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[Penny12]

I don't care what they are made of as long as they still get me in a park for 365 days

 

[robinb]

Originally posted by WebmasterPenny
I don't care what they are made of as long as they still get me in a park for 365 days

That would be 366 days . An AP is good for the date you purchase it through and including that date one year later.

 

[DeDixie]

I totally prefer the thin tyvec ones. We have never had a problem.

 

[Cinderella37]

Plastic would still work in Fastpass machines, as another poster said, UPH are credit card-like passes. Plus when Fastpass first started, people were using anything with a magnetic strip to get Fastpasses, so they do fit. I certainly didn't try it - my mind doesn't work that way. We went to get FPs for Voyage of the Little Mermaid and there was a CM handing them out. It didn't even dawn on us that we could've gotten another FP since we didn't need to use the machine.

 

[CarolA]

I have never had a problem with the current format. The plastic actually seems more likely to be damaged (they don't bend!)

 

[Terry S]

I honestly would prefer the plastic. I have more than once got mine soaked in a bad rain storm and had to be replaced.

 

[zurgswife]

I'm also a supporter of the current material...

 

[momof2OH]

Personally I don't care one way or the other. The current ones are fine as long as it gets me in. However, they do tear. I just had to have my sons replaced 2 weeks ago because his got bent and then tore and would not work.

 

[Minky]

I definetely want to see them go to Plastic

I know they are durable as is, but they are not waterproof. And silly me got on Kali Rapids not thinking and had to go get ticket replaced. My Universal AP is plastic and the sleeve it fits in takes no more space than my Disney AP, AND I like having my picture on it, so if it doesnt work for some reason they can see it is me.

 

[iceskatejen]

While I don't have a WDW AP, I do have a DLR PAP and ours are plastic (though they just switched to a thinner, more flexible plastic) and our pics are on them. You get in faster with plastic APs over the paper ones with the finger scans. The CM only has to verify that the picture matches the person using it while those finger scans can take awhile, especially if the scan doesn't work right ( I was behing plenty of AP holders in line at WDW). The only time it took a long time at DLR was when one person was holding his entire family's APs and handed them to the CM in a stack rather than hand them to each member of the family the CM had to match each one up with it's owner. And the plastic APs work just fine in the FP machines.

 

[FatCow]

Originally posted by stinkerbelle
can I tell you - I totally agree with you.

but I bashed the AP paper here once and was swiftly reprimanded and reminded that the stuff it's made out of was just as strong as plastic.

<-- My opinion

I HATE having to carry my PAP around in that little booklet, in a waterproof container that I had to buy to keep that dang thing dry.

I completely agree with you. My father used to sell the factory machinery for these type of mag-stip cards.

They are NOT designed for prolonged use.

They are designed to be used as room key-card (still used by various hotel chains around the world including Radisson and Hilton Suites)

They are desgined to also be used as pre-paid public-phone card (no longer used due to its lack of durability).

 

[FatCow]

Originally posted by Rhonna
Another consideration is that if disney were to make them into hard plastic - they wouldn't work in the fast pass machines!


Rhonna

What are you talking about? the resort room-key (which is also UPH card) is made of hard plastic and works perfectly fine with any FP machines.

 

[FatCow]

Originally posted by robinb
The beauty of an AP is that it can be replaced if anything happens.

Why do you think that if it's made of regular credit-card plastic it can't be replaced? Even better, they just need to be re-striped. Better for the environment to (the current AP can NOT be re-striped).

Making things worse, the level of magneticism (I know, it's not even a word) on the current AP is much lower than regular CC-type system.

An additional info, the magnetic level of the current AP system is actually nearer to the minimum requirement for mag-strip card system, that's why they are easier to be de-gaussed than CC-type system.

Last but not least, since FP is relatively new, why can't they start using Smart-Card to begin with? I've been to many parks and expos around the world that uses smart-card (looks like SIM card). The manufacturing cost is no different than the CC-type, and you'll be hard pressed to accidentally de-gauss it.

Heck, I even have smart-card on my CC and my debit card.

 

[Goofmeister]

Plastic.

 

[Rhonna]

Well, I've been gone all weekend and came back to realize I'd been corrected! lol!

We've never used UPH's on our plastic room cards so I didn't realize that hard plastic would work in the FastPass machines. (I thought I'd come up with another 'con' to hard plastic cards that no one else had thought of yet - silly me!) You learn something new every day.

Anyhow, thankfully I haven't had any of the AP problems mentioned - yet.

Rhonna (who doesn't think "disveteran" should be anywhere near my name - lol!)