Soarin' Over California....aka:

[flower]

I had to compile a list of what our fabulous guests decide to rename this attraction as. Here's a few I can recall:

Flyin' over California
California Dreamin'
Soarin' over USA
you know, that one that smells like oranges
(guestures with arms/hand like a plane)
the virtual reality thingy

and my absolute favorite:
America the Beautiful

[SRT_GB]

My personal favorite is "you know, that one ride."

[IndyBob]

My favorite was when I was working Indy one day and a guest asked where Magic Mountain was, actually looking for Splash Mountain, so I told him to hop back on the 5 and drive about 2 hours north and exit on Valentia Blvd. He wasn't to happy with that answer and stormed off. LOL :lol:

[tabacco]

My favorite was when I was working Indy one day and a guest asked where Magic Mountain was, actually looking for Splash Mountain, so I told him to hop back on the 5 and drive about 2 hours north and exit on Valentia Blvd. He wasn't to happy with that answer and stormed off. LOL :lol:

I had a similar one while working Fantasmic!, except the guest wanted to know how to get to Animal Kingdom. I explained to him that it was in Florida, and he got this really confused look on his face and said "Really?" I figured he was getting the name of some attraction wrong, so I asked him to describe what he was looking for and it turns out he really was looking for DAK. *sigh*

[coldfire409]

My favorate since I do work in Florida is when a guest asks where the Indiana Jones Ride is and they are dead serious about it. We only have a stunt show in Florida so there is always mass confusion about it :roll: Although after I told them that the ride is in Disneyland they asked me how to get there. I told them the best way is to get on an airplane and fly there; I cannot belive that they actually think I know how to get somewhere that I haven't been to :bang:

[Freak]

..Here's a few I can recall:
(guestures with arms/hand like a plane)


God, that makes me want to go back to DCA and wait to see someone do that! LOL!

[SassyTinkrBelle8]

The most common name I get for Soarin' is "California Dreams"

Working at Golden Dreams, you get a lot of guests that come in and ask, "So, what is this exactly?" I explain to them that it is a 22 minute movie on the "Spirit of California." Then many of the times they'll ask me, "that's the one that flies, right?" I tell them no, that it is a regular movie theater. They usually don't even let me finish my sentence before they ask me, "well, where's the one that flies?"

My favorite is the teen/adult couple, usually being dragged by the chick asking where the Brother Bear show is at. After I tell them where to find the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, they hurry over there to catch it. I kinda laugh inside because I know that the guy is gonna hate it, it's pretty cheesy! It's more for little kids.

[SRT_GB]

The most common name I get for Soarin' is "California Dreams"
haha when they do that you should tell them, "no we do not have an attraction based on a corny 90s teen tv show that was basically a Saved by the Bell ripoff."

side note: California Dreams may have been a corny SBTB ripoff but I liked it.

[FebruaryStar02]

Andy Dick called it "Smell Across California" at Primetime Preview Weekend. He also threw food from the craft services table at the Q&A audience, but I digress...

[tourbunny]

for the life of me i can't remember the funniest name for soarin' but it had something to do with vibrating, because i told that woman that didn't know what she just sayed that if that's what that ride is, i'm coming with her! i'll think of it soon.
it is just utterly annoying when they come up to you holding a map, looking at it and still ask you where that soarin' ride is. i just point to it and say "right there folks! and we are here!" and try and run.
or my other favourite if i'm trapped in a booth:" well using the map that you are holding here you can see we are right here and soarin' is over there. let me dot the way to it!"
i know it's not belly laughs but it gives me satisfaction when they realize how stupid they were.
if i could just think of that name...

[DisneyFan25863]

My favorite was when I was working Indy one day and a guest asked where Magic Mountain was, actually looking for Splash Mountain, so I told him to hop back on the 5 and drive about 2 hours north and exit on Valentia Blvd. He wasn't to happy with that answer and stormed off. LOL :lol:


psst....It's Magic Mountian Blvd. Valencia Blvd. is one exit too early :wink:



~DisneyFan25863 (native Valencia resident :D)

[pixiedust]

psst....It's Magic Mountian Blvd. Valencia Blvd. is one exit too early :wink:

You know... the funny thing is... I have heard that we really did have someone come into the lot, ask where Magic Mountain is, and mean it.

She went the wrong way on the 5 freeway to pick up her kids. :?

[Guest Relations King]

When I worked the Information Board, guests would always come up to me and ask how to get to New Orleans. I would give them directions to John Wayne Airport and tell them that the best way was by Airplane. :D

- GRK

[Latasian731]

I was in Epcot the first week of January and while visiting the Land pavillion I was told that they were getting Soarin Over California. They are going to change the name to just Soarin'. I wonder if it is going to be just like the one in DCA, but you never now. But this once again proves that here at Disney we love sharing attractions.

[Thatguy]

the first time I heard that they were going to put soarin' in florida it was being kicked around as "soarin' over the serengetti(sp?)" at DAK but apparently things changed over the last two years.

[IndyBob]

They should make it soarin over the everglades cause they're in Florida, huh, makes sence to me! Anything that makes sence is to easy though.

[coldfire409]

From everything I heard it's going to be exactly like the attraction at DCA, name and all. . . but talk about confusing the guests even more. Maybe they will think that they are actually in Califorina, since, after all the attraction they are on is Soarn' over Califorina

[Thatguy]

yeah, renting a helicopter and all that film would cost way too much for a unique attraction.

[flippin_mermaid]

My favorite was when I was working Indy one day and a guest asked where Magic Mountain was, actually looking for Splash Mountain, so I told him to hop back on the 5 and drive about 2 hours north and exit on Valentia Blvd. He wasn't to happy with that answer and stormed off. LOL :lol:




Yeah, I've had a few people ask for directions to "Magic Mountain" and they mean any of the various "mountains" we have: Splash, Space, Matterhorn, etc. Me and another cast member were explaining to this one guy how to get there from Disneyland, cause we really honestly thought he meant Magic Mountain the theme park...and he got all confused and goes, "It's OUTSIDE of the park?? Two hours away??" And that when we realized and started cracking up and explained what we thought....he didn't think it humorous, he thought we were high or something...he didn't even know of a place called Magic Mountain so he wasn't too amused.

[SpaceRanger]

My favorite was when I was working Indy one day and a guest asked where Magic Mountain was, actually looking for Splash Mountain, so I told him to hop back on the 5 and drive about 2 hours north and exit on Valentia Blvd. He wasn't to happy with that answer and stormed off. LOL :lol:




Yeah, I've had a few people ask for directions to "Magic Mountain" and they mean any of the various "mountains" we have: Splash, Space, Matterhorn, etc. Me and another cast member were explaining to this one guy how to get there from Disneyland, cause we really honestly thought he meant Magic Mountain the theme park...and he got all confused and goes, "It's OUTSIDE of the park?? Two hours away??" And that when we realized and started cracking up and explained what we thought....he didn't think it humorous, he thought we were high or something...he didn't even know of a place called Magic Mountain so he wasn't too amused.

WOW :shock: He hadn't even heard of Magic Mountain?

Oh well... I'm fairly sympathetic to guests who get lost or get the names of things mixed up just cuz I do that a LOT. I remember driving home one time from a friend's house about 2 hours from here. I hadn't ever driven home from there before, and wasn't quite sure how to get there, especially since I just followed her there (she was moving, so we used both of our cars and crammed all her boxes into them). Well, I didn't think to check directions on how to get back... once I realized I was totally and completely lost and prolly headed in the wrong direction, I started calling my family... couldn't get hold of them... called my friends, they all either didn't answer, or had no clue how to help me. So I called work.... it finally proved that I'm an idiot, but at least they knew how to get me home. :lol:

[techie-13]

^ When I first got my license and was driving solo, I would get lost but then I figured out that if I could find the park (PGA) I could find my way home. :wink:

[SpaceRanger]

^ lol yup... if I'm someplace and I want to ask for directions back to my house, I usually just ask them how to get to Disneyland, since that's one place almost everyone knows how to get to. If I can find the park, then I can find my way home.

[SassyTinkrBelle8]

I've been getting a lot of,
them: "Where's California Adventure?"
me: "Ummm... You are in California Adventure"
them (with confusion on their faces): "Well, where's the one that flies?" :?
me: "Ahh, you want Soarin' Over California!"

or this one,
Them: "So what's this attraction all about"
me: "It's a 22 minute film all about California called Golden Dreams. It kinda takes a magical journey back in time and shows you the different events that have occured here in California"
Them (to their party): "Oh yeah, let's do this one, it's the one that flies!" :D
Me: "Actually, it's not, your thinking of Soarin'"
them: "well, what's this one?"
Me: "Its a 22 min..." :roll:
WHY DO THEY THINK THAT A RIDE IS GOING TO LAST 20 Minutes?!

[coldfire409]

I commonly get at the Movie Ride

Guest: What is this?

Me: A 22 minute slow moving ride through movie scenes.

Guest: Is this a rollercoaster?

Me: :bang:

Then in the preshow, which is still part of the queue I get the guests asking "Is this all that it is"

Now I know when I go on an attraction I at least read the sign of the attraction and if it had the word ride in it. I know that I"m going on a ride.

[sistercoyote]

I like Golden Dreams.

I like Soarin' better, but. ;)

In any event, I'm here to pipe up as one of the ones who has instructed guests to get on the five freeway to get to Magic Mountain.

Of course, I was also working Stromboli's when Fantasmic! first opened (actually, I'll save my Fantasmic! opening day story for some other time), and we had a lot of people asking where they could see Fantasia. It's probably best that it wasn't out on VHS at the time, or our smart-assed answers would have been a lot worse than they were.

And then there was the time I had the guy insisting that he could see the "Batman" show at the park...and back to Magic Mountain we go.

[SRT_GB]

Of course, I was also working Stromboli's when Fantasmic! first opened (actually, I'll save my Fantasmic! opening day story for some other time), and we had a lot of people asking where they could see Fantasia. It's probably best that it wasn't out on VHS at the time, or our smart-assed answers would have been a lot worse than they were.
Hey more than 10 years later we STILL get that question!! :bang:

[sistercoyote]

You don't think I'm surprised that the question hasn't gone away, do you?

I mean, it's not like they're getting any smarter... :P

[coldfire409]

Recently on the Movie Ride I was in the Fantaisa scene and I had somebody "correct" me when I called the movie Fantaisa. They looked at me and said, "No, that's Fantasmic." I just ignored them and we had a good laugh at that in the breakroom.

[SassyTinkrBelle8]

I like Golden Dreams.

I like Soarin' better

I like Soarin' better too!! Whenever a guest comes right before the last show, and they ask me if its worth watching, I ask if they have done everything. If they tell me that they haven't gone on Soarin', then I send them over there. I can't believe people actually go in the park and leave without going on one of, if not the best attractions in the park!

[PrncssCinderAlly]

seriously... people walk right up to our gate and ask where the haunted house is... sheesh... then again, most people walk up to our gate to ask how to get to indy, or splash, or pooh, or pirates, or jungle, or thunder......
sheesh... so sad.

[goose]

I've got a couple good ones:

Crater Town: Critter Country
SunSplash: Splash Mountain

[Wizard69]

I've got a couple good ones:

Crater Town: Critter Country
SunSplash: Splash Mountain
Not a ride but here's a nickname.. Cell Block E

Another one...Slowcase

[SRT_GB]

Not a ride but here's a nickname.. Cell Block E

Another one...Slowcase
Since you brought up stores.....
The Big House (Emporium)
Slavorium
Slowthiers
Slave Trader
Nudestand
Snoozestand
...and a few others that aren't exactly PC.

[CujoSR]

...and a few others that aren't exactly PC.This whole site isn't PC.

[coldfire409]

I think that this entire site has become on par with HBO. Let's face it this is a place to bitch about your work and all that good stuff.

[Cloud Buster]

I think that this entire site has become on par with HBO. Let's face it this is a place to bitch about your work and all that good stuff.

Hell yeah, and I don't think that should carry a stigma. This site has a cult following, but it's great -- it's somewhere where we can say what we really feel about life in a company -- that for all intents and purposes tells us how to think -- with people who will understand, and without fear of retaliation.

[smart1hermione]

My friend's called it "sky diving ride"

That would be, so very horrible...

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

My friend's called it "sky diving ride"

That would be, so very horrible...

Thats kinda strange, you are not going down, you are going up and horozintal!

Maybe your friend has vertigo?

[smart1hermione]

Thats kinda strange, you are not going down, you are going up and horozintal!

Maybe your friend has vertigo?

She's vocabulary-challenged. She comes up with gems like that all the time. I wish I could say english isn't her first language, but it's not the case...

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

She's vocabulary-challenged. She comes up with gems like that all the time. I wish I could say english isn't her first language, but it's not the case...

Maybe she was going for a malaprop?

[smart1hermione]

Maybe she was going for a malaprop?

i sincerely doubt it.