When recently booking fast passes for Hollywood Studios, I stumbled upon what may be a glitch, but it allowed me to select and confirm Four Fastpass options. Is this back to the norm, or just a glitch?
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Fastpass+ back to Four Choices
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WhatJaneSays
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I was just going to start a thread on this.
I just went to check on FP for this Sunday and I ended up with 4. The standard "pick 1/pick 2" options came up and I did my regular picks: Midway, Tower, Star Tours. When the times page came up it showed 3 rides, half with my pics half with Lights Motors Action swapped for Tower, which isn't that weird.
But when I went back to my itinerary page it had 4 FP. I swapped out Lights Motors Action for Indy so see what would happen and it worked as normal.
I tried a few other days/FP combos for DHS and it seems that it will only let you pick the 3 and then adds in Lights Motors Action, Indy, or Voyage of The Little Mermaid randomly - but you can swap that 4th to anything in the "lesser" category that's open.
I just went to check on FP for this Sunday and I ended up with 4. The standard "pick 1/pick 2" options came up and I did my regular picks: Midway, Tower, Star Tours. When the times page came up it showed 3 rides, half with my pics half with Lights Motors Action swapped for Tower, which isn't that weird.
But when I went back to my itinerary page it had 4 FP. I swapped out Lights Motors Action for Indy so see what would happen and it worked as normal.
I tried a few other days/FP combos for DHS and it seems that it will only let you pick the 3 and then adds in Lights Motors Action, Indy, or Voyage of The Little Mermaid randomly - but you can swap that 4th to anything in the "lesser" category that's open.
WhatJaneSays
Well-Known Member
I did a quick re-check this morning and it looks like it’s still assigning 4 FP for 3/28 - 3/30. Last night it was randomly working about 2 weeks out, but that was as far as I checked. I can still pick new FP and it auto gives me 4.
It could be some kind of test because it’s still going on …? Like: give X number of people an extra FP to keep them at DHS longer. I know they’ve deliberately used the FP system to influence crowd levels before.
It could be some kind of test because it’s still going on …? Like: give X number of people an extra FP to keep them at DHS longer. I know they’ve deliberately used the FP system to influence crowd levels before.
GymLeaderPhil
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Trying to ease the kiosk lines if it's intentional.
DisneyOutsider
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Yeah I miss the old system where I could just continuously get on rides with zero waits all day as many times as I wanted to!!! That's how it worked before FP+ ruined Disney World, right?
Disfan1971
Member
It is not a glitch it is a "bonus" fastpass only available until April 1st.
alissafalco
Well-Known Member
Interesting, I wonder if they are testing.
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
Seems like it. If the extra is tier 2 at HS and EC, it shouldn't be a problem.
DisneyGentleman
Well-Known Member
Bravo! Super funny, and (sadly) super accurate.
tirian
Well-Known Member
Go to Disneyland. That park has enough E and D tickets to distribute the crowds. Locals think a queue is "long" if it hits 45 minutes. Ha.
EvilQueen-T
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We had planned to end our trip today but decided to add tomorrow so around 7pm I started to do fps and it did 4 for me too.
Captain Neo
Well-Known Member
damn it. I was just at WDW and was so frustrated with the 3 FP+ thing
bethymouse
Well-Known Member
That sucks!
MK has 4 mountains, and there goes the meet n greets!
MK has 4 mountains, and there goes the meet n greets!
katiekinzakat
Active Member
It's for peak week. If you have 4 fastpasses it takes you longer to use them up so you spend less time getting extra at the kiosks. Also, the bonus ones are usually for less popular higher capacity attractions, again trying to spread out crowds.