Frontierland Guns Red & Blue?!?!?!

[POS]

Was disappointed to see all the Frontierland Guns are now painted Red or Blue. I contacted Disney and inquired about the reason and if there was any surplus available online. I would like to get a couple of the brown models.

This was what I got back:

"We do apologize, however, the original guns are no longer available. We
are not aware of any online location to purchase them. The color was
changed due to Guests having challenges boarding aircraft as they
appeared to "lifelike", if you will. The coloring was changed to make
them look more like a toy."

Their response leads me to believe that this change was not done at Disneyland since they have fewer vistors that need to fly in/out to visit.

Can anyone confirm that Disneyland's Frontierland guns are still the traditional brown? Anyone know where I can buy the brown ones online?

Thanks.

 

[Chuck S]

As this really isn't DVC related, and your question is specific to Disneyland, I'll move this over to the Disneyland board.

 

[bumbershoot]

Disneyland doesn't have people flying in???? Alaska Air has a whole "kids fly free" promo to Disneyland...they have plenty of people flying in. Including us!

I have never seen guns for purchase in Frontierland, because we don't generally go into the giftshops in that area. (DS does enjoy the shootin' exposition, though)

However, the stormtrooper blasters are bright white, another gun type blaster is funky orange/red, the muskets in the NOS shops are crazy lime see-thru green or pink....and YES it makes it easier to take in your carryon. (though I don't recommend it...out of necessity we had to take a toy blaster through security and were very lucky we got the TSA agent we got, she was VERY sweet but warned us another agent might not have let us go through)

 

[pixiewings71]

Actually I just flew my girls out last Saturday....and the signs all clearly said no toy guns so that wouldn't really help much. I guess it would help in checked luggage but not carry on. Either way to answer your question, the guns I've seen in DL have all been brightly colored and obviously toys, I have never seen a brown toy gun at DL. And yes, DL has LOADS of people who fly in, from all over the country. There's a whole thread here just for Aussie visitors......

 

[Disneylvrforever]

The guns haven't been brown for a long time. Now they're lime green w/ orange...Nickelodeon anyone?

 

[disneynerd420]

I miss being a kid... when toys were dangerous.

 

[AmericanItGirl]

I guess it would help in checked luggage but not carry on.

Guns (real guns, not just toys) can be checked, but I think that they have to be taken apart (at least all long guns, like rifles, do). Since toy guns can't really be taken apart without breaking them, while the bag would be checked by TSA (evil org that always "checks" my bags, causing for nice things to go "missing" from them), the bright color right on top, would probably lessen the likelihood of them checking every single item inside the bag for concealed weapons (especially if it said "Disney" somewhere on the toy).

 

[bumbershoot]

....and the signs all clearly said no toy guns so that wouldn't really help much.

Which airport? Where were the signs?

Like I'd said, I had flown out of LAX on the 29th, and we got a huge plastic sword (that ridiculous thing from the BBB) and the (correcting name I gave it before) Rebel Alliance Blaster, in our carryons, though with a tsk tsk from the TSA agent. And we actually were prepared to check them (to turn around and go back to the luggage check area if TSA said no)...it's just...with soft-sided luggage, we knew they'd be broken. The blaster was *supposed to have* gone back in its box where it would have been checked in the softsided suitcase, but housekeeping at DLH decided, after 3 days of ignoring it, to throw the box away...

I was looking on TSA's site, and here...it says no for carryon but yes for checked, for "Realistic Replicas of Firearms".

And since something that's neon pink or green or bright white with scorch marks, that's not really a realistic replica, and I bet that's how our TSA agent was able to let us on, since it's a gray area.


I would never EVER recommend going that route to someone. I only tell it b/c it happened.


My brother and I had cap guns and play guns (and later, with a new stepdad, access to real guns), and I see my son play with his neon green (well, before he broke it) musket just as enthusiastically as we played with our more real looking play guns...

Only thing I bemoan is that I haven't actually seen the GREEN guns the last couple times in Pieces of Eight, only seeing the PINK guns...cuz, you know, girls need MORE things themed perfectly for them at DLR.

 

[pixiewings71]

Sac International Airport, we got in line to get security passes for DBF and I so we could walk the girls to their gate and the sign was right there. Actually there were 3 signs while we were in line there and then more as you got to the security checkpoint.