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Here's a fine how-do-you-do! This week, guests at WDW reportedly will need a FP+ to ride TSM. Loverly.

WDW News Today wrote:Walt Disney World is attempting to offer enough FastPass+ throughout the day to fill the attraction to capacity, not allowing any guests to use a standby queue or use the Disability Access Service (DAS) to ride.

Here's the link...
http://wdwnt.com/blog/2014/10/breaking- ... dwaymania/

This is ridiculous. This is just a bad idea for a couple of reasons:
- It seems the big problem with Toy Story in the past was that all FP would be gone early in the morning and standby lines up to 100 min. Now they've just replaced that with FP+.
- I'm not a big fan of planning my meals 180 days out and I like the idea of scheduling my rides in advance even less.

I am interested to see what the outcome of this latest FP+ scheme will be. I don't see how they can possibly do this and I'm sure there are some of the folks that use the disabled assistance cards (whatever it is called nowadays) will be quite unhappy.
I agree with you Marty Moose that I don't want to have to schedule every single moment before I even set foot on the property. It really sucks a lot of the fun out of the whole experience for me
And I understand that off property guests can make their FP+ ressies at the kiosks once they get in the park, but I can't help but think about the people from other countries that have language barriers already and trying to explain to them what they have to do in order to ride a particular attraction, much less one that is available by reservation only and there is no stand-by line

Disney is employing this tactic of trying to increase capacity by not adding in any new attractions, entertainment etc to keep people occupied. This is a test of the ride ability to operate as a FP+ only attraction in advance of the the addition of a third track, which is now currently in work. When this test is completed, I see Disney deciding to see how well simply adding capacity to an existing attraction works to decide whether or not to add the third theater to Soarin.

Wow, I"ve missed a lot of news in the while I haven't been keeping up with the forums. This information is foiling my plan of heading there first, riding once, then using a prearranged fast pass. Any ideas how extra magic hours will be worked in?

ImagineerWannabe wrote:Wow, I"ve missed a lot of news in the while I haven't been keeping up with the forums. This information is foiling my plan of heading there first, riding once, then using a prearranged fast pass. Any ideas how extra magic hours will be worked in?

Oooo, good question! I wonder if it simply won't be operating during EMH? Or maybe on-site guests will be able to make FP+ ressies for EMH hours while day guests will not?

Cardinals314 wrote:Disney is employing this tactic of trying to increase capacity by not adding in any new attractions, entertainment etc to keep people occupied. This is a test of the ride ability to operate as a FP+ only attraction in advance of the the addition of a third track, which is now currently in work. When this test is completed, I see Disney deciding to see how well simply adding capacity to an existing attraction works to decide whether or not to add the third theater to Soarin.

So your saying this is NOT something that would ever be permanent, or added to other attractions on a permanent basis either? I certainly hope not!! I cannot imagine making "reservations" for an attraction before you ever leave home!! This certainly is not my idea of a vacation.