kids are AHHSUUMM!!!

[reivaX]

goofy's bounce house:

For those of you unfamiliar with this children's attraction in toontown i will shed a light light before going into the STUPID guest trick. first of all it's just as the name suggests, a bounce house themed around the beloved goofy. parents bring their little devils into this smelly and most disgusting little room with netted windows and sticky sweaty plastic. they spend a total time of about 2 mins taking shoes off, 30 going over rules, 110 secs. bouncing (or sitting on the stairs), and 5 mins putting the shoes back on and talking about how great it is to be able to bounce on the furniture. first off, when i was a kid the furniture was horrible to bounce on, you wouldn't get but 4 inches off the sofa/bed/couch. such a kick. secondly this place is seriously DISGUSTING!! i don't even want to go into detail.

basic rules for bouncing include a maximum height of 54 inches and the minimum of 3 yrs. for bully and developmental reasons.

so now on to the SGT..

a dad, a daughter and a son. the kids seem to be 2 or 3 years in differance and the girl is the eldest. i let a few kids in and come to his kids. they put at the maximum number of kids allowed at a time, 10. so i have ten kids standing in front of me and i usually take the time while they are taking their shoes off to see if they meet our simple and very safe requirements. the man's son looked to be about 2 to 2.5 years old. so being the courteous and caring cast member that i am, i ask the man how old the boy was.

"he's 3"
"are you sure?"
"yea, yea. he's ok."

alright, so there's not much i can do. if he says the kids 3 and i ask him a second time and he replied the same, i am completely blameless and relieved of any liability as well at the company as an amusement park.

now the rules must always be told prior to entrance to Goofy's house and they usually begin with..

"Hi guys! Well Goofy's not here right now, but her said you could bounce if you follow three rules.."

at this point most kids will not really be interested in the rules as much as boucing the hell out of that house, so they will only hear the part where i said three. i think it's a vocal pitch aural vibration thing that seems to stimulate their heads at that exact moment to make the all tell me their age. convieniently enough the girl tell me her age as well as the age of her brother amoung the other kids telling me how old them, their siblings, and embarressed parents all were. i look up at the man and hand him his kid's hand and say..

"Nice try."

you know i really wish parents would have not slept during the part of their HS science-esque class and paid attention to the child development chapter, discussing the capability to causing major damage before the child's fully developed, which occurs around the age of three!!

besides, i'm only 20 and if i can't go to the house of blue's and do what i want to do, then your kid can't bouce till he's 21, i mean 3. FUCKERS

[GMC]

friggin max height, when toontown opened i was 7, and by that time i was too tall to "ride" but my siter was short enough, i hope she had fun, because i sure tuckered out quick screaming my head off. what happened to the slide in donald's houseboat, that was one fo toontown's redeeming features, that and the chip and dale play house. figures that the one time i was going to go in the ball pin there, some kid had to have recently decided to vomit his brains out. Friggin kids.

[Famif]

I don't think my parents let me near that region of disney. I don't really remember disner except when my dad lost my mom someplace.

Everytime I see anything in any theme park for kids, is it irony that I always see unfortunate employees cleaning up undigested fries and ice cream that seems to trail in a circle as the kid ensures he gets everything covered?

well, that's probably why my parents were afraid to let me go on child-related 'rides' when I was of the age, because they know that little kids pick their nose, sneeze on each other's faces, and don't wipe properly.

*shivers*

[GMC]

and that's why when i work with ropes at work, i wash my hands twice afterwards, children chew, bite, sneeze on, touch, sit on, wipe noses on, lick, and otherwise MOLEST our ropes, handrails, seats, doors, benches, wall, floors, and yes, even cast members, i know i guy working innoventions, who sometimes posts here i guess, who was standing with his hands behind his back, has one of his fingers chomped by some kid, wicked crazy.

[lady ulrike]

chip and dale play house. figures that the one time i was going to go in the ball pin there, some kid had to have recently decided to vomit his brains out
That's exactly why it's gone, or so I've been led to believe. Apparantly there were two sets of balls, but they could only be cleaned overnight, so once someone code v'd or u'd on the balls twice, it was down for the day. It just became not worth it.

[hulkcoaster]

Why did they take the slide out of it and Donald's boat too? Theres nothing to do at Chip and Dale's now, you walk up and then walk down passing two framed photos, wooooooo!

[techie-13]

And to think I spent 4 seasons (Great America's a seasonal park) working in a ball pit that only had the balls washed at the beginning of the season. One season, one of my coworkers put tape on a ball and threw it into the pit. If you found it, you would sign and date it and then throw it back in. I found it at the end of the season as a crew was bagging the balls for the off season. The thing only had about 20 names on it and it had been in there for over 9 months.
We didn't seem to have a problem keeping the ball pit or other stuff clean at first but I remember hearing that they were having problems a couple of seasons later (when I was in the Shows dept.). Looking back I think you can actually trace the amount of dirt, graffitti, hostility and complaints about such to the increase in people coming into the park who just felt that they were entitled to do whatever they want without thought or care of others.
(Heinlen in one of his books said that the decline of society could be seen in the condition of public restrooms.-- Early on everyone would try to make sure that they left the restroom at least as clean as it was when they entered. As time went on and our society changed, you could see the restrooms getting messier and messier. If I could find the paragraph, I'd post it but my copy is in storage.)
oops! I seemed to have stepped onto a soapbox without looking! I'll step down now.... :?

[VoodooDawn52]

is chip and dales playhouse still closed down....I remember the smell that used to come out of that place.......uuughhhh!!!! "why cant my kids go in there?" " Because some illegitiment parent let their child pee in there thats why!" " They'll be fine," I dont know about them but I would not let my kid roll around in pee........no matter how much money I spent to get in......... :shock:

[biscuit_meeko]

is chip and dales playhouse still closed down ... I remember the smell that used to come out of that place ... uuughhhh!!!! "why cant my kids go in there?" " Because some illegitiment parent let their child pee in there thats why!" " They'll be fine," I dont know about them but I would not let my kid roll around in pee ... no matter how much money I spent to get in ... :shock:
As another poster mentioned, the treehouse itself is still opened.. so you can go up and back down, but the ball crawl is gone.. not open. =) I went up to the top some time ago.. kind of difficult to turn around and go back down being an adult and all, but I got a nice view of Toontown from up there! =)

[VoodooDawn52]

I remember being area greeter and trying to tell the parents what their kids could do in toontown for fun---if they weren't tall enough for any of the rides...except roger rabbit...good times!!!!The treehouse itself is an advenure if you are an adult.....I remember walking the track at the end of the night on coaster and collecting hats...........ah the good ol' days..............when the guests went home :D

[FebruaryStar02]

friggin max height, when toontown opened i was 7, and by that time i was too tall to "ride" but my siter was short enough, i hope she had fun, because i sure tuckered out quick screaming my head off. what happened to the slide in donald's houseboat, that was one fo toontown's redeeming features, that and the chip and dale play house. figures that the one time i was going to go in the ball pin there, some kid had to have recently decided to vomit his brains out. Friggin kids.
I had the same problem. I was like 8 or 9 when it opened. I did enjoy Donald's Boat. I never did the ball pits in the Tree House. Never was a ball pit kid. Guess I never was one for urine-soaked plastic...

besides, i'm only 20 and if i can't go to the house of blue's and do what i want to do, then your kid can't bouce till he's 21, i mean 3. FUCKERS
Totally!!!

We have these zip-line slides at the Challenge Trail, and we only let those between 42" and 63" and 12 or younger on. There are 13, 14...30...year old boys who will come and want to ride. My lead and I were talking about them last night, and we were wondering why any male over 12 would want to go anyway. You're sitting on a rubber disc with a chain going through it, and then the top of it hits the tire...a real nutcracker...so really, if the kids would like to procreate one day, it wouldn't be such a great idea. (which, judging by their willingness to ride, and the risk...I'd let them just so they didn't procreate...)

We always get the, "But I bet you guys go on these after hours!" replies. Umm, not really. We're all tired from dealing with you guys all day. We go home. You should, too...

[CujoSR]

We have these zip-line slides at the Challenge Trail, and we only let those between 42" and 63" and 12 or younger on. There are 13, 14...30...year old boys who will come and want to ride. My lead and I were talking about them last night, and we were wondering why any male over 12 would want to go anyway. You're sitting on a rubber disc with a chain going through it, and then the top of it hits the tire...a real nutcracker...so really, if the kids would like to procreate one day, it wouldn't be such a great idea. (which, judging by their willingness to ride, and the risk...I'd let them just so they didn't procreate...)
63 inches? Damn i'm 69" and I love those things! Reminds me of a swing near my home in some park taken over by stoners and junkies. There used to be this huge swing attached to a big tree next to a hill. You could start out high up and swing out really far. As you swing out the ground was littered with shopping carts and broken beer bottles (probably some syringes too). It was very thrilling. That's probably why the place was nicknamed Death Valley.

[flippin_mermaid]

"We have these zip-line slides at the Challenge Trail, and we only let those between 42" and 63" and 12 or younger on. There are 13, 14...30...year old boys who will come and want to ride."

I'm 63" (I'm a 25 year old chick), and I've been on all that stuff at the Challenge Trail! No one ever stopped me...is it because I'm short enough or is it because I only look like I'm 16 or what??

[GMC]

maybe because you're a chick, which you pointed out. I dunno, if i'm going to go on a zipline, i want it to be danerous to my life, and not just my nards, Matterhorn to thunder mountian.... that's a zipline, they pay tink to do it, i'd pay them to let me do it, unless i had to wear the costume, then i'd call it even... better not let entertainment hear about this....

[FebruaryStar02]

I'm 63" (I'm a 25 year old chick), and I've been on all that stuff at the Challenge Trail! No one ever stopped me...is it because I'm short enough or is it because I only look like I'm 16 or what??

They used to let anyone over 42" on when the park first opened, but I've been told that Facilities got tired of coming over every few hours to adjust the slack in the cables, so there was an age and height limit put on it.

There's nothing else in the Trail that you aren't allowed to go on. Unless, you thought you could rock traverse in sandals, or some other open-toed, backless shoe.

But, yeah, sometimes it does help if you're a young-looking female and the Cable 1 CM is male...

[LittleDollClaudia]

I am 59" and I always go on those damn things when I visit DOA. I have not had any issues from any CM ever. Hmm, guess it pays to be a Hobbit upon occasion. :D