What does eticket mean in ref: to Disney?

[jilld11]

I keep seeing people saying eticket and I only know what that means in reference to airlines.
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We are talking 2 new lands, Disneys most expensive E ticket in history"
What does that mean and I probably sound like a moron.lol

 

[nannyz]

I am aging myself here, but back in the old days, you had to buy packets of tickets in order to ride the rides in DL. The tickets were divided into E tickets, D tickets, etc., according to the popularity of the ride.
The E ticket rides were the best ones -- would be like Indy or Splash today.
So when you went into DL, you had to decide which ones you would ride because you didn't have enough tickets to ride everything. You could buy more tickets but they were expensive.
So much better today when you pay an entrance and ride as much as you want to.

 

[jilld11]

Got you. Thanks

 

[dshimel]

I keep seeing people saying eticket and I only know what that means in reference to airlines.
Quote from micechat
We are talking 2 new lands, Disneys most expensive E ticket in history"
What does that mean and I probably sound like a moron.lol

For the first 25-ish (or is it closer to 30) years that Disneyland was open, in addition to admission ticket, each ride required a ticket. The rides were divided into ticket level, with each level ticket being a different price. Horse drawn carriage was an A. Small dark rides ber like a B or C. The more elaborate rides were D. The top rides that everyone wanted to ride, were the E-Ticket rides.

In the late-70s or early-80s I remember prices being something like 5 cents, 15 cents, 25 cents, 50 cents, $1. Or something like that.

In the late 1970s Magic Mountain opened with a very popular format of Pay-one-price (POP). It was not long after that when Disneyland dropped the separate ticket per ride (Pay as you go = PAYGO) and went to the POP.

 

[JadeDarkstar]

in 1982 they supposedly switched to the tickets we now use not the books but when they first opened E tickets were the best rides and you only got 1 or 2 of them in the book. ( 1982 is what we were told on the Lilly Bell)

 

[nunzia]

I still have some of those books..all missing the E ticket of course. Plenty of A ticket, which were things like the horse trolley on main street and King Arthur's Carousel (I just went and got my old books) Some 'B' s were Casey Junior, Main Street Cinema and Swiss Family Treehouse. 'C's were Great Moments with Lincoln (for a time, I remember, they had a special Lincoln ticket at the front of other tickets)Autopia, Peter Pan, Mr Toad, Tea Cups and Shootinjg Gallery. 'D' wereFlight to the Moon, Skyway, Tom Sawyer Island Mark Twain, Canoes and so on. "E' of course were the biggies..Pirates, Haunted Mansion..Matterhorn.( I was fuzzy if some of those rides were around in ticket days but they are listed at the back of the ticket book) PS the ticket book, for 15 rides for adults was $6.50.