Disney confirms "Flash Mountain" starting May 3

Originally Posted By Darkbeer

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>>Disneyland officials confirmed that Splash Mountain photo screeners would be redeployed to other positions as of May 3.

“In evaluating the ride photo moderation role and process, we have determined that actual inappropriate behaviors by guests are rare,” Disneyland spokesperson Betsy Sanchez said in a written statement. “Ride photos will continue to be monitored by cast members at the point of sale. In addition, the current screening system will remain intact to provide the option for management to initiate image monitoring if necessary.”

As always, Disneyland reserves the right to remove any visitor from the park who exhibits offensive or inappropriate behavior, Sanchez said.<<

By the way, this also applies to ToT, Screamin' and Space Mountain.

So I wonder who will get the first "new" offensive photos placed on the Internet?

And will it be "staged" (aka someone doing it on purpose just to get the photo to show to others.)???

 

Originally Posted By ecdc

<<-------Immediately books trip and rents telephoto lens.

 

Originally Posted By SpokkerJones

It's just a little nudity. Who cares? This country is so uptight.

 

Originally Posted By DyGDisney

I'm confused. So they are keeping the cameras and repositioning them? And what does that have to do with inappropriate behavior?
Maybe I'm not understanding this snipet of the article, but it sounds like they are moving them to other places because of inappropriate behavior, or in spite of.

 

Originally Posted By SpokkerJones

They are keeping the screening system but they will not be used. If it becomes a problem again, a cast member will be staffed there again.

 

Originally Posted By ecdc

Now it's DAR's time to shine. If anybody can make sure it becomes a problem again, he can. C'mon DAR, we're counting on you.

 

Originally Posted By DyGDisney

Okay --- I get it. It's not the cameras that will be moved, it's the cast members who are screeners now.

I'm a bit slow, but eventually it sinks in.

 

Originally Posted By SpokkerJones

Personally I would love to see some Space Mountain flashing. It might be hard to do it on Screamin' though.

ToT has potential for a huge group effort, like a sorority or something. Remember, DCA serves alcohol. Please let it happen!

 

Originally Posted By SpokkerJones

GRAD NITE + CELL PHONE CAMERAS = HILARITY

I can't wait for this.

 

Originally Posted By mele

LOL, ecdc.

C'mon Dar!

 

Originally Posted By monorailblue

Tower blocked pictures most often for simply having objects (mostly cell phones) in your hands at photo time. If they saw anyone holding anything out, the picture was supposed to be zapped.

 

Originally Posted By mele

Why is that?

 

Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt

I get the feeling that the OP is trying to spread the word that the photos are no longer being monitored like they once were in order to get people to misbehave. Why else would you say something like this:

"So I wonder who will get the first "new" offensive photos placed on the Internet? And will it be "staged" (aka someone doing it on purpose just to get the photo to show to others.)???"

 

Originally Posted By Darkbeer

Actually, Brady MacDonald is responding to stories recently written by Al Lutz at MiceAge and David Koenig at MousePlanet, both who reported the elimination of the position for "labor savings". It is the fact that the Times got Disney to go officially on record to confirm the recent stories at the web sites.

My personal opinion, you are looking at a job that cost the company between $10 to $15 per hour to staff at each of the four locations, about the price of one photo sold, to "keep" the Disney Image. And I think that is just SHORT Term "dumb" thinking. Somebody will get "the shot" sometime in the near future, and then the Media will pick up on the story, which will put Disney in a bad light, and force them to bring back the position.

Just stupid. They can spend millions on marketing, and give away free admission on your BD, but they can't pay for a few store CM's to try and protect their image...

And that is the REAL story!

And while if I am in the area, I will glance at the displayed photos for a few minutes, I am not going out of my way to get "The Shot", nor do I plan to get someone to "pose" while on the ride. If I get one, it will be a "real" guest doing something stupid.

 

Originally Posted By ecdc

>>"So I wonder who will get the first "new" offensive photos placed on the Internet? And will it be "staged" (aka someone doing it on purpose just to get the photo to show to others.)???"<<

I hereby volunteer. How long will it take a hairy, 32 year-old overweight male's flashing pic to go viral? Susan Boyle, watch out!

 

Originally Posted By ecdc

Darkbeer has a good point.

But this is the way corporations think. At my job they shut down the air conditioning in the summer in half the building and made everybody move their desks to the other half on the weekends. Everyone hated it. Despised it. But then on Monday they'd show up and there'd be a new calendar on their desk. When we asked why we couldn't just forgo the calendar and get the air conditioning back, we were told that the calendar comes out of marketing's budget but that air conditioning came out of our budget. It's actually a great company to work for, but you can't avoid that kind of mindlessness in a corporation.

 

Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt

"And that is the REAL story!"

Is it?

Just when I think I'm too much of a Disney park nerd something like this comes along and proves that there's a limit to how much Disneyland information even I can stand.

This is not news, nor is it important.

 

Originally Posted By SpokkerJones

To me it's just a funny story. Personally I don't think a kid seeing a couple of boobs or the middle finger at the end of Splash Mountain is a big deal and I think most guests would get a story out of it.

"Oh Myrtle you won't believe what I saw at Disneyland the other day!"

"The hell you say!"

I imagine the photos were originally screened so that Disney could protect itself against the .05 percent of the population that would actually raise a stink over seeing something offensive on those screens.

When the original Flash Mountain thing started I think Disney should have just ignored it. The vast majority of the population does not want to flash a camera or flip it the bird.

 

Originally Posted By DlandDug

If these photo's total shelf life was the short time they existed in the park, there probably wouldn't have been an issue. But they tend to live on and on on the internet. Some people even have a notion that somehow Disney should "do something" about it. And if Disney doesn't, then it is somehow construed as an endorsement.

I think it's just sort of loutish. But that's just me and my opinion...

 

Originally Posted By -em

WDW eliminated that position a few months ago and personally I wish they would've kept it.. In just the two hours I worked at Everest photo preview we had about 30-40 pics (that I noticed..) that should've been censored for a variety of reasons from finger signs to frontal nudity to unsafe riding conditions...

and it became a guest issue when the pic was unsell-able, due to behavior of one person but an innocent family in the back wanted to buy the pic.. Before it was just "eaten" and the innocent group was sent on again (which still happens- but they wanted THAT pic they already saw)

Personally I think itll be a short lived cut after the complaints and "who can outdo each other" that will be sure to happen...

-em