Originally Posted By Rebekah This topic is for discussion of the 8/4/2003 news item <b><a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/orl-cfbtourism04080403aug04,0,5113084.story" target="_blank">OrlSen: Zip past Disney ticket lines</a></b> The August 4th <I>Orlando Sentinel</I> reports Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach now have automated ticket-vending machines allowing guests faster access to the water parks.
Originally Posted By kennect I just used a similiar system a few weeks ago when going to see "Pirates"...It easily cut down on at least ten minutes of my time compared to how the standard box office line was moving...Hopefully this will work out and they will use it elsewhere within the resort....
Originally Posted By EdisYoda Yup, isn't technology wonderful... more jobs on the way out the door...
Originally Posted By gfdiva well in all fairness, TL and BB were not set up to accept large numbers of people needing to purchase tickets. In the last couple of weeks both parks have closed due to capacity. With only 4 ticket windows, the lines must have been enormous unless a majority of those people had UPH's. I seriously doubt that the humans in the ticket booths are going away... just being assisted by the machines so that they don't end up with 30 people in a line at once. Especially since the last 3 times we've been there they've only had two ticket windows open.
Originally Posted By LadyandtheTramp "Especially since the last 3 times we've been there they've only had two ticket windows open." So they've already eliminated the jobs, and are only now figuring out how to handle the work that the laid off cast members used to do!
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Does anyone have any picture of these ticketing machines? I design these things for a living.
