1994 1-Day Florida Reisdent Ticket ($26!!)

[MissM]

1994 1-Day Florida Reisdent Ticket With Picutres ($26!!)

I've been doing some "Spring" cleaning this weekend and found an old Florida resident ticket from 1994.

It's "ONE DAY ALL THREE PARKS" ticket for Florida residents only. And it was a whopping $26. It's stamped May 19, 1994. My birthday is May 16th so I must have gone out for that. (Would have been birthday number 17. Jeez that was a long time ago!)

Few observations....

• I love the old school "Walt Disney World" including Mickey Ears on the ticket
• $26?? Damn
• The back is funny because they refer to "Epcot" specifically as "Epcot '94" which is just...odd.
• The little notice on the bottom that the Walt Disney Co. collects a transportation charge for this Ticket as an agent for WED Transportation Systems, Inc. Guess they were separate divisions back then. Are they still?
• Did I mention $26? :lol:

Anyway, thought it was neat so figured I'd share.
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[jeffk410]

haha oh how much has changed between prices, marketing, signatures, colors. I love looking at the past. Thanks for the uploads!

 

[rodserling27]

What a nice little trip back in time. Thanks for sharing this! I love everything about that ticket.

 

[tampabrad]

That is awesome.

I have tickets from 1992. A Two Day "Disney Break" (Spring Break) ticket was $42.15 including tax and $4.20 transportation. A one day was $23.20 in cluding tax and $2.20 transportation. They must not have offered a 3 day pass. They were one park per day. Typhoon Lagoon was $20.67 for a one day pass.

You had to have a college ID and were good from Feb22-April 17 1992.

On a side note, in the same album, I have a U2 ticket at the Spectrum in Philly for $25. 10th row. Now way in H3!! can you get anywhere near U2 for $25.

 

[Uncle Lupe]

It's fun(depressing) to see how much stuff has changed, mainly the price.

 

[JWG]

Well, that is a Florida resident ticket, so can't be compared to today's $129 or whatever it is park hopper. But none the less.. $26 I wish my 10-day no expiration was that low still.

Also, 17 in '94? So was I! We'd gone in 1993 when I was 16. A friend and I with my parents - our only stay at the CR. Cool to still have.

Things have changed a lot in 16 years. The great thing about 1993 was we got to see all the original pavilions at Epcot Center one last time (except for World of Motion). My last fond memories of Horizons, Walter Cronkite's SSE, Universe of Energy with it's mosaic screens and WoL with things actually open and working.

By our return trip in 1998, SSE's narration had changed, WoL was starting it's decay (most things broken in the dome), Horizons was seasonal and not open if I remember correctly, Test Track was behind schedule and now it was just "Epcot".

Nice throwback, thanks for posting.

 

[MissM]

Well, that is a Florida resident ticket, so can't be compared to today's $129 or whatever it is park hopper.

Florida residents don't get a huge savings for one day tickets but park hopping is half price. So purchased online, in advance is $100.80 + tax currently for a Florida resident park hopper.

Thought you guys would enjoy it! I was excited to find it. Didn't really save tickets as much back then.

 

[the-reason14]

Dang! Can you imagine a similar discussion 16 years from now? "Wow, $80 just for a one day ticket, how times have changed!"

 

[Tigger1988]

• The back is funny because they refer to "Epcot" specifically as "Epcot '94" which is just...odd.

Not that odd, the park was named Epcot '94 at the time, then Epcot '95 before becoming just Epcot in 1996.

 

[MissM]

Not that odd, the park was named Epcot '94 at the time, then Epcot '95 before becoming just Epcot in 1996.

I just don't remember it being officially called that. I remember when it was Epcot Center and EPCOT but I don't really remember the whole "year-in-the-name" thing.

 

[_Scar]

Wow!

Closest thing we got to that is 99 for 4 parks for a limited time only :/

 

[Rob562]

I just love that it was still the old punch tickets back then... The CM inserted the ticket into the turnstile, and it automatically stamped the current date as well as chopped off a little bit at the corner to indicate that a day had been used off the ticket. When all the available days were used and the white "0" was all that was left showing, your ticket was used up.

We had similar punch tickets (a 3- or 4-day ticket, I believe) when my family went in '95. The turnstiles went to the current mag-stripe media sometime in '96.

-Rob
(who was also 17 in 1994...)

 

[bgraham34]

I just love that it was still the old punch tickets back then... The CM inserted the ticket into the turnstile, and it automatically stamped the current date as well as chopped off a little bit at the corner to indicate that a day had been used off the ticket. When all the available days were used and the white "0" was all that was left showing, your ticket was used up.

We had similar punch tickets (a 3- or 4-day ticket, I believe) when my family went in '95. The turnstiles went to the current mag-stripe media sometime in '96.

-Rob
(who was also 17 in 1994...)

Yeah i miss those days as well. I went looking for my old tickets over the weekend when I was at my parents house but had no luck.

 

[BigRedDad]

I remember taking Middle School day trips to WDW. The cost for bus transportation, 1-day admission was about $25. This was back in the early 80s.

 

[Walt Disney1955]

I can remember back in 1997 when Disney was pretty much on par with Univeral for prices. The parks were all about $40 each and that was thought to be rather expensive. 13 years later it has doubled and I can safely say the inflation rate hasn't doubled for wages. How things change.

 

[JWG]

I just love that it was still the old punch tickets back then... The CM inserted the ticket into the turnstile, and it automatically stamped the current date as well as chopped off a little bit at the corner to indicate that a day had been used off the ticket. When all the available days were used and the white "0" was all that was left showing, your ticket was used up.

We had similar punch tickets (a 3- or 4-day ticket, I believe) when my family went in '95. The turnstiles went to the current mag-stripe media sometime in '96.

-Rob
(who was also 17 in 1994...)

Interesting. In 1993 we did "length of stay" passes and thus our ticket were not punch tickets like this, they were similar to being a KTTW card. They weren't a KTTW card because at that time the CR keys were still the old style plastic "punch card" key. I thought those things were the coolest.