Weirdest Things The 'GP' Have Said

[Hobbesx2]

I was waiting in line for the Mamba once, and I was going to be next on the ride.

Person behind me (PBM): So what happened if the brakes didn't work?

Ride op: It wouldn't, if the ride broke the computer would shut it all off, and the brakes would just stop you.

PBM: But what if the computer broke first:

Ride op: That wouldn't happen.

PBM: But what if it did?

Ride op: Well, on that last curve, you're coming in at about 75 mph so I guess you would probably die. (The last curve is about 15 mph.)

PBM: Well, I'm leaving.

And he left.

I got on the ride laughing.

[sam06pr]

I love this thread...heres mine. I work at BGA so I get asked a lot of stupid question...

At Scorpion...Guest: "Does the loop go upside down?"

Me thinking: No it just jumps over it.

 

Somewhere else...

Guest: "At what time does the 2 O clock show start?"

Me Thinking: WTF???

 

Guest: "When is it going to stop raining?"

Me Thinking: When mother nature or God decide to stop it

 

Guest: "Do these harness lock?"

Me thinking: No they are just there for decoration

[dpxtreme]

Guest: "Do these harness lock?"

Me thinking: No they are just there for decoration

 

I work at GA, and I get that all the time on the Endeavor (Intamin Looping Starship).

 

I also work at Loggers Run, and at least twice a day I get asked, "Do we get wet on this ride?" Sometimes I politely tell them yes, other times I get sartastic and tell them, "Well, duh, it's a water ride."

 

Not at an amusement park, but in my english class at school, some kid said, "I really want to go to Six Flags Orlando." I was like, WTF?!

[WildStangAlex]

My favorite I got all the time at my waterpark, and I overheard at Blizzard Beach. "My wife is pregnant, can she ride the waterslide?"

 

-"No."

 

"Why not, I don't understand?"

[ebl]

"What got me about it was that he had to drive past the coaster while coming into the park, furthermore from our vantage point he could obviously see that the ride's life hill was only about three quarters of the way finsihed." (AllenA07)

 

I'd have told him it was a modern version of the Leap the Gap coaster. Then I would have told him, "If you want to ride, go wait up by the bridge at (one hour before park closing)."

 

Eric

[Loco]

Ok! I just remembered another one.

 

We were getting off of Kong and this kid in front of us (probably about 11) was like "Dude!! That was totally..umm..righteous!!!!"

 

The way he said it made it seem funnier though.

[phazan]

I like to think of myself as a "GP". I'm not really anymore than a normal park go'er, who enjoys the park more than a lot of people there...I'm pretty sure all of you on here know more than me about coasters anyway. I also enjoy SLCs, and Boomerangs.

[AllenA07]

I'll always hold that the most annoying group of people I've ever had was a group of coaster enthusiasts at SFMM while I was working there. I was working up on Samurai Summit at the time, and three men (wearing patch jackets and everything) came up to me and proceeded to ask me random questions for about 10 minutes. It was obvious that they were trying to stump the employee, because tthat wouldbe funny. It was actually nice in a way because I actually knew the answers, but at the same time I felt bad for the poor people I knew they did this too, who were making minimum wage, and were just trying to do their job for the day.

 

Most common questions I got when I worked there...

While on Samurai Summit I was asked at least 5 times a day if Ninja went upside down. When down at Carrot Club I got the same question several times for a variety of coasters. I also got asked if I knew where the entrance of Superman was a lot. People would see the tower and seemed to have a difficult time understanding that if they were by the tower they were nowhere near the entrance. Just throwing this out there, but while I always loved to answer questions (really I actually throughly enjoyed the human interaction) it was always terribly annoying when I would get one while I was busy running sound for a show. While the shows are mostly pretty easy, it does require you to pay attetion. I had a few people get upset when I wouldn't turn away from the show to help them. So if you see an employee hard at work (and at SFMM I promise there are only a couple), don't bug them, ask another less busy employee.

[teebone]

A friend and I were at Kings Island for the opening of Face/Off in what was a cold,rainy, slow moving line,when the guy in front me grabs his kids by the arms and storms off because and I quote "I cant believe it is the opening night and they are only running one train!".No kidding.

[matteocrepaldi]

Italian gp's thoughts:

 

- Gardaland is the best park ever and the only park you can compare to it is Dinseyland in Paris.

- If Gardaland is the best park ever it must have the best roller coasters ever.

- The best coaster ever is Blue Tornado (SLC)!

- Mirabilandia is not as good as Gardaland so Katun is not as good as Blue Tornado even if they look very similar!!!

 

 

The biggest one I've heard was on the midwest trip while I was in line for Maverick and I was talking about the trip with a guy, he told me: SON OF BEAST IS SMOOTH!

 

Finally, this is not really for this topic but in Blackppol a ride operator told me and my friends that the last car of PMBO was closed because a wheel fell off!

[sam06pr]

A friend and I were at Kings Island for the opening of Face/Off in what was a cold,rainy, slow moving line,when the guy in front me grabs his kids by the arms and storms off because and I quote "I cant believe it is the opening night and they are only running one train!".No kidding.

 

HAHAHA!!! its funny but it would of pissed me off if he had said that to me.

I do not mind interacting with guest, in fact I love interacting with them and making there day better, because thats what I will like from others when I visit other parks, unlike several of my team members.

But I thought this one piss me off...

Guest: "Why are you close?"

Me: "Do to technical difficulty the scorpion is closed"

Guest: "Why?"

Me: "Technical difficulty"

Guest: "How long?"

Me: "Not sure, it depends on the work of the mechanics, just check back later"

Guest: "ok"

Daughter of guest: "why are they close?"

Guset: "Because the employees are tire and lazy and are taking there break as long as they want"

Me thinking: F*%# you _itch!!!!!

[Chrissie]

hehe, some of these are priceless.

 

IMO, people walk into Disney World and lose all common sense. Although, some of these may just be because alot of Non-British people had trouble understanding the Scottish Accent.

 

While leaning over my hotdog cart and scrubbing it clean,

G: Can I have a hot dog please?

Me: Im sorry sir, we are closed.

G:Oh, but can I still have a hot dog?

 

While waiting in line for a hotdog,

G: Can I have a turkey leg?

Me: We only sell Hot Dogs here, Turkey legs are at the next wagon, past big al's *Points to the Turkey leg wagon"

G:What do you sell here then?

Me:Hot Dogs

G:No Turkey legs?

Me:No hot dogs,chips and drinks sir

G:How long for a turkey leg??

 

While at the McDonalds Fry cart, a gentleman has been reading the menu for about 10 mins.

G: Can I have a Big Mac and a strawberry milkshake?

Me:Im sorry but we only sell fries here

G: You don't have any cheese?

Me: No, we just sell fries

G: Ok, so Chicken McNuggets?

 

While walking to my work location,

G: Excuse me, Where is the Jurassic park ride??

Me: ( I worked in MK) Thats in universal Ma'am, this is the Magic kingdom

G: *Pulls out map* How do I get there?

Me: Jurassic park is in Island of Adventure, part of the Universal Orlando resort. Its not here at Walt Disney World.

G:Yes it is.

Me: Oh, there is Dinosaur in Animal Kingdom

G: No, Jurassic park, like the movie. Its definitely here, I was on it last year.

Me: * I have no idea what to say*

G:Can you give me directions?

Me: I don't know the exact names of the roads etc, but its roughly near the top of international drive.

G:No, I think your mistaken

Me: I can assure you ma'am, there is no Jurassic park ride, here in the magic kingdom.

G: Ok, Thanks for your help.

[Hobbesx2]

Once I spent an entire day convincing a kid in the class below me that there's no such thing as an inversion that starts high and keeps turning down until you're upside down and then keeps going up until you're right side up again. It's sort of hard to explain, but you go around the outside of an upside down loop.

[IceDragon]

Once I spent an entire day convincing a kid in the class below me that there's no such thing as an inversion that starts high and keeps turning down until you're upside down and then keeps going up until you're right side up again. It's sort of hard to explain, but you go around the outside of an upside down loop.

 

If only they could get something like that... That used to be my dream inversion, that or a loop on a hill... I was about 4 when I thought of these ideas...

[LOVE SFKK]

At Wof some lady was telling people in line that on Patriot which is an invert, that you got in the cars like a nomal coaster, and then you flip upside down, and go up the lift hill upsidedown. She said the only time you were riding normal, was through the loops.

 

These types of thing make you think that there should be a course on roller coasters in all public schools

 

[DBru]

I was at Holiday World the other day and two boys in line infront of me at the Legend were discussing the ride.....

 

Kid 1- So does this go upside down?

 

Kid 2- Yeah, but only twice. You can't see because you're in a tunnel.

 

Kid 1- Ohhhh.....

[Xxhershey818xX]

I was at Holiday World the other day and two boys in line infront of me at the Legend were discussing the ride.....

 

Kid 1- So does this go upside down?

 

Kid 2- Yeah, but only twice. You can't see because you're in a tunnel.

 

Kid 1- Ohhhh.....

 

Thats hilarious!

[kraxleRIDAH]

Last year I took some friends to ride Tatsu after it had first opened. We first rode in the front row and they were crazy about the ride.

 

We then rode again in the back row.

 

One of my friends asks me afterwards -

 

"Did you notice how this time during the first drop it felt faster like it was accelerated? They must've like launched it that time or something."

 

Not wanting to sound like a know-it-all enthusiast, I just replied with -- "Yeah, probably."

[Vekoma Fan Boy]

Ive got one form a trip to SFNE a few years ago.

 

Key

D=Dumbass in line for flashback with me

M=Me.

 

So, D & Me were in line for FB, I was simply waiting for my ride (and at one point to get away from the second spike. The air relese if SO ANNOYING!!!) So after about 40 mins & an estimated 32 rides,we finally get to the station and take our seats, D is sitting next to me.

 

D: Does this ride go upside-down

M: I dont know. (What I was thinking was, "I dont know. We just watched the ride go around 32 F&*KING TIMES R-TARD!!!!!!)

After the ride started...

D: (Entering the Boomerang element) YOU F*CKING SAID IT DUDN'T GO UPSIDE DOWN!!!!!

M: Ignores...

[eskater132]

One time, I was at in line for The Texas Giant at SFoT, and we were at the bottom of the stairs where the employee was assigned to control the station occupancy. Well, a boy asks the employee how fast The Texas Giant(a 150 foot wood coaster) goes in comparison to Titan(which is our 250ft steel coaster), the employee says: "Dis(Texas Giant) ride goes eighdy, and the otha one go foty fiive." Then the kid says, WOW (this) (150 ft wood coaster) is faster than THE(which i hate, it is called simply, TITAN) titan (which goes almost 90 miles an hour!!!!).

[Tanks4me05]

While I was in line for Boomerang at TGE in 2006, two girls behind me had a conversation similar to this:

 

 

Girl 1: "Is this one where you hang your feet from?"

 

Girl 2: "Yeah, but they changed it because there was an accident."

[CoasterJunkie]

Just heard at HHN 17 on Sunday...

 

"On opening night, they had the original Freddy, Jason and Leatherface in the park, and they were in the haunted houses."

 

Ummm...no?

[PURE]

Once I spent an entire day convincing a kid in the class below me that there's no such thing as an inversion that starts high and keeps turning down until you're upside down and then keeps going up until you're right side up again. It's sort of hard to explain, but you go around the outside of an upside down loop.

 

What about something like an invert that halfway through a zero-g cuts downward like an immelman, but continues in a loop form, and finishes the last half of the zero-g ending the element?

 

Woah.

 

That'd be sick.

 

Or maybe that's what you were already saying?

[Coasterlvr_nc]

^ do you happen to mean a norwegian loop? If i read what you explained correctly then it already exists.

Norwegian Loop.

http://www.rcdb.com/ig3245.htm

[coastercrazed49]

One of my favourites, while standing in line for the Great Movie Ride at Disney-MGM Studios - "Is this a ride?"

 

No, they just call it the Great Movie RIDE in the hopes that people will come in and walk through.

 

Kevin

 

That might have been me if it was in 2002 because I thought when they showed the preshow movie compilation I thought that was the whole ride.

 

Also one time I was in line for Mind Eraser (SFNE) and some girl with her friends are reading the ride manufacturers name.

 

Girl 1: What is a Vekoma

Girl 2: It sounds like an alcoholic beverage.