Stupid Guest Tricks

Disneyland takes photos of guests to crack down on ticket abuse


By Hugo Martin

January 8, 2013, 11:51 a.m.

Workers at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park took photos of visitors entering the parks Tuesday as part of a new effort to crack down on abuse of multi-day tickets.
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Disney has long struggled to stop several businesses in Anaheim that buy multi-day park passes and then "lease" or "rent" the passes to visitors for individual days.

The scenario works like this: Ticket brokers might, for example, buy a three-day "park hopper" pass for $205 and rent the ticket to guests for $85 a day. The seller makes a profit of $50 and the guests, who would otherwise pay $125 for a one-day "park hopper" ticket, saves $40. full article

I suppose the thought of using the same sort of biometrics that have been at WDW for the past decade never occured to anyone at The Big Yellow Box. <sigh>

I think we have enough of the old finger scanners in a warehose somewhere to equip both California parks, if they're interested.

Zazu wrote:I suppose the thought of using the same sort of biometrics that have been at WDW for the past decade never occured to anyone at The Big Yellow Box. <sigh>

I think we have enough of the old finger scanners in a warehose somewhere to equip both California parks, if they're interested.

It's the Hollywood thing. Everyone wants to be in pictures. ;)

hobie16 wrote:It's the Hollywood thing. Everyone wants to be in pictures. ;)

Very true. Case in point, the new Star Tours.

I am the rebel spy.