Disney imagineers collaborated with NASA on Space Center Houston. It’s not a Disney park but it is very nicely done!
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That price for club level also included a dessert party type location for the night time shows in the parks.
That dessert party location was stopped very quickly.
A ride reservation system like FP might have served many purposes - keeping people out of lines where they don’t spend money, incentivizing staying on-site, increasing guest satisfaction - but I don’t think the primary one is to make lines bearable for people who chose not to use it.
ETA: And I think it can’t be priced to too small of an audience or you’re crossing streams with plaids which already serve the high end guests.
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I remember going multiple times and loving it when I was a teenager, but I took my son 2 years ago and it is in ROUGH shape. Half the exhibits were closed or broken.
I did notice they were playing the Disney Junior show Miles From Tomorrowland, but my kid’s a little old for that show.
If your FP system doesn’t impact your standby lines, then you’re not incentivizing people to purchase it.
If they introduce a $300/day/person FP, I wonder if they’ll come out with a limited version at a lower price point.
Like Dining Plans, offering a little something for everyone (and their money).
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I meant that if the FP price is cheap enough, then so many people buy FP that the FP lines are too long.
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Like keys on a piano!
ahh, my bad. That point make sense to me.
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You would think resort guests would get some sort of discount with a paid FP system.
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Like EP is free for Universal’s Premium resorts?
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Yes, starting check-in to check-out day. So one night gets two EP days.
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Maybe someone already mentioned it but in the MDE app the wait time list now specifies Standby Wait Time instead of Wait Time. Maybe a coincidence but I think it’s a sign something will be happening soon with Fast Passes (whatever that looks like).
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I still hope WDW will bring FPP back for the 4th of July weekend…
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In today’s Disney Dish Podcast Len mentions the code seems to be called “Access Plus”. He points out if you now have to pay for it, the name would need to change?
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that would be INSANE if it’s that much YIKES
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Agree 100%. I would never pay that, and if enough people do and standby lines are bad, I might just have to be content with finding cheaper vacation alternatives and not being as much of a Disney person going forward. But I don’t blame Disney for turning demand into profit if they go that route.
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Well this topic has scared the bejesus out of me:roll_eyes:
If it goes the route of Universal and the higher end resorts will now include a FP, then I’m no longer staying offsite and the trip is going to be a lot shorter due to the additional cost.
If it is $1,200 a day extra for a family of four to have passes, that is an extra $6,000 for five days at the park. The Disney trip will just be a cancel for us at that point. I appreciate the fact that if Disney can get away with it, more power to them, but there is no chance I’d ever visit again. My six-year old will have to go as an adult 
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Universal’s Unlimited EP seems to act as a pretty strong incentive to stay at their Premium line of resorts.
And since that puts more money back in their pockets that seems to be a pretty successful model.
But people seem to be pushing the idea that Disney will adopt a similar Pass at more than three times the cost of an EP but without any break for ppl staying on site.
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If I am visiting UOR, I am okay w/ “splurging” for one of their premium resorts because they aren’t crazy expensive, and I am only staying 1-2 nights since the 2 parks are smaller and we can do everything we want to in 2-3 days.
If WDW adopted a similar program, we would be priced out of it since the Deluxe resorts are not in our budget. I could see doing 1-2 nights at WL or AKL (lowest pricing tier for Deluxe) to get 2-3 days of passes, but not for our entire stay and also it would reduce the overall length of our trip.
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