Stupid Guest Tricks

ktulu wrote:I thought it was coffee and beer.

And bagel Friday. The blueberry was the best!

From the LA Times

Disney to offer ride wait-time updates via cellphone

My friend and colleague Dawn Chmielewski reports that starting next year, visitors to Disney theme parks will be able to use their cellphones to check ride wait times, locate restaurants and find characters as well as receive admission discounts and merchandise deals.

Disneyland and Walt Disney World visitors would have to download an application to their Verizon Wireless phones to access the information. Some information would be available regardless of your wireless company.

Back in January, Disneyland tested a similar program using a standard Nintendo DS portable videogame player that let theme park visitors check ride wait times, locate walk-around characters and plot a time-efficient strategy for visiting the most popular attractions.

In 2007, Disney applied for a patent that imagined a day when theme park visitors could use cellphones to book a FastPass, the theme park giant’s ride reservation system that allows visitors to return at a designated time and enter via a shorter line.

And I thought it was extreme when I called Web Laundry Services one time about losing money in a washer in an apartment complex I used to live in, and on their hold message they said you can now get an email notification when your wash is done.

felinefan wrote:... their hold message they said you can now get an email notification when your wash is done.

What?!? Disney is now going to be airing their dirty laundry via cellular!?!?!

Good thing Donald *doesn't* wear pants, this could get ugly.

hobie16 wrote:RFID Wristbands

At Last a way to Id the SGs without them being the wiser! :p: Maybe it will be used as a FP or to reduce line cutting someday! ;)

DisneyMom wrote:At Last a way to Id the SGs without them being the wiser! :p: Maybe it will be used as a FP or to reduce line cutting someday! ;)

I like one of the uses that was talked about in the article, using it to pay for items at a water park. That would be a good idea to use at Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach, that way guests don't have to carry any money around or have to go back to their locker to get money when they want something.

They can even stamp a Photopass barcode on there and it can also be the guest's Photopass while visiting the water park.

Shorty82 wrote:I like one of the uses that was talked about in the article, using it to pay for items at a water park.

Wet N Wild ran a trial of this one summer, I don't think it worked though since I haven't seen it since then.

All i have to say is.....



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