Disney World test tickets

[Jim BigThunder]

Has anybody encountered a "test ticket" before? I have a test ticket printed on plastic instead of paper. The ticket is the size of a paper ticket or a credit card, but only as thick as an index card or a paper ticket. The plastic is flexible and has a mag strip on the back. It has a shocking pink graphic with Minnie Mouse.

It was printed in 1995, and I figure it was to test plastic as a material for tickets. The back says "TEST TICKET ONLY" and 'NOT VALID FOR ADMISSION."

 

[mesaverdefan]

Yes, test tickets are not uncommon, though few turn up on ebay. Most would have just gone in the trash. It's not a test ticket in the sense of testing a new form of ticket. Test tickets were used to see if already existing ticket designs were being properly encoded and/or printed properly. Example below:



The rarer tickets were the Sample tickets [which would be marked sample]. Sample tickets were given to certain cast members to familiarize them with new ticket designs, also went in reference binders, and sometimes displayed for guests at ticket windows/counters.

 

[Jim BigThunder]

Thanks. I actually have one of the Tinker Bell tickets in the packet I received. That one is cardboard; the pink Minnie Mouse tickets are plastic.