Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-77172.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: No More Photos on Disneyland Annual Passports</b></a> <p>The Orange County Register's Around Disney blog reports starting today (April 6th) new and renewed Annual Passports issued at the Disneyland Resort will no longer include the guest's picture. Click for more details including how this affects passport verification.</p>
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Sea World does it this way already, and they use fingerprints to verfy identity at the entrance. I've never had anyone ask me for ID when parking. Perhaps when DAP buy their passes they can receive a parking hangtag, similar to a handicap placard that has a matching code for the Annual pass? Or, people could be prepared for the transaction at the parking structure. People have to get their Annual Passes out anyway, so getting an ID out at the same time shouldn't be too much of an issue. No difference there...
Originally Posted By Sparrow I think it's smart. I already know a couple pairs of twins who have one pass and share. I think it's wrong.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS My only concern would be that these new passes are probably paper instead of plastic. One ride on Splash Mountain with it in your pocket, and your pass is toast. I hope they keep that into consideration.
Originally Posted By dizkid i'm thinking this is probably just the first step towards the biometric system in WDW moving to this resort. Think about it they are already redoing the turnstile area at DCA.
Originally Posted By Mickeysbestfan They are just like the old passes, just no picture. They still take your picture, and when they scan you pass your picture pops up so they can still see it's you. The lady doing my pass told me it will help with people sharing passes, theft of passes, and if a pass is lost having someone use it. There is no way, unless using a friends, for a person to know age of the person the pass they have found (stolen) belongs to.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS So, if I have this right, what you are saying is when the pictures were on the pass, someone who found it and looked similar to you could use it, and now by NOT having a picture on the pass you don't really have an idea of who's pass it is, so you could look nothing like the person who owns it, therefore would get caught using a stolen or found pass? That's ingenious.
Originally Posted By tashajilek This kinda sucks, i loved looking at how happy i was on a picture i.d lol.
Originally Posted By dizkid I remember when I went to have my photo redone for my pass. After it was over I looked at my new pass and my old pass and realized that I was wearing the same shirt in both pictures. Good Times... Good Times.
Originally Posted By avatarmickey115 so even if my friend looks like my other friend, she cant use her pass to get in? will they inspect the picture more now? because she does look like the girl on the pass, but they might want more proof...
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "I think it's smart. I already know a couple pairs of twins who have one pass and share. I think it's wrong." That's actually kinda smart. Although it means only one can be in the park at a time.
Originally Posted By Nobody "That's actually kinda smart." That's actually more than kinda fraudulent.
Originally Posted By Sparrow Pictures that pop up on the screens when you use your pass to get in are in color and much more clear than the grainy black and whites on the pass. It will force the CM running the turnstile to get a better look. I think it's a great idea!
Originally Posted By DBitz2 >>There is no photo on the Premiere Pass, which is used at Disneyland.<< Your photo is still on the DL turnstyle system, though, if you've previously had a regular pass. I just got a Premiere Pass a few weeks ago before going on a trip to WDW. Last weekend, my first visit back to DL after returning from Florida, I had to show ID in the parking structure, but, not at the turnstyles. I think they asked for it once or twice when I was buying food. Some CM's still don't know what the Premiere Passes are. (And, they don't work at some registers when they are swiped, so the CM has to key in the pass number.)
Originally Posted By TINK-MOBILE When I renewed my pass , they just used the picture I had in place....did not have to have a new picture taken...
Originally Posted By cerise667 Biometric? I'd miss my picture... I looked like chip and dale's mom... the area around my hair is kind of fuzzy making it look like I have a huge afro or my aura is exploding ... it's worse than my costco pic we were all comparing pass pics and mine was not the worst ;-)
