It's both but if you want a quaranteed seat I would do the FP for it. We always do to make sure we have a seat.
I've done the Fantasmic Dinner package before because there wasn't a FP available back then. I will probably go with the FP.And there's always the Fantasmic dinner package if you wanted to do that. But, you have to eat at non-peak times, so a really late lunch or really early dinner.
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