Comments on: Will Disney finally streamline the turnstile process? http://www.mouseextra.com/2008/02/26/will-disney-finally-streamline-the-turnstile-process/ Feeding the Disney fixation daily Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:00:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jerren http://www.mouseextra.com/2008/02/26/will-disney-finally-streamline-the-turnstile-process/#comment-2350 Jerren Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:33:29 +0000 http://www.mouseextra.com/2008/02/26/will-disney-finally-streamline-the-turnstile-process/#comment-2350 The original reason for the fingerprint scanners and the previous hand geometry biometric devices was to make sure people where not swapping tickets. I think this is more of a problem in DL than WDW but it works like this, a group of say 11 teens want to enter the park, six buy tickets and go in, the other five wait outside at a pre-determined location. The sixth man gathers all the tickets and goes out and meets the rest of the group and they all go back in together via a different set of turnstiles/security. Of course you can do it with two or three tickets and screw the gate even worse but with a greater chance of getting caught. Disney had to add a bit of tolerance into the system, allowing for multiple fingers/hands for groups who did not put names on their tickets which of course defeats the purpose. I for one would be happy if they only did the checks for folks who where not staying on Disney property as since they are charge cards not many people would lend out their keys to the kingdom cards. Of course none of this would be an issue if they lowered the price at the gate and went back to ticket books, ;-) The original reason for the fingerprint scanners and the previous hand geometry biometric devices was to make sure people where not swapping tickets. I think this is more of a problem in DL than WDW but it works like this, a group of say 11 teens want to enter the park, six buy tickets and go in, the other five wait outside at a pre-determined location. The sixth man gathers all the tickets and goes out and meets the rest of the group and they all go back in together via a different set of turnstiles/security. Of course you can do it with two or three tickets and screw the gate even worse but with a greater chance of getting caught. Disney had to add a bit of tolerance into the system, allowing for multiple fingers/hands for groups who did not put names on their tickets which of course defeats the purpose. I for one would be happy if they only did the checks for folks who where not staying on Disney property as since they are charge cards not many people would lend out their keys to the kingdom cards.

Of course none of this would be an issue if they lowered the price at the gate and went back to ticket books, ;-)

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