Old paper tickets and fast pass dilemma

[danikoski]

So my mom found some old paper Disney World tickets, and low and behold, they have days left on them! Yeah! One set is from 1991, with 2 days left, and one set is from 1995, with one day on it. So we both have 3 days of unused tickets. About the time she found those, I received a 30% off hotel PIN. So we decided it was destiny, and booked a trip for Feb 5-11.

In contacting Disney, we have to wait until we get on property to switch the paper tickets over to RFID technology. This means we have to wait until we get there to schedule any Fast Passes. This is a dilemma, since my mom would like to ride Frozen and Soarin at Epcot. I could see being able to do a walk up maybe for one, but not both. I may be wrong.

So I’m thinking of buying a separate ticket, independent of the old ones, for a day at Epcot so we can schedule Fast Passes. I’m looking at Feb 6 as our Epcot day because it should, hopefully, have relatively low crowds. Anyone know how that would then work with the Magic Bands in adding the other tickets? Anyone have experience with the old tickets being transferred to a Magic Band? Anyone have their paper tickets changed over recently (I’ve looked through the old threads and I believe the most recent was like 2012)?

Thanks for any advice or help!

 

[supersnoop]

How many park days are you planning? Those old park tickets have a lot of value, and it might be better to save them for another time.

 

[danikoski]

We are planning on at least 3 days at the parks and probably 4, with one non-park day.

 

[Robo]

So I’m thinking of buying a separate ticket, independent of the old ones, for a day at Epcot so we can schedule Fast Passes. I’m looking at Feb 6 as our Epcot day because it should, hopefully, have relatively low crowds.

Anyone know how that would then work with the Magic Bands in adding the other tickets? Anyone have experience with the old tickets being transferred to a Magic Band? Anyone have their paper tickets changed over recently (I’ve looked through the old threads and I believe the most recent was like 2012)?

Thanks for any advice or help!

There will be no negative issues having older tickets added to your MB after you arrive.
As soon as you do that, you can book FP+ for the additional number of days that you have added tickets.

 

[Wood Nymph]

So my mom found some old paper Disney World tickets, and low and behold, they have days left on them! Yeah! One set is from 1991, with 2 days left, and one set is from 1995, with one day on it. So we both have 3 days of unused tickets. About the time she found those, I received a 30% off hotel PIN. So we decided it was destiny, and booked a trip for Feb 5-11.

In contacting Disney, we have to wait until we get on property to switch the paper tickets over to RFID technology. This means we have to wait until we get there to schedule any Fast Passes. This is a dilemma, since my mom would like to ride Frozen and Soarin at Epcot. I could see being able to do a walk up maybe for one, but not both. I may be wrong.

So I’m thinking of buying a separate ticket, independent of the old ones, for a day at Epcot so we can schedule Fast Passes. I’m looking at Feb 6 as our Epcot day because it should, hopefully, have relatively low crowds. Anyone know how that would then work with the Magic Bands in adding the other tickets? Anyone have experience with the old tickets being transferred to a Magic Band? Anyone have their paper tickets changed over recently (I’ve looked through the old threads and I believe the most recent was like 2012)?

Thanks for any advice or help!

I am not an expert on tickets but I can answer a few questions. First of all Epcot is a tiered park which means that you can either get a fastpass for the Frozen ride or a fastpass for Soarin' but not a fastpass for both of them on a one day ticlet.

MagicBands are attached to your MDE account and you receive a MB when you make a Disney resort reservation. Any tickets that are linked to your MDE account will would with any MB that you have. So if you decide to buy a one day ticket and that ticket shows up in your MDE account then the MB will be linked to it.

As far as the paper tickets go, once you convert them to the new RFID technology and link them to your MDE account then your MB will work for them.

To get the most value from the paper tickets you want to convert the one day paper ticket to a one day RFID ticket and convert the 2 day paper ticket to a 2 day RFID ticket. Don't let them talk you into using those tickets to add a day or two to an existing RFID ticket. We had old paper tickets with two days left on them and foolishly let the CM just add two days to our 5 day parkhopper. That made the value of the old tickets only about $30 instead of the over $200 it would be now.

 

[Robo]

To get the most value from the paper tickets you want to convert the one day paper ticket to a one day RFID ticket and convert the 2 day paper ticket to a 2 day RFID ticket. Don't let them talk you into using those tickets to add a day or two to an existing RFID ticket. We had old paper tickets with two days left on them and foolishly let the CM just add two days to our 5 day parkhopper.

If the OP is, in fact, for sure, going to USE those older tickets as part of a single, multi-day trip, then there is no advantage to keeping the tickets as separate entities.

But, if there is a CHANCE (always a chance, I suppose) that they will not be using all of the tickets during the same trip,
they should be transferred to separate RFID tickets, as you suggested.

 

[danikoski]

I am not an expert on tickets but I can answer a few questions. First of all Epcot is a tiered park which means that you can either get a fastpass for the Frozen ride or a fastpass for Soarin' but not a fastpass for both of them on a one day ticlet.

MagicBands are attached to your MDE account and you receive a MB when you make a Disney resort reservation. Any tickets that are linked to your MDE account will would with any MB that you have. So if you decide to buy a one day ticket and that ticket shows up in your MDE account then the MB will be linked to it.

Thanks for the info! Which do you recommend for a Fast Pass?

Also, would they have honored your old paper ticket as a park hopper even if not attached to your current park hopper? Just curious because ours are old park hoppers. That might solve the fast pass dilemma some because we could do the two rides she wants to do at DHS and pop over to Epcot if a FP is available for the ride I don't get a FP for.