E Ticket?

[Flight Safety]

I dont want to sound stupid, but what the heck is an "e ticket"? I have been going to WDW every other weekend (2 times a month) for almost 22 years and I have no idea what an "e ticket" is. I have been searching the forums for about an hour looking for an answer. Someone please help me out here.

 

[RiversideBunny]

From www.allearsnet.com


What is an E-Ticket?

When Disney World first opened, instead of purchasing one overall admission ticket to the Magic Kingdom, guests purchased ticket books. These books contained lettered tickets for various rides A, B, C, D, and E. ​

E tickets were for the BEST rides! The lettered tickets have long since gone away, but the term E-Ticket has always referred to the premiere attractions at the Magic Kingdom. ​

 

[WDWFigment]

Definition depends on if you're at PI or not.

 

[Flight Safety]

Thanks!

I wasnt arround when WDW first opened but I know about the ticketing back then. I just didnt think people would refer to rides of today like that. I would usualy say "thrill ride". But that way of classification is better because its original Disney. Thank you. Now I understand.

 

[RiversideBunny]

Life is the ultimate 'E' ride.

 

[zcasper]

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[CarlHS]

"I just didnt think people would refer to rides of today like that. I would usualy say "thrill ride". "


E Ticket is more broad as PotC is an E ticket, but not really a Thrill Ride, but many of the Thrill Rides are E Tickets also.

 

[OneLittleSpark]

Does anybody know or remember what year they did away with the tickets? Did they use them at WDW?

 

[Champion]

I wasnt arround when WDW first opened but I know about the ticketing back then. I just didnt think people would refer to rides of today like that. I would usualy say "thrill ride". But that way of classification is better because its original Disney. Thank you. Now I understand.

E tickets DO NOT have to be thrill rides. This is a common misconception. While all thrill rides can generally be considered E tickets (I would disagree with ALL, however, think Primeval Whirl), E tickets are not ONLY thrill rides.

For example: Soarin is an E ticket.

 

[Champion]

Does anybody know or remember what year they did away with the tickets? Did they use them at WDW?

1982

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_ticket

 

[OneLittleSpark]

1982

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_ticket

That makes sense now . Because I remember as a kid going to MK in 1977 and having ticket books and trying to figure out which tickets to use for which rides . We also went back in 1982 or 83 to MK and the New EPCOT but don't remember using tickets then.

 

[Champion]

That makes sense now . Because I remember as a kid going to MK in 1977 and having ticket books and trying to figure out which tickets to use for which rides . We also went back in 1982 or 83 to MK and the New EPCOT but don't remember using tickets then.

I think the removal of the ticket books was directly related to Epcot and how most of the park was a walk through, thus no income from the tickets.

 

[MissM]

E tickets DO NOT have to be thrill rides. This is a common misconception. While all thrill rides can generally be considered E tickets (I would disagree with ALL, however, think Primeval Whirl), E tickets are not ONLY thrill rides.

For example: Soarin is an E ticket.

Yup and back in the day, the People Mover (TTA) was an "E" ticket as well!
-m

 

[Ivan72]

Actually, the Wedway People Mover was a "D" ticket ride. I always felt it was such a bargain! And "If you had wings" and "America the Beautiful" 360 theatre were free. Great fun!:ROFLOL: