Stupid Guest Tricks

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Was that the t-shirt with a built in Wi-FI detector?

There are a lot of other t-shirts out there that will light up with embedded L.E.D.'s and other things!!

It was a circuit board with flashing lights. The other instance was a promotion fro the Cartoon Network.

felinefan wrote:String 'em up by their thumbs and give them fifty lashes! :twisted:

OOOOOH, where do I get a fastpass for that ride???

The last post, I was thinking that it would be the other new track for It's a Small World made for SG. The dolls go through a different theme and show SG what happens when they do something wrong. See the dolls with the cheer leader section. They turn around and spray hair spray and yell.

turkeyham wrote:The last post, I was thinking that it would be the other new track for It's a Small World made for SG. The dolls go through a different theme and show SG what happens when they do something wrong. See the dolls with the cheer leader section. They turn around and spray hair spray and yell.

Now THAT would be a GOOD use of IASW!!!!

turkeyham wrote:On the back of the fastpasses they should put a caution: If you are make a fake pass out of this card, you will get life. :D:

Good, but I'd Like to make one change. "Life, serving the fast pass line."

Some SG saturday used a fake expired read to get into space mountain. What is really sad is that the cast member let them on even after telling them it was fake.
I did notice the larger date though. Should just start scanning the things. Slide it through a turnstyle, and have it light up either red, yellow or green. Red for expired or fake, yellow for not valid yet.

kurtisnelson wrote:Some SG saturday used a fake expired read to get into space mountain. What is really sad is that the cast member let them on even after telling them it was fake.
I did notice the larger date though. Should just start scanning the things. Slide it through a turnstyle, and have it light up either red, yellow or green. Red for expired or fake, yellow for not valid yet.

Although, a good idea in itself, in my opinion it's just spending more money on a system that should be trashed. Fastpass is way more negative then positive on any level. The few that use them are happy, the majority that either don't or can't are pissed.

Now there is this whole new culture of fake FP's. This came about because Disney didn't enforce it's own rules concerning FP. They put a window on the passes for a reason. Then they decided to honor the front half (no early entry) and ignore the closing half. I cannot believe that CM's just take it upon themselves to allow people in after the close of the window. I'm sure that this is allowed from above that level. As usual, people have found a way to abuse even the friendliest of ideas.

Either enforce both the open and close of the windows or trash it. I vote for trash it.

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Goofyernmost wrote:
Either enforce both the open and close of the windows or trash it. I vote for trash it.

[font="Palatino Linotype"]at DL they've always enforced the time you can use the fp to enter the fp line, but they've always said you could go in anytime after that...it didn't matter what the window was (the end time)...the biggest problem with fp here is that a lot of them go very quickly and are gone within just a couple of hours...especially space mt.[/font]

mechurchlady wrote:Stamps not sure but one could do those pretty cheap so for about $80 and the stamps you could make a profit after only 3 or 4 admissions. Bring bus one in at $30 a person for $1200 then get their tickets and keep them on a tour while your partner #2 brings the tickets and makes stamps. Bus 2 arrives and you get $1200 from those 40 people. You have 2400 and paid 2000 for the supplies, busses and entrance fee. then bus 2 group gets stamps, special for your guests and tickets, enter, get the tickets back and get them fast passes or lie or something, I am not a crook for that reason.

I must be missing something (I'm thick) because I can see no way that this saves ANYBODY money??!?

Where are you getting $30 per person? Is that a discounted group bus rate? If so, if you can't afford $30 for an all-day ticket to WDW, you shouldn't be there.

If you are splitting the cost up between the two groups of 40 (I thought tickets were more than $60 each now) it STILL doesn't make any sense. To whit: nobody is SAVING any money!! Paying half price ($30) for a half day at WDW is STILL the SAME RATE, right? And which half day do you get? One might be worse (in terms of over-attendance) than the other, so it's not really fair.

Up until 10-20 years ago, all you needed to regain entry was the hand-stamp. It wasn't until that time that you needed to "hold on to your tickets".

Frankly, if I was Disney, I wouldn't care so much if people took their tickets to the parking lot, handed them to friends, relatives or strangers and said "go use the rest of the time left on the ticket". It's not like as if a terrorist wouldn't just buy a ticket the old-fashioned way.

CMGUY89 wrote:The date will be printed very largely in the middle of the ticket to prevent people from using previous days' fastpasses.

This is one of those things that we almost universally let go. Usually due to extended downtimes the previous day, the rest of the time because it's just not worth the argument. It's not necessarily our place to play gatekeeper and enforce every single rule as rigidly as possible, plus we can always accommodate a few extra riders.

Goofyernmost wrote:Now there is this whole new culture of fake FP's. This came about because Disney didn't enforce it's own rules concerning FP.

This practice is not new, it did not evolve out of lax rule enforcement, and guaranteed: CMs can spot fake FPs, re-ads and GACs from a mile away. When you see thousands upon thousands of these every year, the few that aren't legit stick out like sore thumbs. The only reason we'd let anyone in on a fake ticket is to give security a few minutes to get to the attraction... when their ride ends, we turn the guests & the passes over to security, then the guests' day at the park ends. True story!

Goofyernmost wrote:I cannot believe that CM's just take it upon themselves to allow people in after the close of the window.

I think the Tokyo parks are the only ones that rigidly enforce FP times... they'll give you about a five-minute leeway at the end of your window, but after that you're out of luck.

Adam