Disney World Changes Guardians of Galaxy Cosmic Rewind Pre-Show to Cut Off-Brand Guest “Jokes”
Walt Disney World has a problem with the queues and bad behavior in Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT, and they’ve been testing ways to improve guest experience over the last year-plus. The latest change is a (literal) cut to the pre-show, which is an unequivocal upgrade, albeit minor. This details that, along with the current process and what else might be on the horizon.
This is actually the third time we’ve reported on Cosmic Rewind queue procedure, which aims to mitigate pinch-points, improve crowd flow, and reduce tensions among guests. The first test started late last summer, which we covered at the time in EPCOT Testing Rule Changes to Cosmic Rewind.
At the time, Cast Members at Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind were separating the pre-show rooms with one side for standby and the other for Lightning Lane guests. The basic gist of this was directing standby guests to the left, Lightning Lane to the right, via Cast Members with outstretched arms and a few strategically placed stanchions. That approach was abandoned long ago.
Other tests have happened since, including one we saw earlier this year that didn’t attempt to divide guests by Lightning Lane or standby status, nor did it impact the initial holding area or first pre-show. Instead, Cast Members in the final pre-show released guests by side, quickly creating makeshift lines and releasing them individually. I only ever observed this in use once; when I returned a second time shortly thereafter to document with photos, it was already done.
The current process is the one that’s been used pretty consistently over the last year. Standby and Lightning Lane guests merge in the first holding area room, which is simply a “fill in all available space” situation. Given the high repeatability of Cosmic Rewind, enough guests know what’s up and even in this area, gravitate to the right.
From there, everyone walks into the Big Bang pre-show room, and then into the teleportation pre-show. There are neither physical stanchions nor Cast Members dividing guests in these rooms. They’re two more straightforward “fill in all available space” situations. If you’ve been on Cosmic Rewind over the last year outside of the brief tests of other approaches, this is what you’ve experienced.
In the teleportation room, guests gravitate to the right side to an even greater degree than the holding room or first pre-show. Once the scene transporting us from EPCOT to (spoiler alert) the Nova Corps ship is complete, guests rush the right side.
It’s normal for three-quarters of guests to immediately cram together in 25% of the room, jockeying for position by the exit doors. That leaves the remaining 25% of guests in the 75% of the space; that’s not an exaggeration, check it out:
The goal of the 75% of guests is to be first through the exit doors. Now, I’m not Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land, but I don’t see how those numbers pencil out. Hence the congestion, rising tensions, pushing, etc. All of which is exacerbated depending on the time of day, by alcohol.
Walt Disney World’s solution is blocking off the middle set of doors leaving the Nova Corps pre-show and leading into the load platform queue. This creates separation in guests and effectively allows for two lines to organically form leading into the load area.
Exiting the pre-show, I’ve seen a couple of approaches. One is a quickly-funneled merge after the doors, and another is two distinct lines until the juncture in the hallway and a Cast Member between them. The latter is the new normal for Cosmic Rewind; it’s been a while since I saw this area unstaffed. There are often multiple Cast Members back here for crowd control. It works reasonably well for addressing the problems that previously plagued Cosmic Rewind’s queue.
Cosmic Rewind Pre-Show Cut
Now it’s time for an on-theme rewind back to planet Earth and EPCOT, and specifically the first pre-show.
This begins with Glenn Close as Nova Prime, the Xandarian leader and commander of the Nova Corps, setting up the story and experience. It then continues with Terry Crews as Centurion Tal Marik rehearsing what he’s going to say once he’s on camera, without realizing he’s already on.
Tal Marik runs through possible names for the people who inhabit EPCOT (EPCOT-ians, Citizens of EPCOT, etc.) before asking of someone off camera: “does anyone know what they call themselves?”
The problem here was a pause, signaling it’s a prompt and giving guests a chance to answer the question. Aided by inebriation, many guests took this as an opportunity to step into the spotlight and shine. Perhaps they’d be plucked from obscurity by delivering the same “joke” as hundreds of other people that same day with a perfectly-timed “alcoholics,” “drunks,” or “day drinkers” retort.
This “joke” has become so common that sometimes, if you get really lucky, there are multiple aspiring stand-up comics in the crowd, all of whom slur their own drunken responses at the same time and sort of garble that response. Truly hilarious stuff. I wish we could’ve gotten those folks to just deliver the entire pre-show instead of Crews. They’re going places!
Mercifully, Walt Disney World has changed the pre-show for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. Here’s video that I shot yesterday afternoon–see if you can pick up on the difference:
Here’s a look at the new “glitching” pre-show for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind that cuts out the ‘invitation’ for aspiring comedians to offer their own name for the people of EPCOT. https://t.co/Yctn2TMI9C
— Disney Tourist Blog (@DisTouristBlog) October 5, 2026
The updated pre-show has been (literally) cut. Tal Marik still asks what we’re called, but then the video feed from the ship to EPCOT “glitches” right after the question and immediately cuts to his next line of dialogue. The pause has been eliminated, and along with it the invitation for aspiring comedians to shout back something off-brand for Walt Disney World.
If this were a different attraction, I might be skeptical of the ‘solution.’ Guests might still be inclined to shout their off-brand answer over Tal Marik, thereby garbling their answer and his subsequent spiel. But here that’s unlikely to happen too much given the circumstances. I really do believe this is largely a matter of drunken guests hearing the question, reading it as an invitation to answer, and then testing their comedic chops on the spot.
My guess is that the demographics of guests answering this question are largely not diehard Walt Disney World fans, Annual Passholders, or other repeat visitors who shout this every single time. (At least, I hope not. How pathetic that’d be.) It’s one-off college kids on break, bachelor/bachelorette parties, and whatever else is the audience for ‘Drinking Around the World’ these days. This will largely cut them off. Figuratively, but unfortunately not literally, in this case.
It obviously won’t stop 100% of the stupid off-brand answers immediately, but it should decrease them dramatically and result in a further gradual reduction over time. Even if it doesn’t, Tal Marik moving immediately to his next line should muffle the responses to some degree. Of course, that means it won’t be as easy to understand what he’s saying, but nothing of value will be lost if you don’t catch his next line.
Obviously, this isn’t a perfect solution. The real fix is reworking this pre-show entirely. Personally, I think the recorded comedy on the video is nearly as bad as the guest response, with both the rehearsing element and Tal Marik’s stern ‘request’ for guests to put away phones not really landing in the way they should.
If it were me, I’d cut out the question completely, and have the glitch go from Tal Marik practicing names for us (somewhat funny and memorable) to realizing he’s on camera. And if guests continue to shout answers in this room, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what happens. It could be accomplished without recording any new dialogue, which is probably the key here.
Cosmic Rewind Change Commentary
If you’ve followed our ongoing coverage of Cosmic Rewind, you should immediately know where I stand on this. Or for that matter, our Disney Parks Pet Peeves. I’m averse to guests drawing attention to themselves, period, in a way that detracts from the show. For years, I’ve been pleading with fans not to flaunt their knowledge on Haunted Mansion, Jungle Cruise, or other quottable attractions.
Cosmic Rewind very obviously qualifies. It was far worse than any of those aforementioned attractions, because instead of echoing the actual script, the answer here is something that’s not particularly family-friendly. At minimum, it’s “un-Disney.”
A bit of an aside, but it is shocking to me how so many adults speak at Walt Disney World. Both the inappropriate words and complete conversations they have while in ear-shot of children. It baffles me that some people think this is appropriate in public spaces anywhere, let alone a family-friendly theme park. Not the point of this post, though.
To this point, one ‘rule of thumb’ recommendation that we’ve offered for a more pleasant guest experience on Cosmic Rewind is to ride earlier in the day, and never after 8 pm unless during Extended Evening Hours.
Bigger picture, I try to avoid weekends at EPCOT at all costs; I aged out of the frat party scene long ago. (I know all of this makes me sound like an overly-sensitive prude. I swear I’m a fun dude. I just think there’s a time and place for this type of thing, and people really push the bounds of decent decorum in a family-friendly theme park.)
It’s not just this one line of dialogue that I’ve found to be unpleasant about Cosmic Rewind in the evenings, either. Suffice to say, if you have kids and want a more enjoyable experience, do it during Early Entry or the mid-morning lull. (See Best & Worst Times to Ride Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind for more on this.)
Other Cosmic Rewind Changes to Come?
Fast-forward again to the final pre-show, and it’ll be interesting to see if Walt Disney World ever completely solves the queue and pre-show problem in Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. My guess is that the closed middle door isn’t a permanent solution, and we’ll see physical infrastructure changes eventually.
One intriguing wrinkle here is that Walt Disney World filed a construction permit in August calling for “General Construction” at the attraction, listing Coastal Steel as the contractor. I debated covering that at the time given Coastal Steel’s involvement (they’re one of the ‘bigger players’ that has worked on multiple Walt Disney World attractions).
I opted against it because the permit was filed by Facilities Asset Management as opposed to Imagineering, so it might not be anything meaningful. Most likely, it’s something invisible from a guest-facing perspective, involving maintenance on the actual coaster.
Short of putting switchbacks in the pre-show room, I’m not really sure how Disney avoids the stampede out the doors. I’m also not sure the degree to which switchbacks are viable. Even if possible, a physical queue would negatively impact the atmosphere of the scene and probably is not worth the sacrifice. There’s also the practical side of the teleportation scene, which changes the size of the space and creates more breathing room.
Perhaps Coastal Steel is going to remove the middle door and create a more permanent ‘funnel’ system to merge guests smoothly without the involvement of Cast Members. This would make sense, although I question Walt Disney World’s appetite for even a brief closure of Cosmic Rewind to accomplish this given its popularity.
It might all seem a bit silly, but this is something that Walt Disney World needs to address. The stampede towards the doors can be aggressive, and it’s not hard to envision a kid, elderly or disabled guest being trampled or made to feel unnecessarily uncomfortable. This is doubly true later in the evening, when alcohol can exacerbate the issue.
The closed middle door and makeshift lines leading towards the load juncture strike me as an imperfect solution to the problem. Honestly, that might be good enough, as I’m not sure how else Disney might realistically fix this. It does require extra labor, but not nearly as much as other approaches that were tested and abandoned.
Don’t Follow the Crowd at Cosmic Rewind
I’ll conclude by repeating my plea not to follow the 75% of the crowd; be part of the 25%. Cramming together on the far side instead of enjoying the pre-show isn’t even logical. The very first people through those doors are maybe going to save a 2-4 minutes on average when aggregated over time.
In order to achieve that negligible theoretical time savings, those guests are spending more time in uncomfortable congestion while missing the cool pre-show. And if they did push past others, they’re squished among other guests who they’ve probably just annoyed. So it’s also socially uncomfortable. The best case scenario here is still a net-negative outcome.
Not only that, but on each individual ride-through, there’s no guarantee of any time-savings whatsoever by being the first party versus the very last party out of the room. You might save 30 seconds, 3 minutes, negative 30 seconds, or somewhere in between.
On my most recent ride-through in October 2026, I was the last person out of the doors, but nevertheless loaded before roughly half of the people in the pre-show ahead of me. This is because Cosmic Rewind not only has a dual load platform, but also two lines for each side. So much of your “outcome” at load is determined by which side you’re assigned and how you’re grouped.
Despite always being last to leave, I’ve routinely found myself passing other guests who rushed through the doors before me. Not always or even most of the time, but enough to know that luck plays a big role. On other occasions, I’ve occasionally gotten my own ride vehicle because sometimes the pre-shows don’t pulse through quickly and Cosmic Rewind ends up dispatching empty ride vehicles in the gap between pre-shows. (A bit tangential, but this also feels like a design flaw.)
Staying left in the teleportation room and waiting out the chaos is the subjectively superior strategy, and arguably even the objectively better approach on balance. There’s way more upside than there is downside to letting the herd of humanity pass and tightly wedge its way through the corridor. Be like the 25%, enjoy the breathing room in that 75% of the space, and a leisurely walk to the load platform.
Ultimately, we’ve said all of the above before so no sense in belaboring the point, even if it’s one of my strongly-held but seemingly unpopular Walt Disney World opinions. I’m reiterating it here to help “remind” readers, many of whom are fixated on efficiency, not to miss the forest for the trees.
Don’t follow the crowd to the right. That dynamic is fueled by FOMO or FUD and is not logical; it’s counterproductive. Your overall experience will be better by savoring the pre-show, and you’re not sacrificing material or consistent time-savings.
You will continue to find me on the far left side of the room, actually enjoying the pre-show that I waited a long time to experience. There’s a reason we pay the big bucks to visit Walt Disney World as opposed to regional amusement parks, and it’s to experience attractions as opposed to rides. There’s a time and place for efficient itineraries, but the parks should be savored like a fine wine as opposed to chugged. To each their own, but that’s another Walt Disney World hill that I’ll die on.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you think of the literal cut made to the pre-show and the elimination of Centurion Tal Marik’s pause after asking what people of EPCOT are called? Will this put an end to the drunken jokers shouting their off-brand answers or not? Thoughts on the other pre-show shenanigans at Cosmic Rewind? Does ‘disabling’ the middle door and having two queues leading to load strike you as a good-enough fix to the problem? Do you agree or disagree with our assessment? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
We always wait in the back and let the crowd go ahead of us, but this backfired the last time we were there. The ride stopped for an bit, so we were in the back of the loading room when the doors opened, and the cast members released group 2 into the loading room with group 1 (us). You can guess what happened… group 2 pushed their way into our group. The two cast members did absolutely nothing!! For the first time ever, I actually got into a small altercation with another guest. It was awful. I’m not sure if I’ll ever forget it. I’m not sure if I ever want to ride my favorite Disney ride ever again.
Tom my family travels in a group of 2-12, and we’d be fighting you to leave each pre-show queue last! We always do. It is definitely not worth the struggle. I love looking at all the details and what not you can see apart from the crush.
I just did the new pre-show, and a huge group shouted the famous response in unison (on top of the next bit of dialogue). I suspect there’s actually a “rebellion effect” going on here, in that Disney acknowledging the problem increases the incentive to do it.
I love being part of the 25%. Nice breathing room and, to your point, you don’t really lose any time. The only issue is when the next pre-show comes in and wants to crowd into your space, which has now become THEIR right side of the room.
Thrilled about this change and completely agree with the whole “adults talking at Disney World” phenomenon. My last time on the Haunted Mansion people just had full on conversations through the stretching room. Such a bummer.
Blabbing during the stretching room is very annoying. It’s as if people think that since they aren’t in the ride vehicle, the show hasn’t started.
I shhhh them.
“Tal Marik runs through possible names for the people who inhabit EPCOT (EPCOT-ians, Citizens of EPCOT, etc.) before asking of someone off camera: “does anyone know what they call themselves?” The problem here was a pause, suggesting it’s a prompt and giving guests a chance to answer the question.”
Call me crazy, but I think that pause really *was* a prompt to elicit answers from guests. That’s not to defend people who think it’s funny to shout “day drinkers” (or worse) in a room full of children, but his pause wasn’t by accident; the preshow was deliberately designed to have that moment where guests can call out their answers. I’m guessing whoever wrote/directed it hasn’t spent a lot of weekend evenings in Epcot?
So the answer here is not to shame wannabe-comedians for yelling something dumb, it’s to stop actively prompting them to do so. Good change.
It definitely was intended that way! The show writers just failed to imagine the possible answers, I guess.
Either way, I’ve changed “suggesting” to “signaling” in the paragraph above, as that’s the more apt word.
I was there once for a Moonlight Magic event and somebody shouted “DVC Members” and it got a lot of cheers. It was a happy, wholesome moment. Unfortunately, my 9 year old (aspiring comedian) then wanted to throw out edgy answers like “lunatics” and “party animals” (I discourage him!) and I can’t count on two hands the number of times my kids have heard “alcoholics” and “day drinkers”.
I think it was a cute idea but they should cut the question entirely—due to the problem Tom hit on, that a tragically large minority of adults couldn’t care less if they are exposing the kids around them to wildly inappropriate language and conversation.
I have never understood the hate on pre-shows. It’s as if everyone thinks that by cutting a preshow we all get on a ride faster. That’s not how the math works!! You don’t come out of any preshows into empty ride vehicles or empty theaters. These pre-shows are timed out to synch you up with the last phase of a queue, or with the exit of the prior theatre crowd. The option is pre-show or wait the exact same amount of time in the regular queuing area. Take a deep breath and enjoy the imagineering. Picture also how you will burn down the internet on some future day Disney inevitably announces the removal of these attractions, and how you’ll tell your kids about the fun preshows that preceded the rides. Finally, anyone who was not utterly delighted by their first experience of being transported from Epcot to that Nova ship was dead inside. Try to recall how exciting that was your first time and don’t mess it up for other first time guests – please and thank you.
“I have never understood the hate on pre-shows. It’s as if everyone thinks that by cutting a preshow we all get on a ride faster. That’s not how the math works!! You don’t come out of any preshows into empty ride vehicles or empty theaters. These pre-shows are timed out to synch you up with the last phase of a queue, or with the exit of the prior theatre crowd. The option is pre-show or wait the exact same amount of time in the regular queuing area.”
Just quoting this for emphasis because it’s accurate, and a point many people (including fans!) seem to sometimes miss.
I love good pre-shows! Unfortunately, the Cosmic Rewind pre-show is a drag that indulges in all of the flaws (over-expository dialogue, bad jokes, ridiculous length) of its parent film franchise. Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror come to mind as classic examples of how to do it right. Notably, no one is bum-rushing the doors on those pre-shows.
I’m one of the 25%. I stay as far away from that crushing, pushing crowd as possible. As far as the pre-show commentary, hoping they do away with that line altogether. Even with no lag, still think the superstars will shout out their unfunny responses
The main reason why the mad dash to the doors happens is because the pre-shows are terrible. They’re unfunny, way too long, and littered with clunky exposition. Cosmic Rewind is a great ride but its biggest flaw, like a lot of Chapek-era attractions, is an over-reliance on narrative boilerplate to create drama. I’d love to see an implementation of a single rider line similar to the one at Rise of the Resistance that skips the pre-shows and takes single riders directly into the station.
Long pre-shows are not fun. Muppets comes to mind. The pre-show room used to have a highly visible timer. I was shocked at how long of a time we’d be expected to stand there in the preshow. But we did stand there, for that entire time. It was like being at a very long red light. According to an AI summary I found just now the entire Muppet preshow was ~13 minutes long. That’s just way too long, and I can envision it as part of the reason why that attraction was unpopular enough to be demolished. I know that’s sad to hear for the Muppet fans, but there can be real costs to not keeping a story narrative as tight as it should be.
@Scott Huh? MuppetVision did not have a preshow. It had a video to watch while you waited for the next showing of the 3D movie, but if you arrived just as the main theatre doors opened, you could walk right in and skip that video.
Attraction *preshows* cannot be skipped. It doesn’t matter how short the line is at Tower of Terror or Flight of Passage, you’re going to watch those videos in the holding rooms before getting on the ride.
Andy is correct about theater shows. If you hated MV3D for this reason, I have bad news for you about the Monsters, Inc. show. This is just how theater attractions work.
Some attraction pre-shows actually can be skipped if crowds are low enough. Just not ones that serve a functional purpose or contain safety instructions.
Skipping the Cosmic Rewind pre-show would just put you in a longer regular line, though. Not sure how or why that’d be the preferred outcome.
My mistake, I apologize. I misremembered. The AI summary I used to refresh my recollection was flawed. The correct answer, I know realize, is “what you are describing is not a pre-show”. Since AI was being the vapid cheerleader that all LLMs are prone to be, it cheerily responded to my poorly composes inquiry with a shallow misleading answer. Thanks for setting me straight.
@evan no but they are 100% pushing and shoving once you get out of the stretching room. Just try to stay near your family of 6 and see how it goes. They need a line coming out of there especially when you try to hang back to stay together then the next group comes shoving out. HM line does not work well
We rode on 9/30, pre-glitch update, and nobody yelled out anything, which was refreshing. Of course, it was before noon on a Wednesday, so good timing for us.
The middle loading door didn’t open and there were dividing “ropes” once through, which was definitely an improvement in my opinion, but I think they can still improve upon it. We also like to be part of the 25% and wait for the stampede to clear.
I was so hoping the change would be to the queue after the final preshow. It’s our family’s favourite ride but that final process is so miserable. We always hang back to the left but it hasn’t stopped my little one from being shoved or stepped on by adults literally 4 times her size.
On our last visit a pushy family somehow didn’t realise the right side thing, ended up behind us and eventually shoved past. Fine. The dad had on a shirt that said something to the effect of “dear person behind me, however long you wait in line, ours was shorter”. Unnecessary, obnoxious and not even necessarily true (the last was the part that really bugged me for some reason). One of their kids was having a full volume call on their phone and randomly insulting people and the other kept pushing backwards into my younger daughter who I promise was not crowding him. My older one was almost in tears when we got off because they’d ruined the experience so much.
That being said, reducing the opportunity for asinine commentary is nice, but minor in comparison. We all cringe at the “jokes” but the don’t really detract much from our experience.
Also, I have often wondered why this problem of “bunching” plagues GotG but not other rides with preshows to the same degree. I think the key design flaw is that you teleport to a second, significantly bigger pre-show room that is far bigger than the crowd. I guess they have the blessing of size on the cruiser, but suddenly having a lot more space does invite this rearrangement.
(Also, confession: if I’m not in the mood for the pre-show, I sometimes participate in the bunching. Not because I care about getting on quickly, but because the experience is already ruined for these people so by packing in I can do stuff on my phone without coming across as selfish. But most of the time I want to see the pre-show and like the open area!)
The Great Movie Ride had a winding central entrance with a screen showing a show and kept the line in check. Why woundn’t this work?
Because the of the teleportation effect that “transports” you to the Nova Corps ship. Winding railings that get you from the first preshow room to the load queue would severely complicate (ruin?) that illusion.
You mention sometimes having empty ride vehicles on GotG. I wonder if the cut has a different explanation.
Namely, Disney realised they could improve
throughout by shaving 10 seconds off the first pre-show (ie the second pre show was usually reset with time to spare, and waiting for the first pre show). When asked where to save 10 seconds, there was an obvious place 🙂
They should change up the story line to be “transporters can only take a few at a time.” That would work. Honestly, something needs to be done.
Agree completely on all points! We were unfortunately in a group with a said comedian who loudly spouted “alcoholics!” which my 9 and 11 year old daughters quickly asked, “mom, what are alcoholics??” Not a teaching moment I expected to have at Disney World I’m glad they glitched the video but it seems like a teen could have done a better cut job than that
The other obnoxious behavior I’ve seen in the pre-shows for Guardians is chaining. The last time I went, a group of about a dozen young adults created a human chain and then rushed the doors, pushing their way through the crowd like a Napoleanonic infantry column. Everyone was forced to jump out the way as they pushed and pulled themselves through the doors.
I saw 3 different groups that did this exiting the pre-show yesterday.
While I don’t usually see that many instances of it, I feel like it does happen every single time I ride.
Why not just let the 75% rush to the right side in discomfort? This can be the 25%’s little secret to a better experience. As for first-timers, small kids or older guests, when they see a comfortable open area in the center of the room, surely they’d gravitate toward that….unless they’re pushy people too! I say let this thing work itself out organically – over time it could be a funny inside joke amongst us in the know.
I wouldn’t care if it were just the day-drinkers or other obnoxious EPCOT-terrans, but regular guests see that surge and follow suit out of FOMO/FUD.
While I enjoy the breathing room offered by the status quo, I also think that it’s a shame that first-timers miss a great pre-show due to getting caught up in the chaos. And although I realize the primary demographic of a post like this is probably repeat visitors, this is also a planning site that attracts a lot of first-timers. (DTB’s audience is an eclectic mix.)
I would love to hear more about why yoga pants in the parks are a massive problem. And if you know of something that reduces friction better, I sincerely want to hear all about that, too. A sweaty, 14-hour day at the park can’t be done by some of us in jeans or canvas material, sir.
“Bad crick in the neck?” “A bad hair day?” “A Dream Sequence?”
The celebrity based pre-show is too long and people just want to get to the good stuff.
Energy building’s curse since 1996.
Hey now, I loved Ellen’s pre-show. (Seriously!)
I think the biggest issue is having a holding room that serves no purpose ahead of the two pre-shows. If that were just more queue, this dynamic would still exist, but wouldn’t be nearly as bad. Fixing that is probably the best overall solution.
I’m not sure it wouldn’t be as bad – Spiderman suffers from this in Averngers land, and it only has the one preshow. But I applaud the video change!
“…it is shocking to me how so many adults speak at Walt Disney World. Both the inappropriate words and complete conversations they have while in ear-shot of children. It baffles me that some people think this is appropriate in public spaces anywhere.”
Our last visit we saw a young woman wearing a tee shirt that said…
“I’m a drop the F BOMB kind of mom” in the process of proving she was good as her word.
Trajically the lid to Pandora’s box has not only been opened but torn off it’s hinges, smashed into splinters and two of the sides are missing.
– he said shaking his fist at the clouds.
PS: This was at Magic Kingdom by the Piano player outside Casey’s around noontime.
This kind of behavior annoys me too. Disney does a pretty good job of letting guests know that inappropriate language or attire won’t be allowed, but it still creeps in. Yoga pants in the parks? Come on!!!!
She should’ve been stopped at the entrance for wearing an inappropriate shirt and told to change. I thought Disney had a policy on that.
Hi Jaynee,
As far as I know they do but several things come to mind.
1) There’s a lot of people entering the Park and unless it’s super obvious they might not catch something like this. It was a 9 worded sentence tee shirt (though F Bomb was in larger type)
2) The actual word wasn’t spelt out so they may have missed it.
3) Maybe she had something on like a little sweater or jacket over it or partially covering the tee when she entered
4)There’s a real possibility that a younger generation CM thought it was funny and not offensive
5) We noticed it because we first heard her cursing as she chased her child past us.
6) I hate to say this but perhaps CMs thought it might be objectionable but were afraid to create a potential PR nightmare and law suit.
Agree completely. What they should do is to make a room full of railings like Space Mountain and make everybody weave. Stop this nonsense of running toward the doors every time.
There’s a seasonal halloween attraction where I live that does something like this in their preshow room. The group enters the room on the left side and is filed into four lines by an attendant: Line 1, Line 2, Line 3, Line 4. The preshow happens, and then the exit door on the right opens and the attendant on the other side dismisses the lines in the same order: 1, 2, 3, 4. Everyone stays where they were in line, and there is no pushing and shoving.
What Elizabeth said I think would work. Don’t necessarily do a zig-zag queue, but have a few different sections that people stand in and you people in orderly to the next room. That way, you may lose a little bit of your spot but it’s not complete chaos where you end up letting 20+ people that were behind you get in front of you because they were pushy and you weren’t (usually because we have a large group it’s not easy to force your way through the room crowd because we don’t want to get split up).
Spot-on commentary Tom. Couldn’t agree with you more on all points. I like to think that most of us diehard Disney fans (presumably including many of the people who read this blog) do appreciate the importance of avoiding boorish behavior at Epcot or any of the other parks. Disney World is such a magical and fun place and so it’s always disappointing to see some people behaving crudely. Also I got a laugh at your description of the up-and-coming comedians. 🙂