Old Non-expire tickets to Magic Bands

[Disneyholic]

My son has a Non-expiring 10 day Park Hopper w/ WP&M ticket from a few years back with 7 days of parks & 10 days of WP&M left on them. He will be going down to WDW for his honeymoon in September 2015. The tickets don't have any number that can be used on MDE for his magic bands. How can I get something so I can attach them to an MDE account. DH & I will be down in WDW in April & August 2015. If we take the tickets with us will customer service at the parks be able to help us to link these tickets to his MDE account or does he have to be there to do anything? If we have to wait to link them til he is there we won't be able to book FP+ for him till 30 days out. His fiancée will be getting new tickets as soon before 60 days out so we can link her tickets since they will be new. Any suggestions?

 

[Cheshire Figment]

The ticket number is in the form "WXX:### DD/MM/YY #####" or "DD/MM/YYYY WXX:### Tr:#### ####"

An "X" may be any letter. DD/MM/YY or DD/MM/YYYY is the date of issue. And a # may be any number from one to five digits.

You should be able to load that ticket number into the system.

 

[matheke]

We just did this type of thing in October. Guest Relations at DTD converted our old tickets to the new rfid tickets. If you want to link them to a MDE account you can by entering the numbers on the back.

We have not linked our through MDE yet because there are other types of tickets we are using and do not want to use up days on non-expiring tickets until a later date.

 

[Disneyholic]

Enter Your Ticket Information

Refer to the diagram to help locate the required ticket information.



We are unable to process your ticket online.
Please call (407) 939-4357 for assistance with older tickets. Guests under age 18 must have parent or guardian permission to call.

This is the kind of ticket I am trying to link and it says it CAN'T be done online even using those numbers.

 

[dmband]

Is it true that you could "relink" and old ticket to someone else as Disney trashed the finger print scans?
I have a family member coming for five of the ten days we are going and I also have a non expired tic from back in like 09ish that I signed the back of but could link to a mb easy enough

 

[Disneyholic]

Is it true that you could "relink" and old ticket to someone else as Disney trashed the finger print scans?
I have a family member coming for five of the ten days we are going and I also have a non expired tic from back in like 09ish that I signed the back of but could link to a mb easy enough

No. The ticket is still linked to the original owner even if it is linked to a Magic Band. When you use the Magic Band you still do the finger scan. That has not changed.

The ticket I am trying to link is my sons from a trip for his 21st birthday that he needs linked to a Magic Band for his Honeymoon in September 2015.

 

[georgina]

I can confirm matheke's response. We had a bunch of old park hoppers from 2004-2008 (some with only water park visits left) and guest services changed them all into RFID tickets which I could then link in MDE. You could take your son's ticket and do this. The ticket owner did not need to be there The CM gave me a sharpie marker so I could write on the back who each ticket belonged to.

 

[Disneyholic]

We just did this type of thing in October. Guest Relations at DTD converted our old tickets to the new rfid tickets. If you want to link them to a MDE account you can by entering the numbers on the back.

We have not linked our through MDE yet because there are other types of tickets we are using and do not want to use up days on non-expiring tickets until a later date.

I can confirm matheke's response. We had a bunch of old park hoppers from 2004-2008 (some with only water park visits left) and guest services changed them all into RFID tickets which I could then link in MDE. You could take your son's ticket and do this. The ticket owner did not need to be there The CM gave me a sharpie marker so I could write on the back who each ticket belonged to.

Thanks to both of you. He will be calling the number tomorrow that they give on the site above, but if that doesn't work I will take the ticket when I go down in April.

 

[Emacneil]

I had to do this last year. I cannot find the link, but there was one that had pictures of all the old tickets to show you how to link to MDE. We were unable to do it with the numbers on the back (the tickets were pretty old). We took them to guest relations and they converted them to RFID tickets. Only bummer was that we could not make FP for the days with those tickets until we linked the converted tickets. Luckily they were only for a few days.

 

[coopersmom]

We had these on our last trip in September and though we entered them in and the system "saw" them -- as in they showed up as attached -- they wouldn't let us book FP+ with the days from the old non-expire tickets, which was a PITA. We ended up at guest services on day one for about 75 minutes while they added the tickets to the magic bands and copied over the FastPass+ selections from my magic band (since I had an AP) to my family's. Luckily, it was low season and they were able to do it for all but 7 Dwarves Mine Train without too many issues. (At this point I also had a lot of documentation from all the people I'd talked to pre-trip about this, and lots of notes on the account, apparently.)

Well, at least that's what we were told ... Frequently either my son or husband's supposed FastPass selection wouldn't register when we touched the Mickey reader, but they always waved us through when I showed them the schedule on my phone. And my son had lots of problems with his band for admission, culminating in our last day, when we didn't even try to go to the park until after 5 ... Only to discover that they'd screwed up the number of days on my son's ticket.

Instead of fixing the old ticket numbers, or whatever, they had just issued new ones for the days left, shorting my son two days he was supposed to have. We ended up back at guest relations for another 30 minutes and they, eventually, just let us into the park for that one evening and we gave up and threw away the last day he should have still had left on the non-expire ticket because it wasn't worth the fight and hassle.

All that being said, I hope you have much better luck. My advice is talk to whomever you can via phone and email before your trip and document, document, document! I should have had written information from the first guest relations cast member on day one but after the long wait my outside the park gates my son was bursting at the seams to just go in already -- and who could blame him? I had the info in my phone on the app that looked right so I didn't bother getting anything in writing about number of days, etc. in case we had later issues which, sadly, we frequently did.

 

[dmband]

No. The ticket is still linked to the original owner even if it is linked to a Magic Band. When you use the Magic Band you still do the finger scan. That has not changed.

The ticket I am trying to link is my sons from a trip for his 21st birthday that he needs linked to a Magic Band for his Honeymoon in September 2015.

Right but there have been reports of the scan data being trashed and that if the ticket is purchased before the trash then they can be linked to anyone.
This isn't a detailed thread but one that mentions it a little http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=52097413&postcount=6

 

[enchantedny]

My inlaws had non-expiring tickets from 2006. I called guest services and they were able to link them to MDE for me. It took about 10 minutes but we had no problems after they were linked.

 

[dmband]

My inlaws had non-expiring tickets from 2006. I called guest services and they were able to link them to MDE for me. It took about 10 minutes but we had no problems after they were linked.

Was it your ticket originally or they transferred it to you/your account?

 

[enchantedny]

The tickets were theirs originally and they were the ones using them. I had linked our reservations in MDE but was having a hard time linking their tickets so that I could get them FP+. I called guest services about 40 days before our trip and they linked the tickets for me.