Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World

[CaptainAmerica]

Basically the same thing as fastpass + The only differences are:
1. You have to pay for this
2. Its 7 days for resort guests instead 60 and 3 instead of 30
3. And the most popular rides are behind an extra pay wall.
Disney really is adding so much value! (Not). I personally liked fastpass + because I could do it in advanced. This is better than now but that's not a very high bar. I'm not sure if I like 7 days in advanced more or less than 60 but I guess we'll just have to wait and see on that.

4. The tiering at Magic Kingdom makes this basically worthless. Absolutely garbage.

Of Standby Only, Paper FastPass, FastPass+, and Genie+, this is by far the worst option.

I will be doing most of my commentary on this topic at twitter dot com because the language I'll be using would get me banned from WDWMagic.

 

[DCLcruiser]

so are they seriously going through the parks and at every attraction spend money to change signing once again to match the new names?

great use of $ geniuses

Isn’t it still Lightning Lane? The entrances shouldn’t have to be updated.

 

[Doberge]

So with resort guests having an advantage it will be very difficult for nonresort guests (locals and those off-site) to book Bayou Adventure?

 

[GhostHost1000]

At least the name is much better. Who thought calling it Disney Genie made sense for a skip the line system?

Single Pass and Multi Pass where Multi Pass won't get you the Single Pass attractions make so much sense.

 

[DCLcruiser]

So with resort guests having an advantage it will be very difficult for nonresort guests (locals and those off-site) to book Bayou Adventure?

I will guess that since TBA will be the new hotness, it will be LL-$ingle Pass for a long time.

 

[Gusey]

so are they seriously going through the parks and at every attraction spend money to change signing once again to match the new names?

great use of $ geniuses

No, it's still Lightning Lane Entrances. If anything, it actually make the Lightning Lane signs make more sense as some guests were confusing Genie and Lightning Lane as different things

 

[the_rich]

I will guess that since TBA will be the new hotness, it will be LL-$ingle Pass for a long time.

No, it's part of tier 1. It isn't single pass.

 

[Starship824]

Single Pass and Multi Pass where Multi Pass won't get you the Single Pass attractions make so much sense.

Hey, at least it has lighting lane in the name

 

[GhostHost1000]

Isn’t it still Lightning Lane? The entrances shouldn’t have to be updated.

it says "formerly Individual Lightning Lane entry" in the release

 

[IanDLBZF]

So with resort guests having an advantage it will be very difficult for nonresort guests (locals and those off-site) to book Bayou Adventure?

Not quite per se. I found Splash Mountain easy to book even at 30 days out back in the FP+ days.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

At least the name is much better. Who thought calling it Disney Genie made sense for a skip the line system?

Disney Genie (not Disney Genie+) was supposed to be a real-time, AI-enabled touring plan generator. They could never get it right.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Anyone have the link to the thread explaining all the reasons the Universal system would not work at Disney? (I am sure there must be one.)

Just got back from a Universal trip. Specifically because our last Disney trip felt like it required to much work to vacation and we had never been to Harry Potter at all. Express Pass Unlimited was wonderful. (Universal also felt, and I assume is, significantly smaller than Disney.)

I'm sure the Disney system will change again before we plan our next trip anyway.

We love the express pass! It felt better it was included in the price to stay at the deluxe resort and we did one night and got express pass two days, check in day and check out day!

And the freedom to simply get in the express line of any attraction at any moment was great.

 

[wedenterprises]

I'm happy for the name change at least.

 

[the_rich]

I will guess that since TBA will be the new hotness, it will be LL-$ingle Pass for a long time.

I believe it's tron, 7 dwarves, rise, guardians and flight of passage.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Prices will increase. For something that was free. But the Bob’s and Josh have conditioned you to think it’s a god thing to pay for it. Just say no.

Here’s the way I see it playing:

They MAY hold the price for a bit…potential thought pattern:

1. There attendance is sinking an everyone knows it…not the time to take a PR hit
2. Pursuant to 1…the summer is dead and they may think they can entice some.
3. The “intro pricing” chapek caliber nonsense they think may get people integrated

But long game…this is why it will be jacked:

The Walt Disney company is NOT doing well financially. They stopped buying bobs snake oil. They need money badly and parks are the only thing they can exploit to do it. Nobody is fooled there.

 

[wedenterprises]

Disney Genie (not Disney Genie+) was supposed to be a real-time, AI-enabled touring plan generator. They could never get it right.

I have never once used the actual Genie portion. It's always ridiculous.

 

[ToTBellHop]

This is what I’ve been wanting so it’s definitely an improvement to me. Less stress day-of.

 

[GhostHost1000]

Hey, at least it has lighting lane in the name

yeah I guess it does in the app... weird

at least it's clear as mud

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I will guess that since TBA will be the new hotness, it will be LL-$ingle Pass for a long time.

…what makes you think that?

 

[Nottamus]

Would be fun to be in the “naming” meeting just to hear the ideas that were worse and more confusing than what they always end up with … …