Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World

[Waters Back Side]

The tip board is a complete waste of time........Touring Plans has been doing the same thing for 15+ years and it's not biased and has better real time data...........

Tip Board also seems to be the only place to book LL's.

 

[Patcheslee]

It's a coaster, not a team event. Why do you need to sit next to a friend? My wife and I happily use it, sit wherever they put us, and ride after waiting less than 5 minutes. Worth it every time.

Riders under 7 have to have a supervising companion.

 

[DCBaker]

Could you book both at once?

You can buy both ILLs at 7am (or 9am if you are not at a resort).

 

[Disney Dad 3000]

I think this bears monitoring going forward (like the rest of this rollout). I'm not advocating purchasing the I.L.L's, but there was supposed to be a perceived "benefit" for on-site guests in this regard so they would have first choice from the time slots. Holding back additional AM slots or more until after park open for non-resort guests doesn't really feel much like a benefit if you've purchased an afternoon slot at 430pm to only find out they've released a whole other wave of AM slots.

 

[Patcheslee]

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Impressive attention to detail there

But Small World still brings up FP+ lol

 

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

Like it doesn’t cost enough to get in as it is? This is rediculois they need to lower admission which would be awesome for us who don’t really need to go on rides anyway. This may be my last straw, the rides aren’t the same any the nighttime show I don’t care for any more. They already killed the landscapes and atmosphere. Bring in a Light Parade or something, god anything to eat up the time when where not on the rides.

 

[MisterPenguin]

That used to be true. Will it still be true with IAS people added?

We'll see...

 

[Patcheslee]

I think this bears monitoring going forward (like the rest of this rollout). I'm not advocating purchasing the I.L.L's, but there was supposed to be a perceived "benefit" for on-site guests in this regard so they would have first choice from the time slots. Holding back additional AM slots or more until after park open for non-resort guests doesn't really feel much like a benefit if you've purchased an afternoon slot at 430pm to only find out they've released a whole other wave of AM slots.

RotR is down, now we start to find out what they do you the ILL people . Really need another acronym

 

[MisterPenguin]

Like it doesn’t cost enough to get in as it is? This is rediculois they need to lower admission which would be awesome for us who don’t really need to go on rides anyway. This may be my last straw, the rides aren’t the same any the nighttime show I don’t care for any more. They already killed the landscapes and atmosphere.

Lower admissions by how much? You lower it enough and the parks are crowded like every day was Christmas week.

 

[danv3]

Who wouldn't want that Laugh Floor LL in a few hours? LOL

 

[DCLcruiser]

Riders under 7 have to have a supervising companion.

We were talking about friends, not little kids. Single rider wouldn't even be an option.

 

[Waters Back Side]

How do you purchase it for length of stay? In the MDE App I see where to purchase it but its only for the day and does not allow me because I do not have a park pass reservation for today (in which I do not). How do I add it on to my theme park tickets/park reservations?

 

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

Lower admissions by how much? You lower it enough and the parks are crowded like every day was Christmas week.

Us diehard fans are being screwed. After all these years of love and support to these parks. You know why maybe it’s time to build another resort in the US for crowd control and something else to see, something a bit different than the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland. Maybe a smaller seasonal castle park up north for smaller volumes but eat some of the Holiday and summer crowds. Us New Yorkers are at outdoor events until January.

 

[LovePop]

Not if more inventory is released at 9am.

How odd. I wonder if they will continue doing that, or if it's just for today. Makes it not such much of a resort benefit as I first thought.

 

[Patcheslee]

Who wouldn't want that Laugh Floor LL in a few hours? LOL

It was available for 1pm at 7am this morning, assumed they didn't plan to open till later.

 

[Jeff4272]

Yes, it's 10:30. Two to three hours from now is the afternoon. You want to know why the evening ones aren't gone? Because everyone who can grab LLs has to wait until their current one is expired by either waiting until their scheduled time for the current LL is now, or, for two hours.

The very most popular ones may go quicker, but not that much quicker. If everyone grabs Peter Pan now for an evening time, then they can't grab one for PotC or JC or HM or Buzz for the next two hours. That's why they're not all gone.

Would you like to post some data points to show you're right, or just suppose things that aren't the case?


Yeah, we've heard your complaints about how the new system doesn't fit your method of hitting the parks. And we heard it over and over and over and over and over again. Sorry for your loss.

The old FP+ didn't fit other people's way of hitting the parks (show up spontaneously, e.g., or having an intricate plan ruined by rain).

There's no perfect system. We've noted you don't like this one. Have a good day.

Its inefficient, no matter how angry you get and it goes backwards to a system (paper fast pass) that did not work and that's why they got rid of it

 

[DisneyCane]

Like it doesn’t cost enough to get in as it is? This is rediculois they need to lower admission which would be awesome for us who don’t really need to go on rides anyway. This may be my last straw, the rides aren’t the same any the nighttime show I don’t care for any more. They already killed the landscapes and atmosphere.

What they should have done (at least for the Genie+ part) was just raised the prices $15 per day (and some amount for annual passes) and included Genie+.

The ILL part I don't know what they should have done. They have attractions with way too low of an hourly capacity to fill the demand. I do think it is insane to even pay the $9 that some of them would cost today for ONE ride. $60 for a family of 4 to ride ROTR that lasts under 10 minutes from pre-show start to ride end (assuming it doesn't break down once you've entered the pre-show) is just crazy to me.

 

[LovePop]

You must have stock in Disney.

Having stock doesn't change the validity of anybody's post.

 

[RoadiJeff]

You could just wake up early and wait 10 minutes for free.

How so? The park didn't open until 9:00am, regardless of how early I woke up. As it was, we had to circle around HS several times because they wouldn't let any vehicles into the parking lot before 7:30am. We were first in line at the non-early entry turnstiles and by the time we got to the tail end of RotR the posted wait time was 160 minutes, close to our actual wait of 155 minutes.

 

[danv3]

Its inefficient, no matter how angry you get and it goes backwards to a system (paper fast pass) that did not work and that's why they got rid of it

Neither efficiency nor working well (for guests) is the goal, though. The goal--the only goal--is sweet, sweet cash.