country.

I had a couple of guests do that, it was hella messy, but cheaper. The fun part was that you cut open your favorite characters without getting in trouble. It wasn't hard since those things popped a seam all the time anyway.

[Freak]

I love those people who rant and complain about SM's closure. Than at Splash Mtn., I saw an angry Assholder complain about Splash's long lines. "It's because Space is closed! You guys shouldn't have closed it!" Jeez, c'mon, I don't think one thing's gonna screw the entire thing up. Only thing that caught me off guard was Space closed May or something instead of August. No complaints from me though. I want that thing to be re-habbed. Needs it :).

[BirdMom]

I love those people who rant and complain about SM's closure. Than at Splash Mtn., I saw an angry Assholder complain about Splash's long lines. "It's because Space is closed! You guys shouldn't have closed it!" Jeez, c'mon, I don't think one thing's gonna screw the entire thing up. .

This is the main reason they should not have gotten rid of the old ticket books. When a guest only gets 5 "E" tickets, 4 "D" tickets, etc. it regulates the size of the lines. They were careful about which attractions they went on and the lines usually weren't out of control unless it was a brand new attraction (I remember waiting in line 3 hours for Space Mtn. when it had first opened to the public). If you ran out of E tickets, there were ticket booths in each area and you could pay .85 cents a piece for more E tickets. Then there were the good ol' Magic Kingdom Club cards that meant your ticket books were good for any attraction - so they were all E tickets. The other thing - internal - that was good about the old ride tickets was that you knew when a ride paid for itself. Obviously, you knew what the operating costs of the attraction were, how many people you had staffed during hours and you would see the dollar amount you were taking in for each attraction each day. Now with the back doors, along with only two prices (adult and child, rather than adult, junior [teen] and child) it's harder to tell when an attraction really becomes profitable. Plus it gears everything toward high capacity rides, rather than the low capacity dark rides in Fantasyland that pretty much used to be regulated with the tickets as well. 8)

[VonSeegs]

there were a couple of us standing out there in wonderful PR shifts... My all time favorite was someone asking me "Is the Ride going to open today?"

Dude- you should have told them about all the games we played while PR'ing... The "Movie" game, oh and the tally sheet. That was great. We wrote down a whole bunch of things that the guests would say and tally how many people said the same things: "Two Years?!" response- "No sir. Only 24 months." "Are you serious?" response- "No sir. I'm just here for the atmosphere." "Did someone die on it?" response- "I can neither confirm nor deny. BTW... did you know anyone by the name of 'Steve' that visited us 2 days ago? We're still waiting for the dental records."

Ha ha ha! People are stupid.

[goose]

In response to people not understanding simple explanations...

This lady seriously asked me like four times where the parade comes through. I gave a detailed explanation each time. "It starts by the Entrance of Main Street, comes right through here and ends by Small World."

Each time I'm done explaining: "So it comes right through here?" "This is a good place to sit?" "It starts at Main Street?" "My friend came from Colorado and she will be very upset if she misses it."

AHHH! Stupid b*tch. I swore out loud after she walked away. I couldn't help it. If people would just listen the first time, they wouldn't have to ask those follow up questions. It's not like my answer is going to change each time.

Does anyone else hate all the follow up questions? The questions that were answered the first time you explained them? :bang:

[SRT_GB]

I get those follow-up questions all the time and i hate them. The worst is when their questions are answered in such an obvious place like the park map, and they still ask the same question 3 times to get the same answer 3 times.

[BirdMom]

"So it comes right through here?" "This is a good place to sit?" "It starts at Main Street?" :bang:

Yes.

Consider them 5-year olds - the more yes or no answers you can give, the fewer asprin you'll need.

[VonSeegs]

Guest #1: Does this ride have a flash pass?
Me: No. We don't have Fastpass for Matterhorn. The line is 20 minutes.
Guest #1: Only 20 minutes? The line is all the way around the thing.
Me: Yes but the line moves really fast.

Guest #2: (standing directly behind Guest #1 and listening the whole time) So this ride doesn't have the pass thingy?
Me: No. We don't have Fastpass for Matterhorn.
Guest #2: You don't have Fastpass for Matterhorn?
Me: Nope.
Guest #2: Well that's stupid. But the line's only 20 minutes?
Me: (in my head) No you stupid idiot. What part of that last conversation didn't you understand? Do you comprendo? Sprichen english? For the love of all that is holy!!!
(outloud) Yup. The line is only 20 minutes.

Guest #3: (the one that's waited in line for the 20 minutes and is now standing next to me by the turnstile) Maybe those people would know this ride doesn't have a Fastpass if they would read the map they have open in their hands.
Me: God forbid. Then I'd be out of a job.

[SwtKissez]

I so know wat you mean about the follow-up questions..ahhhh! i could scream my head off about those... :roll:

[Space Man K7]

ARGH........ The Movie Game was the Best. So spending all my time at the Mark Twain... seeing those poor thunder kids go through the same thing we did at Space... I walked over and introduced the Movie Game and the Fastpass slinky! So there was that... and then there was a lot of jumping or limbo under that rope that they gave us. It was mucho exciting.

[coldfire409]

I have never herd of the Movie Game or Fastpass slinky. Although my favorate one is where the guests change the name of the fastpass to something that already has a name like speedpass, and I have even had somebody call it an E-pass. I didn't know that they took those expensive toll roads enough to use one of those. I always have fun with those ones and tell them exactly where they can get whatever they are asking for, eventhough it is nothing like what they thought it was. aka a fastpass ticket

[trojantuba]

Do they still post the closures out at the ticket booths? You know - the listing of all the rides that are closed for maintenance/rehab/whatever?
Not that it does any good anyway, gawd forbid that some of those dopes actually take the time to read and digest the information that is available to them...

Guest: They should put up signs telling you that the rides are closed

Me: we do

Guest: I didn't see any

Me: Really ? you didn't see the signs out at the enterance on the ticket windows or on the internet?

Guest:blank stare...(screaming at the top of his lungs)I can't believe you guys can charge this much and still have so many closed rides.

Me: ok did you get the description..?

Guest: of what ?

Me: the person who held the gun to you head and made you come here this morning.

Guest:(walks off in a huff)

[pixiedust]

I havn't gotten to use this yet.. but I like it as an answer.. and I promise I will eventually.. especially on those busy days working M&F tolls in the morning.

Lady: I have a college degree.. and I couldn't find your stupid parking stucture entrance! You guys need signs!!!!

Me: Actually ma'am... The guy who is in charge of putting up the signs IS here today.. And being that he is here today I doubt we fired him... Which means he probably is doing his job correctly... Which probably means you missed the signs on the way in... Sorry for the inconvenience. (I'd like to replace "the inconvenience" with "your incompetence" but I like my job too much.)

[pixiedust]

I had a couple of guests do that, it was hella messy, but cheaper. The fun part was that you cut open your favorite characters without getting in trouble. It wasn't hard since those things popped a seam all the time anyway.

Ok... this is just something I head from a friend who use to work P.Pier Foods... she has a tendancy to make stuff up to sound interesting though..

It basically involves one of those giant pigs they use to (don't know if they still do) give away as grand prizes for the canival games.. and one of the trash compactors. You do the math.

*POOOF* :twisted:

[VonSeegs]

I have never herd of the Movie Game or Fastpass slinky.

The FP slinky is fun. You just get a whole bunch of blank FPs still attached to each other and then throw it at someone but it comes back to you. They freak because they think they're gonna get hit.

I can't tell you about the Movie Game on this site though. It's not that kind of site. Ok it is but still... :oops:

[WaitWhat]

ya, why the hell can't people read signs?

Check out the Splash end of line. There are three differet signs saying stand-by entrance and we still get asked where it is every two seconds.

[missvampunk]

Not that it does any good anyway, gawd forbid that some of those dopes actually take the time to read and digest the information that is available to them...
If only you knew how much that kinda thing irritates me at Strollers. About 95% of the questions we get are answered either 1) by a very visible sign at our shop, or 2) on their rental receipt.

btw i agree with you guys: if guests came to Disneyland with the same intellect that I damn well hope they have in their normal lives, this website wouldnt exist and we wouldnt be able to share the fun stories at bars, Denny's until 5am, or alki parties at someone's house for those under 21.

yeah.. i understand.. but one they dont look at their rental receipt.. lets see. oh yeah lets have 2 kids on the stroller.. ding bats.. and we all know they cant read.. :roll:

[Al Marcano]

Excuse me but you tell what the 11:00 parade starts. :D

[Space Man K7]

The movie game is the best! I've had so much fun with that on Columbia...

[samiam]

they still ask the same question 3 times to get the same answer 3 times.

Don't they know they're supposed to ask the same question to three different CMs to get three different answers (so they can pick their favorite?)

Seriously, though, I'm intrigued by the "movie game" - I'm not familiar with it..

[MrDoe]

Actually, I always referred people to Minnie, on the assumption that she was secretly running the whole organization and just using Mickey as a PR puppet to distract the world from her devious plans.Ha, a fellow Cast Member said that while on the parade route and she got in some big trouble with out manager. I laughed though.

[tabacco]

Actually, I always referred people to Minnie, on the assumption that she was secretly running the whole organization and just using Mickey as a PR puppet to distract the world from her devious plans.Ha, a fellow Cast Member said that while on the parade route and she got in some big trouble with out manager. I laughed though.

Really? I seem to recall one of our managers thinking it was pretty funny :)

[the baker]

So I was making a delivery to the candy palace one cold, windy, rainy, and miserable day to drop off apples and other stuff. You guys may have seen this big-ass red cart thats almost 5' tall. Well, that shit is heavy after you make the trip twice with a buttload of apples in it, and trying to quickly roll it over the railroad tracks aint easy. Plus its loud as heck so everyone starts staring at you. So while trying to cross the street there are a whole bunch of people coming so I'm forced to stop in the middle and wait for them to pass. (Last time we didn't stop we got complaints from guests...what the hell?, nothing happened :evil: ) And some of them are nice and quickly trot by as they smile, but this lady with a baby stroller comes and stops directly in front of me, turns around so her back is towards me, and starts pickin' her ass! She looked like a bitch so I didn't want to say anything and I was too tired to start a fight...hey, there were kids around. But I wanted to :hammer:, So then I had to back that frigging cart up and maneauver my way around the buttpicker and push it up the sidewalk ramp. Thanks lady, you really made my day just peachy!...jackass