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E-ORLover
04-03-2005, 04:28 PM
Okay I have read several post that the main gate at Disneyland checks bags. Do the make you use the outside lockers if you are bringing in your own bottled water and snacks for the kids? Are can you carry these things around with you (or can you use the inside locker)?

disney jones
04-03-2005, 04:31 PM
you can bring those things into the Park, as well as sandwiches, juices, gatorade. they also have lockers inside the park too, so you can put them there or pack around with you.

bradk
04-03-2005, 04:32 PM
lots of topics on this. snacks and bottled liquids / juice boxes should be okay. sometimes even sandwiches are let through. glass is never allowed.

if it's enough to be considered a meal, be prepared to be directed to the picnic area.

SoCalSteven
04-04-2005, 12:08 AM
What are they really looking for anyway?

DisneyDustin22
04-04-2005, 12:14 AM
typical "stuff" you can't take to happy places like that. knives, weapons, things that go boom and anyone trying to smuggle a pizza into the park. I am all for the bag check.

SoCalSteven
04-04-2005, 12:19 AM
typical "stuff" you can't take to happy places like that. knives, weapons, things that go boom and anyone trying to smuggle a pizza into the park. I am all for the bag check.
Funny thing is they aren't stopping that, I know that for a fact.

TempoNZ
04-04-2005, 04:03 AM
I'm sure if they find it they will. Next time you go to Disneyland with a gun, knief of TnT stop for bag check letting the gaurd know you are carrying them and see if they let you in the gate...

Ps - In no way do i suggest that any sane, or unsane, Man, Women or fish attempt this.

SCUBAbe
04-04-2005, 09:17 AM
I saw people bringing their own pizzas in once. I think it was to camp out with before the watched fantasmic. They got past bag checks and were in line to enter DL....:confused:

SCUBAbe
04-04-2005, 09:20 AM
Funny thing is they aren't stopping that, I know that for a fact.

yep, they barely glance in my bag. I could easily have a knife in their. Also, if I wanted to bring a gun in or anything of that nature it would be on my body somewhere. they do not have metal detectors and they do not pat down...(not that they could...I guess security maybe could)..even during the winter they did not even ask me to open my jacket...bag check it to make people feel safer...it does not make people safe...imo

MyBeast
04-04-2005, 09:32 AM
If you want to bring food, hide it in the bottom with a shirt covering it, because they don't dig around.

bradk
04-04-2005, 09:56 AM
the safety issue really is somewhat of a joke anywhere it seems. basically we just rely on people's good common sense to not kill eachother ad hoc. then once in a while something does happen and the instinct is just to overreact to it. then eventually, that fades.

i once kept setting off the metal detector at a 6 flags and eventually determined it to be a case i was carrying that had metal hinges or whatever. i just pulled it out and showed them. they never asked me to even open it. i literally could have been carrying anything in it.

the high cost of admission is the biggest deterrent for that sort of thing really. the only criminal element that truly stands to benefit from theme parks is a pickpocket and s/he has empty pockets when coming into the park.

SCUBAbe
04-04-2005, 10:22 AM
i once kept setting off the metal detector at a 6 flags and eventually determined it to be a case i was carrying that had metal hinges or whatever. i just pulled it out and showed them. they never asked me to even open it. i literally could have been carrying anything in it.



I set of the dectector at six flads also. They pulled me aside and hand scanned me. The beeper went off at my purse. I went o open it and they said, "do you have a cell phone in there" I said yes and they told me to go on without looking in my purse..maybe I just look sweet and innocent...LOL

DisneyDustin22
04-04-2005, 11:12 AM
Usually a belt buckle will set those things crazy. Especially those ones you see on truckdrivers, ya know, a big round metal plate, engraved is usually a picture of the truck driver standing over his truck like he's Michael Jackson at daycare. I'm surprised they don't try to hide more things in their pants with those buckles on. Have you ever seen a beach blonde kid try to convince a southern tucker to take his belt off? Neither have I. Wait, are they related though?

Pirate Bill
04-04-2005, 11:34 AM
It is a joke really. However, I think at this point it is there for 2 reasons. First, it's an attempt to deter on the "chance" that one could be caught. Second, it provides a sense of safety to others just for the fact that there is someone standing there watching. If it wasn't there, you could be sure that some people would be too scared to go to DL in fear of some catastrophe. And all this happened after what, 9/11? Anyone resourceful enough will get past the security check (if we can even call it that) if they want to. Sad but true.

pisces
04-04-2005, 01:12 PM
I spent 7 days in December, and lots of people sailed right through with all kinds of stuff, including picnic baskets. I doubt they are very strict.

They just want to have something set up, as a kind of statement, to reduce their liability in the event of an occurrence.

The goal is to reduce damages from a potential lawsuit, which might be very high if they didn't have anything set up.

cstephens
04-04-2005, 01:40 PM
Okay I have read several post that the main gate at Disneyland checks bags. Do the make you use the outside lockers if you are bringing in your own bottled water and snacks for the kids? Are can you carry these things around with you (or can you use the inside locker)?

FYI, the bag checks aren't actually at the entrances to the parks themselves. They used to be, but the bag checks are now located in the esplanade area, one where you enter from the Mickey and Friends parking tram and one where you enter from the shuttle bus drop-off area.

And they generally haven't cared if you're bringing your own water and snacks.

SarahJanet
04-04-2005, 11:06 PM
Why did they make that switch? I was wondering that while we were there.

sunfun94
04-05-2005, 12:03 AM
Okay I have read several post that the main gate at Disneyland checks bags. Do the make you use the outside lockers if you are bringing in your own bottled water and snacks for the kids? Are can you carry these things around with you (or can you use the inside locker)?


We bring snacks, drinks and sandwhiches all the time for our daughter and they all in the open...they never have said anything. However I did see a guest have to take out his cheese sauce from his pack and leave it at securtity becuase it was in a glass container...

cstephens
04-05-2005, 10:27 AM
Why did they make that switch? I was wondering that while we were there.

You mean changing the bag check area? I much prefer this system because when you park hop, you don't have to constantly have your bag re-checked. There are days when we're wandering back and forth between the two parks, and getting your bag checked repeatedly is really not necessary. The only downside I can see with the current system is that if you're not going into either park but just going to or from Downtown Disney, you still have to have your bags checked. So if you're carrying something you would normally be allowed to carry but that they wouldn't let you into the park with, but all you want to do is cross the esplanade, I'm not sure how they'd handle it. Maybe have security escort you across the esplanade.

DCAWhites
04-05-2005, 12:01 PM
Didnt they say they would build permanent structures if the test is successful? I think they said they'd be built in the fall (of 2004). Those white tents are AWFULLY ugly.

pisces
04-05-2005, 01:07 PM
Well, that's a misuse of funds. If they've got money to build, spend it on the parks....preferably DCA.

I don't want to see them put money towards a bag-check.

Any extra money should be sunk back into the Parks.....where it matters, and where I'd be getting my money's worth.

Having a plush, extravagant, and luxurious new Structure for.......baggage check is a total waste of money.

PrincessAmie
04-05-2005, 01:30 PM
We emailed DL to ask about baby food jars. They didn't email us in time, so we called. We were told we could bring it in. Security saw it in our bags and let us through. When we got home there was a reply to our email that stated that glass was not allowed in the park.

We always bring water. We have taken lunch in before and nobody said anything. The lunches were in our backpacks.

SarahJanet
04-05-2005, 04:41 PM
Oh, it's a huge improvement as is - I was just curious about the reasons behind the decision.

It totally made the lineups easier and faster, though - I really enjoyed that, because we did a lot of hopping between the two parks.

maryxmas
04-05-2005, 10:33 PM
As others have mentioned, the bag check at the security stations is a huge joke. They only check bags, and there are no metal detectors. So basically if you want to take something in with you, you put it on your person and not in a bag.

To prove a point to my friends on our trip last month, I tucked my belly bag up under my bulky jacket and walked right through security. You see, all I had in my bag was a pair of sunglasses and some cash. And, I was REALLY sick and tired of the guards making me take the bag completely off every time I walked through.

Earlier in the day my friend's dad had an umbrella tied to his belt loop (kinda hanging down like a billy club) and security didn't even notice it (it was kinda hidden by his bulky jacket). So I made a snide comment to the guard about the stupidity of the removal of my basically empty bag and a guest behind me laughed at me like I was some kind of idiot. Soooooo, proving a valid point, I hid my belly bag later in the day, and breezed right through secrity. Hows THAT for idiocy?

adriennek
04-06-2005, 08:41 AM
I spent 7 days in December, and lots of people sailed right through with all kinds of stuff, including picnic baskets. I doubt they are very strict.

And yet during MouseAdventure weekend in March, we saw several people being escorted to the Picnic Area lockers to put their food in a locker.

You can't 'count' on them not being strict. It seems to vary over time and between CMs.

Adrienne