Agreed, I don’t think anyone who used this system to their advantage was cheating. I did the same thing all the time when regular FP allowed late returns - was even sad when it changed at first, but quickly adapted.
Where things are headed is not some predetermined divinely guided course of events. It’s not the natural progression of history. It is a deliberate decision by Disney based on years of trying to avoid adding capacity, including spending billions of dollars to come up with schemes to make people just the right amount of miserable and avoid adding capacity instead of using that money to just add capacity and make people happy. Now they are pushing through with another angle and people are again blaming other guests instead of blaming Disney for a problem of their own making that they are choosing to exacerbate and exploit.
I think it's universally agreed on that Disney hasn't built up enough ride capacity to stay on par with 10-20 years ago given the rise in attendance. We're not going in a time machine to set the guest policy to +1 in 2011 and we're not going back in time to build more attractions to limit ride waits. So the discussion is what to do with the sandwich that exists right now.
Again, completely agreed. The capacity issues facing WDW’s parks and the fact that this is a reasonable change that benefits most groups aren’t mutually exclusive.
You start making it better, not try to make it worse to exploit.
But this change will make standby lines slightly better.
This used to define Disney and set it apart from every other family vacation destination resort on earth.
We hope.
The bolded is much the way pharmaceutical companies function. This is why I'm not a fan of how much our country prioritizes businesses over the well-being of humans. (I'm sure you've seen my comments on unchecked capitalism.)
I think we can all agree sometimes our posts are a bit dramatic and exaggerated, relative to the actual importance of the subject matter. Some of this site's most beloved members, such as WDW1974, were all the more revered for it.
This is like offering a small bandage for a scrape while ignoring the huge gash. Sure, at some level on specific attractions it is a marginal improvement. Of course it would be even more improved by actually fixing the bigger problem, which would also erode the motivation to cheat the system.
There’s no way you can I can be looking at some of the same posts and perceiving them as calm, level-headed discourse.I am going to be honest -- this thread is super weird. I don't really understand how some mild objections and frustrations ended up getting classified as "histrionics". In fact, many of us who raised objections have repeatedly said this is just an annoying change. We did not call for Chapek to resign or cancel our Disney+ subscription or plan a protest in Zach Riddley's Instagram comments.
If I may posit another theory. Disney is about to move into a model where they will be charging for fastpasses if rumors are correct. There can only be so many people using the fastpass line, so every extra person using a rider swap fastpass is one fewer fastpass that Disney can charge for.
Whining about explaining to children why they can’t all ride with Grandma and then all ride with Grandpa is, indeed, an example of histrionics. It’s absurd.I am going to be honest -- this thread is super weird. I don't really understand how some mild objections and frustrations ended up getting classified as "histrionics". In fact, many of us who raised objections have repeatedly said this is just an annoying change. We did not call for Chapek to resign or cancel our Disney+ subscription or plan a protest in Zach Riddley's Instagram comments.
