Pete - Your Protest Worked

[Renysmom]

Hi Pete -

Your silent (okay not so silent) protest of the finger scanners has been heard. Lou Mongelo announced on his podcast that they are starting to remove them from the parks, starting with the MK and that all should be gone by summer.

Congrats :worship: :worship: You are more powerful than you think

[wishspirit]

OMG!

Thats amazing!

Finally i might be able to get into the parks with it actually working! (It never seemed to work for me)

Go Pete!

[UrsulasShadow]

If there ever was any question that this board is paid attention to, I think this puts that to rest. I've never seen many complaints about the scanners anywhere else but here.

[mommyceratops]

Wow!! That is cool.

Who is Lou?! :confused3

[crazytp93]

Wow!! That is cool.

Who is Lou?! :confused3

He's a person who hosts a podcast that can not even be compared to the Dis Unplugged. I actually like the scanners. Very...Disney.

[amyhughes]

Woot!:cool1:

Thank you Pete. I hated those things. I always wondered who put their finger there before me, and where it had been before that! A ton of hand sanitzer later we went on with our day though.

I agree UrsulaShadow. I think Disney pays a lot of attention to boards like this, and Podcasts to get feedback. Hey, it's free aside from the manpower to monitor. You aren't having to do surveys or call people or pay for million dollar dialers A very cheap way to get a true pulse on your fan base.

I am looking forward to the turnstiles next year!

[disneycruise05]

I wonder what sort of "protection" Disney will use now for the tickets. I was lecturing my parents a few weeks ago on how to use the finger scanners when we go to WDW in May. Needless to say, they were less then thrilled on using them.

[amyhughes]

I wonder what sort of "protection" Disney will use now for the tickets. I was lecturing my parents a few weeks ago on how to use the finger scanners when we go to WDW in May. Needless to say, they were less then thrilled on using them.

I just hope we don't have to walk around with another form of ID now. Can you imagine losing your Driver's License in Disney?:scared1:

[Renysmom]

I do want to make it clear that I would not be listening to Lou's podcast if the Dis Unplug was a 5 day a week event... I need something to fill up the rest of my commutes.. DU is number 1 on my Ipod always :)

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

I am beyond happy to hear that news. Trying to stuff a toddlers fingers in there while holding them is so not fun. WTG Pete and the DIS for being herd on this issue!!!!:thumbsup2

[amyhughes]

I am beyond happy to hear that news. Trying to stuff a toddlers fingers in there while holding them is so not fun. WTG Pete and the DIS for being herd on this issue!!!!:thumbsup2

They made you do your kids too? Ours were already in there stroller and they just took them through the gate on the side as long as we did their tickets at the turnstile. My husband and myself though had to do the *icky* finger scan though. Which we both kinda shuddered about!

[Alztybrn]

Are they getting rid of both types of scanners? Both the one and two finger scanners?

If so...are they just scanning the tickets now?

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

They made you do your kids too? Ours were already in there stroller and they just took them through the gate on the side as long as we did their tickets at the turnstile. My husband and myself though had to do the *icky* finger scan though. Which we both kinda shuddered about!

My son was in a stroller and was under 3 but my cousins daughter had to go through and he got a foot to a not so good area trying to hold her up. Plus the germs eeeewwwww.

[crazytp93]

My son was in a stroller and was under 3 but my cousins daughter had to go through and he got a foot to a not so good area trying to hold her up. Plus the germs eeeewwwww.

I just realized how germy it is.

I am never touching the finger scanners again! :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

[amyhughes]

My son was in a stroller and was under 3 but my cousins daughter had to go through and he got a foot to a not so good area trying to hold her up. Plus the germs eeeewwwww.

ACK! Yeah, DH would some of his pixie dust on that as well.

I wonder how they will keep folks from turning their tickets now?

[wildeoscar]

I don't wanna burst your bubble on this but someone on another board (ack, couuugh ...cheshire figment... ack ...moderator... couuuuugh ...theme parks board...) dropped that hint recently. Recently as in Last month.

[wildeoscar]

I am beyond happy to hear that news. Trying to stuff a toddlers fingers in there while holding them is so not fun. WTG Pete and the DIS for being herd on this issue!!!!:thumbsup2

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

[beachwarmer]

I actually like the scanners. Very...Disney.

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

[WaltD4Me]

I just hope we don't have to walk around with another form of ID now. Can you imagine losing your Driver's License in Disney?:scared1:

I have to agree, I honestly didn't mind the finger scanners, I'd rather do that than have to carry ID around....I'm always so worried about losing it on a trip. I lock it in the safe!

[happy2go2wdwmom]

Are they getting rid of both types of scanners? Both the one and two finger scanners?

If so...are they just scanning the tickets now?


I heard they're opting for the pupil scan/brain chip implant next---no germs to worry about. :3dglasses

[KristaTX]

Who is Lou?! :confused3

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 :cool1:. 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:sick:


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. :3dglasses

ala Minority Report? :cool2:

[happy2go2wdwmom]

I've said too much already.:sad2:

[amyhughes]

I've said too much already.:sad2:

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!:lmao:

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?! :confused3


Uh, oh, here we go again! LOL!

Mongellllo everyone :rotfl2:

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.:lmao:

[mommyceratops]

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

Got room for two in the cistern?!

:eek:

[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. :faint:

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?!

:eek:

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.

[OKW Lover]

So what does a bar code have to do with possibly discontinuing the finger scan? What additional information would the bar code hold that isn't already on the magnetic stripe?

[Barb]

Now if they'd just make the tickets hard plastic instead of that stupid paper................

[doconeill]

DNA, my friends, is where its at today. You will all be required to provide a cheek swab on first admission, and if at a later time there is a mismatch you will be taken aside for blood samples.

[CanadianGuy]

Toddler Fingers?

I thought nobody under 9 had to do the finger scan anyway????

Knox

[kimbac3]

Now if they'd just make the tickets hard plastic instead of that stupid paper................

My new tickets are the hard plastic kind.

[dizneedoll]

Mongellllo everyone :rotfl2:



And a good Mongello to you to sir!!

I listened to Lou's podcast too but I can't remember if that was part of his news segment or the "rumour mill" portion of the podcast in which case we may be getting our hopes up for nothing. And while I don't mind them for the reasons that Pete does, they are a hassle and slow up the line.

[GinnyFavers]

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY could seem to "get" how to use the finger scanners on the first try.

I don't know when businesses will finally admit to themselves that they can't require anything of their customers that includes reading instructions. It never happens.

[safetymom]

I have the paper AP. I went 70 times last year and my AP still looks as good as new.

[kgibbler20]

Micro chip implants? :confused3

[rick1235]

Thats great. I also thought that the fingerprinting was a violacion of my privacy. i am not criminal and Disney is not the police, so I dont need to be fingerprinted.

[firemanx]

This thread combines my two official Disney sources. THE DIS and Lou Mongello. Both are different ends of the spectrum. THE DIS gives you a no holds bar look @ the do's and dont's of WDW. There is no holding back which is why i love THE DIS. Lou gives a different perspective of WDW, but covers alot of the things about disney with insight and a informative view of things. THE DIS comes with a more critical eye towards whats right and wrong with WDW, and i greatly appreciate it. Therefore THE DIS and LOU are my top two podcast that i look towards each week.

[autumnsmommy]

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

Should I line my mouse ears with tin foil? :earsboy:

[GuardMusic]

I must be an outcast here. I actually appreciated the scanners, as I am very pro-security. And yes, if the government or Disney wants my fingerprints or implant a chip in me, I'm all for it - but only if it gets me through security faster.

Gayle

[OKW Lover]

I must be an outcast here. I actually appreciated the scanners, as I am very pro-security.

I guess I don't understand what a finger scan, as implemented for tickets at WDW, has to do with security. Its only a technique to tie the ticket use to a particular (unknown) person.