Whatever happened to having your picture put on your ticket?

[thinkerbell]

I was just reading another thread about using the finger scan for tickets. This made me remember a time many years ago(probably 14 or 15) when just for a couple of years or so they made your picture and put it on your ticket sort of like your drivers license. We thought it was a great system to keep other people from using your tickets. Why did they abandon that system? Was it too costly--did they have too much trouble with it--did it take too much time? Just wondering if anyone remembers that or if you know what happened to take that away?

 

[Mackey Mouse]

I have no idea what happened with this, and I do not remember them doing this.. but I am wondering if it was cost effective..... I wonder if anyone know the true scoop..

 

[DebbieB]

Did they look at everyone's ticket as they entered to make sure the picture matched?

 

[thinkerbell]

I assume that they took a quick look but I really can't remember. I just remember having to give them up when we traded them in on new tickets. I wanted to keep them but they wouldn't let me. I thought it would be a really neat thing to keep because my kids were small then and we could look back at them as they got older. If I remember correctly they were like the tickets that you had to get stamped everyday except they had your picture on them.

 

[MaryannF]

We had our pictures for our tickets taken at the resort when we checked in, in 1994. They were heavier than paper but not quite as heavy as cardboard. The machine at the park gate punched a hole in the card and imprinted the date used to indicate the use of a day off the ticket. If you park hopped you didn't put the card in the machine again you used it and your hand stamp to move from park to park. We had 1 day left on them when we returned in 1997 and we had to turn them in as they had changed the technology to read them. I wanted to keep them because they had pictures of the kids on them but my husband said it was a pretty expensive souvenir and used them toward ultimate park hoppers.

 

[thinkerbell]

Thanks for posting Maryanne. I was beginning to think that maybe I had dreamed it or something.

 

[skiwee1]

We had those kind of tickets 12 years ago when we went to WDW. We didn't stay onsite though. We bought the park hoppers when we went to MK and got our picture taken then. I still have all of those tickets.

 

[seashoreCM]

I have one of those picture tickets and to me the quality of the picture is not all that great. However today's technology can produce much better pictures at less cost, even a laser printer or ordinary photocpy machine can.

Admittedly your options are very limited if you want to use the remaining day on a picture ticket towards an Unlimited Magic pass, but it is much more cost effective to exchange it for a modern magnetic ticket with the same remaining value in Disney Days rather than apply its yesteryear's remaining cash value towards the purchase of a hopper pass at today's prices.

Also you should have asked for the old ticket back as a souvenir, they normally stamp Void on it when they do this for you.

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

 

[MaryannF]

At the time we were not given the option of using the ticket. We were told that we had to "cash" them in towards a UMP. When the CM realized that I was upset that we had to give them up she said that she had no choice but to keep them and that she would see what she could do about compensation. When she returned (without the tickets) she said that she was able to drop 2 days off the UMP, the day we arrived and the day we left. We had driven to WDW from Canada and arrived late on check-in day and left 6 am on the day of checkout, so it worked for us.

 

[SamSam]

We had 'picture tickets' for several years, but they were on AP's and we usually kept them. They were from the early nineties. Actually I think we had pic ID"s until the finger scan was installed.
It worked better for me, because I usually fail the finger scan.

 

[PanamaMike]

The 5 Day World Hopper pass I bought for my Oct. 94 visit has my photo on it. It's black and white, one inch square and is the same quality as one might have expected to see in a newspaper. It is obviously me. I believe Disney did this to try to reduce the number of people who sold their unused days to other people.

Back then the pass was 7 3/4 by 2 1/2 inches and was punched in a machine as you entered the gate, indicating the date and time of entry. They didn't use the photo passes for very long. I didn't have one during my Feb 93 visit, and they were gone by the time I went down in Feb 98 (replaced with the current magnetic stripe version).

During my Jan 2000 solo visit I did experience one unexpected bonus to still having one day left on my 94 pass. They were still accepting the pass at the turnstile even though the magnetic ones were the norm (don't know why Maryann F had a problem in 97).

They had recently introduced the Fast Pass system and because the system was so new, every kiosk had a cast member explaining how the process worked. As my pass wasn't designed for the system, I would show it to the cast member who would then manually issue me a Fast Pass.

Since the computer wasn't reading my pass, it had no way to keep track of how many Fast Pass tickets I was getting...no restricting me to just one FP at a time. I could keep going back again and again.


Oh yeah, one other thing. The 1994 5 Day World Hopper pass was back in the day when the 5 days were for addmission to just the parks. They also included from the first day you used it, 7 consecutive days of UNLIMITED use of Pleasure Island, Typhooon Lagoon, River Country and Discovery Island. The cost for all this fun? With my Magic Kingdom Club discount.. $170.51 plus tax. Those were the days. I still have the pass as a memento.

 

[Tulip]

My MIL, SIL & 2 nephew went in October 1995 and they still have their photos passes from then. They were little colour photos but it's neat that the boys have them since at the time they were 3 & 5 and now are 11 & 13.

 

[PatriciaH]

At Disneyland the AP's have pictures on them. At least they did in 2000, my sister-in-law had to get her picture taken for hers.