Evolv security scanners now at DLR? - still just testing :(

[MarvelCharacterNerd]

A friend said the new walk-through scanners were at DLR when they went today? If this is true, and they've finally stopped the "let me touch everything in your bag after I've touched everything in 7,000 other people's bags" searches, I will be SO HAPPY! It was unhygienic before COVID even started.

Ever since they got the scanners at WDW, I've been so jealous. lol

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

That's great if they are. I encountered them last December at WDW and it was weird to just walk on though (but great!)

 

[socalifornian]

Magic Mountain has them now too

 

[Emmanuel]

Yep. Saw the scanners on Twitter. They have them installed at the DTD entrance by the Disneyland Hotel for now but I expect they'll be added to the rest of the checkpoints in the coming weeks

 

[Darkbeer1]

The OC Fair used them, and I presume are using them at the Pacific Amphitheater.

HersheyPark also was using them this Summer.

 

[TP2000]

The OC Fair used them, and I presume are using them at the Pacific Amphitheater.

HersheyPark also was using them this Summer.

They also use a similar thing (perhaps this same brand) at the Del Mar Fair.

Nice of Disneyland to join the late 2010's in 2021.

 

[TP2000]

Let's just hope they keep this same setup with temporary tents, and traffic cones designed for cars but used for pedestrians, patio umbrellas without a patio, and cheap metal guardrails covered in dingy green cloth for the next 20 years! Oh, and keep the EVOLV corporate logo visible at all times. Love the metal scaffolding look, it's like I'm in another world! I'm immersed!

September 11th, 2001 was two decades ago, but they still haven't figured out a permanent setup for security screening in that time.

Don't stop now TDA! Keep this gorgeously themed and graciously designed setup going for another 20 years! More traffic cones!

 

[Sailor310]

Let's just hope they keep this same setup with temporary tents, and traffic cones designed for cars but used for pedestrians, patio umbrellas without a patio, and cheap metal guardrails covered in dingy green cloth for the next 20 years! Oh, and keep the EVOLV corporate logo visible at all times. Love the metal scaffolding look, it's like I'm in another world! I'm immersed!

September 11th, 2001 was two decades ago, but they still haven't figured out a permanent setup for security screening in that time.

Don't stop now TDA! Keep this gorgeously themed and graciously designed setup going for another 20 years! More traffic cones!

I don't know 'bout all that, but the girl looks cute.

 

[TP2000]

I don't know 'bout all that, but the girl looks cute.

Oh, Gawd.

What's funny is that I spotted her legs right away. But since I'm gay all I thought was "I guess short-shorts are still in".

 

[Disney Irish]

They were testing them last year, in the same location mind you:

Disneyland tests new contactless metal detectors to speed visitors through security checkpoints

Disneyland is testing the new security system this weekend at the Downtown Disney District, according to Disney officials.

www.ocregister.com

So this isn't new, just appears to now be part of the regular security check process.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

HersheyPark also was using them this Summer.

They got them last year actually. I'm shocked it's taken DL this long.

 

[MarvelCharacterNerd]

Okay, having them at DTD is great and all but how about getting these to the parking structure after we walk through the needlessly winding queue before we get to make the refreshing 3/4 mile walk to the parks???

 

[smooch]

I know @TP2000 posted about this but I am genuinely surprised Disney hasn't created a permanent structure for the security screening. They have the security running every single day, correct? If it's not going away anytime soon / ever then why haven't they put up housing around the checkpoints like they have the structures around the turnstiles. I feel like it would help clean up the look around the entrances to the Esplanade / to DTD. I mean even if they literally took the structure around the turnstiles in the entrance to Disneyland, scaled them down to fit the security checkpoints, and gave the scanners a housing around them so they don't just look like branded, unmodified scanners and a plastic fold out table that you (now used to I guess) put your bags on to be scanned.

I guess the real answer is it would cost money and wouldn't make them any money so they don't care. It's not an Instagrammable spot that will drive people to the parks, so they won't "waste" their money on it.

 

[el_super]

I guess the real answer is it would cost money and wouldn't make them any money so they don't care. It's not an Instagrammable spot that will drive people to the parks, so they won't "waste" their money on it.

They will eventually build proper structures for them, but I think they are still waiting for major projects to get solidified. The DTD entrance has to be reconfigured from the north to the south, but that will probably come when ESPN Zone and AMC are eventually demolished for something new.

The eastern checkpoint also needs to be reconfigured, but closing that for construction is going to represent a huge hassle. These things just take time.

 

[DrAlice]

They will eventually build proper structures for them, but I think they are still waiting for major projects to get solidified. The DTD entrance has to be reconfigured from the north to the south, but that will probably come when ESPN Zone and AMC are eventually demolished for something new.

The eastern checkpoint also needs to be reconfigured, but closing that for construction is going to represent a huge hassle. These things just take time.

This does not explain why it hasn't happened in the last TWENTY years. I'd be more forgiving of these explanations (excuses?) if they'd actually EVER made any progress to building a permanent security structure.

 

[el_super]

This does not explain why it hasn't happened in the last TWENTY years. I'd be more forgiving of these explanations (excuses?) if they'd actually EVER made any progress to building a permanent security structure.

Theu built permanent ones at Pixar Pals and Toy Story Parking. The only temp ones left at the ones near ESPN and along the east esplanade.

 

[DrAlice]

Theu built permanent ones at Pixar Pals and Toy Story Parking. The only temp ones left at the ones near ESPN and along the east esplanade.

That's wonderful for locals that use the parking structures. Not so much for those of us that travel and pay a bunch of $$$ to stay at a local and/or Disney hotel. Nope, we get "temporary" tents. Perhaps they can spin that.... "A perk of staying at at DL resort hotel: Immersive green tents!"

Listen, I don't lambast Disney for that much, but @TP2000 & others are spot on with this one. They had 20 years to do something with the two main security entrances and they have done nothing. It's been 20 years of plastic folding tables.

 

[TP2000]

Listen, I don't lambast Disney for that much, but @TP2000 & others are spot on with this one. They had 20 years to do something with the two main security entrances and they have done nothing. It's been 20 years of plastic folding tables.

Twenty years. A wildly successful 50th Anniversary, and a fabulous 60th Anniversary came and went in that time. Billions were dropped into fixing DCA, culminating in a massive grand reopening in June, 2012. They spent a Billion dollars on a Star Wars Land. Attendance boomed, profits soared, the entire Resort District grew immensely.

Below is a photo of the complex of shade pavilions and landscaping built around tram loading areas and ticket booths that they created quickly in the winter of 1984-85 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary in 1985. Jack Lindquist was President of Disneyland then, and he had no one on his staff that had the title "Vice President - Guest Arrival Experience". But they built this anyway to make the parking lot and entrance plaza look nicer for the 30th Anniversary.

This was out in the Disneyland parking lot, roughly where the plaza between the monorail tracks and DCA's entrance is now; it ended about where Carthay Circle now stands. It was just to beautify the parking lot and create a more gracious looking approach to the main entrance turnstiles.

1985
Disneyland Attendance = 12 Million
Walt Disney Company Net Profit Fiscal '85 = $175 Million

Compare that to today. Here's the charmless entrance esplanade area this summer, in the massive lines you wait in every morning before you get to go through the 20 year old "temporary" screening tents with the traffic cones and plastic tables and the EVOLV logos. The highway lights and digital bus signs are the themed elements here. Whimsy! World Class Resort! Fun! Get Your Wallets Ready!

2019
Disneyland Resort Attendance = 29 Million
Walt Disney Company Net Profit Fiscal '19 = $11.05 Billion (with a B)

And again, there is a TDA exec pulling in six figures per year whose title is "Vice President - Guest Arrival Experience". Apparently that man couldn't punch himself out of a wet paper bag, let alone create an "arrival experience" for any of his "guests". And no one in TDA or Burbank cares.

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

there is a TDA exec pulling in six figures per year whose title is "Vice President - Guest Arrival Experience". Apparently that man couldn't punch himself out of a wet paper bag, let alone create an "arrival experience" for any of his "guests".

The fact that this position exists and the arrival experience at the Anaheim resort is anywhere near its current state is utterly amazing. What on EARTH does that person DO?

 

[TP2000]

Theu built permanent ones at Pixar Pals and Toy Story Parking. The only temp ones left at the ones near ESPN and along the east esplanade.

Are you talking about this green tent that opened in 2019 in the Toy Story Lot? The greet tent with the plastic folding tables and unthemed metal detectors surrounded by metal gates?

This is not anything to brag about. Especially when you consider that this is thought of as an "upgrade" after eleven years of operating the Toy Story Parking Lot (opened March, 2010).