Editing Amusement park (section)

=== Pay-as-you-go ===
In amusement parks, using the pay-as-you-go scheme, guests enter the park at little or no charge.  The guests are then required to purchase rides individually, either at the attraction's entrance or by purchasing ride tickets (or a similar exchange method, like a [[token coin|token]]).  The cost of the attraction is often based on its complexity or popularity.  For example, one guest might pay one ticket to ride a [[carousel]], but also four tickets to ride a [[roller coaster]].

The park may allow guests to purchase a pass providing unlimited admissions to all attractions within the park for a specified duration of time.  A wristband or pass is then shown at the attraction entrance to gain admission.
[[File:Melbourne Luna Park at Dusk.jpg|thumb|[[Luna Park, Melbourne|Melbourne Luna Park]]]]

[[Disneyland]] opened in 1955, using the pay-as-you-go format.<ref name="Bright">{{cite book |title=Disneyland: Inside Story |last=Bright |first=Randy |year=1987 |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |isbn=978-0-8109-0811-6}}</ref> Initially, guests paid the ride admission fees at the attractions.  Within a short time, the problems of handling such large amounts of coins led to the development of a ticket system that, while now out of use, is still part of the amusement-park lexicon.<ref name="Bright" /> In this new format, guests purchased ticket books that contained a number of tickets, labeled "A", "B" and "C." Rides and attractions using an "A-ticket" were generally simple, with "B-tickets" and "C-tickets" used for the larger, more popular rides. Later, the "D-ticket" was added, then finally the "[[E ticket|E-ticket]]", which was used on the biggest and most elaborate rides, like [[Space Mountain (Disneyland)|Space Mountain]]. Smaller tickets could be traded up for use on larger rides, for example two or three A-tickets would equal a single B-ticket. Disneyland, as well as the [[Magic Kingdom]] at Walt Disney World, eventually abandoned this practice in 1982.