Visitors to Hong Kong Disneyland yesterday resorted to taking photographs the old-fashioned way - by holding out their cameras or asking for help.
The theme park has banned selfie sticks for safety reasons and visitors were reminded of this by prominent signs outside the ticket office, and by three staff members in uniform holding smaller signs.
Ramanujan Melkote Krishnalyengar, a 24-year-old from India who was using his phone to take pictures of himself, said the era of the selfie might soon be over. "Maybe people will get bored and do something else." But his companion, Madhoo Gopinath, said she took four or five selfies of them together in the park and still enjoyed doing so.
Disneyland introduced the ban because "the stick poses a threat and a worry to the safety of our guests and performers".
So Siu-mun, a Hongkonger in her 50s who has been to Disneyland more than 10 times, said that several months ago she witnessed how someone swinging a big selfie stick around in public could have caused an accident.
"The person taking the selfie didn't see anyone nearby, so the person turned with the selfie stick and almost bumped into someone else, who narrowly swerved at the last minute."
So agreed with Disneyland's decision and said it was not difficult to take pictures the old-fashioned way - by asking someone else to take a shot. In fact, before being interviewed she happily posed after asking a Post reporter to take pictures of her and her two companions.