The fact that the regular queue is now call "standby" tells you everything.
Fast Pass is now the regular line and those who don't pay extra are now filler.

The fastpass system was genius because you didn't skip the line, thereby slowing down the regular line. Instead, you just queued virtually while being able to experience food, sights, etc. In a perfect world, free virtual queueing should be the norm with barely anyone using the regular lines. They can still monetise it by selling food and drinks.

It didn't start in Disney though. It started in The Elder Scrolls with that damn horse armor.

What do you mean?! Fast passes are an excellent way to bring the joys of class conflict with you on the go to your favorite theme park!

Disney ruins everything, unironically.

Lagoon in Utah has fast operations and no fast pass lines either. It really was a breath of fresh air

the worst part is that parks with fastlane have less incentive to build rides with decent capacity or even run multiple trains. they also less incentive to make the queue look nice, bc making it less pleasant to queue will increase sales. it's easy to say just don't use it but it really affects the entire experience and parks just lose the incentive to be better.

This boils my blood. I can afford fast pass for my family of four but I flatly refuse. If a park can't provide an enjoyable visit for the cost of entry, then I just won't go. And that's what I've done. But I recognize it won't stop until people vote with their dollars like me. If anything, it's getting worse, with dynamic pricing jacking the price up even higher on weekends and more popular days.

At this point we're paying to enter AND paying for each individual attraction at crazily inflated prices. Infuriating!

This is very well done, and I completely agree. I didn't mind paying more for Disney back in the day because FastPass and free on-ride photos were included in the price. Not only has the normal ticket price increased, but the free add-ons are now behind a paywall. To add to this, I visited Universal Orlando in 2021 when Velocicoaster had just opened, which at that time was not included in Express. Because of that, it was the quickest line in the park, and it felt like you were never stopping in line. And now Express has been added to Velocicoaster, and the standby line has become an absolute standstill. Getting rid of fast passes in general would greatly impact the experience, but there is unfortunately too much money being made to stop it.

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Back then, FastPass was seen as a major problem because it rewarded those who planned in advance and took the time and effort to learn the information necessary to utilize the system to its fullest, which was seeing as too punishing to casual parkgoers.  However, replacing the "effort and information" with money essentially punishes everyone but the parks themselves, turning a major problem into a catastrophe that will likely never be resolved because there is no incentive to do so.

A "perfect" system would force everyone into a virtual queue and would make the FastPass system both mandatory and accessible.

Harry disappears for 9 months and comes back with a rallying cry for theme park socialism. This is the best comeback ever.

This is not only on Disney but mainly their customers who blindly pay extra to enter a ride. And now it's another earning model as there is no value for the company to create capacity and instead build rides that sell fast passes.
I keep going to Efteling, no stress, no planning, no extra costs.

This is absolutely spot-on and the reason I don't plan on visiting a Disney park. Efteling was such a positive surprise when I went last year, because although the park was busy, crowds were spread out and there were no ridiculous wait times, so you could just lose yourself in that magical world. That's how it should be. This video made me appreciate parks like Efteling or Europa Park (my home park) even more for their guest experience.

I visited Disney World in 2009 and 2011for school trips. Many of my friends had already been to the park, so they knew the right times to head for the rides. At night, during the lighted parade in Magic Kingdom, my friends took me over to Splash Mountain. I thought there might still be a line, but lo and behold, we were able to board immediately! And we rode the ride over and over, without needing to queue or wait, because everyone was over at the parade. It was the best time I had at the parks, because there was no standing, no waiting, only joy and fun with my friends.

Those days are over. Now, even if a large majority of people are at another event in the park, the lines are still a ridiculous wait. There's no escaping it anymore.

I visited Disney world in early 2021 and it was honestly so nice not having any form of fast pass. The full rides capacity being dedicated to one queue meant you never stopped moving and it made the queuing experience so much easier to stomach

you said funky characters, but did not show funky kong !!?

Fastpass was created to get people to shop more while waiting. This was about greed from the beginning, not guest experience. Nothing has changed.

3:45 it’s such an efficient and consumer cost effective system, I’m genuinely shocked disney implemented it for free in the first place 😭