News New DAS System at Walt Disney World 2024

[jennab55]

I would venture to say because many of these meet and greets never had DAS. Pete's circus never had DAS. Characters meeting out and about in the park don't have DAS. Anna and Elsa don't have DAS. The ones that did s(princesses, Mickey) - do still appear in the app for das choice, the process is just slightly different now to redeem.

I also think people lump meets and attractions into the same category, esp those that aren't "Disney adults".- that all things with a line are the same thing, not distinguishing between meets/shows/rides much

So do people just skip the character meets then because the lines are too long? Maybe people don’t care as much about characters, especially those who are APs and go more often.

 

[networkpro]

Actually…. I would think disability laws are very much on topic. It almost seems like you want to silence any debate on this subject?

Agreed. More generally, to merge Splash4eva's and DisneyHead123's questions: a lot of the discourse around DAS is affected by anchoring bias -- anything that has happened in the past is good and natural and right, anything less than that is an injustice, anything more than that is unnecessary.

As well the obverse is also true that anything implemented previously (like GAC and the previous version of DAS) was considered natural/right and anything less should be illegal.

 

[Angel Ariel]

So do people just skip the character meets then because the lines are too long? Maybe people don’t care as much about characters, especially those who are APs and go more often.

We certainly have skipped when lines are too long. It isn't that we don't care about the characters, we do - but having done the long wait before we know what the limit is.

 

[jennab55]

We certainly have skipped when lines are too long. It isn't that we don't care about the characters, we do - but having done the long wait before we know what the limit is.

My son doesn’t care so much about characters meets and we usually did the meals back when he did think they were fun. Otherwise, like you we just don’t want to bother with lines. I’m just surprised we haven’t seen people whine a lot about how they will do character meets even with DAS. Maybe most people just care more about rides.

 

[DisneyHead123]

Agreed. More generally, to merge Splash4eva's and DisneyHead123's questions: a lot of the discourse around DAS is affected by anchoring bias -- anything that has happened in the past is good and natural and right, anything less than that is an injustice, anything more than that is unnecessary.

I’m not sure what I said that led you to believe this is my stance?

I did ask a question about why we see accommodations in some specific areas and not others. Given that the list of hypothetical accommodations people could potentially need is huge. I found my answer in the idea of reactive enforcement vs. universal design. Maybe you inferred I was promoting universal design? That wasn’t my intent - I do understand that trying to build in accommodations for every potential disability in existence might simply be literally impossible. Alternately, responding to disabilities reactively puts a lot of burden on people with disabilities to involve themselves in costly lawsuits that may be equally impossible for them.

I think it’s a very complex situation and in almost every case in life, the answer is in the middle, not the extremes. For example. I think moving forward Disney could do more to make lines more accessible. Ample shade, extra space, clearly marked exit / re-entry points throughout, etc. Line accommodations need to be applied consistently, not luck of the draw based on the CM who is working. On the other hand, I of course understand that there is a limit to what can happen in terms of cost and sheer number of potential conditions to be accommodated.

 

[The Mom]

I removed the discussions about food allergies because, as someone said, they are Apples to Oranges comparisons. They have never fallen under the DAS (or earlier GAC) umbrella.