Every guest entering at IG went through metal detector

[BigAlsGal]

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DONE!

Yes! Hahaha!

 

[DisNoobie]

Metal detectors don't have to be fastpass. They are included in ticket price. They are now like the monorail/ferry boat ride to MK. Part of the magical transition into WDW.


I already miss the invisible security.

 

[larryz]

Sigh. Yet more acronyms. OK, what's "IG"?

A list of commonly used DISboards abbreviations is available here.

 

[3DisneyFanz]

Nope there tier is over 9000 A nod to my fellow gamers on the disboards

Is that their power level of the number of minutes to allow to enter the parks?

 

[larryz]

I just hope they're doing something behind the scenes to screen every CM and delivery truck entering through the back door. Or none of what they're doing out front matters.

Interesting point: who's more likely to go postal -- an overworked CM making minimum wage dealing with cranky guests all the time, or someone paying $$$'s to go to the MK?

 

[larryz]

<sarcasm> Why don't we just set up a border style checkpoint for everyone entering Dis property. They can ask if we have anything to declare and do vehicle searches, canine sniffing etc. <sarcasm end>

I don't see that as sarcastic. I see it as entirely possible. In an age when you have to stop at the California border to declare whether or not you're carrying fruits or vegetables, and BICE can stop you within 100 miles of the border just to see if you're an American citizen, there's nothing stopping Disney from doing pre-entry vehicle checks at the WDW borders.

 

[3DisneyFanz]

Interesting point: who's more likely to go postal -- an overworked CM making minimum wage dealing with cranky guests all the time, or someone paying $$$'s to go to the MK?

Since the unions and government have fought to overturn every policy Disney has in place concerning their employees I doubt they'd be able to get away with that.

 

[Angel Ariel]

I don't see that as sarcastic. I see it as entirely possible. In an age when you have to stop at the California border to declare whether or not you're carrying fruits or vegetables, and BICE can stop you within 100 miles of the border just to see if you're an American citizen, there's nothing stopping Disney from doing pre-entry vehicle checks at the WDW borders.

If disney truly wants no guns, etc on its property, the only way to do that is to have the security be at the entrance go the entire property. In the past I might have laughed that idea off as so unlikely, but unfortunately I don't think it is anymore.

 

[AngiTN]

We went back through IG this morning
They are still sending everyone through the detector
If you beep going through you are wanded
And if that happens no one else can go through the detector till the guard wands you
I had to be wanded. The Minnie watch face the sell for the band set it off

We just left and they are still sending all guests entering in the detector

Based on my limited observation this is the new normal at IG

 

[mom2rtk]

Wouldn't it be funny if they found out magic bands set off the metal detectors?

 

[Skywise]

Wouldn't it be funny if they found out magic bands set off the metal detectors?

They don't... Trust me on this.

 

[AngiTN]

Wouldn't it be funny if they found out magic bands set off the metal detectors?

I actually thought maybe it did. I didn't have mine on when I went in yesterday. It was on my bag strap

I asked the security guard and she said it was the Minnie watch face. It is rubber but only a shell. Inside is metal

 

[book_junkie]

So maybe they need security to enter the security area?

I just hope they're doing something behind the scenes to screen every CM and delivery truck entering through the back door. Or none of what they're doing out front matters.

They haven't done anything to the back roads to access the parks. Anyone local could show you where the cast lots are, where the warehouses and maintenance buildings are, and how close you can drive to a park. A wrong turn out of a resort can easily get you on the back side of a park without a question.

 

[mom2rtk]

They haven't done anything to the back roads to access the parks. Anyone local could show you where the cast lots are, where the warehouses and maintenance buildings are, and how close you can drive to a park. A wrong turn out of a resort can easily get you on the back side of a park without a question.

I hope they're addressing that. Because it's pointless to go all in with metal detectors unless they address those other areas as well.

 

[AngiTN]

They haven't done anything to the back roads to access the parks. Anyone local could show you where the cast lots are, where the warehouses and maintenance buildings are, and how close you can drive to a park. A wrong turn out of a resort can easily get you on the back side of a park without a question.

Indeed. One year we stayed at WL
Our GPS brought us in that back way, right past the monorail building and all the cast areas. It was not secure at all

 

[kandb]

Let's not make a big deal about "the children are separated from their parents." It's not like they took the children into a separate room on the other side of Disney. People can't be that paranoid if they can't see their child for a few seconds (who is standing with a guard). I am guessing they could probably still see their parents but the parent just had to go thru the detector. If little Johnny is going to get that shaken up, maybe one parent can stay behind with the child while the other goes thru and then the child can go meet the parent on the other side of the detector.

 

[Angel Ariel]

People can't be that paranoid if they can't see their child for a few seconds (who is standing with a guard)

Not wanting to leave your infant or toddler out of your sight in a theme park is not paranoia.

A procedure as described with one parent walking through, then child, then other parent works...as long as one has 2 parents. There are many different family makeups at disney, including single parents, or military families where a spouse is deployed, or trips where one parent can't take off work but the other takes the family, or oNE parent is taking a child to the park while the other parent is at the hotel with a napping child...lots of various possibilities.

It is a parent's responsibility to keep an eye on their child. That's not paranoia, it's simply being a parent.

 

[Planogirl]

As long as he was visible I personally wouldn't have had a problem with DS standing with a true security person for a few minutes when he was little. I don't know if these people dressed up as phone salesmen are true security people.

I was wondering... Why all of this security just for the parks? Couldn't bad things happen at Disney Springs or at the resorts? Citywalk is at least past the Universal security checkpoint due to layout but even their resorts aren't included in all of this.

 

[Angel Ariel]

As long as he was visible I personally wouldn't have had a problem with DS standing with a true security person for a few minutes when he was little. I don't know if these people dressed up as phone salesmen are true security people.

I was wondering... Why all of this security just for the parks? Couldn't bad things happen at Disney Springs or at the resorts? Citywalk is at least past the Universal security checkpoint due to layout but even their resorts aren't included in all of this.

Downtown disney at dlr isn't part of this either, I don't believe, as security is for entering the esplanade, and DTD there is before that side's esplanade entrance

 

[Aurora0427]

Let's not make a big deal about "the children are separated from their parents." It's not like they took the children into a separate room on the other side of Disney. People can't be that paranoid if they can't see their child for a few seconds (who is standing with a guard). I am guessing they could probably still see their parents but the parent just had to go thru the detector. If little Johnny is going to get that shaken up, maybe one parent can stay behind with the child while the other goes thru and then the child can go meet the parent on the other side of the detector.

seriously? I'm not going to let my TODDLER out of my sight for a second, especially at at place like Disney World. Has nothing to do with little Johnny, as you put it, being upset. You don't separate a child, especially a small child, from their parents. Even TSA understands that concept. OP said they were sending children to the side to stand with a security guard. The process used at airports where kid goes through the metal detector first and stands directly on the other side, then parent, works just fine. No reason Disney can't do it that way.