A Disney World guest left fellow passengers on a ride frustrated after ignoring instructions to remain seated during its brief pause.
On Thursday, March 6, the unidentified man was on the Tiana’s Bayou Adventure water ride in Magic Kingdom, when he decided to “jump out of his log with his kid.” The ride had been paused for around 10 minutes before his antics caused it to be delayed further, according to an anonymous member of the Walt Disney World Tips and Tricks Public Facebook Group.
“Shout out to this guy, who held up everyone on Tiana’s for 30-40 minutes because he and his son jumped out of their log,” the Facebook user wrote in a now-deleted post, per Disney news outlet Wow News Today.
According to the post, the guest exited the carriage despite “very clear announcements to remain seated.”
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California.
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“The cast members came over the speaker three times — yes, three times — asking him to get back into the log, and he refused,” the post continued.
The Facebook member said the man “began shining his phone flashlight around, looking for an exit” and “waving the bright light in [the] faces” of the seated guests, leaving them “dumbfounded” at the situation.
According to the post, the man was told to wait at the ride and he and his child were eventually escorted out by employees, per Wow News Today.
“We went from a 10-minute ride pause to a 30-40 minute ride pause because of this guy,” they wrote. “…There was absolutely no need for this to happen. This guy is teaching his son that the rules don’t matter and you can do whatever you want, even if it inconveniences everyone else.”
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World.
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Tiana’s Bayou Adventure officially opened at Disney World Resort in Florida on June 28, 2024, and Disneyland in California on Nov. 15, 2024.
The ride, which replaced Splash Mountain, was created in homage of Princess Tiana from the groundbreaking 2009 Disney animated film Princess and the Frog and it is set in New Orleans Square like the picture.
This latest incident at Disneyland comes after several recent incidents at the resort where the guests have refused to follow the rules. In January, a guest was caught stealing an out-of-order signand putting it on her scooter. A woman was also tasered at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort for her drunken behavior, per Wow News Today.
