MisterSG1 Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 I’m wondering this in light of negative events at other theme parks. At Canada’s Wonderland in 2003, there was a shooting in the parking lot on Mother’s Day over a drug deal or something. But after that incident, Wonderland introduced random wand checks after guests walked through the turnstiles. Later that summer they had introduced metal detectors that surrounded the whole front gate area. (KI had the same when I visited in 2004) Sometime later on, in 2007 or so, these metal detectors were moved to the current spot of right before the admissions associate. Wonderland also beefed up security in the parking lot by introducing emergency alarm buttons that I usually associate with university campuses. My question is, did KI introduce metal detectors around the same time, and how about CF at the time, what was their policy. As we were Paramount Parks at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck norris Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 The metal detectors are much more recent than 2003. Like maybe only 2-3 years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Nope, Paramount added them at KI in early 2000's partly in response to 9/11 events. Then at some point they were removed, brought back again, removed, then spot checks, and then brought back "permanent" around 2017 season. Or something like that LOL. The original ones were more "permanent" looking than the current edition. Here are some older threads confirming they have been here more than the past few years and at least back to 2003... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoddaH1994 Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 In 2016 they were wanding on certain days. After the Pulse Night Club shooting in June of that year it became every day. By park opening 2017 they had the ones that they do now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawaiian Coasters 325 Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Basically 9/11 caused many places to put in these metal detectors. Then later on they started to phase out (KI got rid of the original ones in 2012) and then they brought them back following mass shootings in 2016. Basically, the mass shootings gave a lot of these places a wake up call from 9/11. I honestly think the metal detectors aren't a bad thing at all. It makes me feel a lot safer tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoddaH1994 Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 4 minutes ago, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said: Basically 9/11 caused many places to put in these metal detectors. Then later on they started to phase out (KI got rid of the original ones in 2012) and then they brought them back following mass shootings in 2016. Basically, the mass shootings gave a lot of these places a wake up call from 9/11. I honestly think the metal detectors aren't a bad thing at all. It makes me feel a lot safer tbh. I’ve always been just annoyed by them. Until this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Ding Dong Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 At least we don’t have to take our shoes and belt off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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