New Entrance at the Magic Kingdom

The "Walk Around the the World" bricks have been removed at the TTC. Most of the construction at the TTC have been slow going as Disney appears to be focusing most of the work on the main entrance to the Magic Kingdom.

WDW News Today post these pictures back in July of construction work at the TTC:



At that time, it was unsure what these footers are for but I found some recent photos (courtesy of WDW News Today) that might explain the purpose of these.



This structure will be a new security / bag check area outside the TTC prior to boarding the monorail / ferry boats and purchasing tickets. 

Lets re-examine one of the photo's from the prior post:

In this photo, the blue squiggly lines represent bag check areas.  You will notice that there is a large bag check area on the right hand side which is for all the guests arriving via bus or car drop-off area.  There are also two smaller bag check areas: one in the center of the picture just north of the green and red launch areas and one just north of the gold launch area.

If you remember, the gold launch is going from Disney's Polynesian Village Resort and Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.  For both of these resorts, there are bag check areas prior to guests boarding the monorail but not one prior to guests boarding the launches.  So, the bag check just north of the gold launch area is to check those guests that travel from those resorts to the Magic Kingdom via the launch.

For the green (bringing guest from Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground) and red (Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and associated villas / cabins) launches, guests have no bag check areas at their resorts.  These guests have to go through bag checks either when they arrive via the bus transportation system or via the launches. 

That explains why there are bag checks for launches and bus area but if you look further at the above picture, you will notice that there are no bag check areas for guests arriving via the monorails or the ferry boats.  That is because the guests that arrive via the resort monorail have already been cleared through bag check at their respected resorts.  But for guests that are arriving via the express monorail or ferry boats, they must go through a bag check area prior to arrive at the Magic Kingdom main gate and thus this explains the new structures that are going up just outside the TTC area.

That's good to hear.