The Disneyland resort has announced more FASTPASS attractions and introduced a new PhotoPass feature:
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The Disneyland resort has announced more FASTPASS attractions and introduced a new PhotoPass feature:
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Originally Posted by Disney Parks & Resorts
So, they are trying to say the FP is still free, that you're paying for the photos? Hmmm ... isn't Disneyland a tough (and smart) crowd? How will this be received?
They said "introductory" price. I wonder how much they plan on increasing it.
As a local, I can say "not well." Although with the lack of details as to how it will work for AP holders, it might end up being great. The thing is, two tiers of AP currently ALREADY include free photopass downloads, so the rumor is that those passes will also simply include the digital FP. However, no word on cost for other APs to use it.
For the photos, it seems like "too good" of a deal since currently one day's worth of photopass downloads is around $60.
There are too many questions right now that are unanswered and everyone is kind of frustrated that Disney made this announcement and left us hanging.
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Just to clarify, traditional paper FP will still be free, but in order to use DIGITAL FP, you will have to pay the $10 daily fee for MaxPass. And that is $10 PER PERSON, per day in your group. So a family of four would be $40/day.
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Bring on FP+, everyone should share in the fun.
It's not going to be like FP+. No advance reservations, no choosing more than one at a time, etc. It's literally just a way to save yourself the walk to the attraction to obtain a paper ticket. It's a digitized version of legacy Fastpass. All the same rules apply.
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I think the CA food and wine festival last year was better than WDWs. I hit both last year. WDW is obviously larger but the CA version had more interesting foods overall. This year's CA version looks so amazing...more booths and even more great sounding dishes. I can't wait!
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I just read that this will begin on or about July 19th.
Disney Parks just made an official announcement:
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I read the new announcement yesterday and just shook my head. To be able to book FP+ on your phone it will cost $10 per day for each person in your party? Absurd, I hope WDW doesn't get any ideas.
Here's my prediction: it flops.
First of all, annual pass holders are already at the limit of what they will pay for their passes.
Second of all, it seems like a large majority of non AP guests HAVE NO IDEA HOW FASTPASS WORKS AND THAT IT IS ALREADY FREE. I cannot emphasize this point strongly enough. These people will have no idea how to work this system if they can't already figure out paper FP. And because they think you ALREADY have to pay for FP, and they DON'T use it because of that, they won't use MaxPass either.
The in park WiFi is terrible. Truly.
I give it three months before it is free to use.
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What constitutes a flop? Only Disney itself will really know the victory conditions on this and all their online tech is a failure at launch, but they double down on it and little upgrades that should've been there on day one are usually eaten up by the masses as great improvements. I wouldn't bet against MaxPass being the ultimate unifier for FastPass for both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. One solution to ruin it all.
A flop would be not enough people buying it, and Disney eventually making the fastpass part of it free for everyone. I can see paying for the photos, but not enough people at Disneyland (as a whole) even USE the FASTPASS system as it stands. It's very bizarre to me but many people don't understand how it works and even after finding out it is free, don't use it. Charging $10/day to use it isn't going to go over well. I don't think enough people will buy in.
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