A couple of tidbits from Dayton today!

Reedy Creek Buccaneer;2460747 wrote: Fastpass+ to be expanded after Disneyland 60th celebration. From the way it was explained, you will get 10 experiences per day. These will include your ADRs.

Is this just for MK or all parks? Could you schedule multiple visits for the same attraction in one day?

I've never put a lot of stock into Mr. Hill's predictions, so I'm hoping this info can be filed in his "half-cocked" files. Still, with Disney lately, who knows? I will say that if Star Wars has been pushed back, I can see a huge backlash coming...

http://www.mritty.net/disneyblog/?p=173

The original poster started this thread almost a year ago.

wetoofun;2485600 wrote: Any update on this?

Yes, SOME version of FP+ is coming to Disneyland. Tests are being run right now at Space Mountain. They have installed barcode scanners that are scanning FP tickets in lieu of a CM looking at them. Word is, FP+ will use smartphones and ticket media to provide electronic FP linked to your account and all the FP rides will be equipped with scanners. Additional FP rides will be added. Guests will only be able to make same day FP reservations while physically in the park via smartphone or in park kiosks.

baldburke;2485615 wrote: http://www.mritty.net/disneyblog/?p=173

It was interesting to note that a couple more of the claims are now more accurate than they were in 2013, such as an expanded Muppets area and changes to the Stunt Show seem more likely than not.

BrerGnat;2485630 wrote: Yes, SOME version of FP+ is coming to Disneyland. Tests are being run right now at Space Mountain. They have installed barcode scanners that are scanning FP tickets in lieu of a CM looking at them. Word is, FP+ will use smartphones and ticket media to provide electronic FP linked to your account and all the FP rides will be equipped with scanners. Additional FP rides will be added. Guests will only be able to make same day FP reservations while physically in the park via smartphone or in park kiosks.

Wow - old thread - anyway, just wanted to say that this is how I said things should work from the get go. Same day, in park, via smart phone OR kiosk.

John;2485748 wrote: Wow - old thread - anyway, just wanted to say that this is how I said things should work from the get go. Same day, in park, via smart phone OR kiosk.

Yep, apparently Disneyland management uses their brains. ;)

It will be interesting to compare this version to the WDW version. I wonder if WDW might consider changing theirs to work this way if it proves successful at DL.

Count me as someone who would be extremely disappointed if WDW went to strictly day-of in-park only FastPasses.

Goofy4TheWorld;2485767 wrote: Count me as someone who would be extremely disappointed if WDW went to strictly day-of in-park only FastPasses.

Why? That is how it used to be and it worked just fine.

Goofy4TheWorld;2485767 wrote: Count me as someone who would be extremely disappointed if WDW went to strictly day-of in-park only FastPasses.

BrerGnat;2485769 wrote: Why? That is how it used to be and it worked just fine.

As long as everyone is on the same playing field, then "day-of" "in-park" FPs would be fine with me.

I'd also be fine with shorter advance times fro ADR's too. Like 14 days, for instance. I'd bet there would be more spur of the moment availability.

joonyer;2485793 wrote: As long as everyone is on the same playing field, then "day-of" "in-park" FPs would be fine with me.

I'd also be fine with shorter advance times fro ADR's too. Like 14 days, for instance. I'd bet there would be more spur of the moment availability.

I agree with you on the ADRs. People book restaurants "just in case" and then cancel them last minute. A shorter window would probably stop that behavior.

BrerGnat;2485769 wrote: Why? That is how it used to be and it worked just fine.

I didn't like it because it caused the "mad dash" to get FPs for the uber popular rides. Now it will be a mad dash on the phone. Also, make it be that we can book so long as we are on-property, not necessarily in the park. That I could live with if I could book while I have my coffee and yogurt in my DVC room.

If it was in park, my family will be back to basically not riding things like Space Mountain, Soarin and Toy Story Mania. We are not early risers, so FP would be gone by the time we would get to the park around 10 (we naturally wake up around 8-8:30) and good chance the wait times will be longer than we care to wait. Most other rides we were able to get FPs.

BrerGnat;2485803 wrote: I agree with you on the ADRs. People book restaurants "just in case" and then cancel them last minute. A shorter window would probably stop that behavior.

I agree on ADRs as well. We refuse to even think about booking where we want to eat until a month before our trips!

Goofy4TheWorld;2485767 wrote: Count me as someone who would be extremely disappointed if WDW went to strictly day-of in-park only FastPasses.

BrerGnat;2485769 wrote: Why? That is how it used to be and it worked just fine.

No, it did not work just fine for all people, which is no doubt one of the many reasons the system was changed.

While I am not madly in love with either system, I do VERY much enjoy being able to book my first three FastPasses, for rides I know I am going to want to ride, well in advance of my vacation. I enjoy having some certainty set in stone, and I enjoy NOT having to do on-the-fly planning while I am in the park OR in my room. I enjoy being able to spend the morning swimming and spend the evening using my TSM and ToT FastPasses, and I like so many others are very grateful that the new system made this possible, where before it was IMPOSSIBLE. I am so glad to see the significant dwindling of the mad dash to FP machines at park opening, and not a day goes by that I miss that aspect of FPv1.

Like I said, it has its flaws, but overall I approve of FP+ over FPv1. I approve of the 60 & 30 day windows just like they are, and overall I would miss FPv2 if it were scrapped in favor of a FPv1 system. FP+ has some serious flaws at Epcot & DHS, but at MK (and even at AK for me) I was able to utilize FP+ as it exists now to have my cake and eat it too with both advanced FPs and for day-of FPs as well. In fact, I utilized a total of 11 FP+ reservations at MK In April 2016, which included multiple rides on all 3 Mountains, and so I just don't see anything to complain about.

Most of the problems with FastPasses running out are a simple consequence of the enormous amount of people that are coming to the parks each day, and FPv1 won't solve that problem.