Comments on: Disneyland “Security”?

By: JMP

JMP — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:22:48 +0000

The people checking bags are mostly Ticket Takers, and sometimes Sellers picking up hours. If they get short, the parking lot people help out because they are the de facto muti task folks. Guest Relations now administers the Ticket Department because their Director has been trying to get more budget money and final say in decisions, but Security still gets final say in all policy matters. Anyway, I spent 5 years at DLR and 2 years at WDW and I can tell you that WDW has a much better Cast. Security actually checks your bags there, though only marginally better than the DLR Ticket folks. They are really only looking for 2 things: Glass bottles, and sharp objects. They have also been told not to reach into bags or move anything which is why they tell you to do it, but in practice they kinda gotta move things themselves if they are serious.

By: Big Red

Big Red — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:32:53 +0000

I don’t think that disney is foolish enough to pretend to have security…What a liability that would be ??

I think that within those Awnings… there are scanners of some kind….the security people just slow everyone down enough to get scanned. They certainly have the technology and they are not going to take chances with anyone. In front of each awning there is a warning sign,stating that there are small amounts of things on premise that may be danger. (don’t remember the exact wording).

By: Enigmafan

Enigmafan — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:20:44 +0000

“…“What’s in this?” I said it was some snacks. They believed me and put it down. How is that security?”

The person who asked you that question does not care what’s in the box (well… unless you say it’s a bomb :-) ). What this persons wants to see is your reaction. Your reaction is more telling to this person and he or she is trained to analyze it.

By: Takebacker

Takebacker — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:10:24 +0000

I can’t stand the place. Most of the things there are boring, and there’s nothing on TV at night. Granted i don’t watch TV at all these days except for heroes, it’s not that great.

By: mac

mac — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:14:05 +0000

and by the way Disneyland after 9/11 was on the top 10 target on there list of places to hit.

By: mac

mac — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:12:18 +0000

I worked at disney in security for 6 years i left about 6 months ago. the people checking bags are not security and have not been trainded to look for anything there main gate ticket takers. they were given the budget after 9/11 and they will not give that budget money back to security. makes you feel real safe right.

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:07:08 +0000

@mc
@Greg
I suppose it might make some people feel better. But most of us with brains know we don’t feel any safer because of the search… and the search is just annoying.

@biff
A little off-topic, but that’s cool. So you got one?

By: biff

biff — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:51:58 +0000

dude fyi, asus 1000h rocks.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:25:31 +0000

When I went to the Imperial War Museum a couple of days ago, the same happened to me. The simple fact it is would take far too long to do it properly (especially for a free museum). I guess it it just a detterent.

By: mc

mc — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:09:15 +0000

I guess it’s just there to make people feel safe. I can’t see anyone especially wanting to blow up disneyland, it wouldn’t be a great ideological victory for anyone to blow up a bunch of children, but I’m sure there are some parents who are really concerned with the prospect of someone suicide bombing mickey.