Gate / Admission Finger Scanning going away?

WVParkfan · Post by **WVParkfan** » Apr Thu 17, 2008 6:32 am

I think one of the reasons they have it is to try to keep families from buying one, single discounted 7-day pass, and having everyone use the one ticket on a single day. In other words, if the family of 7 had to purchase 7 individual one-day tickets, Disney makes a lot more money. Hope that makes sense.

meticulus9 · Post by **meticulus9** » Apr Fri 18, 2008 9:52 am

i dont think that makes sense. you wouldnt be able to use FP, and each person is required to have their own media. i think they did it to prevent black market media from being sold and also to reduce the number of cast members @ the gate

GhostHost · Post by **GhostHost** » Apr Fri 18, 2008 9:59 am

meticulus9 wrote:i dont think that makes sense. you wouldnt be able to use FP, and each person is required to have their own media. i think they did it to prevent black market media from being sold and also to reduce the number of cast members @ the gate

Those gates are going to be manned regardless of which technology is being used and since many people are coming in using the system for the first time it will always require a certain amount of hand-holding. It's funny to watch people try to scan their tickets and walk through the gates. Most are not paying attention and hold up the lines.

meticulus9 · Post by **meticulus9** » Apr Fri 18, 2008 5:09 pm

usually 1 person per 2 gates though

coasterphil · Post by **coasterphil** » Apr Sat 19, 2008 9:03 am

cccmouse wrote:I would love to see the finger scan go away. I always wind up in line behind the guy who just can't figure it out. Plus, where have all those fingers been? Yuck!

At least those scanners are cleaned once or twice a day. Much better than all those handrails and vehicle restraints that you touch all day that aren't cleaned nearly as often.

WVParkfan wrote:I think one of the reasons they have it is to try to keep families from buying one, single discounted 7-day pass, and having everyone use the one ticket on a single day. In other words, if the family of 7 had to purchase 7 individual one-day tickets, Disney makes a lot more money. Hope that makes sense.

That isn't how the tickets work. The turnstile system can only take one day off a pass per day. Once it's been used it either comes up as "Recently Used" and refuses entry (if it's been 15 minutes or so since last usage, I'm not sure what the hard time is on that) or "Already Used" and lets you in.

sgrfunk · Post by **sgrfunk** » May Sat 03, 2008 12:21 am

I really don't care if they have the finger scanners or not, I just like the idea of getting through the line as quickly as possible and getting to my favorite attractions first.

Post by **YZFDonor** » May Mon 05, 2008 11:23 am

I haven't seen it mentioned (and I think I missed a few posts in the middle) but my only concern about the scanners is EVERYONE putting their fingers in there... Take some hand sanitizer. (Yeah I know, you touch stuff all over the place but for some reason, this one gets me thinking).