Older kids (13-17) who think it is cool to cuss and act like fools especially when I have my 10 year old daughter with me. Couples who can't keep their love to themselves and should be at home in their bedroom instead of at a park. Never really had smokers in a queue. I tend to be the person who tells all these people to be respectful to the people around them.
Real World Theme Parks What annoys you when queueing for a ride?
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Same! I hate it too and I'm 18 [uhh]. Never really had to deal with smokers either because I usually go to places like Disney where it's banned in most of the parks, and yes, I am also good at telling people to be respectful in queues and blocking them from trying to get past me to the front. [yesnod][big grin]
Back then when Wodan Timbur Coaster in Europa Park, Germany was new we decided to go... of course... what we didnt know was that there were NO places along the entire queue with some kind of shade. it was a hot summer day, no clouds and a new coaster. 2 hours in bright sunlight and the south west of germany is a warm piece of land, that i can tell you.
Ride spoilers that tell you about a secret element.
People who get too damn close to you, like they are going to get on the ride any faster.
Any cattle pens, but especially ones that get you so close to the ride entrace to fool you before you continue a walking tour of the park.
People who try to rush past you at the mid queue shop. Seriously, where are they going? They're one place in front of you, likely be on the same damn train.
No cover in queues. A break from the rain, wind and sun is always welcome.
People who smell
I've never seen a queue with a bench. Would it be so hard to include a few spots to rest the legs with bus stop style benches. Sometimes i sit on the fence post if it's really low, but it feels disrespectful.
People who get too damn close to you, like they are going to get on the ride any faster.
Any cattle pens, but especially ones that get you so close to the ride entrace to fool you before you continue a walking tour of the park.
People who try to rush past you at the mid queue shop. Seriously, where are they going? They're one place in front of you, likely be on the same damn train.
No cover in queues. A break from the rain, wind and sun is always welcome.
People who smell
I've never seen a queue with a bench. Would it be so hard to include a few spots to rest the legs with bus stop style benches. Sometimes i sit on the fence post if it's really low, but it feels disrespectful.
Lack of shade on a very hot, sunny day!
Vampiro
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Hehe this always reminds me of a certain passage from a biography of Mick Foley (Mankind/Cactus Jack), a famous pro wrestler...
Besides being a pro wrestler he's also a great themepark / coaster fan. He described how he was standing in the queue line one day waiting for a big thrilling coaster. Then some fan recognised him and he pointed out to some more people that this guy was the famous Mick Foley!! The word was spreading fast that they had a celeb in the queue line and all of a sudden the employees decided to let him cut the line, and while he did people applauded him.
"What is the true meaning of succes? Fame? Money? .. No! cutting a waiting line and be cheered upon doing so!!"
All eyes were on him when he entered the seat... At which point he found out his 300 pound were just a bit too much for the car to handle and the safety belt could not close. From the ultimate moment of "succes" came the unltimate moment of defeat.. walking away silently after being defeated by the coaster, while a few hundred people saw how he didn't fit the ride.
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I have seen too large person being stopped from using the ride. I wonder if they do test sit first or if they are oblivious about their mass or if they know about it but wanted to try to get on anyway?
I would see it as incentive to lose weight. no need to get thin, just enough to be able to ride. (and I am fat too.. nothing to do about that, other than try to lose weight or accept fact.... At least I can ride rides...)
However, people being too tall or too short, that's another matter. It is sad. One of my friends is 202 cm tall and he can't ride many coasters.
I would see it as incentive to lose weight. no need to get thin, just enough to be able to ride. (and I am fat too.. nothing to do about that, other than try to lose weight or accept fact.... At least I can ride rides...)
However, people being too tall or too short, that's another matter. It is sad. One of my friends is 202 cm tall and he can't ride many coasters.
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Just want to make sure again that i dont want to offend anyone with focusing on large peeps. this counts as well for too tall, too small. this is tough. i have some friends too who are not allowed to go on certain rides due to their size.
i cant tell you enough how happy i am over being 100% the average dude [squeeeeee][squeeeeee][squeeeeee]
i cant tell you enough how happy i am over being 100% the average dude [squeeeeee][squeeeeee][squeeeeee]
Lol, I feel kind of guilty there. [rolleyes]
My family is just 5 people though. Once, we let my parents stand in the Peter Pan ride while me and my brother went to another ride and come back afterwards to join in the queue line again. It is kind of a unspoken rule that you let people queue as groups and not as individuals. They actually made a joke about it in last season of the Big bang theory. [rolleyes]
Note, this was before fast past system standards.
Of course, depends of the queue design. If it is narrow and people try to past by I do agree it is really annoying.
What annoys me in queue lines are smokers [mad] and teenager groups jumping over fences cheating in line with arrogance. [weird]
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Well there is some dubble trouble about weights and rides. My little brother is over weight and got caught in some situations. Like at Liseberg. At the beginning, he was able to ride the wooden coaster Balder. They provided with an extension on the safty belt and he was ready to go. Later on, an accident happened in a park in another country using the same standards and the extension got banned. Do they compensate this with installing longer belts in the trains? No of course not. Do they place a test seat outside to notify guests of the new standards? No... well, after a lot of complaints they did. Anyway, today my little brother cannot ride this wooden coaster. Not because he gain or loose any weight. But because of the park. [sour] [blah]
He actually loosing weight now. So he do hope he would be able to ride it next time we visit the park. It is only a question about 1-2 cm to be able to connect the belt.
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Working at a small theme park I get all of these annoyances but the one that get me the most has to be the parents that think taking their child onto a ride they are too small for will be ok as long as they say they will take responsibility, the worst one being a family that tried to get a 3-7 month baby onto the pirate ship ride!
On a lighter point I do enjoy making queue jumpers walk to the back of the line whenever they get to the front (especially when they look so proud of themselves)
On a lighter point I do enjoy making queue jumpers walk to the back of the line whenever they get to the front (especially when they look so proud of themselves)
I love it when this is enforced. However... I don't wait for that. Not so Long ago I queued for Euro-Mir. The Line got so bad they had to lengthen it. A group of four Schoolkids thought they were clever and snuck in under the Rope. Well they tried. I blocked their Path (being quite fat they had no way around me - see avatar) and pointed to the start of the Queue with a stern Face and said: "Hinten anstellen!"
Vampiro
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I love it when this is enforced. However... I don't wait for that. Not so Long ago I queued for Euro-Mir. The Line got so bad they had to lengthen it. A group of four Schoolkids thought they were clever and snuck in under the Rope. Well they tried. I blocked their Path (being quite fat they had no way around me - see avatar) and pointed to the start of the Queue with a stern Face and said: "Hinten anstellen!"
Thats must be so fulfilling [big grin]
I love Europapark!Always funny there[big grin]I love it when this is enforced. However... I don't wait for that. Not so Long ago I queued for Euro-Mir. The Line got so bad they had to lengthen it. A group of four Schoolkids thought they were clever and snuck in under the Rope. Well they tried. I blocked their Path (being quite fat they had no way around me - see avatar) and pointed to the start of the Queue with a stern Face and said: "Hinten anstellen!"
Vampiro
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Indeed!! its quite an amazing park. I was there yesterday
(I go there at least once a year for halloween. Too bad it's so far away or i would have visited way more often (At least 6 hours by car))
Indeed!! its quite an amazing park. I was there yesterday
(I go there at least once a year for halloween. Too bad it's so far away or i would have visited way more often (At least 6 hours by car))
Heh ^^ that's funny
I was in Phantasialand yesterday. I love that Park too, but the Distance is really a Problem. Not as far away as the Efteling. But it was really funny to see three (THREE) Busses full of Dutch People coming to Phantasialand. I think the Efteling is just an hour away from Brühl is it?
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