While there last week, WDW unveiled a new method of getting into the parks that gets rid of turnstiles and gates.

They affix a little Mickey sticker to your pass and activate it. You then walk up to a pole with a Mickey head stuck on top and wave the sticker at it. A light then comes on for your biometric finger reading. If all passes and you get a green light, you can just walk right in.

It must have been the first day of testing because I would swear the entire IT deparment was standing there watching

Right now, they have 4 or 5 sections installed with 3-4 poles each. I don't know how it would work when they have thousands trying to get into a park on a busy day. There are no barriers to entry at all in that area. Putting them up would defeat, IMHO, the purpose of making going through the turnstiles easier/faster.

It was pretty slow last week and using the new system we got into the park pretty quickly. We didn't try when it was busier and they were closed when we returned in the evening.

We only saw them in Epcot.

FWIW - it has been years since we went to WDW the week before Thanksgiving and had forgotten just how ideal it is to go at that time. We were walking onto all of the most popular rides. Of course, the closer it got to the weekend the busier it got, but it was all relative. There were no waits for Space Mountain on Tues night, and only 20 minutes on Thursday night. That's unheard of most of the time. Oh, and the weather is nearly perfect. Perhaps we'll swap out our usual Nov Hawaii trip for Disney going forward.