What Disneyland attractions do you consider to be D and E-Tickets in modern times?

[DL-fan]

The Ticket book system has been gone since 1982 but the resort has almost doubled in new attractions since them so if there was still a ticketing system today, which attractions would you consider to be D and E-Tickets?

 

[mickEblu]

I’ll list the rides I think are Es by modern standards

Indiana Jones
Jungle Cruise
POTC
HM
TBA
ROTR
Finding Nemo
IASW
MMRR
BTMRR
Matterhorn
Space Mountain

 

[DL-fan]

Here is my listing, I wasn’t too sure if I should have added the DL Railroad and Submarine Voyage as a D-Ticket.

E-Tickets:
The Haunted Mansion
Pirates of the Caribbean
Jungle Cruise
Rise of the Resistance
Space Mountain
Runaway Railway
Thunder Mountain
Matterhorn Bobsleds
Indiana Jones Adventure
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure
Radiator Springs Racers
Mission Breakout!
Grizzly River Run
Soarin’

D-Tickets:
Smuggler’s Run
Star Tours
Peter Pan’s Flight
Tiki Room
Small World
Toy Story Mania!
Incredicoaster

 

[DLR92]

E ticket:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Indiana Jones
MMRR
TBA- (this is hard for me place it as E ticket. But I do want to downgrade this as D ticket. But I am considering as E ticket quality)
Rise of the Resistance
Mission Breakout
Raider Spring Racers
Submarine Voyage
Haunted Mansion
Matterhorn
Big Thunder Mountain

D ticket
Grizzly River Run
Soarin’
Space Mountain
Toy Story Midway Mania
The Little Mermaid
IncrediCoaster
Jungle Cruise
Autopia
It’s a Small World
Roger Rabbit Cartoon Spin-(Surprisingly I do want to reconsider this as a E ticket.)

Space Mountain can be E ticket if it was modernized with newer technology. In its current form, it kinda dated. But still very fun roller coaster.

Sometime I don’t think Matterhorn or Big Thunder Mountain shouldn’t retain their E ticket status either. But I decided to change them back to E ticket status.

 

[DL-fan]

Sometime I don’t think Matterhorn or Big Thunder Mountain shouldn’t retain their E ticket status either. But I decided to change them back to E ticket status.

Damn Right you did!!

 

[DLR92]

Damn Right you did!!

I have my own complex opinions placing each major attractions in modern times.

 

[BrianLo]

Mickeblu’s list with Star Tours and Smugglers Run. Less about how I feel and more about scope, scale, elaborate queues etc. I feel like these are getting downgraded because Rise is in a class of its own.

The train I have a very hard time pegging because it has continually improved with time. It probably was a C and now is at least a D ticket.

Mission Breakout, Soaring, Grizzly, RSR, Incredicoaster on the DCA side. Kind of highlights what DCA’s problem is, I suppose.

Buzz, TSMM, Spiderman, Roger Rabbit, Monsters, Pooh, Autotopia, Enchanted Tiki Room are core D tickets. Then the C’s are where a lot of Fantasyland hangs out.

 

[mickEblu]

Mickeblu’s list with Star Tours and Smugglers Run. Less about how I feel and more about scope, scale, elaborate queues etc. I feel like these are getting downgraded because Rise is in a class of its own.

The train I have a very hard time pegging because it has continually improved with time. It probably was a C and now is at least a D ticket.

Mission Breakout, Soaring, Grizzly, RSR, Incredicoaster on the DCA side. Kind of highlights what DCA’s problem is, I suppose.

Buzz, TSMM, Spiderman, Roger Rabbit, Monsters, Pooh, Autotopia, Enchanted Tiki Room are core D tickets. Then the C’s are where a lot of Fantasyland hangs out.

Yeah I was debating putting Star Tours on my list but since we were going by modern standards I don’t think Disney would make a simple straightforward simulator today. Then again they wouldn’t build a submarine ride like Nemo or humongous passive jungle ride either but the E ticket scope/ scale are undeniably there for both of those.

Agree on all the DCA E tickets you listed.

 

[BrianLo]

Yeah I was debating putting Star Tours on my list but since we were going by modern standards I don’t think Disney would make a simple straightforward simulator today.

Technically they did in Hong Kong (Iron Man) then Tokyo (Nemo prev Stormriders) a decade before that!

 

[mickEblu]

Technically they did in Hong Kong (Iron Man) then Tokyo (Nemo prev Stormriders) a decade before that!

Yeah I thought about Iron Man but I disqualified it for being a retheme. The other one was made what, like 20 years ago? That’s kind of a long time in theme park years.

 

[Misted Compass]

For me an E would be a true headliner while a D would have something that sets it apart from a basic dark ride despite not being a heavy hitter. I'd probably say:
**E-tickets**
DL:
Rise
Space
Indy
Pirates
Mansion
TBA
Matterhorn
Big Thunder
MMRR
DCA:
RSR
Guardians
Incredicoaster
Soarin

**D-tickets**
DL:
IASW
Jungle Cruise (I want to rank these as an E but they're probably not as big draws as the other rides)
Falcon
Star Tours
Roger Rabbit
Subs
Buzz
DCA:
Grizzly
Webslingers
TSMM

 

[VJ]

in case anyone wanted to let "canon" inform their choices, i found this wonderful blog post about the last ticket book sold on June 15, 1982

as far as where existing attractions, or their closest counterpart, stand in the 1982 ticket book:

E TICKET:

• Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
• Jungle Cruise
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
• Haunted Mansion
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Disneyland Monorail
• Space Mountain
• (Finding Nemo) Submarine Voyage
• "it's a small world"
• Matterhorn Bobsleds

D TICKET:

• Disneyland Railroad
• Astro Orbiter (spiritual successor to Rocket Jets)
• Storybook Land Canal Boats
• Mark Twain Riverboat
• Rafts to (Pirates Lair on) Tom Sawyer Island
• Sailing Ship Columbia
• Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes

 

[TP2000]

in case anyone wanted to let "canon" inform their choices, i found this wonderful blog post about the last ticket book sold on June 15, 1982

as far as where existing attractions, or their closest counterpart, stand in the 1982 ticket book:

E TICKET:

• Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
• Jungle Cruise
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
• Haunted Mansion
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Disneyland Monorail
• Space Mountain
• (Finding Nemo) Submarine Voyage
• "it's a small world"
• Matterhorn Bobsleds

D TICKET:

• Disneyland Railroad
• Astro Orbiter (spiritual successor to Rocket Jets)
• Storybook Land Canal Boats
• Mark Twain Riverboat
• Rafts to (Pirates Lair on) Tom Sawyer Island
• Sailing Ship Columbia
• Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes

This is a great reminder and barometer for what an E or D Ticket is.

It's good to remember that the ticketing system wasn't just based on marketing or popularity or height requirements, it was also based on concrete business expenses (fuel, upkeep, maintenance) and labor costs (CM Labor Hours X Guest Carried Per Hour). Hence, you've got the Columbia and Mark Twain (unique ships that need routine and heavy maintenance to keep operating, especially with Mark Twain's steam boiler) and the Canoes (an extremely labor intensive ride, even if the motive power was supplied by the customers) as high ranking D Tickets.

Same with Storybook Land (labor costs, not as bad as the Canoes, but think of the Aqua Net usage in the Storybook Land break room!) and the Disneyland Railroad (operating expenses and very expensive upkeep).

Or just the heavy maintenance costs of lavish Audio-Animatronic attractions like Country Bears or Tiki Room that only needed 3 or 4 CM's to operate, but had a huge maintenance and upkeep budget.

They would tweak the ticketing system year to year, as any good businessman would, to help defray costs or eliminate crowding and bottlenecks. But at its core, it was a system based primarily in business costs and labor outlays. And it worked beautifully!

 

[mickEblu]

Nobody caught it?

Indiana Jones
Jungle Cruise
POTC
HM
TBA
Finding Nemo
ROTR
IASW
MMRR
BTMRR
Matterhorn
Space Mountain

 

[Pizza Moon]

Disneyland Park has the most E-tickets of any park in the world all you need to know.

That plus super long park hours make it feel so fun