All New Ticket Media will be Biometric...

[Miss Jasmine]

If they go to scans for everyone I would almost bet that your name is going to be on the ticket as well. APs have your name on them.

 

[elmo2wdw]

I can see this slowing entry down big time. How many of you collect your party's tickets and send one person to get a fastpass? I know I do ---better make sure everyone get's his own ticket back, now!!!! sheesh!!

Everyone that has used an AP before should not have a problem, they should be up on the drill. You should still be able to collect all tickets and have a gopher get your fastpasses...it's just on park entry. The only issue should be getting held up by someone not used to the system. My family has it down to a science. That is myself, my DW, and my three DS's..ages 9, 6, and 15 months (with stroller). Everyone goes in a straight line with myself and the stroller last...by the time I reach the turnstile, it is open and ready for me to pass through. No waiting hardly at all. We'll check out the new system in January and see how it goes.
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[Simba's Mom]

Can someone explain more how they work - I had read somewhere that it's based on finger size and shape rather than "fingerprints". My kids are 10 and 12 - what happens if I purchase the new one, make it not expire, and they go to use it after they grow alot? Just wondering.

Interesting concern. How about the fact of buying a child's pass that supposedly never expires now? I know from experience that the old ones didn't. Last summer 20 yo DS used a child's pass from 1989 that had one day left on it. With that kind (no finger scans), he had no problem. But now-I wonder-his hands certainly grew quite a bit from age 6 to age 20!

 

[SnackyStacky]

Can someone explain more how they work - I had read somewhere that it's based on finger size and shape rather than "fingerprints". My kids are 10 and 12 - what happens if I purchase the new one, make it not expire, and they go to use it after they grow alot? Just wondering.

Just ask the CM at the turnstiles to take a new finger reading.

 

[The4OfUs]

Just ask the CM at the turnstiles to take a new finger reading.

Hmm, good idea, and more humane that telling my kids I'm not feeding them anymore so they won't grow up, and their passes would work.

Although that would save on the grocery budget...

 

[LIFERBABE]

What this really does is discourage the resale of tickets on Ebay or by those resalers in Orlando. Whose gonna risk buying a bio ticket, and then have to produce ID if it doesnt work. Disney tracks it's guests every move, and it's amazing the info they have stored on individual guests.

With the new MYW tickets, Disney is encouraging longer single stays. Most people will now decide not to have the no expiration feature to save money today. Those that purchase that option, will not be able to sell the passes if they don't make it back.

They should have designated turnstiles for guests with activated AP's only. That would speed things up and allow the guests that need help and instruction to get it quicker.

 

[5DisneyNuts]

I know, a bit off topic, but I have a problem with the whole non-transferable policy. I bought the tickets, why can't I use them as I see fit?

 

[mlobbia]

I know, a bit off topic, but I have a problem with the whole non-transferable policy. I bought the tickets, why can't I use them as I see fit?

I agree, I actually thought the current PH/PHP were transferable. I just got home and read my ticket and it reads "Nontransferable; must be used by the same person on any and all days". Technically by buying the ticket, you agree to this condition.

 

[ironz]

Just as a point of curiosity for the tech folks out there...but I just wonder what kind of hardware/software they must have to store all the fingerscans/days used/etc... Some programmers had their work cut out for them!!

 

[CarolA]

My AP always seems to take WAY less time then the people in front of me.... The slow ups are not with the APs. It is with the family who gets to the front of the line and then decides to HUNT for their tickets (or who think it will be really cute to have Dad go first and then take photos of all of the kids... WAIT, I am not ready... Ok go slow... Stop... pick up your ticket.... hold it up to daddy.... Come over here... Now you... FOUR TIMES!)

I have transferred tickets in the past, but I do know that it is not within the rules so if Disney starts enforcing the rules then I am going to have to play by thier rules.

 

[LIFERBABE]

My AP always seems to take WAY less time then the people in front of me.... The slow ups are not with the APs. It is with the family who gets to the front of the line and then decides to HUNT for their tickets (or who think it will be really cute to have Dad go first and then take photos of all of the kids... WAIT, I am not ready... Ok go slow... Stop... pick up your ticket.... hold it up to daddy.... Come over here... Now you... FOUR TIMES!)

CarolA I agree. That's why I think activated AP holders need their own turnstiles. Let the ones that know what they are doing move quickly through like a tolltag line.

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

Edit: Information contained in my original post may have been inaccurate. As a CM, I don't want to spread misinformation, so the text has been removed.

 

[luvsTink]

So, if I buy ticket media now, they won't be biometric when I go in January, but if I wait and buy the kids tix (we already have the adult php's) in January they WILL be biometric?

EDITED TO ADD: never mind...my post came up before I read the above post!

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

Edit: Information contained in my original post may have been inaccurate. As a CM, I don't want to spread misinformation, so the text has been removed.

 

[jl3614]

So how do you match tickets to the person. Say it is for adult tickets only, and your family consists of 2 parents and 3 teens. The current hopper tickets do not have names printed on them.

How do you match the ticket to the person? This would be especially difficult if the party split up - went to different parks, or arrived at the same park at different times?

Would this apply to tickets issued at any outlet - AAA, disney store, or resort ticket office?

 

[mochabean]

So how do you match tickets to the person. Say it is for adult tickets only, and your family consists of 2 parents and 3 teens. The current hopper tickets do not have names printed on them.

How do you match the ticket to the person? This would be especially difficult if the party split up - went to different parks, or arrived at the same park at different times?

Would this apply to tickets issued at any outlet - AAA, disney store, or resort ticket office?

I have read that tickets purchased at the same time can be linked in the computer, such that any finger scan will match any of the tickets. This will certainly help in such a situation. As is done with the APs, they add the finger scan info at the time of first use, therefore, any tickets can have finger scans added no matter where they were bought.

 

[SnackyStacky]

I know, a bit off topic, but I have a problem with the whole non-transferable policy. I bought the tickets, why can't I use them as I see fit?

They're non-transferrable because of the huge park-hopper black market.

If they were to add biometrics to all admission, I think it would be great because it would seriously cut down on all the Disney ticket scalping. It's just such a shame that it DOES have to come to that.

 

[DebbieB]

Will the new tickets have names printed on them in case biometrics fail?

 

[SnackyStacky]

OH!

And - one more pro for the biometrics: no more copying the backs of passes. You lost your pass? Just take your ID to Guest Relations and get a new one!!!!

 

[jl3614]

If what Mochabean says is correct - then the pass are transferable within your party. Unless I misunderstand, anyone in your party can use any ticket - all the tickets would be associated to all members of your party.