Earing My Ears =)

I have been training in Buzz attractions for the past 4 days. It has been a lot of fun and exhausting at the same time. I'm not used to working shifts!

Rocking my lame Tomorrowland outfit! =)

Earning my ears! =)

 
My trainer is Terri and Sinclaire is shadowing her- so I basically have two trainers and they are so awesome! Other people have said that their trainers aren't that great, so I am thankful I got such great trainers!

I have 6 days of training and so far I have completed 4. The first 2 and a half were working Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin. There are about 8 positions I learned how to work and everything about the ride. Such as...

• the different 'scenes' in the ride
• how to load & unload space rangers and people in wheelchairs
• different spiels I have to say if the ride stops- usually because someone got out to pick up something they dropped
• how to restart the ride once a guest has stopped it because they got out of their car
• how to fix the cars if they go into the ride or unload crooked
• the different numbers I need to call if the ride stops or if something is wrong
• the eight-ish different codes to represent things we want to shorten or not have the guests hear
• how to open and close the ride
• evacuating the ride either standard for technical difficulties or emergency for urgent evacuations
• how to distrubte fast pass
• how to work the line with stand by and fast pass- including the different phases of the line for fast pass
• working the 'flicks' for the ride wait/stand by line 

On second half of my third day I started training on Monsters Inc Laugh Floor. It is easily my favorite! =) For those of you that don't know, it is a live interactive comedy show with some of the monsters from Monsters Inc. As part of my training I got to meet a couple of the monsters and see how the show works. I can't give everything away, but they are absolutely hilarious and so entertaining! Some stuff I do for Monsters is....

• greeting the 'humans' as they come in the cue and directing them
• working the 'flick' cards for the wait time
• working pre-show- basically telling people to move all the way down in the pre-show room and to fill in all the avaliable space
• saying a couple spiels into the PA system
• directing the disabled/handicapped guests down a separate ques and figure how to seat/arrange the different parties in the theater
• seating the disabled/handicapped guests in the theater
• telling the humans to move all the way down in the theater before they have a seat
• hold the mic to the human the monsters want to interact with

Finally, the last half of my fourth day I started to learn about Carousel of Progress. For those of you that don't know... COP (Carousel of Progress) is a show about the progression of inventions over the century. It is in a rotating theater- hence Carousel. It is the only attraction in Walt Disney World that Walt himself worked on himself- this is because the original show was shipped from Disneyland. Walt passed before WDW opened, so this ride is very sentimental to people and extremely important to the park. It will always be here because it was his 'baby'- his original idea and his favorite show.

• operating the carousel
• loading and unloading the guests
• delivering spiels at the begging of the show
• fixing the show if it doesn't rotate into place correctly
• running (literally) around the perimeter of the ride when a person leaves their theater- even though they are not supposed to! ahh
• people always leave in the middle of the show for multiple reasons and it REALLY messes up the ride. 
• evacuating the guests- either emergency or standard
• a few more things- I still have more training on this attraction

 
Well, this somewhat ended up being a review for me! But that is just the basics of what I will be doing. I absolutely love it, especially being able to directly interact with the guests! 


Today was easily my favorite day of training because their was a 'thank you' party/lunch for the Magic Kingdom Cast Members! It was Little Mermaid themed and so magical =) Ariel, Price Eric, and Sebastien were there, along with delicious free food (and ice cream), and tons of awesome decorations- including two stilt dancing massive barnacles! They also gave away free bubbles and fish ring pops. I 'won' a MK blanket and a MK sun shade too! Enjoy the pictures =P

My trainer's shadow, my trainer, & I with Ariel and Price Eric! =)

Some of the centerpieces =)

Massive tent all decked out! =)

Stilt dancing barnacle! <333

One of the Electrical Parade fish made an appearance!

My ticket into the lunch- had Eric and Ariel sign it! =)

<3

The stage with a DJ even!