PHOTOS - New bag check areas greatly enhance Magic Kingdom arrival experience

[piglet1]

You wouldn't park at the TTC for Epcot. You stay at the Grand Floridian, go through security to board the monorail and then go through it again to enter Epcot.
Someone needs to check to see if they have added an express lane from the monorail exit at Epcot to the turnstiles, cutting out the security tables.

That was my first thought, since I often go to Epcot when staying at BLT - it could be annoying to go through security at the Contemporary, change to the Epcot monorail, and then go through security again before going into Epcot

 

[EvilChameleon]

Horizons83 has probably been watching the scene in Goldfinger where the planes spray the "nerve gas" over Fort Knox too much.

 

[JustInTime]

I don't get how this will be safe? Can't the bus people still bring weapons into the park? Or somebody on the bus could hand something to somebody who already went through? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the legistics without seeing it in person.

 

[GhostHost1000]

there are kinks to work out in what is occurring today... but this may be phase 1 for what is to come everywhere

 

[GhostHost1000]

I don't get how this will be safe? Can't the bus people still bring weapons into the park? Or somebody on the bus could hand something to somebody who already went through? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the legistics without seeing it in person.

one reason is to keep from having so many people bottlenecked and bunched up at the entrance of MK BEFORE any security happens

there are others as well

 

[wdwmagic]

I don't get how this will be safe? Can't the bus people still bring weapons into the park? Or somebody on the bus could hand something to somebody who already went through? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the legistics without seeing it in person.

All entries into the MK are security screened.

This article runs through all of the arrival methods and where bag check is
PHOTOS - New bag check areas greatly enhance Magic Kingdom arrival experience

 

[JustInTime]

All entries into the MK are security screened.

This article runs through all of the arrival methods and where bag check is
PHOTOS - New bag check areas greatly enhance Magic Kingdom arrival experience

Thank you!

 

[JustInTime]

one reason is to keep from having so many people bottlenecked and bunched up at the entrance of MK BEFORE any security happens

there are others as well

It was a nightmare last fall. I am glad they have worked something up.

 

[Jon81uk]

I don't get how this will be safe? Can't the bus people still bring weapons into the park? Or somebody on the bus could hand something to somebody who already went through? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the legistics without seeing it in person.

Bus people are still getting checked same as before.

Arrive on bus (from a Disney resort) and get checked between the bus stops and the entrance.
Arrive by car (or non-Disney bus) and get checked at the TTC before boarding monorail or ferry.
Stay at Poly, GF or Contemp and get checked before boarding the monorail.
Arrive by resort water-craft (wilderness lodge or fort, poly, GF, comtemp) and get checked as you leave the boat dock.

Everyone still goes through a security check, its just now the people inside the monorail (and ferry) have already been checked.

This eliminates the large crowd at the front of the park that could be a risk and also helps ensure no-one can board the monorail with something untoward.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Exactly my reply above, if Disney really wanted to provide actual security they would use airport style screening.

How is a 5% success rate "real security"?

Boy, I miss the world we used to live in ....

Because the monorails were such a hot bed of violent attacks before now?

 

[JustInTime]

Bus people are still getting checked same as before.

Arrive on bus (from a Disney resort) and get checked between the bus stops and the entrance.
Arrive by car (or non-Disney bus) and get checked at the TTC before boarding monorail or ferry.
Stay at Poly, GF or Contemp and get checked before boarding the monorail.
Arrive by resort water-craft (wilderness lodge or fort, poly, GF, comtemp) and get checked as you leave the boat dock.

Everyone still goes through a security check, its just now the people inside the monorail (and ferry) have already been checked.

This eliminates the large crowd at the front of the park that could be a risk and also helps ensure no-one can board the monorail with something untoward.

I guess my question is, couldn't somebody on a bus pass something to somebody who was checked at the TTC before THEY get check themselves?

 

[Scuttle]

Good point that I hadn't thought of. Alcohol, food, glass bottles, and other "contraband" that wouldn't be permitted at the MK would be permitted while going from resort to resort on the monorail. This seems to be a glaring weak point, though they probably determined this wasn't a significant enough issue.

I guess they just are worried about guns and bombs... and honestly, I agree, they shouldn't be worried about someone sneaking a flask or a glass pipe into the park. Who cares about that when there was a ISIS inspired lunatic that scouted out Disney Springs.

 

[Jon81uk]

I guess my question is, couldn't somebody on a bus pass something to somebody who was checked at the TTC before THEY get check themselves?

When screening at the gates of the Magic Kingdom last week, could someone who hasn't yet been checked pass something to someone who had already been through a bag check?

 

[Tebo]

Also wondering now if one is walking from the Poly to the TTC, will there be a separate security check close to the path or will one have to walk around to the front where the trams unload?

 

[wdwmagic]

Also wondering now if one is walking from the Poly to the TTC, will there be a separate security check close to the path or will one have to walk around to the front where the trams unload?

To the tram unload area.

 

[JustInTime]

When screening at the gates of the Magic Kingdom last week, could someone who hasn't yet been checked pass something to someone who had already been through a bag check?

I don't know.

 

[Clamman73]

I guess my question is, couldn't somebody on a bus pass something to somebody who was checked at the TTC before THEY get check themselves?

The bus people are checked in an area that's before any monorail people would be able to have contact with the bus crowd.

 

[RustySpork]

...and Universal is still doing it better.

 

[JustInTime]

The bus people are checked in an area that's before any monorail people would be able to have contact with the bus crowd.

Gotcha. That makes way more sense. Thank you!!

 

[roj2323]

The Contemp setup is messy. There is a security point for guests using the escalator, and a second one for guests using the elevator. There is a gap in between the two that allows access to the restroom.

I can't fathom why they wouldn't put the security screening up on South side of the monorail platform. It's crazy long and largely unused

 

[roj2323]

...and Universal is still doing it better.

I agree but this is day one. Give them a month or two to iron out the kinks.