Guests getting rides' names confused? - Page 4

Wild4Coasters · #46 11-06-2005, 07:53 PM

At Valleyfair I've heard Wild Thing being called "the tall, green one" and High Roller being called "the white roller coaster"

steel · #47 11-11-2005, 08:10 AM

That doesn't bother me as much, though I would like do dope-slap them and push a park map in their face...
I recently heard WoF's Mamba called Mambo and Spinning Dragons called Orient Express. Also, Detonater called Detonation and Wacky Worm called Timber Wolf (don't ask me where they came up with that).

Emann · #48 11-11-2005, 09:48 AM

When I was at Gadv people kept calling medusa kingda ku even though they were staring right at the Medusa sign.

RollerNut · #49 02-23-2006, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by dukeandPCfan

for name mixups, even at Carowinds - the Gauntlet instead of Rocket Power, Scooby Doo instead of 'Fairly odd Coaster (A GOOD Mixup).

I still call OddCoaster, Scooby-Doo or Ghoster Coaster by accident. The Fairly OddCoaster name makes more sense to me than Ghoster Coaster did. What is a "Ghoster"? I refer to Rocket Power as the Gauntlet or Airtime!, but normally Gauntlet because I really don't like the name "Rocket Power:Airtime!". They ride skateboards on a half-pipe, and they don't do full loops. So the ride's new name doesn't make a lick of sense to me. "Rocket Power:Airtime!" would make more sense for a Zamperla Skater, or Disko ride. Even a Swinging Ship. I say we name it, "Jimmy Neutron's Brainblast".

I have heard:
The Red One:Vortex
The Wooden Coaster:Hurler
Roller Coaster:OddCoaster
The Blue One:Cyclone
Kiddy Coaster:Taxi Chase or OddCoaster
Flying Coaster:BORG
New Coaster:BORG
They have names, and the names on their signs and the park maps. Call them by their names. I understand calling a ride by it's former name because that is what you are used to.

April_fool_79 · #50 02-23-2006, 12:37 PM

At IOA, I got people calling The Hulk the Hulk Hogan coaster. Jeeze. And forget Popeye and Bluto's Bilge Rat Barges. I had a guest arguing with me for 20 minutes one day when I worked at Trike Encounter shortly after the park's grand opening. He had a map of the Studios, and was trying to find out where he was because his family wanted to ride Back to the Future. So he asked me. I explained that the map he was looking at was for the park next door, and handed him a map of IOA. That should have been the end of the conversation. Nope. He kept looking at his USF map and insisting that he'd been at the park 5 years before, and BTTF was "RIGHT WHERE WE ARE NOW". I finally told him that 5 years ago, the only thing that was where we were standing was a parking lot. He eventually came to the conclusion that we had moved the entire building all the way across 2 parks just to confuse him the next time he was there.

And you'd be surprised how many people couldn't get out Kongfrontation.

Speaking of Kong, I got lots of dumb questions when I worked there. One of the most common was people asking me how to get to Tower of Terror. A typical conversation:

Guest: I can't find Tower of Terror on this map. Where is it?
Me: It's at MGM Studios.
Guest: Isn't that where we are?
Me: No, you're at Universal Studios.
Guest: Well, isn't it all the same thing?
Me (in my head): You're the kind of dumdum that goes to McDonald's and orders a Whopper, aren't you? (Yeah, that happened numerous times when I worked at McD, but that's another story)

I got so sick of it one day, that when a guy asked me how to get to TOT, I gave him EXACT directions. They involved getting him back to his car, how to get on I-4 West, which exit to take, even how to get to TOT once they got into MGM! The guy thought I was being sarcastic and rude (well, it might have been a touch rude, but it was completely honest) and went up to Guest Services to complain. So I got my one and only negative guest comment in my file.

Even better were the people who walked up to the front of Kong looking at their maps. They'd look at the building with the big, 20 foot tall banners that have Kong on them and say KONGFRONTATION in big letters, look back at their map, then say, "This is Earthquake honey, let's go ride it."

slnewbus · #51 02-23-2006, 02:54 PM

Some people confuse Steel Force with Hercules.

Tanks4me05 · #52 02-23-2006, 03:29 PM

^ Well, at least we know Hercules isn't forgotten. Sigh, I miss it.

I overheard some people call MF The Millennium, but that could have been used as slang or abbreviation, so I'm not entirely sure.

slnewbus · #53 02-23-2006, 04:07 PM

I just call it Millennium, so that is understandable.

BGWfanatic · #54 02-23-2006, 04:40 PM

^^^^Hahahaha, ignorant people ignore the hech out of me! nice job April fool, i would have told the ToT people the exact same thing.

Sandy W · #55 02-23-2006, 11:13 PM

I laughed out loud about you telling the guest what highway to get on. They were in the wrong park hehehe.

steel · #56 02-24-2006, 09:00 AM

All the time at school, people refer to rides at WoF, but they're all spoiled brats (you'd be surprised how true this is in many cases), so they use the names of the similar rides at Adventureland.
Therefore,
Timber Wolf = Tornado/Outlaw
Boomerang/Spinning Dragons = Dragon
Finnish Fling = Silly Silo
Detonater = Space Shot
You get the idea. It drives me insane. I tell them that they are wrong, wrong, wrong, and they tell me they're exactly the same thing. This is when I'm ready to pound people. I tell them almost calmly that they cannot be "exactly the same" as they are over three hours away from each other. But, as I said, they are all spoiled brats, so they don't listen and categorize me as an idiot who knows nothing. GP, you know?

DisGardeVersal · #57 02-25-2006, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by April_fool_79

Even better were the people who walked up to the front of Kong looking at their maps. They'd look at the building with the big, 20 foot tall banners that have Kong on them and say KONGFRONTATION in big letters, look back at their map, then say, "This is Earthquake honey, let's go ride it."

How do people become such morons! I would comment further but I'm afraid I'll get banned.

As for the exact directions to get to TOT, that is awesome, and Going to McDonald's and buying a whopper, is a really good analogie.

trombone · #58 02-26-2006, 01:29 PM

This does not just happen in the typical Theme Parks. At Disney Quest in Orlando, They are staring at the CyberSpace Ride sign and still ask where is CyberSpace Mountain.

This also happens at other rides.

Also when you give the guests instructions, such as not to preload the cannon with balls, they still do not listen. They preload the cannon and then they will compain at the end of the ride saying, the cannon is broken.

If they have listened in the first place, they would of known not to preload the cannon for that reasion, it gets jammed.

PittfallFan · #59 03-13-2006, 01:16 AM

At Kennywood.....

The Terminator Ride, The Sperminator (I swear to God I've heard that one at least 10 times)......Exterminator

People still referring to Phantom's Revenge as the Steel Phantom...

Garfield's Bad Dream...........Garfield's Nightmare

::while sitting at Phantom's Revenge entrance checking height:: (keep in mind, there is an enormous Phantom 6 feet away, as well as a 2 signs that say Phantom's Revenge, and a queue line that travels underneath the lift hill)...
- "Come on guys, this is the Thunderbolt, its like 150 years old..."

hahahahaha