Pete - Your Protest Worked

[KristaTX]

Who is Lou?!

Lou is the author of The Walt Disney World Trivia Book(s) , and founder of www.disneyworldtrivia.com. His DIS name is AKQJ10, but he probably doesn't have a lot of time to hang out here anymore.

I've spent time with him and assorted other Disney fans/authors/webmasters, including lots of "official" and "unofficial" DIS people - every December for the past 5 years. And I'll be back this year . Lou and most of the others are incredibly gracious and very much down-to-earth people.

 

[happy2go2wdwmom]

I saw some of the Magic Kingdom scanners for sale on ebay. You can take the germs home

I wonder if I can buy back my scanned fingerprint records?

 

[amyhughes]

I heard they're opting for the pupil scan/brain chip implant next---no germs to worry about.

ala Minority Report?

 

[happy2go2wdwmom]

I've said too much already.

 

[amyhughes]

I've said too much already.

Uhoh...Beware guys in dark suits and cars with tinted windows.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

mmmmmm toddler fingers... can I get those with ranch dressing?

We're gonna have an awfully good time on that cruise, oskey.

 

[WaltD4Me]

If this is true, I'm really curious if they are going to put something else in place. Even though I TOTALLY agree with Pete and Kevin, that once you buy a ticket you should be able to do whatever you want with it, including giving it to someone else, but Disney definitely doesn't want this, so I find it hard to believe they will just go back to scanning the tickets, again allowing people to give them or sell them to other people.

 

[amyhughes]

I still remember that debacle in the early 90's of taking your picture and printing it to the ticket!

What was funny for us was we used to go 3 days, when I was a kid. Then they got rid of the 3 day pass and only had 2 and 4 day passes, and there was NO EXPIRATION back then. So one year we would buy a 4 day pass, the next a 2 day pass, it eventually came out in the wash! In fact when I went to live briefly and work at Disney my grandma gave me those extra days and Disney honored them even though those tickets were like 8 years old, and had a 60 year old man's (my Grandpa) and 60 year old woman's (Grandma's) picture on them. When I went down there to visit before I got hired I had 4 days of play time from 8 years before.

I wonder if they will do a picture on the ticket again?

 

[Stroller Boy]

Wow!! That is cool.

Who is Lou?!

Uh, oh, here we go again! LOL!

Mongellllo everyone

Much more family friendly now, as I think some people were giving them the finger allright...due to the back-up in lines that is to say!

 

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

mmmmmm toddler fingers... can I get those with ranch dressing?

I'd prefer mine with BBQ sauce from Flame Tree, not a fan of ranch here.

 

[mommyceratops]

We're gonna have an awfully good time on that cruise, oskey.

Got room for two in the cistern?!

 

[GinnyFavers]

This makes me think they're going to switch ticket media and pricing, AGAIN.

 

[WaltD4Me]

This makes me think they're going to switch ticket media and pricing, AGAIN.

Oh no, please don't even think it.

But I have to wonder how accurate this info is. You would like they would have mentioned it on the podcast. The only place I've heard this so far is this thread.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

Got room for two in the cistern?!

I think I might have to expand.

 

[krissyh]

Is my two cents still worth anything with today's inflation?

If so, I really wouldn't be surprised to see them try the "pictures on the tickets". Helps keep from giving the ticket to someone else, IF (see the big if?) they make us show the ticket to a CM when it is scanned.

And, if you are a regular visitor and do something wrong, they have your fingerprints and mugshot to turn over to the WDW secret police. Don't think they exist? They captured me when I four, simply because I dropped my ice cream. Without so much a trip to City Hall to see a judge, I was quickly locked up the Lost Parents Room, just because I had decided to go to the Country Bear Jamboree without the rest of the family.

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

mmmmmm toddler fingers... can I get those with ranch dressing?

or bergers?!?!?

And, if you are a regular visitor and do something wrong, they have your fingerprints and mugshot to turn over to the WDW secret police. Don't think they exist? They captured me when I four, simply because I dropped my ice cream. Without so much a trip to City Hall to see a judge, I was quickly locked up the Lost Parents Room, just because I had decided to go to the Country Bear Jamboree without the rest of the family.

The nerve!
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The government has contacted Disney. Seems as if the only way to get people to take the whole, "MUST have passport to travel back into the USA" thing seriously, Disney will now require them.

 

[2wins]

I am so pleased! Being a HUGE germaphobe, I was getting the creeps just thinking about all of the sticky fingers touching the scanners yuuuuck1

 

[WebmasterPete]

While my ego would love to believe that my rants on the finger scanners had somethign to do with their removal, I'm seriously doubting that was the case. The finger scanners have long been a source of long lines at the turnstiles. I'm pretty sure that had more to do with Disney's decision than anything else. I know for a fact they listen to our show (and many others), and they do make changes to certain things based on that feedback. I'm pretty sure that this, however, wasn't one of them.

Thx
Pete

 

[kimbac3]

For what this observation is worth......

I just received my WDW park hoppers from WDW. They have a bar code on the back of them. I just checked my scrapbook and for the past three years, none of the tickets had bar codes on the backs of them. Not even the Resort ticket/key from this past September.

Hmm....just sayin'..............


Kimba

 

[Tissa]

My tickets from last June had bar codes on them. I believe the ones from our October 06 trip did too.