News FastPass+ comes to Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run at Disney's Hollywood Studios

RSoxNo1

RSoxNo1

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It was kind of nice to be able to hop over to DHS and get a Fastpass for Tower of Terror, I imagine this will be tougher now. Having said that, I do appreciate the DAK approach of taking two rides and isolating them and then putting everything else as a separate pool. I could see Epcot doing this once Ratatouille opens, perhaps pairing it with Frozen and/or Test Track.
 
MrPromey

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DisneyDebRob said:
This is wonderful news for us that don’t care for smugglers run. Can finally get a fast pass for almost everything else without much wait. It was brutal picking one tier 1 before and having basically nothing as your 2 and 3. ToT,RnR, and TSM or SDD as choices for one day? I’m in!
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That's assuming this change won't make them hard to get. Remember, this new ability will be open to you and everyone else and they haven't increased capacity on any of these attractions.

I imagine most people who were picking things like Little Mermaid to fill out their FP+ will be thinking the exact same thing you are. Will be interesting to see how it plays out but I'd be a bit cautious with the optimism if I were you - just until we see how this actually impacts things.
 
BromBones

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MansionButler84 said:
Disney has to provide decent capacity...at some point, realism has to play back-up to operations. It’s a theme park ride. Any number of ride vehicles are bigger than they should be. Those Gringott’s carts are much smaller in the films. Hagrid never drives a train of 7 motorcycles.

It’s a ride. But certainly feel free to wait and block the view of 8-year olds on the moving video game. Kids suck at piloting anyway and the Resistance NEEDS that coaxium!

At least the RotR prisoner transport vehicles look JUST like the ones in the films.
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Here's a clever way to handle the capacity....make more ride vehicles.

And the 8-year-old can get on another ride. Those are the breaks.
 
BromBones

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durangojim said:
I've ridden it four or five times now, three times as a pilot, once as a gunner, and once as an engineer. The gunner was my least favorite spot, but I had a great time every time I flew. Being a pilot with my son and daughter was wonderful, especially watching each of them send us into hyperspace. When my wife and I were both engineers it was one of the funnies experiences that we had because the pilots were so bad the ship actually stopped working and we had to fix it. It was great! Yest it's a video game but a wonderfully immersive one with lots of things to push. People who don't have fun on this ride must be taking it far to seriously.
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Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate the information. Once I pilot it if I ever get another chance to board it again I would be willing to try the other experiences. I only hope it is as good as you say.
 
MrPromey

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BromBones said:
As long as my wife enjoys it that's all that matters. But it's nice of you to make an assumption based on my hopes that it is a good ride. I know.. I know...I dared critique or question a Disney ride. The horror.
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Yeah, clearly you "daring" to critique or question a ride (you haven't ridden) is what my response was all about.

You are worried it'll basically be a video game.

I'm telling you it is.

You're already stating your insistence that you will not be happy unless you get a specific two out of the six seats.

Both of those things tell me you won't be on board (pun intended) with the basic premise of the ride from the moment you step on it.

Lastly, your thinking they should have somehow been able to make this a two-person per vehicle attraction without a six day wait to ride, tells me you have expectations that fall outside the realm of reality - a common thread when it comes to adult Star Wars fans and what they wish this land could have been (and understandable - really not meant as a dig against you or anyone else because 30 years of hopes and dreams are hard to live up to as every attempt to make a movie after the first 3 has shown).

It's clear you don't expect to like it. I'm telling you I think you're right - I'm pretty sure you won't.

Now I guess we get to look forward to not only your speculation on how much you aren't going to like it but your confirmation when you come back about how awful it was. :rolleyes:

For the record, I'm pretty sure there is at least 50% of this forum that would consider me a "doom-and-gloomer" when it comes to WDW but I tend to write about my opinions based on my actual experiences in the parks rather than on how I imagine it is vs. how I imagine it should be.

I've said plenty negative about what I feel they've gotten wrong in this land but that was based on actually stepping in it. (again, pun intended).

That said, I'm still looking forward to the main attraction when I have a chance to ride it without showing up the night before to start wating for a boarding pass sometime in 2025 or whenever Disney catches up with their capacity problems across property.

Anyway, good luck.

I hope you're pleasantly surprised. I don't expect you will be, though.
 
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Andrew M

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MrPromey said:
That's assuming this change won't make them hard to get. Remember, this new ability will be open to you and everyone else and they haven't increased capacity on any of these attractions.

I imagine most people who were picking things like Little Mermaid to fill out their FP+ will be thinking the exact same thing you are. Will be interesting to see how it plays out but I'd be a bit cautious with the optimism if I were you - just until we see how this actually impacts things.
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Did exactly that this morning, switched out Muppetvision and my 2nd Star Tours of the trip for ToT and Toy Story Mania.
 
MrPromey

MrPromey

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Andrew M said:
Did exactly that this morning, switched out Muppetvision and my 2nd Star Tours of the trip for ToT and Toy Story Mania.
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And I don't blame you one bit, my friend! ;)

This might be what's needed to see attendance drop enough at some most of the older shows for them to realize updates are needed.

One can hope, anyway.
 
Weather_Lady

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Andrew M said:
Did exactly that this morning, switched out Muppetvision and my 2nd Star Tours of the trip for ToT and Toy Story Mania.
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I was able to make the upgrade on only one of our 2 HS days (Sunday, 2/23).

For the other day (Saturday, 2/22), every "ride" in the park was already fully booked by the time the system stopped crashing! Guess I'm stuck with the Star Tours and Muppets FP+ I booked back at 60 days.

Hoping I'll be quicker on the draw whenever the current 9 opening times shift to 7 or 8, and better choices become fleetingly available! In the meantime, I'm trying to figure out why there's no "good" FP+ available on 2/22, but plenty on 2/23. Is Saturday that much more of a popular day at HS than Sunday, or is there some special event on Saturday I don't know about? The Princess Half Marathon is that whole weekend: could that be a contributing factor?
 

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