On Friday Oct 12, I went with my daughter and my spouse to Dland to celebrate her birthday. We have a tradition, for each child they get a solo trip with just us for their Birthday. They get to do what they want no matter what the trek involved is. IE. Autopia followed by Pooh... Its all about making it a special day/night for the birthday girl/boy.
Anyways. We went on Oct 12, and our last ride of the night @ Dland before dinner was Space Mountain. It was her 6th Bday... she wanted to try out Ghost Galaxies for the first time. Long story short she didn't like the overlay. We rode around 6:45-50pm. After our ride we came back to unload and the lap bars didn't release. They moved us forward to where they check that your lap bar is properly in place. We asked what is going on, we have already gone on the ride. They CM informed us that because the people before us didn't load fast enough we are going again.... Now we are stuck with my daughter pleading to get off the ride. The CM just looked at us and said "Your lucky and get to go again!". As we informed her we didn't want to go again we want off. She just smiled and said enjoy.
I have been bouncing this around my head for the last day... a child wanted off the ride. Had already had their ride. The parents asked to get off and we were forced to go again. I understand about the whole e-stop that would occur if they unloaded us, but honestly I don't care. A child was scared and didn't want to go again. Im pretty livid about this since when did Disney start forcing you to go on a ride you didn't want to. We went to city hall on the way out to complain and the CMs solution was here is a "Princess" button for you. I didn't want to prolong it she was done with Dland. Just wanted to go home and didn't even care about her special BDay dinner at that point. So I wasn't willing to invest the time to talk about how very wrong the situation was. My daughter had enough that night and just needed to leave.
Im really curious, what do you suggest we can do in the future if something like this happens again? How can we get off if we are locked in? Space Mountain was her favorite ride before this occurred now she says she doesn't ever want to go on it again... Hopefully she will forget about this after some time. But in the mean time, has this occurred to anyone else? I was absolutely floored when they wouldn't let us off. I do understand they need to keep the ride running but after you have been and you want off I just can't understand why they wouldn't allow us off. Its not our fault the timing was wrong the train or 2 before us.
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