So last night I was at Disneyland, which was at capacity by 8:00 pm, mind you, and I decided to use my Space FP around 7:00pm. The stand by line at the time was about two hours and fifteen minutes long. I was just about to be grouped into a train when all of the sudden, a lead walked across the track hurriedly and told the grouper to stop grouping people! I was confused to say the least...
After they unloaded everyone off of every train, they started to send empty trains, pulling every other one off of the track. Still no word on what was going on. After pulling three or so trains off the track, the trains began to start backing up in the loading area almost to area where you make your final turn coming out of the photo tunnel. And all of the sudden, the lights came on!
It was down for maybe 15 minutes or so, but in the end, the final story was that a guest had lost their prescription glasses inside the ride, and the cast shut down the entire ride to retrieve the glasses...
Now for the point of my story! I think its absolutely amazing that Disney did so much simply to retrieve a pair of glasses. Shutting down a ride as popular as Space Mountain on a Friday night that had a nearly two and a half hour wait... I think that kinda really cool. Sure, it couldn't have happened at a more inconvenient time, but they could have EASILY said, "Oh too bad, you'll have to wait til the park closes and we shut down the ride then." So kudos to you Space Mountain cast members :thumbup:
What are your thoughts?
After they unloaded everyone off of every train, they started to send empty trains, pulling every other one off of the track. Still no word on what was going on. After pulling three or so trains off the track, the trains began to start backing up in the loading area almost to area where you make your final turn coming out of the photo tunnel. And all of the sudden, the lights came on!
It was down for maybe 15 minutes or so, but in the end, the final story was that a guest had lost their prescription glasses inside the ride, and the cast shut down the entire ride to retrieve the glasses...
Now for the point of my story! I think its absolutely amazing that Disney did so much simply to retrieve a pair of glasses. Shutting down a ride as popular as Space Mountain on a Friday night that had a nearly two and a half hour wait... I think that kinda really cool. Sure, it couldn't have happened at a more inconvenient time, but they could have EASILY said, "Oh too bad, you'll have to wait til the park closes and we shut down the ride then." So kudos to you Space Mountain cast members :thumbup:
What are your thoughts?
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