What was the biggest Disney meltdown you've witnessed?

[brb1006]

I remember hear a girl throwing a temper tantrum outside of the One Man's Dream area as I was trying to watch the Walt movie and was waiting until the door was shut so I the film can drown out the screaming back in April 2016 of my Senior Trip.

 

[gottalovepluto]

... I considered explaining what happened but given the way they were reacting I wasn't sure that would have helped anything. I don't know, maybe I should have spoken up.

You were genius at the time. Absolutely nothing good would have come of that one!

 

[JediBonas]

Just walk out the exit door in the back. The entire rides comes to a halt. Did it when DD had a bathroom emergency a long time ago. I had no idea that would happen.

We tried, a CM came over the speaker and yelled at us to sit down. We tried to explain what was going on but were just told to sit down and wait for it to be over.

 

[Disney Dynamite]

One of my favorite Disney meltdowns is my own, unfortunately. We took the in-laws to Disney with us last year, and it was exhausting, to say the least. I really, really wanted to see Fantasmic!, but due to my MIL's inability to pass up a gift shop without having a meltdown and/or do anything that someone else might want to do, we were running late. My husband didn't think we should leave them on their own, so by the time we made it over to the theater, it was filled to capacity. I was livid and knew I needed to just get away from my in-laws because I'd reached my breaking point. So, my husband and I take off down Sunset Boulevard, bickering the whole way. After turning onto Hollywood Boulevard, we stopped at the corner of Mickey's of Hollywood to bicker some more.

While we were standing there, random people just started coming up to my husband to ask him various questions - Is there a second showing of Fantasmic! tonight? Will you take our picture? Do I have to exit the park and re-enter for EMH? Where can I go to buy Memory Maker? Can you tell me where such-and-such is located? Here I am, trying to bite my husband's head off at the happiest place on Earth, and these people kept INTERRUPTING me to ask him questions. I was getting more irritated by the minute. That's when it occurred to me that he was (unintentionally) dressed very much like a Hollywood Studios cast member that day. It also didn't help that it was dark at that point, making it more difficult to tell that he wasn't a CM.

After the sixth or seventh person interrupted us, I threw myself down on the curb in a huff and snapped at my husband, "Well, I'll be HERE when you finish your shift, not that you even work here!" We still joke about that one night he worked in Hollywood Studios, but man...it sure wasn't funny at the time.

 

[uccats97]

My family literally melted down while watching Lights, Motors, Action. It was a blistering hot day in July, 2009. The bleachers were crammed full of people, there was no air flow and we were all miserable. My kids were all whining and crying about being too hot and thirsty, etc. Sweat poured down our backs. The breaking point for me was when the stunt with the massive fireballs happened. Tears started rolling down my face. It was just too much. I couldn't wait to get out of that stadium! When the show finally ended, we immediately went to the bathroom to cool off by dousing ourselves with sink water. We did not go back to LMA until 2 weeks ago so we could see the show one more time before it closed. I'm glad we did. The weather was beautiful and I finally was able to enjoy the show instead of resent it.

 

[uccats97]

Perhaps the worst meltdown of all was when DD (now 11) was 2. It was the Year of a Million Dreams, 2007. We had just walked into Epcot and she was throwing a massive temper tantrum in her stroller. I was trying to avoid upsetting our large group of 11 by steering her off to the right just inside the gates and parking her facing the wall. I was so stressed and overwhelmed with her tantrum that I completely blew off the CM that approached me and asked if I could follow her for a minute. She looked at me oddly and said it would only take a minute. I still declined. After DD calmed down we went about our day. A few hours later it occurred to me that the CM who approached me was part of the Dream Squad and I missed out on a dream prize! Seriously?! Of all times for DD to throw a mega tantrum. We love telling DD that story and wondering what our prize would have been and I still kick myself for not following the CM!

 

[DVCFan1994]

This one goes back at least 11 or 12 years, before I had kids. My family always went back then during the very crowded week between Christmas and New Years due to my younger siblings only common break being that one. I was at MK with my husband, brother and his now wife. We had had dinner at GF then headed into the park for rides after. A parade had ended so it was a mess of people up front. We were crossing main street from the side with Casey's and all took a hard right toward Tomorrowland Terrace to get through a break we saw before the next throng of people. Well my brother, the last of us, barely made it with the rest of us, sort of cutting off a man on a scooter, which were more unusual to see back then. The man becomes livid. My brother just sped up and really did not make this man stop, but it was close enough the man probably felt he had to slow down. He starts yelling and screaming, we didn't know what to do. My brother politely said, sorry I just didn't want to get separated from my family, and left it at that. The man keeps yelling about being cut off all day, and then gets out of his scooter, picks it up, at least chest high and yells "Ahhhhh" in a roaring tone before slamming it down hard enough I'm surprised he didn't pop a tire. We just walked away, but honestly, for a split second I thought he was going to throw it at my brother!

 

[Mambo Junkie]

Best stranger meltdown - We were watching the taping of the Christmas parade and the Stormtroopers from the top of the train station, when suddenly this couple got into a shouting match over finances. They were giving examples. "Well, you spent 5000.00 on XXX", and "we're not able to make our car payment because XXX" while their 6 - 9 yo kids stood around looking like they wished they were on another planet. That made our nightly story about "people behaving badly" but we didn't win because the kids were behaving. I told my DH to trip one of the kids and make it look like the other had done it but he refused. Killjoy. (J/K)

Our meltdown - Sort of. My DS was 5 years old, and he and I took a Mom/Son trip. It was hot, and we were struggling with the heat, being tired, and the mind of a 5 year old vs. the mentality of someone who was spending a lot of money to have the best darn experience we could buy. We got to Mickey's Star Land and he wanted to play on a playground they had there, while I felt we should go on IASW because "you can play on any playground at McDonalds; we're at Disney World!". So here we are, doing battle at MK, when I pulled the "Let's just leave; we're going HOME" hollow threat out, and he started to cry. I looked at him and said, more to myself, "We're not having a good time. We're supposed to have a good time here".
So, I sat him down and (I always started my "talks" with "Here's the deal"...) I said to him, "This is what we're going to do; first, it's your turn. We're going to do whatever you want for as long as you want. Then it's my turn, then yours and so forth". Worked like a charm. We used that strategy for many years and avoided a lot of grief, plus when it was my turn I got him to do things I wouldn't ordinarily have gotten him to do before.

 

[rastahomie]

Best stranger meltdown - We were watching the taping of the Christmas parade and the Stormtroopers from the top of the train station, when suddenly this couple got into a shouting match over finances. They were giving examples. "Well, you spent 5000.00 on XXX", and "we're not able to make our car payment because XXX"

I'm no financial adviser, but if you're behind on your car payments you probably shouldn't be taking Disneyworld vacations. Just sayin'.

 

[BelleWannabe4]

I worked at Animal Kingdom as a CP for the week of Christmas- New Year's, which was an experience. I had parade route duty one afternoon where my role was to close the "crosswalks" as the parade got close that portion of the route. Apparently I must have closed the rope in the middle of of a family because about a minute after I closed the rope, a grandpa, grandma and a stroller with two kids in it walk up to me and ask to be let through. I tell them that I'm sorry, but there's a parade coming through and I can't let them.

Grandpa starts to yell at me, telling me that the rest of their family is on the other side of the parade route and that they have to get through. I ask my supervisor, but at this point, the parade has arrived at this point of the route and, for safety reasons, no one can cross until the parade goes through. I try to explain this to grandpa and tell him about a different route he can take to meet up with his family, but he continues to yell and then HITS me with the stroller (and the kids in the stroller) as if he is going to push through into the parade. At this point, his wife is aghast and is trying to talk him down, my supervisor comes up and asks if we need to call security and everyone around us is watching him and not the parade. Thankfully, he stopped yelling and walked away with the kids and his wife.

 

[rpb718]

Sorry - duplicate post.

 

[Gisele]

Well, since I am now an adult, I think asking Tigger to come home and watch cartoons on the couch with me might give off the wrong impression lol

Oh I don't know about that! Lol Depends on how old you guys are. Lol

 

[Bebella]

About ten years ago, a family sitting in front of us at the LMA show at Disney Studios got into argument while we were waiting for the show to start.

One of the family members, a woman in her fifties or sixties, went into full blown meltdown mode complete with tears and foot stomping because the rest of the family wasn't agreeing with her plans for the rest of the day.

She finally stood up and threatened to leave, and a man in their party (who I'm assuming was her husband) shouted at the top of his lungs "SIT DOWN LINDA!!"

She sat down, and people in the audience around us actually started to clap. It was incredibly, incredibly awkward.

To this day my sister and I still say "SIT DOWN LINDA!" to one another if one of us starts getting overly dramatic about something petty.

Haha, this one made me laugh out loud! I LOVE watching adult tantrums.

 

[KrazeeK120]

I had a bit of a meltdown at the MK last year. I had the super bright idea to fly in late, go to bed at midnight, and get up for 6 AM rope drop (24 hour day), while 15 weeks pregnant. By 1 PM, I'd hit a wall. I was so done. I was hot and tired. I needed to leave. Of course, I was in Fantasyland and the parade was going on. I kept telling my husband I didn't want to see the "dumb parade." I did manage to figure a convoluted way through the crowd, around the parade, and out of the park. However, I realized when I was about halfway down Main St. that my husband wasn't behind me. I had no idea where he was. So I sat down on the ground in the tunnel under the train station and texted him to find out where he was. And I sat there and sulked until he got there, mad that he didn't stay with me. I just blame pregnancy hormones...

 

[Kriii]

Several trips ago our family had fast passes for Peter Pan on a hot muggy night. Even the FP line was slow. When the CM interrupted the regular line to let us in, a woman began screaming and cursing because the FP holders were riding before she was able to. I chalk it up to a long day and too little rest.

 

[JEZeimer99]

My family and I witnessed TWO fist fights in one night. It was the week after Thanksgiving and busier than usual. This was before they had the hub at the Magic Kingdom so lines were clearly defined. The cast members had tried to secure a walking path between main street into Adventureland but people were filing it up to watch Wishes. We were trying to walk through and strollers/people refused to move. We were getting pushed from behind. The cast member tried to clear a path and one man decided to make his own picking up someones stroller and moving it. The dad pushed him and they went down on the ground fighting. Unbelievable! Then as the park closed we were in line for the tram and a family from outside the US was in the line between trams, not inside the stances. Everytime the tram stopped, it was not in front of them so they would not get a seat. After the 2nd time it happened, they pushed their way in front of another family, pulling back a mom stepping up into the tram. The dads then got into a huge fist fight. It was not a magical evening and completely ridiculous that these people were acting like that in front of children.

 

[marydis]

Well……… I could name a few..likely they would be related to me in some way …… maybe. Wayyyyyy back to my first trip to DW my family went to "discovery Island" .. nice you say.. well we weren't on the island for 5 minutes when out of nowhere a bird decided to relieve itself on me.. I had my DD then 2 in a stroller, my DNephew then 3 and my DS8 and my Dniece 7 with me… and there I am in all my glory covered… in Bird &%$# and my Sister starts screaming…. "OMG !!!" …. " Is there any on me???"" and then proceeds to book it … at top speed ALLL the way back to the boat to the homeland… she never passed go or collected $200…. and she literally left behind me , my DM and 4 kids…. all because she was worried she would end up covered in what I was already covered in…. .

 

[MKMK]

March 2015 - first day of our trip, next to the pop corn cart near the exit of MK.

Probably self induced on our part....after a long day traveling to WDW, we took our 5 year old twins to MK around 8 p.m. Crowds weren't bad, lines were short and everyone was having a great time. Around 11 p.m., DH decides it is time to leave as the twins are clearly tired. Our normally well behaved children start screaming at the top of their lungs "JUST ONE MORE RIDE!!" from Frontierland all the way down Main Street. By the time we reach the exit and they realize we are truly leaving, they go into hyper drive and start kicking DH in his shins while attempting to escape his grip and run back towards the castle. I whipped out my iPhone and caught some of it -- this video will definitely be shown at their weddings. We got quite a few "looks" ... but it was so extreme and over the top we couldn't help laughing.

 

[monorailrabbit]

I had one, it was at the end of a long MK day. It was after MSEP and the crowd was crazy! I mean pushing shoving, ramming ankles etc, all trying to get to the hub for fireworks. I had this one very persistent lady keep ramming me with her stroller. I ended up falling forward from another bump and DH whirled around and said "And just WHERE would you like my wife to go? It's wall to wall people! Chill!" The lady made some rude comment, I don't even remember what it was and I started crying. Like full on sobbing. We found a spot to sit and wait for fireworks and my husband kept trying to cheer me up. "Do you want some ice cream? Soda?" etc. I just wailed that "I wanted Norman and Ben!!" (Our 2 dogs) he said "Sweetie they are in Nebraska, but I bet they want you to enjoy the fireworks!" I felt so extremely silly and childish, lol, but my husband was pretty adorable.

 

[TXHauntedMansionFan]

So I have two stories to contribute to the thread:

The worst that we have seen in person was a mom who was kneeling down yelling at her child (maybe 5 yrs old?) that was in a stroller on the street in front of the Tower of Terror. As we walked past, we heard her yelling "If you don't start having fun I'm going to take you to the GD hotel!! except she didn't abbreviate GD. I'm going to guess that the little boy did not start having fun right after that bomb got dropped on him..

Second story happened to one of our best friends and her mom outside the Animation Academy in DHS. They were in line in front of a woman and her family who were complaining out loud that they weren't going to be sitting in "those seats up front without a desk again!". So they let people in the drawing room and our friend/her mom end up getting the last two desks...at which point the woman behind them demands that they let her kids have their spot with the desk. My friend declines...which eventually leads to the woman waiting for them outside the room in the gift shop area. After yelling at our friends, she proceeds to punch my friend's mom in the eye (breaking her glasses and cutting her face), and then runs out of the shop and hops a bus back to her resort. Needless to say Disney hunted her down, kicked her family off the property and our friend pressed charges as well! Crazy crazy people out there.