Anyone remember tickets with pictures?

[Simba's Mom]

It seems to me they weren't around long, but wasn't there a time when you had to get your picture taken and put on your park ticket? Seems I remember the little photo booths where you had to get your picture taken sometime in the early 90s. This was supposed to eliminate selling/transferring passes. Seems it just got to be too much trouble. Anyone remember this?

 

[chyam]

I remember the photo tickets, I never did get why they did away with them, not only that but the cards were plastic and seemed to stay looking better, at least the annual and seasonal passes were with photos. I almost think it is better than the biometric thingy, I always have problems with that at the turnstiles.

 

[wdw4us2]

Our AP's used to have our photos on them and were laminated. I thought it was really bizarre when they stopped doing that and went to the newer passes. That was before they set up the biometric readers.

 

[NotUrsula]

For about a year in the mid-90's WDW had paper hopper passes with photos on them; the turnstiles took punches out of the tickets for each day they were used. They were about 1.5" wide and about 4" long, with the photo at the top and spaces for the days to be punched out.

We had to have DH's hopper replaced 3X on one summer trip, b/c the photo was done with ink that was not waterproof, and DH was sweating so badly that even with the ticket in his wallet, the image kept washing away. The next time we visited they had done away with the photos and switched to something very like the current-style tyvek hopper passes.

 

[wasabi girl]

Sadly I remember the ticket books...all the best rides took "E-tickets".

 

[tawasdave]

I used the last day we had left over from tickets with pics on them just this April. It was so cool...the pic of my son on his ticket showed my son at about 4 years old...he is now 15 and they still let us use the ticket for him to get in!!!

 

[ironz]

I had one of the ones that NotUrsula described. Oh, what a cruddy pic it was, too!

 

[Bracho]

"E-Tickets"... man did that catch on or what.... every great ride now in most theme parks have been called at one time or another.. "A real e-ticket ride"

My grandparents have a ticket book from the late 70's from Disneyland. I've been trying to get that for years... no luck yet but I'm going to keep at it.

 

[karensi]

A friend that I work with says that she has DW tickets that had to be signed by the user before entering the park. Does anyone remember that? The reason she brought it up to me was that her husband passed away last year and she has a ticket with his signature , she was wondering if she or her daughter could use it or would they check the signature and see that it was a man's name. Anyone have an answer??

 

[lillygator]

When I was littel - we always got AP's for xmas and I do remember mine with my pic on it, because I was so proud. I was disappointed to find that the new passes are paper and that WDW will give you a plastic card for a couple night's stay in a room but not an AP!!

I also remember the ticket books...one trip to MK we were on the tram to the park and I was looking through a book and it flew off into the wind never to be recovered by us!!

 

[2angelsinheaven]

I do! Our family use to have Season's passes when I was little and they had photos. Once my grandmother took my dads by mistake and Well, the lady at the gate thought she had stolen it.. YIKES! She was about to take it away when we explained and showed our passes that had the same last name...

 

[sanctus]

The tickets notursula described were used in 1994 when I went on my honeymoon. I got 4 day park hoppers (only 3 parks then!) and still have one day left on it. My dh LOST!! his.

 

[Scoobmuzic]

I still have those tickets in my scrapbook. My husband and I went in 1995 and they took your picture and digitaly scanned a black & white photo of you on to the ticket.

 

[dizneetravelagent]

I remember!!!! It was our first trip with our daughter in 1995. We had to go to City Hall and have our pics taken. We actually had to stand there while the CM pointed a laser like thing at us. It was actually rather bizarre. Still have the tickets.

PR

 

[Terry S]

My husband (then fiance) went in 1995 and we got the tickets that NotUrsula described as well. I remember the small black and white photo on it was awful. Also, the punches didn't work right on my ticket and I ended up with one more day on my ticket than my husbands. We actually turned the remainder of those tickets in for credit on our AP's in 2001.

 

[lauran cameron]

My goodness do I miss the plastic ones!

I'm an owner of an AP & my pass looks like its gone through the wash one too many times (which it hasn't )

But we JUST this year purchased AP for the Universal Theme Parks & their APs are plastic with a colour photo & work out great! You just scan 'em through and I don't remember if you had to scan your fingers or anything, but the lines moved fine (for thanksgiving weekend.)

Gosh, I feel like such a traitor when I talk about Universal haha