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iPad photography is never going to go away. People will always see the large screen as giving better photos than a phone "because I can see more". Oh well. Good to see Disney stand up against selfie sticks.
You know, thinking about it, I only ever hear about this being an issue at Disney. Is it an issue at Universal as well? I imagine tourists are tourists and it should be if it is at Disney, I just don't hear about it.Your move, Universal.
I got one to the back of the head at HHN last year. I almost grabbed it and broke it over my knee, but I didn't want to get banned my first trip.You know, thinking about it, I only ever hear about this being an issue at Disney. Is it an issue at Universal as well?
I'm sorry to hear that. I just haven't been to the parks since the selfie-stick craze, so I wasn't aware of whether or not it was noticeably a problem a Universal.I got one to the back of the head at HHN last year. I almost grabbed it and broke it over my knee, but I didn't want to get banned my first trip.
You know, thinking about it, I only ever hear about this being an issue at Disney. Is it an issue at Universal as well? I imagine tourists are tourists and it should be if it is at Disney, I just don't hear about it.
First the selfie stick, next the double wide strollers.....Please, please ban the double wides. There's not that many twins born into the world......And then ban ECV's , eight year old kids in strollers, regular strollers & Mickey ear hats, then Disney will rule the world.
Great points.And if I remember correctly, they had to redo the tunnel entrances on the 7DMT Coaster because they miscalculated and someone nearly had an accident during media previews.This was a necessary move.
Selfie sticks were banned for one reason:
All rides have a "sphere" around the ride vehicle (what they call the "envelope") that's free of props, supports, and objects. They determine the size of this envelope by considering the tallest person in the world reaching up with his hands -- and then a distance beyond that. If you look at the shape of the hole in the building that Hollywood RRR goes through... that's the envelope.
During ride testing, they will mount a device to the ride vehicle that reaches out into this envelope and they run the ride to ensure the device doesn't hit any objects.
The advent of the selfie stick introduces a new factor that was heretofore unthought of. Nobody ever imagined that people would be carrying extendable poles around in their pickets and wanting to use them on rides. The extendable pole exceeds the safety envelope. They can't expand the safety envelopes on all rides, so they just banned the sticks. Imagine if someone extends their selfie stick on Space Mountain, it hits a support, and the guest gets impaled. Not good.
So it has nothing to do with Disney not wanting people taking pictures of themselves, or getting poked in the eye from another guest standing in line.
First the selfie stick, next the double wide strollers.....Please, please ban the double wides. There's not that many twins born into the world......And then ban ECV's , eight year old kids in strollers, regular strollers & Mickey ear hats, then Disney will rule the world.
Was at MK today and saw countless selfie sticks. This just seems to be a laughably unenforceable ban tbh.