Disneyland warns not to stand up on its log-flume ride or risk getting booted from the park

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Set us as preferred Disneyland has updated signage around Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, warning guests that they will be removed from the park if they stand up while on the log-flume ride.Matthew Desmond, who shares theme park news on the X account Disney Snoop Guy, first reported the 12 new signs around the attraction on Tuesday.

“Failure to stay seated will result in removal from the park,” reads one sign located in the queue for the ride.Language on past signs at the attraction were slightly softer, Desmond said on X, noting that guests “may” be removed from the park if they refused to stay seated on the ride.

Disneyland Resort officials told The Times in an email that the new signs are being installed this week.Similar signage also appears at the Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: Breakout! attractions, officials said.Desmond told The Times in a message that the issue of riders standing up on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is worse than people realize.

He rode the attraction 243 days consecutively last year and would see “families getting kicked out at least once a week for someone standing up on the ride,” he said.Most of the time, he added, the person standing would refuse instructions from the cast members to sit back down.“It’s a very serious safety issue, so I’m glad they made this change,” he said.The sign changes come less than two months after a 13-year-old boy climbed out of a log flume on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure and fell 50 feet.

Widely circulated footage shows the boy falling headfirst down the ride’s 50-foot-tall waterfall just behind the flume that he had exited.Disneyland employees immediately stopped the ride and closed it for the rest of the day.

The boy was taken to a local hospital and was later released, park officials said at the time.It is not clear why the boy tried to exit the ri...

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