demagnitized tickets

[tink1978]

Another thing that demags them is coins....if there are loose coins in your pocket, or whereever near the tic....it will demag...same thing with room keys.

 

[Wish I lived in Fl]

Ive also only had this problem with Disney park tickets ,whether the hard plastic or the thin paper. Never any other cards which are used a lot more, carried around a lot more,and still carried around at WDW.

It seems as though the other mag reader users must have a better quality, more rugged system.

 

[OK!]

I didn't have the problem with WDW tickets, but I had it several times with WDW resort room keys (as did everyone else in my party); the explanation given the Beach Club front desk was that the magnetized strips on room keys, tickets, etc. aren't meant to last years (like they are on credit cards), so they're much easier to demagnetize. I've carried credit cards and my cell phone right next to each other I don't know how many times and have never had a problem, so the explanation makes sense to me.

 

[WillCAD]

The girl at the desk said sometimes even eel skin wallets can do it.

That's an utterly HULLARIOUS and completely bogus old myth. It is based on the premise that eel skin carries an electromagnetic charge.

Firstly, not all eels are electric, and those that are electric are not used to make commercial products like wallets.

But even if an electric eel was used to make a wallet - guess what, it's dead! Its body is gone, only the skin remains, and there is absolutely no way in all of physics or biology for the skin of a dead animal to create an electrical field.

This myth was busted, debinked, and proven total hogwash on Mythbustes a couple of seasons ago.

I think the main culprit among folks who take precautions (i.e. keeping phones away and not stacking tickets together) is static electricity, which we all know can build up in the human body from friction. And we do walk a lot at WDW

 

[Linzybrooke]

One more tip...if you are flying take your tickets in your carry-on luggage. The scanner for under plane baggage can also demagnetize tickets, credit cards and the like.

 

[CanadianGuy]

Well, not really. The best solution to the problem is to keep any item with a magnetic strip away from any item that can cause that strip to become demagnetized. It's not Disney's (or MasterCard's, or Macy's, or Hilton's, etc) responsibility to redesign credit cards, room keys, park passes, etc. As has been indicated in this thread, MANY items can cause park passes to become demagnetized. Nobody seems to think that credit card companies should redesign credit cards, that purse manufacturers should eliminate magnetic closures, that hotels should return to room keys vs key cards...

Sorry ... dont' buy it.

As I mentioned a few posts back.. I've had credit cards.. numerous hotel room keys.. etc.. And NEVER EVER EVER had a problem with demagnetizing.

This is a distinctly Disney and it IS their responsibility to realize this and step up and fix it. My Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Hyatt Hotel key have NEVER had this demagnetize problem. But my Disney ticket/room key did.

That's a DISNEY problem. And they need to FIX it.

J

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

I have a friend who had problem with her AP about 4 or 5 years ago, it turned out to be the magnetic snap on her purse.

You've saved me!

I knew about cell phones and credit cards. I never thought about my purse's magnetic snap! Thanks!!!!
You may very well have saved me some future stress! Yay, Disboards!

 

[cjb71870]

I've had problems with my AP twice within the last 2 years. I've had my AP for 7 years though. And, the first thing she asked me was if I had a magnetic clasp on my purse. And I did. I've had the purse for 2 years and bring it on my trips still. Plus I put them with all my other cards.

 

[Diamond_Girls]

It kept happening to us last summer - turns out the magnets in my husband's sunglass clip was the culprit! It was soooo frustrating. At Epcot we had to wait for help because the only person who could deal with it was on break! I was not feeling the magic! However, they did give us a special fastpass that would work on any ride and we bypassed a 90 minute wait at Soarin and went right on in. it was the only way we could have ridden it as the fast pasts were gone and we weren't going to wait 90 minutes!

 

[Marseeya]

Last year we kept our passes in our camera case and didn't have a problem, but now I'm wondering. The camera has a speaker. Or do you think the camera case is padded enough?

 

[DebbieB]

I've had AP's since 1998 and never had one demagnetize. I keep it either in an inside pocket of my wallet or on a lanyard that a friend gave me.

 

[SnackyStacky]

This myth was busted, debinked, and proven total hogwash on Mythbustes a couple of seasons ago.

Mythbusters also took on the demagnetization of credit card strips. They proved that one false too.

 

[cranbiz]

I don't think that anyone really knows what will demagnitize the magnetic strip for sure. All of the things stated in earlier threads may be true.

DS has needed his AP replaced 4 or 5 times. He would keep it in his wallet in a seperate pouch from his ATM card and DL. One time with me, it was replaced at MK at 1pm and again the same night at EPCOT. The AP was in his lanyard pouch that day. Go figure. Now I have had never had a problem in the last 2 years with my AP and mine is kept in my wallet. It's kept in the Disney AP jacket but it is not kept seperate of my CC's.

 

[2Princes2Princesses]

I forgot to mention.....the 3rd card they gave me, the girl at the desk gave me a cardboard thing to keep it in. I went through 3 cards in 4 days....the last one in the envelope thing?? Lasted the rest of my trip.

They have them at the desks....they say "Magic Your Way tickets" and I guess they are for holding those.....helped me.

WillCAD- I am about the eel skin. I was confused when the girl told us that....it never occurred to me they would make that assumption based on electric eels. I just thought maybe it was some strange eel chemical thing. Now that I know THAT is the reason they think eel skin demags the cards, I know it is baloney. I also feel slightly that I didn't realize that was the reason people thought eel skin wallets demagnetized cards.

In September, I am asking for a cardboard holder. May not help, but I am willing to try.

 

[lclark0621]

So cell phones, other tickets, credit cards, magnetic snaps, eel skin wallets , static electricity, airport x-rays, hotel keys all demagnitize the tickets... Anything else?

How the heck are we supposed to carry these things? I personally dont like walking around with a lanyard on my neck, of course even if I do that, the static electrisity that builds up in my body could demagnitize the ticket. So should I carry it in some special led envelope? You know lead blocks kryptonite from Superman, maybe it will save my WDW ticket to!

I think Disney needs to come up with a new ticket. These things just get screwed up to easily.

 

[zurgswife]

Sorry ... dont' buy it.

As I mentioned a few posts back.. I've had credit cards.. numerous hotel room keys.. etc.. And NEVER EVER EVER had a problem with demagnetizing.

This is a distinctly Disney and it IS their responsibility to realize this and step up and fix it. My Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Hyatt Hotel key have NEVER had this demagnetize problem. But my Disney ticket/room key did.

That's a DISNEY problem. And they need to FIX it.

J

It is not just Disney. I have a certain card that if I don't keep it totally away from everything it is demagnitized every time. Just a split second by my phone or in my wallet sends me running for another card. The organization that this particular card comes from says that they feel that over the years the quality of the mag strip had deteriorated.

So, I don't know if there are different qualities of Mag strips but that might make sense.

It's probably a cost thing. I'm pretty certain it is not something that Disney is worried about fixing. So, don't count on not having to make the trip to the ticket window the next trip.

 

[snowwite]

We had this problem not once , not twice but three times on our trip. Turns out my LL Bean bag has a magnet inside the flap to keep it closed.Who knew? The last person to reissue our tix noticed. I switched to a Tigger bag and was fine.