It has been stated that no battle plan survives contact with the enemy, and in an analogous vein, no theme park attraction survives truly having to take care of riders. There are at all times unexpected circumstances that can generally require modifications to sights. Generally it means shutting down model new curler coasters for main overhauls, however often it means simply including a brand new rule.
Within the case of Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway, the brand new rule, as noticed by @DisneyScoopGuy on X, is that every one private belongings, together with telephones, have to be put away earlier than the trip begins.
Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway at Disneyland now requires you to have your telephone totally saved whereas the trip is in movement. They gained’t even begin the trip in case your telephone is in your lap, it needs to be totally put away. pic.twitter.com/vsiPC2L7oVAugust 19, 2025
Evidently, lots of people are bummed out by the brand new rule. In the event you had any curiosity in taking footage of the attraction, or in the event you occur to be any person who data ride-through movies or different theme park vlogger content material, you’re kinda screwed. Nonetheless, that’s precisely the issue, as a number of replies level out, with feedback together with…
- Any merchandise that’s dropped on the trackless trip system can cease the trip. Will need to have gotten fairly dangerous.
- That’s nice! Dropped telephones shut down the trip on a regular basis.
- Guessing they’ve an excessive amount of downtime on account of misplaced objects. Wager many individuals do not understand how a lot movement it has or wind results. They anticipate it is extra like a traditional Fantasyland darkish trip.
- I’m guessing it will occur at Rise, too.
Some folks might wish to get footage of Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway, pondering it’s a easy darkish trip, as one remark says, like one thing from Fantasyland. However it’s truly much more than that. The trip autos don’t run on a monitor, which implies every one takes a barely completely different path that may be unpredictable. This in flip means the chances of by accident dropping your telephone while you transfer unexpectedly are fairly excessive.
As a result of the autos transfer all over, something that will get dropped is a possible hazard, as a result of in all places is the monitor. This ends in the trip having to cease so the monitor might be cleared.
The expectation that this rule could possibly be carried out at Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is a becoming one. Rise can also be a trackless trip, so it has the identical potential subject if folks drop their telephones.
It is comprehensible why telephones at theme parks are so prevalent. Individuals are on trip at Disneyland and wish to seize these moments eternally. On the identical time, watching Disneyland fireworks by a telephone simply is not the identical as watching them with your individual eyes. As any person who will get to name theme park visits work, I spend numerous time capturing “content material” moderately than having experiences.
I’ve actually taken footage and video on each Rise of the Resistance and Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway. If I by no means can once more, that’s unhappy, as I’ll by no means get the visible response of any person driving Rise for the primary time on video once more. That stated, that is most likely an excellent rule for everyone. Generally it is good to place down the telephone.