If you are being "randomly selected" for the metal detector every time...

[kittyab]

I always get singled out at the airport so why should Disney be any different?

 

[nilla]

Looking forward to adding the "who will be selected for screening?" game to our family's pre-park activities, to accompany the usual "whose fingerprint won't verify properly today?" we already enjoy!

 

[Xennia]

...try taking your cellphone holster off your hip (and out from under your shirt), and hold it in your hand.

Also, don't stuff the pockets of your cargo shorts full.

My husband (white, 50, golf shirt untucked over cargo shorts, cellphone hip holster) was getting chosen every time and, while at first it was funny, after many days it was starting to annoy him. I haven't been chosen yet, and we've been here fully seven days so far, park hopping every day. But, all I'm wearing is a fitted sundress with no pockets and a magicband.

So, I suggested my husband start taking his cellphone out from under his shirt before entering the parks, and now it seems he's only getting chosen when he's got our rain ponchos in his cargo pockets. He's much happier now that he doesn't feel so singled out.

Just a tip as I've seen lots of men dressed like my husband!

I get picked often and I'm just holding my phone and wearing a dress. They just choose whoever they want. I'm ok with it. Takes just a few extra seconds.

 

[Accident]

I go in with nothing but a wallet and magicband, mobile phone in hand and get picked EVERY SINGLE TIME. Well almost, if you pay attention you can see the person about to ask someone to be checked and you can slow down a little so someone in front of you gets snagged.

I have to say, this method is kind of a joke.. The people around me that I don't know need to be checked, especially those with strollers not going through the bag line..

 

[Xennia]

I always get singled out at the airport so why should Disney be any different?

Ditto. They must like us. Haha.

 

[Skywise]

Heh... Now that the TSA is monetizing itself with pre-check maybe Disney should do the same.

Get a background check to bypass the security lines and offer it to all AP and DVC holders for a "reasonable" extra cost.

 

[Lothlórien]

Heh... Now that the TSA is monetizing itself with pre-check maybe Disney should do the same.

Get a background check to bypass the security lines and offer it to all AP and DVC holders for a "reasonable" extra cost.

Dont given them any ideas...... now this will become available in July for a low fee for $95 per year.

 

[Disneylover99]

I always get singled out at the airport so why should Disney be any different?

As long as they let me through, I don't mind being singled out no matter where I'm going. I've got nothing to hide.

 

[lucas]

Just have you empty your pockets of anything metal and walk through a metal detector. It's very quick, but some people seem to take it as a personal affront to be chosen (I overheard men sounding annoyed at the guards a couple times... Women, children and the disabled seem more likely to find it funny.).

Thanks for the reply. And good info, since I usually have some pins for trading in my pockets. (Other than that, nothing in my pockets as I carry everything in my purse.)

 

[soniam]

DH wore cargo shorts, but he didn't have much if anything in them. He still got picked 2 or 3 times I guess he just looks shifty

 

[NoCutsies]

Lol Cellphone holsters.

 

[kittyab]

As long as they let me through, I don't mind being singled out no matter where I'm going. I've got nothing to hide.

Me either but it gets annoying when you go through a metal detector, body scanner and then they want to pat you down anyway.

 

[Disneylover99]

Me either but it gets annoying when you go through a metal detector, body scanner and then they want to pat you down anyway.

Depending on who is on pat down patrol, I may not mind that either.

 

[heidijanesmith]

I noticed that I was selected if I made eye contact. No eye contact, I was never picked.

 

[mkla2015]

I was selected at least 7 times during our last trip... I had a backpack but DH who was with me wearing cargo shorts was never selected. And, when they picked me, they told me to hand off my bag and cellphone to DH. I guess I just look shady.

 

[nicki.momof3]

Its not really a huge deal if your selected for screening. We went Christmas and Easter weeks (peak crowds). We always took a bag which is not a huge deal beause we always got through in a few minutes and sometimes we also had to do screening.

No matter what - bag / no bag. screening / no screening you will still get into a park within 10 minutes.

 

[IceSkatingPrincess]

I dress in yoga shorts and a workout top with a small crossbody purse and get chosen all the time. I think some of us are just "lucky" haha!

 

[kandb]

Over our Christmas trip for 15 days I was chosen almost every time I walked through...now, I am a heavyset, 45 year old woman, it was very hot so I had on shorts and a fitted tank top and no bags at all...and almost every time! It does start to get annoying...it stops you in your tracks and even though it is just a few minutes, it is a pain...plus I am very sure me, walking in with my significant other, my 17 year old son and 11 year o;d daughter am NOT the demographic they are looking for!

We were at the check point one time and another man had been chosen right after me...and he was throwing a fit because, like me, apparently every time he had gone through the gates he was chosen. He was going to file a complaint...I hope he did...

If it "only takes an extra few minutes", what is the big deal? People want the parks to be safe but then complain when Disney tries to make them safe. I just don't understand why people are getting annoyed having to walk thru a metal detector? Is it really that big of a deal? I just don't understand why it is bothering people so much?

 

[WEDWDW]

Sounds like a good tip but my 18 yr old daughter was selected at least 4 times on our 5 day trip. All she was carrying was her Vera hipster with a wallet and cellphone in it. We would go through the bag line then she was always asked to go through the metal detector. Maybe because she wasn't using her Mickey Vera hipster??

IMHO,they just "pull" whoever is coming "out" of bag-check when they "need" someone to go through the metal detector.

After a few days,I learned to "time" my exit from bag-check to coincide with the metal detector already being "full" with other Guests.

Never did get selected with that strategy.

 

[Magpie]

Well, it's official now that we're heading home...

My husband got picked almost every time, when he carried his phone in a holster under his shirt. Soon as he stopped doing that, he stopped getting picked. Not once, in the last three days, with lots of park hopping.

Probably just coincidence, but a happy one.

(We didn't try timing our entrances or avoiding eye contact or anything else other than eliminating suspicious bulges under his shirt.)