Old Style Park Hoppers -- no fingers scans(?)

[LoveToDisney]

Old Park Hopper tickets (pre-2005)...does anyone know for sure whether they have changed things to REQUIRE a finger scan on those old tickets? We used to be able to just zip through the gates without finger scans and thought I had read a post that ALL tickets were requiring scans now. I didn't know if that was based in fact or if people were just assuming it because they see everyone doing finger scans for the MYW and AP tickets. If anyone has used an old style ticket lately and knows for sure, please post. Thanks!

 

[ShariB]

We were there in June. We were finger-scanned and we were using old park hopper passes.

 

[safetymom]

All tickets require a finger scan now.

 

[stacy6552]

What exactly are they scanning for? Im not all that keen on loading finger prints into some database.

 

[seashoreCM]

Finger scans (I think length measurements only) are being added to each old pass starting with the next person who uses it.

This has been technically possible ever since finger scanners were introduced for annual passes, although held off probably because computer memory was not so plentiful and cheap and processors not so fast way back then.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/dispass.htm

 

[Eljay]

From what I read, it's not fingerprints. It's size & shape of fingers.

 

[Eljay]

http://www.allearsnet.com/pl/fingerscan.htm

Ah yes, here we go, the whole scoop.

 

[sherrycurl]

i do not know what they are scanning for but every time i went to a park and was scanned i was denied access to the park according to the computer. the friendly person at the entrance would laugh and let me in anyway, so what's the point in scanning.

sherry

 

[LoveToDisney]

Thanks for your imput. I'm still wondering if a scan is required or if everyone is just doing it because of those around them are. Have some of you just put your old hopper ticket through, got a green light and tried to move through the turn style like the old days and been denied? I'm wondering if it's just a hoax on Disney's part to make us "think" the old style park hopper ticket puts a scan in the database to match against. They may require a scan for every ticket (by simply setting the "rules" to require a finger scan), but there's still no proof that there's anything in a database to match for the old style tickets.

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

What tickets you use doesn't matter. We used old park hopper tickets and on the adult tickets they scanned you the first time you used it and from then ON it does have it 'remembered' (I assume in a database) and you have to use the scan from then on. I do believe they have some sort of system going on because the 2nd time I used my old park hopper pass I didn't hold my fingers "just right" and had to do it a few times until it read my fingers right. Still don't know what I did differently... I wonder if that scanner was just pickier. LOL

It was hit and miss IMO though... with my oldest child she had an old park hopper upgraded to adult one. The first time she used it- didn't requre her finger scanned. I thought Okay... whatever. 2nd time she used it- differen't park- didn't require her fingers scanned. But then the other few days (also different parks) it did require it! All parks required it for me on my old park hopper pass. I have no idea why the first couple of days her new adult ticket didn't require her fingers to be scanned.

Children's tickets, IME, new or old- didn't require finger scans. Makes sense because they can grow... but DOES NOT make sense on children 9 or older that need adult tickets. What if they don't use the rest of it for 2yrs- they will grow and most likely so will their fingers, right? Do fingers grow after 9yrs old???

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

Thanks for your imput. I'm still wondering if a scan is required or if everyone is just doing it because of those around them are. Have some of you just put your old hopper ticket through, got a green light and tried to move through the turn style like the old days and been denied? I'm wondering if it's just a hoax on Disney's part to make us "think" the old style park hopper ticket puts a scan in the database to match against. They may require a scan for every ticket (by simply setting the "rules" to require a finger scan), but there's still no proof that there's anything in a database to match for the old style tickets.

I don't think anyone is doing it because everyone else around them is- you can't do that even if you want to... I know because I thought my oldest would have to do the finger scanned with her new upgraded from child to adult ticket- and the first time they didn't need to be scanned so she wasted her time putting her fingers in there. The 2nd time she didn't need to be scanned. The 3rd time she DID need to be scanned and wasn't expecting it.

If you get a green light without scanning you're not going to be denied going through... that's what the CM's look for... the green light before allowing you through and you won't get a green light if you need your fingers scanned.

Why do you think Disney would do a 'hoax' on this? Just to take more time for everyone to try to minimize tickets being transferred by "tricking" us?

 

[LoveToDisney]

...Why do you think Disney would do a 'hoax' on this? Just to take more time for everyone to try to minimize tickets being transferred by "tricking" us?

The reason would be to make things simpler because the majority of ticket holders will have the new MYW tickets....then the CM can say ALL tickets need finger scans when possibly the old tickets don't.

However having said that, it doesn't appear to be the case from what you report. This will be a real pain for us because we are used to letting our teens just take a ticket from a group of tickets and not keeping them separate. If one pass had more days, that's the one they would use. Won't be that way any longer I guess.

 

[safetymom]

No it not a hoax. It is now policy at WDW that all tickets require a finger scan.