While ironically Disney has added a spiel to the queue of Space Mountain about stowing things.. makes you wonder, what exactly happened to cause all this?
No they never checked on dragons..I always feel like dragons I would have a better chance at things falling out and thats the only one I used a locker for until they started this at hulk.
Went some time last week and the checks had stopped. One guy had is phone out video taping the whole ride. Guess with the holidays all done now maybe they wont be as strict.
Maybe they will put the checks back in place if people carry on doing this, nuts.
At my home park (Alton Towers) if any recording equipment is out during the ride they will E stop the ride, put out an announcement and send a staff up the the lift hill to confiscate the equipment. Many times I have seen this happen on Oblivion. Not sure if te ban the offenders or not but they do suffer the embarrassment of the announcement and causing 100s of guests unnecessary delays.
Checks are back on. Not sure why they stopped and why they started again. Maybe starting to get somewhat busy again after the after holiday slow down?
When I went Wednesday the boards saying "no loose articles" were right by the entrance (before they were a few feet in front) and an attendant just stated no lose articles but they did not really check.