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I don't know the stats and can only guess. I also don't know for sure if the reservations never changed out from under you with FP+. It seems likely there were significantly fewer people attempting to reserve the same ride at the same time 60 days in advance compared to now at 7am the day of...

Yep, I believe we all agree capacity vs attendance is the problem. The Defunctland video about the history of fastpass posted earlier in this thread is so great, and really makes it clear that none of the fastpass implementations have been very good. Each works better for a particular set of...

Completely agree it would be used less and the value would be considered less. You could argue that's already the value though because most can't get LLs for multiple top tier rides. Many on this board can by all the ways mentioned (refreshing a lot, watching for drops of new LLs, etc.) There...

Honestly, I do expect the price to go up. It probably has to. Right now the system is "trying" to give a fast pass for every ride to everyone willing to spend $15. I know it's not really trying to do that but that's ostensibly what it does and is what people are expecting. If not every ride...

This isn't really only in reply to Jeff as it's a common complaint. It seems like the FP+ vs Genie+ comparison is often forgetting the FP+ tiers. I know the rides in each tier shifted from time to time. But in early 2020 at Hollywood Studios you could get 1 "good ride" (i.e. really worthy of...

Maybe that is more typical. It probably depends on how long the downtime is? My experience was very different and hopefully rare. It had been up for hours and the posted wait was coming down. I don't remember seeing anyone outside in the LL queue but I wasn't looking for it, so maybe I missed...

I was very impressed with my 7 year old for handling the wait. We knew when planning that we'd probably have to find a time for a 1.5 to 2 hour wait. I was hoping we'd have your experience if we waited until the right time, but it seemed obvious that wasn't going to happen that day (Unverified...

Taking that further, we were there a week ago (11/6) and Rise was down in the morning. By afternoon the posted wait was 220 mins at one point, and may have peaked higher. It was slowly coming down and we hopped in at 140. It was odd because when we walked by at the 220 wait and again when we...

We were there Tuesday night as well and found lots of space around the hub 15 minutes before fireworks. We sat right in front through the show with no need to stand. My wife gave up a spot in the green space that's usually reserved for fireworks dessert parties because my daughter wanted to be...

Good stuff, @Joel ! So is your take on "nextScheduledPartyCreationOpenTime" that it just gives you a window to get your boarding party squared away (on that second screen I think) so that you can be free to mash the refresh button at 7am? Seems like you should be able to organize your party...

I haven't been watching this closely, but I notice today that the new field in the service response is no longer 30 minutes different than the older, existing field. "nextScheduledPartyCreationOpenTime":"13:00:00","nextScheduledOpenTime":"13:00:00" Since nothing has yet come from the new...

Maybe a naïve question: Why does Disney state the "holiday season" or "holiday activities" return November 12th, but the first After Hours party is November 8th? Do all of the holiday events/decorations/food start on the 12th for the non-MK parks? Or is there something specific that won't be...

I should have included the part from the prior paragraph in that article. It does indicate that at Disneyland Paris you could book a fastpass on the fly and since it may vary in price by demand, there could be specific time windows where it's available. But your comment gave me another idea...

This is a complete guess and no real reason that it would be true, but my initial reaction is that nextScheduledPartyCreationOpenTime sounds like part of the implementation of the new paid FastPass system...

Seems wild that this trip report was a trip before sending Toni off to Clemson and here we are after the school year. Even a pandemic can't stop time from flying by. Great pictures as always!

I'm not sure I would read that as only decreasing spread by 1.8%, although maybe you do mean the same thing as the study. If you do, then I argue that 1.8% is significant. Quoting the JAMA article linked under "Related Materials" [1]: "Because the percentage point decreases (for mask mandates)...

So many drinks. But I'm pretty sure these grapefruit beers are only 2% ABV so that had to help a tiny bit. Really enjoying your report!

Let me be the 7,354th person to commend you on your report and pictures. It took a long time for me to finish thanks to life (mostly work), but I definitely was not interested in rushing through it! My wife is a much more amateur photographer but really enjoys the hobby. I'll have to get some...

While that is definitely the right move for usability during the fastest fingers lottery, I hope Disney's servers are up to the challenge. Without caching in the app, there are potentially going to be more requests hitting servers -- especially from 7:59 to 8:01. They probably figure it's...

@DCBaker what are you going to do with all the extra time in your day? Feels like you might be able to start a new business and when you write a book about how you became successful you can point back to ROTR going on hiatus. Seriously though, thanks to you and all the others in this thread...