croboy82
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welp. we usually stay for about 5 days. that would be 100 usd for 2 people. nope nope nope.
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Additional Disney FASTPASS Locations and New Disney MaxPass Coming to Disneyland Resort
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welp. we usually stay for about 5 days. that would be 100 usd for 2 people. nope nope nope.
Phroobar
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The pictures themselves are never very good and the resolution is low to begin with. I would never buy a theme park picture.
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Deleted member 107043
The backlash has heated up on the Parks blog. Crossing my fingers that this goes down in flames.
BrianLo
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Unless I'm completely misinterpreting the proposal, there is no advantage towards the digital system. The only thing it changes is not having to traverse the park to a fast pass kiosk. The current paper based experience should not significantly be altered for people who don't pay. The digital system does not allow one to break the current rules in any meaningful way. It makes it easier to ensure you get a new fast pass immediately upon opening of your window.
Currently I generally do that anyways, having to not constantly back track through the park to time FP retrieval, for me, would be worth 10$. I'm still confused how it works with a group though. 10$ per members of a party seems obscene. But again if you have a huge party you can save money by having someone criss cross the park and not in any way be disadvantaged apart from inconvenience. Inconvience that everyone seems to be used to already. If anything FP physical kiosks will have significantly fewer people jostling for use.
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Deleted member 107043
Why not just drop the Photopass and bump up park admissions by $10 instead and make the service available to all?
BrianLo
Well-Known Member
If I was betting I think this will become free eventually. The only explanation with the introductory pricing is they don't want every guest using it until the kinks are worked out. Once it's running properly and can support thousands of guests accessing it simultaneously, it saves the park money by removing legacy kiosks and CM's manning them. Digital is far easier to maintain... once it works that is.
dweezil78
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Because they're already planning on bumping up admissions by $10 with no added value!
Because they're already planning on bumping up admissions by $10 with no added value!
We have a winner.
I think it would be quite remarkable if this became "free" for all. My guess is that they want to remove the cost of maintaining kiosks AND keep the extra revenue this generates.
And if you don't have to traverse the park, you are more likely to use it. And keep using it. If the FP is at your fingertips, you'll grab another while you're on the way out of the attraction you just used your last FP on. They will disappear MUCH faster with the digital system. Even the addition of 2 attractions to the FP pool won't outweigh it.
And it is indeed $10 per person, confirmed in the blog. It's tied to the ticket.
mickEblu
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Because they're already planning on bumping up admissions by $10 with no added value!
Lol... but seriously, you don't see any value in being able to get a Splash Mountain fast pass while you re in line for California Screamin?
Of course there's value. It's not hard to find $10 worth of value. But if you're a family of 6, it's hard to know whether you'll find $60 of value. Per day.
xdan0920
Think for yourselfer
Yeah. Wonderful. Welcome to the future. but. You gotta pay.
mickEblu
Well-Known Member
I don't know. If I'm spending those outrageous prices for 1 day park hoppers ($900 for a family of 6), I'm pretty sure I would spend another $60 for that perk to make the most out of my $900. Of course, the decent thing to do would be for Disney to offer this service for free.
mickEblu
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Goes down in flames but keep digital FP, just for free right?
Disney Analyst
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Why must people go and cry at them on the blog?
If you don't like it, don't use it... if no one uses it, it goes away. Simple.
If you don't like it, don't use it... if no one uses it, it goes away. Simple.
xdan0920
Think for yourselfer
Maybe because people want the digital service, but don't want to pay?
dweezil78
Well-Known Member
Well I do see some value of course, but my point was moreso that they will no doubt still raise the ticket prices on top of asking for the $10 FP fee.
I've also used FP+ in WDW enough to know that it's a far superior system and is offered without an additional cost to guests, so it's kind of hard to swallow the fee they're asking out here. I would pay $10 for a day of photos though, so I guess there's that.
Also, I'm hoping that with the digital FP it allows guests to cancel/swap their FPs which in turn would ideally open up other FPs at the machines that would have otherwise just gone unused.
