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My Magic + is behind schedule
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lazyboy97o
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It's be better if there was more looking at why it is behind.
Clamman73
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"Staggs added that Disney has been making "modifications" based on the feedback it is receiving from guests during testing. "Once we're satisfied with those adjustments, we will continue to broaden the availability to our other theme-park guests." "
So feedback from guests at EPCOT has been not to be able to have a fastpass for both Soarin and TT???????????
So feedback from guests at EPCOT has been not to be able to have a fastpass for both Soarin and TT???????????
Just got off the phone with a rep at Disney. She told me that testing for MyMagic would not be completed until the end of March 2014. I know I shouldn't take a reps word for something but thought I would report it. Also, she lost some credibility when she assured me that the regular FP would not be going away.
lazyboy97o
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I do not think Disney has formally acknowledged that FastPass will be discontinued.
ToTBellHop
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Nor are they likely to. Suddenly, on 4/1/14, we will walk into the parks and find 40 new DVC desks and ponder, "I wonder what used to be here."
Good point. Plus, why would they announce it so far in advance and give people the opportunity to change their plans away from going to Disney (or I guess they could change their plans to stay on property). April is Spring Break and that will be quite interesting with no FP for all non-Disney hotel guests.
asianway
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Same reason they didn't announce the Test Track refurb until like the day before
DougK
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Yes this is true. EPCOT guests have reported having "too much fun" and asked Disney if there could be a way to limit the number of great attractions people can experience in one day.
lazyboy97o
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This would also assume that Disney could hit a target date.
PrincessMia
Active Member
I'm very worried about these FP+ guidelines. Only 3 per day?? Sorting attractions into groups to prevent people from having too much fun in the same day. I just got back from Disney 3 weeks ago and we were luckily still able to double dip, using paper FP's and FP+. It was surprisingly busy and we wouldn't have been able to ride 1/3 the rides had we not taken advantage of the paper FP. How in the world will people be able to ride more than a handful of rides during the busy seasons?! Not happy...
Bairstow
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Well if we're honest, other than holidays does anything at MGM besides Midway Mania, Tower of Terror, or Rock n' Rollercoaster ever really build up a queue of any length?
Ditto for EPCOT at Test Track, Soaring Over California, and Maelstrom.
When the old FastPass system was in place, the return times for Soaring Over California and Midway Mania were always pushed so far back so quickly that it was essentially impossible to utilize Fastpass for either of them and not get locked down for the majority of your day, so this hasn't changed.
If we're talking about going during the really busy seasons, like New Years or 4th of July, it's never been possible to ride more than a fraction of the rides at any park.
The other solution of course was to build new, quality attractions that attract guests and help spread the load.
TP2000
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Yeah. Which is what happened in Anaheim, according to Jay Rasulo in the newspaper article that started this thread. From the Orlando Sentinel...
"Rasulo has also said that some of Disney's other big investments — primarily the California Adventure makeover, which culminated in the 2012 opening of Cars Land — turned profitable faster than the company originally expected." http://touch.orlandosentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-78212219/
Nothing like an amazing new E Ticket attraction anchoring an amazing one-of-a-kind new land in a fabulously freshened theme park to boost division revenues.
danv3
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Yeah. Which is what happened in Anaheim, according to Jay Rasulo in the newspaper article that started this thread. From the Orlando Sentinel...
"Rasulo has also said that some of Disney's other big investments — primarily the California Adventure makeover, which culminated in the 2012 opening of Cars Land — turned profitable faster than the company originally expected." http://touch.orlandosentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-78212219/
Nothing like an amazing new E Ticket attraction anchoring an amazing one-of-a-kind new land in a fabulously freshened theme park to boost division revenues.
It is hard to believe that the lesson they took from Carsland and the DCA refurb was that WDW needed guest bracelets and a revamped Fastpass system.
lazyboy97o
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Its hard to say they took that lesson when MyMagic+ was conceived a few years before last summer.