sign paper tickets?

[weluvslinkydog]

Just got my paper tickets in the mail from ticketmania and I have a few questions.....there's a space for a signature on the back--I'm assuming we sign ours and the ones for our small children? also, I thought I had heard something about thumbprint scans? Thirdly, I've read we should write the number down somewhere in case they get lost--I can't find a number on the tix at all?? Thanks so much!

 

[bustamelon]

Just got back. They made us sign the tickets before going thru the gate. I guess the idea is like with credit cards, the signature is intended somehow to make it "valid", though this makes no sense to me because they have nothing to compare the signature against.

As for the finger scans, yes this is true. Every time you go thru the gate, you are required to place your index and middle fingers as far as they will go into a scanner, which supposedly matches your ticket to your person. This is a good idea for Disney, in that they can keep out anyone who steals tickets or finds lost tickets. It's also good for you if you lose yours -- in theory, if you have already done a scan, and you lose your tix, you can scan your fingers and get the lost tickets replaced, or at least still be admitted. However, I don't know if that's actually true. Benefits aside, there's something creepy and Orwellian about the whole thing too that I don't like.

 

[rileyroosmom]

I got my tickets from Ticketmania also and they included a Xerox copy of the back of the tickets. This is proof of your tickets incase they are lost.

 

[GoldenOldie]

Just got back. They made us sign the tickets before going thru the gate. I guess the idea is like with credit cards, the signature is intended somehow to make it "valid", though this makes no sense to me because they have nothing to compare the signature against.

If your biometrics scan doesn't work, they will ask you for a photo ID and compare the name and signature against that. They may not ask every time but if they do and the names don't match, you don't get in on that ticket.

As for the finger scans, yes this is true. Every time you go thru the gate, you are required to place your index and middle fingers as far as they will go into a scanner, which supposedly matches your ticket to your person. This is a good idea for Disney, in that they can keep out anyone who steals tickets or finds lost tickets. It's also good for you if you lose yours -- in theory, if you have already done a scan, and you lose your tix, you can scan your fingers and get the lost tickets replaced, or at least still be admitted. However, I don't know if that's actually true.

Not the way you are describing it. The biometric scan has nothing to do with allowing you to get your ticket replaced nor can you do the scan and be admitted without your ticket. The only thing that the scan does is confirm that it was you who used the ticket.

If you need to replace your ticket, you need the ticket numbers from the back of the ticket or a photocopy of the back of the ticket. Without them, there's only a very remote chance that your ticket can be tracked down.

Benefits aside, there's something creepy and Orwellian about the whole thing too that I don't like.

I'm sure you aren't alone. But the system does what's intended and like it or not, everyone must use it.

 

[NewEnglandDisney]

Benefits aside, there's something creepy and Orwellian about the whole thing too that I don't like.

I'm sure you aren't alone. But the system does what's intended and like it or not, everyone must use it.

I've been hearing that a lot, and I'd agree if it was information that was relevant to, say, my job, home life, or aggregated in some other fashion with other sensitive information.

Fact is, I don't care how much information Disney collects about me while I'm there. I'm on vacation at Disney World, and if someone knows that I went to the MK in the morning, ate at Pecos Bills, bought a mickey bar after, went to MGM, bought a pin at the big ugly hat, got a FP for the Tower of Terror, ate dinner at Brown Derby...I figure, so what.

Unless someone was trying to prove how many extra calories I consume on vacation, I could care less if that information was available to anyone - which isn't not. Disney keeps track of things to become a more efficent business, and in many ways that's good for us.

If someone stole my banks database and all my financial information, I wouldn't be happy. If someone stole Disney's database and could tell how many Mickey Bars I ate in a week, I would be amused (slightly embarassed, but notheless amused).

N.E.D.

 

[Minnie's Pal]

What is up with the paper tickets? We ordered ours from one of the suggested sites in the Mousesavers Newsletter and got them today. How are we suppose to keep them together after the first couple days (esp. if we go to a water park)? What happened to the "credit card" type tickets?

 

[SueM in MN]

What is up with the paper tickets? We ordered ours from one of the suggested sites in the Mousesavers Newsletter and got them today. How are we suppose to keep them together after the first couple days (esp. if we go to a water park)? What happened to the "credit card" type tickets?

Even though they look like paper, they are not paper. They are a card stock made of Tyvek (the same stuff they use to make those mailing bags that are impossible to tear).
Annual Passes have been made out of that stuff for years and they hold up very well. last year DH and I used our APs for about 16 days of admission and they looked and worked fine after that long.
Actually CMs have posted that they have to replace a lot more of the "credit card" type tickets because they crack, the magnetic strip scratches or becomes demagnitized.

Also, the finger scan they do is not a finger print. It's something called a "biometric scan". They actually measure the relationship of the bones in your fingers.

 

[fanofdisney]

We got ours a few months ago, and they're the credit card type tickets. We just decided to purchase an extra day, and they told me they would credit it to our room key. So the room key works as a ticket also?