Disney Fastpass

[BRER LUKE]

Some kind friends of ours have recently given us a couple of 7 Day Park Hopper Plus tickets (apparently these are tickets without an expiry date ) which still have a couple of days admittance on them.
My question is, would I be able to use them not as an admission ticket,but in the fastpass machines?
One would suspect that the fastpass machines would be able to detect if they had been used as an entrance ticket or not and would decline the fastpass application?

 

[Master Yoda]

Fast pass machines can detect if a ticket has been used to enter the park that day or not. If the ticket has not been used to enter the park it will not produce a fast pass. I keep 5 AP's in my wallet (self ,wife and 3 kids) and I have put in one of my daughter's AP's in a FP machine when I was there by myself and it printed out the "not a valid fast pass" ticket.

 

[BRER LUKE]

Thanks for the reply, I suspected as much.

 

[Yoop33]

How would you get into the park then to get to the fast pass inthe first place?

 

[Master Yoda]

How would you get into the park then to get to the fast pass inthe first place?

I am assuming that he would have his own tickets but wanted to use the other passes to double up on fast passes.

 

[illuminations25]

Some kind friends of ours have recently given us a couple of 7 Day Park Hopper Plus tickets (apparently these are tickets without an expiry date ) which still have a couple of days admittance on them.
My question is, would I be able to use them not as an admission ticket,but in the fastpass machines?
One would suspect that the fastpass machines would be able to detect if they had been used as an entrance ticket or not and would decline the fastpass application?

If your friends have used them since the parks have introduced the Ticket Tag system, it will be hard for anyone other than them to use them for admission media as well.

 

[RonAnnArbor]

The tickets will only work for the fastpasses if they have been scanned at the entrance gate. Otherwise, you will get no fastpass and a message that says that it is NOT A VALID FASTPASS TICKET. NOW -- if you yourself have a ticket for the day, I guess the way to get around that would be to enter...spend 15 minutes, exit, then re-enter the park using your friends tickets. Now you will have two sets of validated tickets.

 

[Monty]

The tickets will only work for the fastpasses if they have been scanned at the entrance gate. Otherwise, you will get no fastpass and a message that says that it is NOT A VALID FASTPASS TICKET. NOW -- if you yourself have a ticket for the day, I guess the way to get around that would be to enter...spend 15 minutes, exit, then re-enter the park using your friends tickets. Now you will have two sets of validated tickets.

Wow, expensive way to double up on FPs!

 

[RonAnnArbor]

Yeah - no kidding - I would much rather just save the tickets for another time, but I guess if they are their friends tickets and they wouldnt be used anyway, I guess that is as easy a way to cheat the system as any other.

 

[wdwfreak05]

Fast pass machines can detect if a ticket has been used to enter the park that day or not. If the ticket has not been used to enter the park it will not produce a fast pass. I keep 5 AP's in my wallet (self ,wife and 3 kids) and I have put in one of my daughter's AP's in a FP machine when I was there by myself and it printed out the "not a valid fast pass" ticket.

Isn't it amazing how technologically advanced WDW is beyond all other parks? I mean, I go to Cedar Point and I just find myself laughing at their "hand stamp" "Quickpass" system.

Disney has such a complex system and yet it continually works to perfection. There is no way to "cheat" the system.

 

[Chape19714]

The tickets will only work for the fastpasses if they have been scanned at the entrance gate. Otherwise, you will get no fastpass and a message that says that it is NOT A VALID FASTPASS TICKET. NOW -- if you yourself have a ticket for the day, I guess the way to get around that would be to enter...spend 15 minutes, exit, then re-enter the park using your friends tickets. Now you will have two sets of validated tickets.

But the Ticket Tag system will prevent that! Gotta love computers!

 

[jmvd20]

Why must people look for ways to bypass and cheat anything and everything? Just get your one fastpass per used ticket for that day and be done with it. Use the system like it is supposed to be used, no need to try and cheat it.

 

[RonAnnArbor]

Isn't it amazing how technologically advanced WDW is beyond all other parks? I mean, I go to Cedar Point and I just find myself laughing at their "hand stamp" "Quickpass" system.

Disney has such a complex system and yet it continually works to perfection. There is no way to "cheat" the system.

By the way, Cedar Point no longer has any quickpass system, partly to conserve money on staff, partly because Disney put pressure on all the parks that were using the fastpass/quickpass/freeway type systems as patent infringement.

 

[Tim G]

But the Ticket Tag system will prevent that! Gotta love computers!

Yep!

And it works so good that my daughter gets in on her husbands pass, the other way around works as well...
So far for the system...

 

[RonAnnArbor]

Exactly...the system hasn't worked there for the past 6 months, by the way -- if you notice as you enter, they just expel the ticket even before your biometrics have been taken, and just wave you through. Maybe a few of the turnstiles actually work, but most of them do not.

 

[wdwfreak05]

By the way, Cedar Point no longer has any quickpass system, partly to conserve money on staff, partly because Disney put pressure on all the parks that were using the fastpass/quickpass/freeway type systems as patent infringement.

HAHA. Why doesn't this surprise me. The old "Cedar Point duck and cover."

It's a good thing that Disney patended the Fastpass because there are obviously A LOT of competitors out there who would love to steal the idea. Hoefully, Disney is able renew the patent whenever it expirses, althought I don't know when that would be exactly.

Thanks for the info though.