The worst decision WDW ever made?

ParadoxPortals

ParadoxPortals

Active Member
Honestly IMO - this is really controversial I know - but it was creating any type of line skipping system at all. Even the OG FastPass had numerous issues that weren't often visible to guests; the system was a psychological ploy hoping you'd only remember the few times you got to line skip, and not the many times you were skipped in line during the rest of your day. The whole system worked on stealing time from Standby waiters to allow FastPass queuers to save time in their queue; it was an unequal wait time distribution system that only (occasionally) benefitted those in the know (us Parks mega fans) who could maximise (exploit) the system to get the most value possible from it.

Eventually, FastPass mutated into it's monstrous + and Lightning Lane systems, and then everyone else copied Disney and now the industry is full of $200 'luxury' line-skipping purchases that only end up worsening the guest experience for everyone, instead of just having a Main Queue and Single Rider option where everyone is treated equally and wait times are always distributed fairly among all guests of all purchasing classes.

Sure, if Disney never innovated with the OG FastPass concept, eventually someone else would probably have came up with the same or a similar idea, and then Disney would've immediately done their own spin on it, maybe even an immediately money-hungry version like the latest FastPass mutation, but at least we would've then had someone else to blame haha.
 
Club Cooloholic

Club Cooloholic

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ParadoxPortals said:
Honestly IMO - this is really controversial I know - but it was creating any type of line skipping system at all. Even the OG FastPass had numerous issues that weren't often visible to guests; the system was a psychological ploy hoping you'd only remember the few times you got to line skip, and not the many times you were skipped in line during the rest of your day. The whole system worked on stealing time from Standby waiters to allow FastPass queuers to save time in their queue; it was an unequal wait time distribution system that only (occasionally) benefitted those in the know (us Parks mega fans) who could maximise (exploit) the system to get the most value possible from it.

Eventually, FastPass mutated into it's monstrous + and Lightning Lane systems, and then everyone else copied Disney and now the industry is full of $200 'luxury' line-skipping purchases that only end up worsening the guest experience for everyone, instead of just having a Main Queue and Single Rider option where everyone is treated equally and wait times are always distributed fairly among all guests of all purchasing classes.

Sure, if Disney never innovated with the OG FastPass concept, eventually someone else would probably have came up with the same or a similar idea, and then Disney would've immediately done their own spin on it, maybe even an immediately money-hungry version like the latest FastPass mutation, but at least we would've then had someone else to blame haha.
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I remember going to a Six Flags in like the 00s and they were just trying to do something like fast past, you had to go a kiosk manned by a staff member who would give you some rides you could get a pass to. It was free at the time and I only remember getting one pass to a Batman and Robin coaster. It was a great experience, because my wife and I used it and it let us take some back way onto the ride, we got on so quick we never saw the previous train leave the station, and when the ride started for us we experienced our first launch coaster! Total surprise
 
AdventureHasAName

AdventureHasAName

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DarkMetroid567 said:
Yup, for all the people who rue the “planning”
era, FastPass is what kicked it off. It inherently disadvantaged people who didn’t plan or didn’t know how to use it
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... and this is why locals and AP holders LOVED fastpass unconditionally when it was first implemented. They felt like they were getting one over on the rube families that were making their once-in-a-lifetime trip and would never be able to understand the system well enough to take full advantage of it (like the AP holders would). Most never realized (and some still don't) that it would eventually (a) wreck the vacation ecosystem and (b) lead to paid line-skipping.
 
Cmdr_Crimson

Cmdr_Crimson

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The Tomorrowland Cabana's....Enough Said..
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That's right pay $650 a day to use a Rent-a-Tent in the former smoking section of Tomorrowland just a few steps by the bathrooms...Doesn't get more magical than that!

Incase you missed this era of What the Heckory here's a little more info. https://www.wdwmagic.com/attraction...ow-offering-private-cabanas-for-650-a-day.htm
 
Robbiem

Robbiem

Well-Known Member
Building MGM too small and in the wrong location. It ended the Walt idea of the monorail connecting everything and the park was built in response to universal rather than as its own thing. After that everything became Disney’s version of something- AK was Bush Gardens competitor, the resorts went from being more fantastical themed to being a version of somewhere where guests might go instead like cape cod or new Orleans or a national park. Disney gave up the urban and transport planning and just turned into sprawling urban development with no overall planning, just plopped where the land was suitable

Before MGM we had unique parks with novel transportation and fantasy resorts all planned as a true destination. After we got endless buses and things to try and stop you going to the competition in an urban sprawl. Disney stopped acting and started reacting and its lead us to the current situation
 
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scarletfire

New Member
I miss in no particular order:
Mr. Toad
Osborne Lights
Trail's End Buffet
Original Test Track
Functional Yeti
free FP+
Magical Express
Little Red
The Skyway at MK
Roger Rabbit at MK
 

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