More places to get beer and wine at the Magic Kingdom

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Well you know what they say.....

 

[RSoxNo1]

How is someone having a drink going to ruin your trip to WDW? I am perfectly fine with alcohol being served. To each their own. If anyone wants to talk about Walt's vision, they need to take a look at the prices first. WDW is priced out of reach for many of the Middle Class. If you look at the overall population, I would venture to say 25% could truly afford to go. Of that half of them don't want to. This is why they are targeting more foreigners to come.

The concern is drunk people. If you visit Food and Wine Festival it often becomes amateur hour.

I'm more than ok with alcohol being served at the parks, but the risk of stupidity exists.

 

[BigRedDad]

the risk of stupidity exists.

That exists already without alcohol. And do you really think at a sitdown restaurant they will serve enough alcohol to one person that they will be drunk? On top of that, what is stopping anyone taking a boat to Poly, drink 3 Lapu Lapu's, and then go back to MK?

 

[mitchk]

That exists already without alcohol. And do you really think at a sitdown restaurant they will serve enough alcohol to one person that they will be drunk? On top of that, what is stopping anyone taking a boat to Poly, drink 3 Lapu Lapu's, and then go back to MK?

Nothing... I sometimes have to retreat to the contemporary for a beer or two at the outer rim. I see nothing wrong with it. Like others have said, it's a vacation, everyone should be able to enjoy themselves in moderation of course

 

[andysol]

I really have to laugh at the amount of people on this board who were offended by my comments about "Drunken Idiots".

Your judgemental self decided to label anyone who wants to have a drink at dinner a "drunken idiot". And then you wonder why people get offended at you calling them an idiot.
And you're calling them the idiot?

 

[yeti]

So that guy who beat up the Epcot CMs was under the influence of tobacco?

...Is this a joke?

 

[ABQ]

The concern is drunk people. If you visit Food and Wine Festival it often becomes amateur hour.

I'm more than ok with alcohol being served at the parks, but the risk of stupidity exists.

You're correct about F&W, but that is apples and oranges compared to the proposed plan at MK. In just a few minutes one can walk from the international gateway to Morocco and guzzle a few drinks, that won't be the case with beer and wine only served at table service locations in the MK. I doubt groups of dude bro's are going to sit down at Tony's, down a few glasses of Chianti or Moretti and then head to Be our Guest for some Cotes du Rhone or whatever.

 

[216bruce]

I really have to laugh at the amount of people on this board who were offended by my comments about "Drunken Idiots". Imagine if I said that all people who smoke marijuana are "Crippy Fiends" or if I said all people who use cocaine are "Snow Coke Slaves". I bet I wouldn't get nearly as much guff, in fact some of you might have even agreed with me. But oh, when I say something that people use in society, they immediately get offended and assume I'm targeting them personally. It's a generic term that I personally use to describe people who drink alcohol. Would "Buzzed Buffoons" be PC enough for you?

As I've said before, if you want to drink, great! You've got an entire property of places to go get your fix. But the question still stands, why do you need to have it in the Magic Kingdom as well? To make it more easily accessible? Because walking to the Contemporary or riding a monorail to Polynesian is too "inconvenient"? The Magic Kingdom has been able to stay in operation for forty-one years with no alcohol in it and people seemed to get by. Why do we now all of a sudden have to have flowing taps all over the park? Maybe Disneyland should start catering to the medical marijuana crowd? Have spots for them to openly smoke in public, it is "legal" after all. Wouldn't want to "impede on their rights".

@216bruce Hit the nail on the head. The Magic Kingdom was created as a place for families to take their children to enjoy time together. If anyone needs to inhale an alcoholic beverage just to deal with other guests in line, maybe that goes to show that there are severe problems in the park already. You've got 5 year-olds clinging to Ipads being pushed around by parents who have a Starbucks (another addictive product) in one hand and their phone (possibly just as addicting) in the other while they attempt to take a "selfie". This is what the world has become, a self-important lifestyle full of people who feel "cheated" if they don't immediately get their way. There was once a news story in TX of a woman who felt the need to text in a theater, even though the rules said she could not. Once she was told she could not text, she immediately went into a tantrum, calming that "it's her right to text wherever she wants". I feel the same case applies to this. People are saying that it doesn't matter if Walt wanted something a certain way, times change. Well, maybe this shows that times are changing...for the worse.

The Magic Kingdom was dedicated in memory of Walt, sure he wasn't around to see the park open, but he worked on the project none the less. So all of you who want alcohol in the park just in case you "might desire some" are treating Walt just as much as an IP as Bob Iger is and putting your own desires above his. "Forget what he believed in, I need my fix now". It's funny how people around here moan and groan about all the other blatant money-grabbing ploys by Disney, but when they do something as easily noticeable as bringing alcohol in the Magic Kingdom it gets a pass and is praised as a "brilliant idea with no evil intentions"...

EDIT: I've got an idea. If people want to drink in the Magic Kingdom so badly, why not use that to promote the "Disney After Dark" event? "Drink all you want, ride as many rides as you want, spend as much as you want with no consequences or judgmental stares".

Pretty sure that you, I and maybe one or two others on this thread will remain in the minority on this one. Spot-on observation on the hypocrisy about money-grabbing until it suits them personally.
It's a shame that booze just seems to have to available everywhere. It's a slippery slope with letting booze into MK. I'd bet that in a year or two it'll be the same as any of the other parks. That's a shame.

 

[xdan0920]

Pretty sure that you, I and maybe one or two others on this thread will remain in the minority on this one. Spot-on observation on the hypocrisy about money-grabbing until it suits them personally.
It's a shame that booze just seems to have to available everywhere. It's a slippery slope with letting booze into MK. I'd bet that in a year or two it'll be the same as any of the other parks. That's a shame.

Better stop going now. Preemptive strike.

 

[DisneyDebRob]

Everyone here I truly believe is against people that over indulge with drinking in any park or even your local restaurant or bar. Should go without saying. What I can't understand is people that are against someone sitting in Tony's for example, on vacation, having a beer or glass of wine with their meal as you walk by to go to your next attraction. I don't get it.
Enough of walt's vision. That's been gone for the most part a long time ago. We can banter that point for years.
As the can of worms was open when BoG opened, we all saw this coming at some point. We can not like it or voice our disdain but to call people idiots who may want to relax, on vacation, with a cold one is ridiculous.

 

[Dubman]

I'm amazed at how seriously some people take themselves and their opinions.

Cheers!!!! (clinking together 2 glasses of "Apple Juice", just don't tell Mom)

 

[mitchk]

If Magic Kingdom starts to sell alcohol I won't take my kids there I'll go somewhere safe like blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon..... Luckily that's just swimming and drinking...better safe than sorry. ...

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

If Magic Kingdom starts to sell alcohol I won't take my kids there I'll go somewhere safe like blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon..... Luckily that's just swimming and drinking...better safe than sorry. ...

drunks make good flotation devices. Or so Im told.

 

[mitchk]

drunks make good flotation devices. Or so Im told.

Lol lol .. Good one lol

 

[draybook]

...Is this a joke?

No, that would require a punchline. Secondhand smoke and drunkards who punch people both cause harm to others.

 

[yeti]

No, that would require a punchline. Secondhand smoke and drunkards who punch people both cause harm to others.

Did that guy at Epcot have one drink? How did it occur to you that I'm advocating binge drinking and violence? Drinking responsibly does less damage than tobacco. Put that in your pipe and smoke it

 

[Yankee Mouse]

I think I need a drink to reply to this thread.

 

[draybook]

Did that guy at Epcot have one drink? How did it occur to you that I'm advocating binge drinking and violence? Drinking responsibly does less damage than tobacco. Put that in your pipe and smoke it

You seem a bit enraged. Ironic.....

 

[yeti]

Saints preserve us. I need a freaking drink.

 

[matt9112]

If you find yourself saying something along the lines of 'being deprived of a chance to have a drink' or 'I'm entitled to have a drink' or 'need a drink because of the lines'....you may want to have a good look at you and alcohol. Me...child of two alcoholics. The stuff can sneak up on you.

My family is all alcoholics....minus me I'm the only one who can drink within reason. So yes I want beer while I enjoy my vacation sorry if people get bent backwards over it. But drinking a few brewskis is not a crime. And it shouldn't be inside the MK.