Stayed at Pop May 25-29, I'll post my trip report later. But for now... I think the finger id is a total scam more than ever! Three things make me think that. I know that Disney says they use it to try and protect people from buying bogas tickets from other people and so that people can't steal your ticket. But I really think it's so that they can make more $$ by having you buy a ticket and not handing them off to your friends and family.
Three things happened on this trip:
1. At Epcot I held the three tickets of my travel crew so I was the FP runner. I have an AP so my ticket looks different. At the end of the day I realized that no one signed their ticket!
So now how would we know whose was whose? So I asked the CM at the gate what we should do and he said no problem they will reset the tickets when we come back into the parks. (Geez so that's easy get a ticket from a friend and tell them that you confused your ticket with someone elses so they will reset it. I am not saying to do that but it's a flaw in the whole Disney reasoning why we need our fingers scanned.) ANYWAY so we went back into the park for Illuminations and at the gate we told the CM that they needed to be reset, she said to send the first person in and we should test each ticket on her to see which one is hers... well the very first ticket she used worked! I like a dummy, says "nice pick!" Second my husband goes in and his works to, and finally the last person goes in and his works. So do you mean to tell me that they all randomly picked the right ticket? I thought so, but then Sunday happened.
2. ON Sunday we went to MGM for Star Wars. When we got there 1 hour prior to opening there was already a line so we stood there and as the CM was ready to send us through she told us no fingers today, there is too much of a mob! Well that's cool, so I realize that they can turn it off or what ever, but everyone went through with no finger scan.
3. On Monday we went to AK. My biggest pet peve is that I get to the parks an hour before opening and may stand behind a few people, but if their fingers don't work, you've got problems because now 100 people have entered the park and you can't cut to another line cause everyone's in line and all that hard work is down the drain, cause someone's finger won't scan
So this day at AK the lines to get in were well beyond the ticket booths, we waited and were 4th in line. And it happened, this family in front of me couldn't get the finger to scan and so we stood there and watched hundreds of people go before us through the park and there was nothing we could do finally, in my Disney frustration I told the CM that this was nuts and let us go! He hit the pad and everyone went in without finger scanning.
The whole thing is rediculous and if Disney wants to make sure people are selling tickets to other people fingure out a better method!
Three things happened on this trip:
1. At Epcot I held the three tickets of my travel crew so I was the FP runner. I have an AP so my ticket looks different. At the end of the day I realized that no one signed their ticket!
So now how would we know whose was whose? So I asked the CM at the gate what we should do and he said no problem they will reset the tickets when we come back into the parks. (Geez so that's easy get a ticket from a friend and tell them that you confused your ticket with someone elses so they will reset it. I am not saying to do that but it's a flaw in the whole Disney reasoning why we need our fingers scanned.) ANYWAY so we went back into the park for Illuminations and at the gate we told the CM that they needed to be reset, she said to send the first person in and we should test each ticket on her to see which one is hers... well the very first ticket she used worked! I like a dummy, says "nice pick!" Second my husband goes in and his works to, and finally the last person goes in and his works. So do you mean to tell me that they all randomly picked the right ticket? I thought so, but then Sunday happened.2. ON Sunday we went to MGM for Star Wars. When we got there 1 hour prior to opening there was already a line so we stood there and as the CM was ready to send us through she told us no fingers today, there is too much of a mob! Well that's cool, so I realize that they can turn it off or what ever, but everyone went through with no finger scan.
3. On Monday we went to AK. My biggest pet peve is that I get to the parks an hour before opening and may stand behind a few people, but if their fingers don't work, you've got problems because now 100 people have entered the park and you can't cut to another line cause everyone's in line and all that hard work is down the drain, cause someone's finger won't scan
So this day at AK the lines to get in were well beyond the ticket booths, we waited and were 4th in line. And it happened, this family in front of me couldn't get the finger to scan and so we stood there and watched hundreds of people go before us through the park and there was nothing we could do finally, in my Disney frustration I told the CM that this was nuts and let us go! He hit the pad and everyone went in without finger scanning. The whole thing is rediculous and if Disney wants to make sure people are selling tickets to other people fingure out a better method!
We made no attempt to keep up with "who's was who's" either.
Here come the morality police!
