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I don't know if there will ever be a day when this meme ISN'T insanely relevant...
I don't know if there will ever be a day when this meme ISN'T insanely relevant...
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Still Bob.Fine line - Idiot or genius? If people go along with this plan and Disney makes money, who is the idiot, exactly?
In all seriousness, though.. I thought doing away with Fastpass was something folks were looking forward to? Because no Fastpass means no people cutting in front of the stand-by line means the stand-by lines move more quickly and become shorter waits? -and while this change doesn't totally do away with it, perhaps it greatly reduces it?
So to play Devil's advocate for a moment; by making Fastpass paid, per ride, wouldn't that sort of incentivize less people to utilize it? Because nearly $10 per ride is a bit outrageous? Right now, Fastpass is free which means everyone and their mother goes for it. At $10 per ride, only a smaller pool of crazies or super rich go for it. Or a select group of people in hyper specific scenarios.
Which means.. folks who want shorter standby waits via less Fastpass intrusion win, right? Just trying to understand. It's not like this decision removes the standby option for each attraction, if I understand the changes correctly?
Folks who want nothing to do with it at all are still free to use the standby lines but now, those same folks don't have literally every person in the park trying to cut in front of them with the Fastpass the entire day because it was free to everyone. So unless you were just a really big fan of using the handful of free Fastpasses per day in an effort to extend standby lines for everyone else.. does this announcement or change really hurt or benefit you?
Edit: To add something further, I'd bet this change is $10 more PER PERSON. Which is an extra $40 out of pocket for a family of 4, PER RIDE. If this system does come to the park, I can't imagine it being as widely utilized as the current free Fastpass system. If anything, the number of people cutting in front of you drops considerably and with it, the wait time for rides. The only reason attractions like Indy, Splash, etc. jump as high as they do on the wait boards is because folks waiting in the standard queue are given less priority than those who are jumping ahead.
Allow this song as to tell you why Disney would do such a thing:Why get rid of standby?
Allow this song as to tell you why Disney would do such a thing:
Yeah, I can't see them doing away with Standby completely, but like when social distancing was in place, they would "cap" the Standby lines once they hit a certain point. It was annoying, but it only affected us one time trying to get in line for Pirates.Haha I get it but I just can’t imagine the parks being functional and not ruining guest experience without a standby line which in the end will effect bottom line. To your point through they probably don’t care about that far into future. It’s always about this quarter or this year.
My thoughts also. I will reserve final judgement until if/when this is implemented and we see what happens to the park experience. But this rumor leaves me seriously concerned. Well... not concerned (I can find other things to do with my time and money - Maui was lovely), but bummed that an era might be over.I was on this wave length until someone mentioned standby might go away too. None of us really know anything. If they were to introduce this new premier pass and leave standby alone I can see the sliver lining. If they start doing standby pass and adding premier pass to different memberships/ APs not so much.
Something like that...I can’t understand this new thing fully. So you have to pay per ride to skip lines after already paying full price to get in, and then once you’re in the stand by lines might be gone unless you agree to pay more but you’d have to wait in line behind every one else that paid more so you don’t actually
get to skip lines?
We're back to the ticket books except more expensive and worse.
It’s a surge pricing system for the most popular rides. Once a ride hits it’s desired “cap” for standby, the ops folks can shut off the regular queue and move to “Premiere Access only” which acts as a “per ride, per person” de facto up charge during peak hours. I imagine for newer rides and low capacity rides this is likely a dream.I can’t understand this new thing fully. So you have to pay per ride to skip lines after already paying full price to get in, and then once you’re in the stand by lines might be gone unless you agree to pay more but you’d have to wait in line behind every one else that paid more so you don’t actually get to skip lines?
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