1992 Ticket & Fast Pass

[davehfx]

Does anyone know if you can use this ticket to obtain Fast passes or do you have to change the ticket in at Guest Services.

It is the ticket that reqires a date stamp.

Thanks

 

[liznboys]

You have to get a new ticket before going in. Just go to the ticket booth outside the park and they'll exhange it for you. On our last trip we used up some old tickets (from late 80's and early 90's) and they just took them and gave us the new plastic ticket to use, quick and easy transaction. I wish I could have saved those old tickets as momentos, but we really wanted to use them and save money! lol

 

[davehfx]

How come it cost you more money?

 

[liznboys]

We would have had to get a 5-Day park hopper, but because we had those old tickets, we were able to get just get a 4-Day one.

 

[seashoreCM]

For those of you eavesdropping:

1. You can (and should) ask for the old ticket (stamped void) back as a souvenir.

2. With a ticket that old, only do an even no-cost exchange. It will be good at Animal Kingdom too for the same number of days. After the ticket is used up, buy another if you need one.

Otherwise a ticket with two days left on it will buy only one day's worth of a new four or five or any kind of day hopper pass since they then go by its original dollar value versus today's inflated ticket prices.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

Have a 1975 ticket book (all the coupons, individually collected at each ride consumed), a 1985 3 day hopper with date stamps (completely used) and a 1994 ticket with date stamps and a crappy black and white photo of me on it (all days used).

 

[Simba's Mom]

Is this a fairly recent practice? Enforced at all the parks? When we went in May, 2003 with some old tickets (late 80's), MGM let us right in (must have been 1989 tickets); Epcot hemmed (add to age of tickets they were child's passes-the "children" are now 20 and 23), but eventually let them in; only MK made them trade in tickets. At FP machines, a CM there would just look at the ticket, then print out a FP from the machine. No problem-and the tickets are now great souveniers!

 

[GoldenOldie]

Originally posted by Simba's Mom
Is this a fairly recent practice? Enforced at all the parks? When we went in May, 2003 with some old tickets (late 80's), MGM let us right in (must have been 1989 tickets); Epcot hemmed (add to age of tickets they were child's passes-the "children" are now 20 and 23), but eventually let them in; only MK made them trade in tickets. At FP machines, a CM there would just look at the ticket, then print out a FP from the machine. No problem-and the tickets are now great souveniers!

The transfer of old tickets to the magnetic strip media has been Disney's policy since the ticket media were changed from the bar code to the magnetic strip in 1996. The only exception they made was for old tickets that had only one day remaining on them. Those were allowed to be presented to the turnstile CM and used as is.

At MK (except in very very rare cases), the turnstile CMs will not accept old admission media and will ask you to exchange it at the Guest Relations window. The other parks are supposed to do the same but many times they do not.

It is actually to your advantage to exchange them. It will save you time in the long run since you will not have to have the turnstile CM look at them in wonder and show them to several other CM's before they decide whether to let you in or send you to GR. Getting Fastpasses will also be easier as there isn't always a CM stationed at the machines anymore to do an override for you.

 

[drogerstn]

One advantage I can see for using the old ticket at the FP machines is that there is no electronic record to limit the time the person can get another FP. The person could collect FP's at various rides with no regard for the permitted times printed on the original and subsequent FP's.