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This is terrible, and the only solution is more netting around guest areas. Metal detectors are a poor temporary solution to a long long long term problem.
Ripsaw needed this at the time because it was one of the most dangerous rides in the park.Only 4 people per RV on Ripsaw!
Dragons is actually the one place this almost happened to me. Near the exit, one of the tracks whips by the path. Someone's phone (an old, Nokia brick phone) whipped out and shattered on the walkway in front of me.
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Yea, that's a whole different situation. I honestly don't have a problem with detectors at the front of the park to keep things like that from entering.
So just a curious question semi-relatable to this whole debate:
If wallets are supposed to be stored, how can we be expected to pay for the locker if we go over the allotted time?
I would not mind it for dueling dragons if they dueled. But damn those pics looked bad. If only they had a line for smart people and then the dumb people that will carry their stuff through the detector then argue with park employees.
As if by design, an iPhone struck a guest from above this week. These are a necessary evil.
I want to go on record as saying that I do not believe this park wide implementation of metal detectors is because of this one incident. Oh, Twitter...
a toddler getting hit in the face by an open pocket knife.
I don't think there is any good to spin out of this. Obviously the idea here is to make the coasters more safe, but I just don't see this really doing that much. There will still be people who slip through with loose objects that aren't metal that have just as much potential to become a harmful projectile.
To be honest, I would rather see them get rid of the coasters than implementing these metal detectors. Hulk and Dragon Challenge are excellent, and it would be especially sad to see the the Dragon Challenge queue go, but they are still just coasters that you can get an equivalent experience with on other coasters at any number of parks around the world. People still get the misconception big-time that these are coaster parks , so perhaps by getting rid of them and replacing them with attractions on the caliber of Spider-Man, Forbidden Journey, Escape from Gringott's, etc., that could help to hone Universal's image in the public eye as parks where you'll have completely immersive unique experiences in the worlds of popular movies.
Wow, you went dark there.