Magic Kingdom Trip Report: My friend breaks Space Mountain!!

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Hey everyone! I just got back from an 18 hour trip to Magic Kingdom. I took a bus up to Orlando that left at 6 am, and I got back at 12 PM.

 

I already have all of my videos from this trip uploaded to http://www.youtube.com/Disneymountainrides .

 

All photos, including the Space Mountain photos, are at the end of this post.

However, I recommend that you read the trip report before looking at the pictures, as I don't explain everything in the captions.

 

The highlight of my trip was probably when my friend broke Space Mountain, but I'll get to that later. I will also talk about my first time riding the new Pirates of the Caribbean (I LOVED it, much has been improved from the original), and also what I thought of Monsters Inc, Laugh Floor Comedy Club.

 

So I get up at 4:40 in the morning. I meet in the parking lot of my school at about 5:30. When we get on the bus, the teacher tells us that he is going to put on a black and white educational movie. It turns out that the movie he put in was a bootleg of Spiderman 3. Amazing. This teacher is awesome. After a 4 hour bus ride north, we get to the parks. For the first time in a long time, I am not by myself, which does slow me down in the end, but I had a lot of fun (even though i would have gotten to ride twice as much if I was by myself). I'm going to keep my friend anonymous, since she doesn't know I'm talking about her here.

 

We get to the park, and the first thing I do is ride Pirates of the Caribbean. The additions to the ride are AMAZING. The waterfall effect was by far the coolest part of the ride. Going through it you can hardly tell that it isn't real. The lighting and sound have also been greatly improved. The Pirate ship battle scene is much cooler now, the cannons are much louder and have a deaper sound. And there are even blasts of air that fly past your head as the cannon balls go back and forth. I loved the additions to this ride so much, I went on it a second time later that day.

 

Then, I try and convince my friend to ride Splash Mountain with me. She refuses, because she "doesn't want to get wet". I insist that you don't get wet on this ride, it is very dry. I finally convince her to ride with me, but only after reassuring her that we WILL NOT get wet. In the back of my mind, I'm starting to get worried. I hardly ever get water on me when I'm on this ride. But it has happened before. If she gets soaked after I told her that you don't get wet, I'm screwed. We sat in the second row. I had my camera out and was filming the ride. Until about halfway through, when I checked the screen and realized I had forgotten to press record. We get off the ride, perfectly dry. My friend really liked the ride, and I needed to film it since it didn't work the first time, so we go again, this time with fastpasses.

I had pushed my luck too far this time. We sat in the back row on this epic ride on splash mountain. We both got soaked. Because the splash is bigger in the back? No. Because of that darn false splash from the other boat. Here is a full video of that particular ride:

. About 50 seconds in, you can witness that funny moment. That weird little voice saying "Oh no...oh no no no..." Unfortunately, that's me. After we both get soaked, listen to the noise my friend makes... Frank (FRD714) says it sounds like Mario dying.

 

After getting off the ride wet, she is slightly annoyed. So whatever she says, I pretty much haveto do if I want to avoid trouble. I suggest that we go ride Thunder Mountain, since it's fairly close (an understatement). "noooooo, let's go ride Space Mountain in TommyLand!" (inside joke). So we walk all the way over to the other side of the park, and ride Space Mountain. But at least since she chose to ride this, she can't blame me for what happens next....

 

My friend breaks Space Mountain

Side A of Space Mountain. Also known as Alpha. This was the side we chose to ride. I was sitting in the second seat, my friend was in the front. She set her purse down in between her feet, I took my iPod out of my pocket, and as we went up the lift hill I was messing around with my songs. After choosing Hangar 18, I scroll to about 2:50, where the guitar solo starts. I pause it, and hit play just as we go over the top of the hill. It matched the ride perfect! I was having a blast. The heavy riff came in at the same time we went down the big drop. It was so cool how well the song synced with the ride. Good thing I was having fun, because my friend wasn't.

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I had the volume on my headphones turned up pretty loud to drown out the sound of the ride. I wasn't able to hear my friend shout "HOLY :censored: !!!" near the beginning of the ride.

At the end of the ride, I turn my iPod off, and as we pull into the station she turns around with a worried look on her face. All she can manage to say is "My purse fell out of the ride". She's in a panicked state. Among other things, she had an iPod, Nintendo DS, Cell Phone, and about $100 in this purse. I say that we can talk to the Cast Member at unload and see what they can do about it.

 

She walks up to the cast member after getting out of the rocket and tells her that she lost her purse on the ride. The Cast Member says that there is nothing they can do about it. They only turn the lights on if the ride breaks down, and they aren't going to turn them on to search for a missing purse. The Cast Member tells her that they will find it tonight, and we can stick around at the end of the day after closing, when they turn the lights on to shut the ride down.

This only makes my friend even more worried. "But we came here with a group!" she says. "We have to leave at 7:30, we can't stay around for closing". Right now it isn't looking good for us. The Cast Member says that she'll go and talk to the supervisor, and see what they can do about it. But I know that there's no way they are going to stop the ride to go look for a purse. It slows down the line and it's bad for show. So the cast member walks away to talk to someone higher up, but my friend still looks miserable.

 

About 2 minutes later, the CM comes back, and she is about to let us know what the supervisor said. Judging by the look on the Cast member's face, I knew that she was about to say no. All of the sudden, she looks over our shoulders, and her expression changes.

"Well guess what!" she says..... "The ride just broke down!"

(we both stand there in shock, and I turn around and see that the work lights are on)

"I'll go look for your purse, you probably lost it in Zone 9" (I don't think the Cast Member realized that most guests don't understand what she just said, but I did. Zone 9 is a particularly rough part of the ride where a lot of items are lost from the rockets.)

 

As my friend waits for them to find her purse, do I wait there with her to find out if she gets it? Heck no! (I probably should have, but I'm a disney geek with a website, so what do I do? )

I walk back up the chicken exit into the loading area to take pictures.

I got a few shots of the ride with the lights on from the loading area. Nothing anyone hasn't seen before, but now I have some pictures that belong to me, and I can put them up on my web site without other people from the internets claiming that we stole them. (HA! )

 

The Cast Member comes back a few minutes later, and sure enough, they found her purse.

Apparently, it had landed on some sort of sensor, E-stopping the ride.

On our way out of the building, as we are walking along the exit ramp, my friend turns to me and says "Don't ever forget that you were here the day I broke space mountain".

And I won't. It was probably the coolest disney experience I've ever had.

 

................(pictures at the end of the post)

 

Later that day we went to go see the newest attraction, the Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor Comedy Club.

I wasn't expecting TOO much from this show, but it was actually pretty entertaining. I didn't think many of the jokes were very funny, but I laughed anyway because you can't really help it when other people are laughing, and some of the jokes were so corny you couldn't help but laugh.

 

There is a rule at this attraction that during the show there is no videotaping, photography, or cell phone use. These rules aren't extremely uncommon in Disney World, but they are very strict about it in this show. I have heard that they actually have a Cast Member whose job it is to make sure that nobody is videotaping or taking pictures of the show. So unfortunately, I couldn't take any pictures.

 

Basically, the story behind this show takes place right after the movie (from what I can tell).

We are the humans that power the Monster World with our laughter. In the Queue, if you pay attention, there is a point where you cross over from the human world to the monster world. It is a giant door with a red light on it. After you pass through this door, you enter an adjacent queue area. There are subtle details that set this place apart from the "human world", such as the wacky lights on the ceiling, and notes written by monsters on the memo board on the wall.

 

We enter into the monster world, and sit down in a comedy club. The monsters tell jokes on the screen, and interact with the audience, in a way very similar to Turtle Talk with Crush. Often, the camera will be pointed to an audience member, and the monsters will involve this person in part of a joke. Before the show, the camera goes around to people in the audience, and funny subtitles are put below the person on the screen up front.

 

Probably the neatest part of the show is that you have a chance to have one of the monsters tell your joke. You can text message your joke to a number given in the preshow. Then, Mike Wazowski will read off your joke at the end of the show if it is chosen. I did this, but my joke was not used...which was sad, because my joke was way better:

Q: Why are there two doors on a chicken coop?

 

 

A: Because if there were 4 doors, it would be a chicken sedan!

 

Yeah, it's not THAT good, but it's a heck of a lot better than "Why was 6 afraid of 7?"

 

Overall, Laugh Floor Comedy Club was fun. The show itself was cool, and very well presented. The audience interaction made the show the awesome show that it is.

 

Near the end of the day, I went around looking for a shirt. I like wearing disney or ride-related shirts, and I wanted one from Space Mountain. It turns out that I found a really cool one in the Tomorrowland Arcade:

Front:

Back:

I just wore this shirt again today and I really like it.

 

 

Pictures:

 

My friend and I on Splash Mountain. In the second row. The picture quality isn't very good, but you get what you pay for (I didn't buy it, I took a picture of the preview)

 

 

Mickey Ball

 

 

Really crappy pic from inside the Monsters Inc. queue

 

Laugh Floor

 

Entry from the Human World into the Monster World

 

Laughing > Screaming

 

Space Mountain Pictures

This is the unloading area right after the ride broke down, while the Cast Member went off to find my friend's purse.

 

Track going from the unload area around to the load area (you can get really close to this and get a good view any time, but the lights made it easier to see)

 

This girl made Space Mountain stop working. Few people have that much power.

 

Space Mountain Lights on Pictures

I ran up the exit ramp while the lights were on to get these pictures:

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DISCLAIMER: None of these pictures were obtained by breaking park rules.

 

 

 

MORE PICTURES!!

We stopped by the store inside Cinderella Castle, where they sell more overpriced Disney crap. But NICE overpriced Disney crap.

This painting is so freakin cool. It cost a lot. I don't remember how much, but it was too much.

 

 

Hey look, this WDW Castle replica is bigger than Disneyland's castle!

Guess how much it costs.

 

Castle made of shiny things: $37500

 

Overpriced (but cool) "cursed Pirate's gold": $20

 

Getting to see a fox with his tail in an alligator's mouth stand on a bear's butt: Priceless

 

The last picture I took on the trip was this REALLY cute bunny I saw in the Ticket and Transportation Center (TTC). It was about the size of a squirrel.

 

I hope you enjoyed the trip report! Thanks for reading.

[shepp]

When we get on the bus, the teacher tells us that he is going to put on a black and white educational movie. It turns out that the movie he put in was a bootleg of Spiderman 3. Amazing. This teacher is awesome.

 

So I'm guessing it's OK with him if you plagiarize stuff for your reports?

 

Glad you had a good time. Nice report.