I was tall enough to ride

Last week the Gazette’s friends over at Take the Monorail posted a great look at height requirements around Walt Disney World. A question that cropped up during the article was whether or not children who were under the height requirements for a given attraction were able to return with a special pass once they had reached the appropriate height and enter using it like a Fast Pass. At the time I had seen some of these passes, but, did not have any to pass along as evidence.As often happens within the Disney community, the answers were out there and came from an unexpected source. Today I am happy to be able to present two of these return passes from 2004. At Disney-MGM Studios, as Disney’s Hollywood Studios was known at the time, pint-sized guests at Rock ‘n’ RollerCoaster Starring Aerosmith and The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror were given specially marked limo passes and Twilight Zone traveler passes. These passes, using Disney’s turn of a phrase, allowed smaller guests to return for ‘the hottest concert on the planet’ or to ‘step into the Twilight Zone’ as soon as they reached the appropriate height.Viewing these items with a teacher’s eye, the most extraordinary piece of these passes is the final line. Here children are able to place the date they finally reached the minimum height, and hold on to these keepsakes as a free memento of their first adventure on these attractions.