E ticket
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- For electronic tickets as used by airlines, see e-ticket.
Since the 1950s, E Ticket (or E ticket ride) has referred to an unusually thrilling, interesting, most-interesting, or most-expensive situation. It derives from the tickets used at Disneyland and Walt Disney World theme parks until the early 1980s. Park-goers bought tickets in different denominations, from A through E, with E tickets being the most expensive and reserved for the newest, most expensive or popular rides and attractions.
Tickets could be purchased individually or in booklets, with the purchased booklets including tickets of each category. A book may contain, for example, a park admission ticket, one A ticket, one B ticket, two C tickets, three D tickets, and three E tickets.
The parks no longer use this method of selling tickets. All ride are included with admission. However, the phrase continues to be used, originally made popular by residents of Los Angeles. Astronaut Sally Ride commented on riding in the Space Shuttle: "This is definitely an E ticket!"
The Fastpass system is currently used to give out timed tickets that allow users quicker entry to popular rides (the rides that, historically, would usually have taken an E ticket).
[edit] Trivia
- There is a fan-published magazine called The "E" Ticket, which examines the history of Disney theme park attractions.
- The employee cafeteria next to the administration building at Disneyland is called the Eat Ticket, a reference to the E ticket.
- Julie Brown's song "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun", describes the homecoming dance as, "definitely an E-ticket."
- "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Jurassic Park (song)" states: "Well, this sure ain't no E-ticket / Think I'll tell them where to stick it..."
