Tomorrowland Shutdown 12.21.2013 post fireworks

[Hakunamatata]

Interesting. We were at MK a few years back and someone had left a ratty pink princess backpack sitting by a trash can just off MSUSA. I reported it to a CM in one of the stores and they took a look at it and called security, but did not usher people away from the area, etc.

I wonder if there could have been more to this than a simple abandoned parcel. Then again, some people do get rather testy when they run out of churros.

 

[asianway]

An unattended package would do the same.

I herd it was George Lucas who left the secret blueprints for Star Wars Land behind in a Speedway car

 

[Soarin' Over Pgh]

Inside the magic posted on fb "
Tomorrowland at Walt Disney World being evacuated due to bomb scare. Details scarce at this time.
"

11 minutes ago

 

[DznyGrlSD]

"Everything seems fine now at Magic Kingdom. Suspicious bag left in Tomorrowland. Back to normal. Things like that need to be checked out safely." - Inside the Magic on FB

 

[PhotoDave219]

FB and Twitter are saying Bomb-scare - just reposting what I'm seeing online. Seems the issue is over and TL is back open.

Please dont repeat the same unconfirmed and unsubstantiated BS that people are throwing out there.

Describing this as a "bomb scare" or "bomb threat" is unprofessional, sensational and completely unnecessary without hard, quotable information to back that with.

 

[Space Mountain]

There is no evidence to support a bomb threat.

Don't spread rumors.

This is confirmed through internal communications. Happens quite often just not to this magnitude.


Attractions are resuming operation currently.

 

[PhotoDave219]

"Everything seems fine now at Magic Kingdom. Suspicious bag left in Tomorrowland. Back to normal. Things like that need to be checked out safely." - Inside the Magic on FB

That ****** called it a bomb threat and now backs off on it? How unprofessional.

 

[asianway]

That ****** called it a bomb threat and now backs off on it? How unprofessional.

How many people you think are in the MK tonight? Imagine a stampede to the exits this could incite

 

[Jakester]

I'll tell you what I wouldn't do if I were a CM. Start a thread rumor mongering about a bomb threat in the MK.

There would be a difference between reporting an issue than being the cause of the issue.

 

[Jakester]

And

How many people you think are in the MK tonight? Imagine a stampede to the exits this could incite

the forecast 4/5th the actual capacity today, the boss man wouldn't like the exact # known like that

 

[PhotoDave219]

This is confirmed through internal communications. Happens quite often just not to this magnitude.


Attractions are resuming operation currently.

I'm gonna need an on-the-record source here. Because I have no idea who you are and I havent seen these "internal communications." So you'll have to understand that the wire services I work with have (as well as my own standards) a sourcing policy when it comes to things like this. I'm very careful how I characterize these things as to not to be sensational or cause hysteria.

To me, it sounds merely like an unattended package which is completely different from a "bomb threat."

 

[asianway]

There would be a difference between reporting an issue than being the cause of the issue.

I'm not the one who is patient zero when anyone tries to back track this sh!tstorm. Makes no difference to me...

 

[saxamoophone]

I don't think the wdwmagic.com message boards are held to the same reporting standards as the media.... Relax....have a drink..

 

[Hakunamatata]

I don't think the wdwmagic.com message boards are held to the same reporting standards as the media.... Relax....have a drink..

Actually, WDWMagic.com has higher standards than the media.

 

[TRONorail10]

Unattended packages are found on property every single day. However, they do not lead to evacuating and closing off an entire land unless there was some type of substantial evidence to support that the package could indeed be a bomb.

 

[saxamoophone]

Actually, WDWMagic.com has higher standards than the media.

let me know when Carsland opens

 

[sloppy.joey]

The wait times are very short on my disney experience so I think most of the crowds have already dispersed.

 

[PhotoDave219]

I don't think the wdwmagic.com message boards are held to the same reporting standards as the media.... Relax....have a drink..

Clearly you missed that I work as a journalist. There's a bunch on here actually.

 

[Hakunamatata]

let me know when Carsland opens

Let me know when the media is 100% accurate.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Unattended packages are found on property every single day. However, they do not lead to evacuating and closing off an entire land unless there was some type of substantial evidence to support that the package could indeed be a bomb.

Yes but that doesnt prove anything.

And in my world? You don't use a sensational word like "bomb" unless you have something solid to back it up. There's a responsibility to the public here. You don't necessarily cause a panic.

Think of it in the same way of why you don't yell fire in a movie theater. You don't say "bomb" or "bomb threat" unless you 100% have someone on the record & quoted saying it is.