What is, or was the E Ticket Ridesand such letter types in DisneyWorld?

Question

I heard the line mentioned in "Homecoming queen has got a gun." she says "like the Cinderella ride definitely an E-Ticket ride" So what was the deal with the different letters on the rides? Did you have to buy tickets for different rides and if so do you still do that at any of the Disney parks?

Answer 1

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 1982. 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. Booklets tended to have more high-level (D and E) tickets than lower-level tickets like A and B. People tended to leave the park with A and B tickets not because they had received large numbers of them, but because the A and B rides were less common and less popular.

Now all rides are included in the admission price.

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Answer 2

When you paid your admission to Disney, you received a ticket book.  There were a limited number of tickets, A-E.  E-ticket rides were the best and the most popular.  They discontinued those back in the 1980s, I believe.