Can you get fastpasses for others not in the park with you?

[BUZZCRUSH]

My husband and I were talking about how to do it all on our last day and came up with this crazy idea that the 5 of us would go to mk at 8 when it opens. After we are in, then he would take our passes and head over to HS when it opens at 9 to get Toy Story fast passes for all of us. Which the way it goes if we waited until 930 to get them the fast pass is probably going to be for around noon.

Is this even possible? Or does Disney know you are not in the park yet so won't issue a pass?

 

[Mr Bill]

No, if your ticket didn't go through a reader at the turnstiles, the FastPass system knows that ticket isn't being used by someone in the park and the machine won't print out a valid FastPass.

 

[dreamfinder]

In the scenario you described, no you cannot get FPs. As Mr Bill mentioned, the ticket must be active on the turnstiles for the park in question.

Now you could in theory get FPs using the ticket of a guest who say went back for a mid afternoon nap, but then you would need to meet them outside the park to give them back their ticket when they return.

 

[copcarguyp71]

...or you could just seek out the russian guy who was inline in front of us last time at EE who had a pocket full of counterfeit FP's! I am totally serious that this guy had a stack about an inch thick in his pocket for him and his friend for multiple rides and times. He was not trying to sell them or anything but I never really thought people would stoop to that level. Nice to know people never fail to disappoint.

 

[real mad hatter]

...or you could just seek out the russian guy who was inline in front of us last time at EE who had a pocket full of counterfeit FP's! I am totally serious that this guy had a stack about an inch thick in his pocket for him and his friend for multiple rides and times. He was not trying to sell them or anything but I never really thought people would stoop to that level. Nice to know people never fail to disappoint.

I know that Russian dude,I think his name was Ivan the Terrible.: rolleyes: sorry,I can't help myself.

 

[dreamfinder]

...or you could just seek out the russian guy who was inline in front of us last time at EE who had a pocket full of counterfeit FP's! I am totally serious that this guy had a stack about an inch thick in his pocket for him and his friend for multiple rides and times. He was not trying to sell them or anything but I never really thought people would stoop to that level. Nice to know people never fail to disappoint.

Lots of people have. You can (could) buy them on eBay, Craigs List, etc. Some were obvious fakes, no perforations on the edge, stuff like that, but others were pretty gosh darn good. Not surprised if this helped lead to the initial no late usage policy, and then followed by the complete elimination of paper tickets. FP+ should mean the only way to cheat the system would be to hack it.

 

[copcarguyp71]

Wow...I guess I am not in the know on these sorts of things. I hate when something nefarious invades my bubble of innocence at the world...finding my happy place, finding my happy place...

 

[doctornick]

Any interesting sidenote to this is at DLR, if you have hoppers the tickets are activated when you enter the first park. So, your group can enter one park and then have a runner take all the tickets to the other park and get FPs. Also, since the two parks FP systems aren't connected, you can get a FP in one park while you are waiting for the FP window to open up in the other park.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Any interesting sidenote to this is at DLR, if you have hoppers the tickets are activated when you enter the first park. So, your group can enter one park and then have a runner take all the tickets to the other park and get FPs. Also, since the two parks FP systems aren't connected, you can get a FP in one park while you are waiting for the FP window to open up in the other park.

Perhaps I am misreading this post, but, don't they still have to be activated at the second park? There's still a gate at DCA isn't there? FP connected or not I would think that they have to show that they are actually in the park to get FP's? If not, DLR needs to fix that.

 

[doctornick]

Perhaps I am misreading this post, but, don't they still have to be activated at the second park? There's still a gate at DCA isn't there? FP connected or not I would think that they have to show that they are actually in the park to get FP's? If not, DLR needs to fix that.

No, you're not misreading the post, that's the point. Your group can all go into disneyland together at opening and activate the tickets. And then someone can go to (say) Space Mountain and get Fastpasses for everyone. Then someone can take all the tickets from the group and (assuming that you have park hoppers) walk over to DCA and use all of them to get Fastpasses on Radiator Springs Racers. The tickets only have to be activated at one park gate to work in both parks for getting Fast Passes.

Since DL and DCA are not connected in the FP system, you can basically get twice as many fastpasses for the day if you want to move between parks. Since DLR doesn't enforce the time windows, there is an incentive to do this since only a runner has to go between parks. Then the group as a whole can go to the other park later in the day and use a bunch of FPs.

The FP system might actually be the same way at WDW, but given the distances between parks, it would be silly to have a runner go to a seperate park to get FPs.

 

[Goofyernmost]

No, you're not misreading the post, that's the point. Your group can all go into disneyland together at opening and activate the tickets. And then someone can go to (say) Space Mountain and get Fastpasses for everyone. Then someone can take all the tickets from the group and (assuming that you have park hoppers) walk over to DCA and use all of them to get Fastpasses on Radiator Springs Racers. The tickets only have to be activated at one park gate to work in both parks for getting Fast Passes.

Since DL and DCA are not connected in the FP system, you can basically get twice as many fastpasses for the day if you want to move between parks. Since DLR doesn't enforce the time windows, there is an incentive to do this since only a runner has to go between parks. Then the group as a whole can go to the other park later in the day and use a bunch of FPs.

The FP system might actually be the same way at WDW, but given the distances between parks, it would be silly to have a runner go to a seperate park to get FPs.

Man, when they go to enforcing the time windows at DLR, there is going to be hell to pay. I think if I were a CM there, I would be looking to flip burgers at McDonald's and leave that place before the revolution starts.


Your last sentence is true. It would take to long to go from one place to another in WDW. That said, however, if they do have the same FP set up. A group could split up and meet again later while the first group got FP's. It would be a hassle but that doesn't seem like much of a deterrent to today's guests.

Doesn't seem like it must be a lot of fun for the runner in either instance.

 

[Figgy1]

Fake fast passes gee what is the world coming to. Boil the in oil or better yet stick them on Stitches Great Escape for 24 hours.