How Does This Ride Work?

[TowerTimmy]

Asked the guest sitting in the front row of a major roller coaster in the Orlando area.

Me: "It runs off gravity"
SG: "No it doesn't. It has to be gas powered."
Me: In utter shock "Um, no maam, it does run off gravity. The train gets hooked to a chain, which pulls it up the lift hill, then when you reach the top, the chain lets go, and the train coasts through the track."
SG: "Yea, but how does it go?"
Me: What I wanted to say is that if we didn't have to use gravity, what's the point of taking you up into the air? We should just be able to turn on those afterburners and send you through. I just looked at her for a second and said "Maam, the ride runs on gravity, the train coasts down the track." I checked her harness and moved on.

Wow, what an absolute idiot. I wanted to smack her, and have her stand under the track and ask her to turn off those afterburners. Oops, guess we cant! ::smack::

[Shorty82]

You're sort of right. Rollercoasters run off of momentum, usually built up by using gravity on a lift hill but sometimes other methods are used, such as Rockin' Rollercoaster's catapult system.

Doesn't change the fact that she was an idiot though.

[vixen101485]

Of course the obvious answer depending on the coaster would be forward and/or backward.

[Randy B]

When all else fails, "Pixie Dust" or maybe "Magic" is the answer. At least in a Disney park. Anywhere else the answer is "Applied Physics...Do you have a degree and a membership card from the Applied Physics Union? Then I am not allowed to tell you." :D:

Randy

[mechurchlady]

The truth is that the ride gets power from kids who run all day on giant hamstper wheels.

[Cheshire Figment]

Is it possible there is a special connection from the Monstropolis Power Authority and it uses the power of the laughs collected at MILF?

[hobie16]

I saw an interview with a nuclear physicist at Lawrence Livermore Radiation Laboratories on TV. He was asked what he did. He responded with a technical laden description of his job. The interviewer asked if he could put the job description into layman's terms. The physicist thought for a moment and replied, "No."

[Princess Susi]

Is it possible there is a special connection from the Monstropolis Power Authority and it uses the power of the laughs collected at MILF?

That acronym still throws me!:eek: :hysteria:

[GuestJockey]

When all else fails, "Pixie Dust" or maybe "Magic" is the answer. At least in a Disney park. Anywhere else the answer is "Applied Physics...Do you have a degree and a membership card from the Applied Physics Union? Then I am not allowed to tell you." :D:

Randy


LOL - when the fireworks got cancelled a few weeks ago, we told everyone complaining in City Hall that "must be that not enough people believed."

I don't get why guests ask questions if they don't want to hear your answers. Even if the conversation had gone:
SG: how does this work?
You: gravity
SG: really? wow, I thought it would be gas powered or something.
...it would have been a dumb comment, but not frustrating for you. It's the fact that they argue - implying that you're not telling them the truth - that really drives me nuts.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

That acronym still throws me!:eek: :hysteria:

Yeah, that means something completely different in my line of work.

I am suprised that someone didn't catch that. Or possibly its "Hidden" humor?

[drcorey]

well, in the back room we have 10000 rats on treadmills,
when we press a button, they run like rats out of hell,
then the 10000 braking hedgehogs take over from there...

[Big Wallaby]

I am suprised that someone didn't catch that. Or possibly its "Hidden" humor?They had to have known. I'm pretty sure that if Walt was still around, the person who named that that would not still be with Disney.

Still, funny.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

They had to have known. I'm pretty sure that if Walt was still around, the person who named that that would not still be with Disney.

Still, funny.

True, When I saw that at WDW on the attraction, I started laughing, DW didn't understand until I explained it!

[ktulu]

True, When I saw that at WDW on the attraction, I started laughing, DW didn't understand until I explained it!

But it is so much fun to talk about! Especially around teenagers...

"Honey, when we get to WDW the first thing I want to do is the MILF."
"Okay, that sounds good to me too!"

Teenager: "You are one lucky guy..."

[felinefan]

Another possible response would have been, "It works fine!":D:

[CBeilby]

Another possible response would have been, "It works fine!":D:

Did you ever work Shack, Felinefan?

[bpgstudios]

Just the other night I had a teenager ask me how the teacups stayed on... I was confused as hell....:confused:

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Just the other night I had a teenager ask me how the teacups stayed on... I was confused as hell....:confused:

I would guess that they are attracted to the saucer??

(or attached!)

[vixen101485]

Just the other night I had a teenager ask me how the teacups stayed on... I was confused as hell....:confused:

WOW...that is just such an out there question that I cant even think of a smartass comeback for it. Tell them the dormouse uses sugar and water as glue. LOL OH BROTHER, ya gotta wonder sometimes.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

WOW...that is just such an out there question that I cant even think of a smartass comeback for it. Tell them the dormouse uses sugar and water as glue. LOL OH BROTHER, ya gotta wonder sometimes.

Wouldn't a good catch all reply be: "Only Walt knows how (It/they) work, and he didn't tell anyone!!"

[ktulu]

Just the other night I had a teenager ask me how the teacups stayed on... I was confused as hell....

"I dunno, that's Imaginering's job. I'm just here to call custodial when you puke up the turkey legs and churro's..."

[Zazu]

Just the other night I had a teenager ask me how the teacups stayed on....Oh, that's simple. Mustard!

[hobie16]

Just the other night I had a teenager ask me how the teacups stayed on... I was confused as hell....:confused:


Really really big electromagnets powered by a superconductor.

[vixen101485]

Oh, that's simple. Mustard!

and Jam, cant forget the jam....move down move down

[mechurchlady]

Really really big electromagnets powered by a superconductor.

You do not work for Disney so I will believe the employee named Sassu that it is mustard. Excuse me Xaxu but what kind of mustard do they use as I really need to keep my kid from JR GET OVER HERE NOW.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

and Jam, cant forget the jam....move down move down

Reminds me of "Spaceballs"...we've been....jammed!!!!

[Randy B]

Just the other night I had a teenager ask me how the teacups stayed on... I was confused as hell....:confused:

They were not washed after the last use and stuck to the saucer and the saucer stuck to the floor and so unless someone carries a big box of Cascade on durring a rainstorm, they are not going anywhere. :D:

Randy

[GuestJockey]

Reminds me of "Spaceballs"...we've been....jammed!!!!

There's only ONE man who would DARE give me the RASPBERRY!

[Buggy]

I would like to take the opportunity to thank the nice folks from Mission Space who let me explore the ride after unloading and let me watch it in action (from behind closed doors) after I had ridden.

[DisneyMom]

They are teacups, and Hunny from Pooh's Supply was used to make them stick!


(Must have Hunny with Tea!)

[Cranbiz]

Reminds me of "Spaceballs"...we've been....jammed!!!!

Raspberry, only Lonestar would give me the raspberry.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Raspberry, only Lonestar would give me the raspberry.

"Its YOGURT"...Ya heard of me?