Selfie sticks - is this a thing at WDW yet? Disney clarifies policy

[EpcoTim]

In other news; Apple banned selfie sticks at its upcoming developer conference.

Wide spread fear has overcome the hipster world over a possible extension of the ban making its way to the Apple stores. An online call to arms (petition) will be up soon.

 

[RandomPrincess]

In other news; Apple banned selfie sticks at its upcoming developer conference.

Wide spread fear has overcome the hipster world over a possible extension of the ban making its way to the Apple stores. An online call to arms (petition) will be up soon.

Using a selfie stick in an Apple Store should be banned. Those places are always crowded.

 

[EpcoTim]

Using a selfie stick in an Apple Store should be banned. Those places are always crowded.

Yeah, well, you just don't understand how much facebook street cred you get by posting a picture of yourself wearing your girlfriends jeans and your dads loafers while at an Apple Store during work hours.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

I've been here at WDW since Saturday and I've been pleasantly surprised at the small number of self sticks I've seen. It also wasn't the crowd I expected. I imagined it would be hipsters and teenage girls but the only people I've seen with them have been international families and even then very few.

 

[Cesar R M]

Using a selfie stick in an Apple Store should be banned. Those places are always crowded.

Maybe getting smacked by these, will make the hipsters rethink their purchase.

 

[RandomPrincess]

Maybe getting smacked by these, will make the hipsters rethink their purchase.

Do true hipsters use Apple product? Wouldn't they be too main stream?

 

[NowInc]

Do true hipsters use Apple product? Wouldn't they be too main stream?

I'm pretty sure they all do, they just put an old looking case on it to try and hide it.

 

[ABQ]

I'm pretty sure they all do, they just put an old looking case on it to try and hide it.

It's part of that whole ironical thing of using a phone with an 8 megapixel camera and running your pictures through the ubiquitous Kodak instamatic type filter. Ugh

 

[note2001]

I had an image come to mind of someone holding a golf club out in the air like some of these vloggers do, and randomly spinning in a circle disregarding other people walking by.

I am positive that if someone were hit by a golf club there would be words exchanged and the offender would have nothing to fall back on to justify their actions. So, why is it that the selfie takers are being permitted to do so? Is it the idea that they're swinging a piece of tech on the end of the stick that has meaning to them, and if broken would be expensive to replace whereas when someone's skull meets up with a golf club it's not the club that will be breaking that makes the difference?

 

[LuvtheGoof]

I had an image come to mind of someone holding a golf club out in the air like some of these vloggers do, and randomly spinning in a circle disregarding other people walking by.

I am positive that if someone were hit by a golf club there would be words exchanged and the offender would have nothing to fall back on to justify their actions. So, why is it that the selfie takers are being permitted to do so? Is it the idea that they're swinging a piece of tech on the end of the stick that has meaning to them, and if broken would be expensive to replace whereas when someone's skull meets up with a golf club it's not the club that will be breaking that makes the difference?

Wouldn't make any difference to me. If I see one being swung in my direction, I will make sure that my arms flail away and knock the offending stick away from me, and hopefully out of their hands. If it ends up in a lake or river, BONUS! What are they going to do? They assaulted me with a weapon, and I defended myself.

 

[englanddg]

 

[Cesar R M]

 

[englanddg]

Just showing that Universal has the problem too...

 

[Cesar R M]

Just showing that Universal has the problem too...

You uncutured swine.. they have the glasses. they are not affected!

 

[AEfx]

The invention itself is NOT the problem, its the person wielding it. I am sure MANY MANY MANY people use them responsibly, and thats great and I thank them, and I do feel bad that if they get flat out banned it will only be because of the actions of one too many careless persons.

But what's funny is that the product was "invented" as a joke to make fun of those people who can't stop taking "selfies". Then they actually made them and these saps bought them!

It is like inventing a device that lets you pick your nose from both sides at the same time. It clearly would be making fun of those who can't get enough of picking their nose, and then said folks going out and actually getting the item that's intention is to make fun of them.

 

[King Panda 77]

But what's funny is that the product was "invented" as a joke to make fun of those people who can't stop taking "selfies". Then they actually made them and these saps bought them!

It is like inventing a device that lets you pick your nose from both sides at the same time. It clearly would be making fun of those who can't get enough of picking their nose, and then said folks going out and actually getting the item that's intention is to make fun of them.

Where can I buy one of those nosepickeratornators.would really free up some time for me .

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Where can I buy one of those nosepickeratornators.would really free up some time for me .

I think they're manufactured by Doofenshmirtz Evil, Inc.

 

[shipley731]

Was just in DC this past weekend & got stuck behind a tour group. At the back was a young female taking constant selfies with her selfie stick. Didn't really have any rhyme or reason - picture of her in front of the bland side of the treasury building - no statue, no sign to really indicate where she was. Then would walk 10 feet & take a picture of herself with the street in the background. There was a guy following her, taking pictures of her taking selfies. He had a tradtional camera. This went on for a while until we could finally get around them. I almost pulled my camera out to take a picture of the nonsense, but figured that would only add to the ridculousness.

 

[LuvtheGoof]

Was just in DC this past weekend & got stuck behind a tour group. At the back was a young female taking constant selfies with her selfie stick. Didn't really have any rhyme or reason - picture of her in front of the bland side of the treasury building - no statue, no sign to really indicate where she was. Then would walk 10 feet & take a picture of herself with the street in the background. There was a guy following her, taking pictures of her taking selfies. He had a tradtional camera. This went on for a while until we could finally get around them. I almost pulled my camera out to take a picture of the nonsense, but figured that would only add to the ridculousness.

You should have tried to photo bomb her.

 

[betty rose]

I took my family to a Cheesecake Factory near here and witnessed a couple of idiotic girls using a selfie stick at a table. Yes. In a restaurant. They snapped more photos of the food and them eating it than they should have. (By the way, that number should be 0) They were finally asked to put the stick away when they smacked a server square in the face (HARD) while swinging it upward to snap their latest treasured pic. The server ran off to the bathroom with a split lip. Who cares about having that many pictures of someone?? How self-obsessed can people be that they think anyone gives the slightest crap what they are doing every second of every single day. "Look at me eat this shrimp. How cute am I?" "Look at me do a duck face. How cute am I?" "Look at me flash a peace sign. How cute am I?" "Look at me pretend to kiss my friend's cheek. How cute am I?" "Look at me!" "Look at me!" "Look at me!"

I'm here late to the party....just have to say...they won't look very cute, with a big swollen nose, after someone breaks it with their selfie stick.