Subsonic Radio

Hi, real quick question for anyone who's been to DLR recently.

When you go through the turnstiles, are the tickets scanned through a barcode scanner by a cast member, or do you feed them through a slot and they get spit out on the other side like at WDW?

I'm just curious to know because I have some cast member comp tickets from WDW that I'd like to use at DLR before they expire and am wondering whether or not I'm going to have to go to a ticketing booth to exchange them for DLR-style tickets first.

It actually depends. Everyone we saw did hand their passes to the CM working the turnstile... sometimes that CM fed them through the front, sometimes they scanned the barcode on the back. I couldn't pick up on any rhyme or reason to it.

I will second the comments by spaulo, we just handed ours to the CM and they either scanned or fed them through the turnstile. Wierd, huh? I was expecting a finger print "scan" like at WDW.

Hmm. So I take it they still don't use biometric readers like at WDW. I looked up Disneyland park hopper tickets on eBay and saw that they have both barcodes and magnetic strips, so I suppose they now have the ability to read both? (But why two on one ticket? The world may never know...)

Thanks for your replies. I guess I'll just find out when I get there!

well, i know the FastPass machines use the barcode, and I'm sure that feeding the passes into the turnstiles swipes the magnetic strip... more than that, I don't know.

And yes, they definitely have not added biometric scanners to the gates at Disneyland.

Biometric Scanners? That's some crazy security. I guess it's just a matter of time before we get them at DLR too.

yeah everyone seems to think they're scanning fingerprints at WDW gates, but they're actually just taking a few measurements of finger length, knuckle width, etc... and if they don't match what's encoded on your ticket, sayonara!

I wondered about that - how exact is it? What if you're a kid and you grow before the next time you use the tickets? I mean, this could be a problem if you get the kind that never expire.