I am one of the people who was specifically told that. Would be interesting if we all had the same CM, but no real way to know. FWIW, the CM we had really seemed to be very frustrated. (Also the same CM who said that my daughter clearly could not wait in a standard line, but essentially her hands were tied).I’m not singling you out, @Ollivier, just wanted to snip this from your post because I’ve seen it mentioned a number of times.
I keep seeing people on various platforms say their DAS CM told them DAS is for people who can’t understand the concept of waiting in a line, or some variation of that language. At first, I thought it was just the same poster spreading it around various places, and that may be happening. But I’m also starting to wonder if it’s a single DAS CM who keeps saying it. It’s just really odd that it keeps popping up in seemingly unrelated posts by different posters, using nearly identical language. And doubly odd that it’s only occasional enough to suggest that it’s not an official line that all or even most DAS CMs are using.
I have no idea how much truth is behind the reports of it, but I’ve seen plenty of other denial reports with no mention of such language, and plenty of approval reports of people who clearly understand the concept of a line and/or are over 18 years old. So I’m filing this one under Probably Fabricated But Could Be The Words of a Rogue CM for now.
(ETA: typo correction)
Opinion now: Because she referenced her supervisor, I am of the opinion that it is possible that that is (at least part of) the criteria but the way it actually plays out depends on how much of a "strictly follow the rules" type of person the CM is and how recently they have been "reminded" of the criteria.
Again, the first paragraph here is fact, based on our actual experience. The second paragraph is my opinion.
(Also, if the all the suggestions that Disney is making could be implemented with fidelity - that might truly be the only group who needs the "new" DAS as it exists. We were there back in the GAC day where you got a card with various stamps based on what you needed. In many ways this was much better than the blanket DAS system as it existed up until a few weeks ago, and as it exists now. Most of the things I am hearing people say that they need could be provided without access to the lightning lanes - but it would require Disney to reconfigure a lot of things. )