Jurassic Park...ohhh....such a DISNEY attraction.....

[Greenbaron76]

One day I was out working at the merchandise kiosks when a guest came up asking where the "prehistoric" attraction is within WDW. Being that I worked at the Disney-MGM Studios at the point, I pointed out the Dinosaur Attraction at the Animal Kingdom.......

then the guest proceeded to say "no it was called Jurassic Park"......being that we are naturally discouraged from endorsing other parks' rides, I quickly but to the point said that the ride was actually at Universal Studios. You would of thought that would of appeased the guests at that point, but Mrs. Know It All went on saying "no, I know it is on this property"........I wanted to laugh outright at the point, but of course I had to bite my tongue.

To end the situation, the guests left steamed thinking I was trying to pull a fast one, and I wound up being summoned by my managers saying that the guests had gone to guest relations to complain, but after they left (of course being kissed up to), relations called area management,and the supervisors wound up all laughing..............hehe......the way she went on like a know it all, she is very lucky I didn't direct her 80 miles down the road to a particular park in Tampa......she probably would have fallen for it! :P

[TheManator]

oy.

I've seen people asking the staff at USF where IASW was..so I guess the score is kind of even.

[se8472]

God I had a guy who just KNEW that Spiderman was in Tomorrow Land. He told me no you are wrong and stormed off LOL

[DisneyPrincess]

I've been in the middle of Sunset Blvd with Tower right behind me, a guest walks up and asks me how to get to Jaws. I explain that the Studios they were looking for was Universal Studios and not Disney-MGM Studios. They of course insist that they are correct, and went so far as to pull out a Universal Studios map and say "where are we on this and how do I get here (and points to Jaws)?" So I point to an area *near* the map and say they need to get back on to I-4. :roll: I handed them one of our park maps and said "these are the rides and shows we have."

[coldfire409]

One of my favorates is when I worked at Space Mountain. . . and Coaster probably both share the same question. A guest walks up to you and asks you if this ride is like ____ but fill in the blank with some name of a rollercoaster someplace else in the country. I'm assuming that it's probably someplace near their house. It's bad enough working at coaster and somebody asks you to compaire coaster to tower, but at least there's a good chance you've been on both when you are working at coaster.

[DisneyPrincess]

:lol: Exactly. Just because I work here doesn't mean I know of every coaster and how each one of them is compared to the rides I work! hehe Some people.

[GMC]

hey indy/steam trains from anaheim here, we've got star tours and indy here, so how do i respond when someone askes for that one george lucas ride, i mean which george lucas, and what the hell do lucas film rides have to do with dinsey anyway, another irony is that indy, like Dinosaur, is a motion simulater on the track, while star tours is a motion simulator, crazy.

but the real reason i came over to this thread, is to figure out how similar my indy and your dino are, i've heard that it's bit by bit the same track, minus 100 or so feet, and i also want to know, granted i can get myself there in a timely manor, if someone could arrage a walk through, and possibly a backstage tour.

[IndyBob]

being a former Indy CM and having rode CTX or Dinosaure or what ever its called now quite a few times, i can tell you that it is extremely similar from the point you enter the station que, to when you come back through station approach back into the station. You can practically call out the zones while your riding. There are a few spots that are slightly different in the middle of the ride, but it makes its way back to the "Rolling Ball" or Attacking T-Rex scene. Their tower is in the place that the tower should have been in at Indy, had the pillars not been in the station, The supposed AT&T VIP room if you really know the ride.

[GMC]

we can't get inot the vip room anymore, my trainer tried to get in there, and it's bolted, just like the snake pit. kinda sucks, but we didn't really have any reason to be in there, besides maybe to use as a break room, but then we'd really never see daylight. I'm kinda angry right now tho, they're taking me back for a forth day, just to go over the load position, something about not having a good rhythm, and they siad something about lost and found, i think maybe i was supposed to be looking for lost and found, because i vaugly recall something about it being said, i'm just bothered by it, but i'm not going to challenge it, because they said i did perfectly on everything else, and if they want to give me a four hour sift to run one location, that's cool, by me, i'll know it just as well as any other CM by that point.

[SoarWhoreCoCo]

As a member of the opening team of Countdown to Extinction (now lamely called Dinosaur) I can tell you the track layout is identical, except for the storage bay/handoff area. In fact before we opened the tower board had both Disney's Wild Animal Kingdom and Indiana Jones Plates on it the layout is identical where the open area and snake room are on Indy is our Saltasaurus, Baby Teradactyls, and Walking Carno (carno 2). One unfortunate change was McDonalds wanted a VIP Lounge and the rolling meteor scene was axed in the finally and the holding area changed into a lounge. ALso axed was the chase carno, jumping carno, and the back half of the Saltasaurus where you ranover its tail (Bump is still there, but it was replaced by a lovely black curtain) which is why its head swings out to you. Also alas the "Time Toaster" sparkers were deactivated weeks after opening because dust (we all know how clean the inside of the attractions are at WDW) accumalated and mini "signal 25s" were occuring. GLad they never finished intallng the finale fire effect:)

[BirdMom]

FYI the connection between the Jurrasic Park ride and Disney is Dave Feitin, formerly of WDI. Dave used to be the worst programmer of animatronics we ever had! You could tell when he'd reprogrammed the motions on Bear Band or Pirates because the motions were stilted and jerky. I can't remember if he was let go or quit. A few years down the road, the pre-opening publicity for the US JP ride was on t.v. and who pops up on interviews as "the guy who brought the dinosaurs to life" but Dave Feitin. My husband almost choked on his coffee. Then we started laughing as the camera panned along the water showing some of the outdoor dinos with the typical DF herky-jerky motion. Nothing had changed. If Universal wanted him, I'm sure WDI didn't mind...

As for your dino ride confusion pain, that's nothing new. Back in '84, I had some be-atch woman insisting she'd bought some Bugs Bunny t-shirts from Disneyland and complained about me because I had the audacity to tell her that we didn't sell Bugs Bunny, she probably bought it at Magic Mountain...

[1karenhb]

I've had guests say they have spent the day looking for Daffy Duck. Tweety Bird, or Sylvester merchandise. Imagine their surprise when I inform them these characters are NOT Disney! :confused: The kicker though was when a guest asked when the character Shrek would be coming out to sign autographs. I wanted to say when hell freezes!!!

[BirdMom]

I wanted to say when hell freezes!!!

...should have been recently, as it snowed in Las Vegas this past winter, if I remember correctly :cool:

[Teddykeiko86]

At universal studios this one older woman swore that the Indiana Jones Show/Ride was there. I told her that it was not there nor, had never been there. Then she went on to say that I was probably too young to know any better and that the show was there before I was born. I told her she was thinking of Disneyland or one of the Orlando parks. She still insisted that the attraction exsisted near the starway escalator. I doubled checked with a vet. co-worker of mine, who had been at the park for 15 years, and he assured me that I was right.

[Captain C]

I love these stories. What's next? Letters to Walt Disney World about how overly scary their Halloween Horror Nights were? :rolleyes:

[drcorey]

...should have been recently, as it snowed in Las Vegas this past winter, if I remember correctly :cool:

it did, I was at the bus stop and I heard people talking,
but I was looking the wrong way and missed the whole thing.

[turkeyham]

I know Disneyland has the Indy ride. The show is at Disney Studios. I would say that lady was completely off. But again there is a Indy show where the old Alladin's Oasis was. I have no idea what the show is like. It has to be small because that area can hold 75 people.:D: