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Seit Ende 2013 wird nach und nach im gesamten Walt Disney World Resort das neue Ticketsystem, basierend auf RFID-Plastikkarten, verwendet. Damit wird auch das Fastpass-System in den Themenparks auf Fastpass+ umgestellt. Resort-Hotelgäste können am „MyMagic+“-Programm teilnehmen, hierbei ersetzt ein RFID-Kunststoffarmband die Eintrittskarten für den Park und die Zimmer-Schlüsselkarten in den Resort-Hotels. Am 31. März 2014 wurde die Umstellung im gesamten Walt Disney World Resort beendet, und es werden nun nur noch die neuen RFID-Plastikkarten als Eintrittskarte für alle Gäste verwendet. Die Reservierung von Fastpässen ist seitdem nur noch per Handy-App „MyMagic+“, über die „MyMagic+“-Webseite und über Touchscreens im Park möglich und auf maximal vier Fastpässe pro Tag limitiert. Derzeit wird eine Erweiterung der Fastpass-Limitierung erprobt, und es gibt die Möglichkeit zur Buchung weiterer Fastpässe nach Ablauf der vier bereits bestehenden Zeitfenster.

Ziele

Each attraction inside a Disney theme park has a maximum number of guests that attraction can handle in a given operating day. For example, a ride-through attraction like the Haunted Mansion may be able to carry 2,000 guests per operating hour. During a 12-hour operating day, 24,000 guests can experience this attraction. Similarly, a live theatrical show with a theatre capacity of 3,000 guests that has five shows during the day has a capacity of 15,000 guests. When Fastpass is installed on the attraction, a certain number of those seats (in the theatre, on the ride vehicles, etc.) are set aside. The remainder are made available on a "stand-by" basis to other park guests. At the beginning of the operating day, the enabled attraction's wait is pre-set at a given time (for example, 45 minutes). The number of Fastpasses available is evenly divided into time intervals (usually five minutes, but sometimes three minutes). As guests obtain Fastpasses for the attraction, time intervals are depleted, moving the return time to later in the day. For an average attraction, the Fastpass wait will generally stay near this initial pre-set time. In the case of very popular attractions, such as Splash Mountain or other major thrill rides, time intervals are depleted quickly, resulting in longer virtual waits. Sometimes, all the time intervals will be depleted early in the day, at which point Fastpasses are no longer obtainable for the given attraction during that day.

Operations

Disney currently operates a paper ticket Fastpass system at its parks in Anaheim, Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Walt Disney World in Florida has eliminated the paper ticket system to implement a FastPass+ system of reservations made in advance via computer, app or in park kiosks. On December 18, 2013, Disney's Animal Kingdom eliminated the legacy paper Fastpass system in favor of using FastPass+ for all guests, which was followed by Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Disney's Hollywood Studios on January 14, 21, and 23 respectively.

Paper Fastpass tickets are dispensed by machines outside each attraction that uses them. The guest inserts their park ticket into a reader on the machine. The machine then returns the admission ticket and a Fastpass ticket will be printed. This ticket will show the time window at which the guest may enter the special priority line at that attraction. The return time period given is normally one hour for rides (30 minutes in the Paris parks), and 15 minutes for theatrical presentations. It will also show when another Fastpass can be obtained.

In normal practice, only one Fastpass ticket can be held at a time. Another Fastpass ticket can be obtained either at the start of the current Fastpass ticket's return time or after two hours, whichever is earlier. If a guest attempts to obtain another Fastpass before these times, an informational ticket will be printed indicating when the next Fastpass ticket can be obtained. An exception to this is the World of Color show at Disney California Adventure, which distributes tickets early in the day for the evening performances; guests may still obtain standard Fastpass tickets for other attractions even if they hold a ticket for World of Color. Guests may hold a Fastpass for a character meet-and-greet at the same time they hold a Fastpass for another ride or attraction.

The presence of Fastpass on an attraction does not imply that Fastpass tickets will be offered on any given day. During less-crowded operating days, the system may not be used on certain attractions as the stand-by wait is expected to be short enough to make Fastpass unnecessary. Fastpass is generally not used at all during separate-ticket events, such as Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party, or during special after-hours events for resort guests or annual passholders, although exceptions do occur.

Re-Admission Fastpasses are also given for a ride when a guest visits a ride that malfunctions (such as: the soundtrack and the ride not being in sync on Space Mountain, power malfunctions on the Indiana Jones Adventure, if the launch system fails for the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, or if someone cannot fit on the ride).

Changes in implementation

At first, a guest could only hold a single Fastpass at a time; if a guest tried to insert a park ticket into another Fastpass machine before the time shown on their previous Fastpass, the machine would generate a ticket with a message printed on it stating that it was not yet time to obtain another Fastpass. Since the initial rollout of Fastpass, the rules have been relaxed a bit, and now additional Fastpasses can be had sooner after one another (maximum 2 hour interval between obtaining two Fastpasses), but still only one Fastpass per attraction per park ticket in every interval.

Vacations to Disneyland which were booked through AAA Vacations in 2006 came with park admission tickets which could be used to collect Fastpass tickets from multiple attractions at one time. Under this exclusive program, a guest could hold multiple Fastpass tickets per park ticket for multiple attractions at the same time. This Multi-Fastpass feature was discontinued as of January 2007, and all AAA ParkHopper tickets since then have been Standard Fastpass.

A bug in the first implementation of Fastpass allowed guests to get a pass by using tickets other than Disney's own admission media. Old tickets and even passes for other parks would result in the machines printing out another Fastpass. This has since been corrected; a ticket will come out stating "This card has not been scanned for admission".

Epcot's Mission: SPACE was the first attraction built with Fastpass in mind, with a specific queue area for it. Earlier attractions were retrofitted for Fastpass by rerouting the queue area to allow a shorter line near the boarding area.

Fastpass is used mainly on the most popular park attractions, such as Space Mountain, Test Track, Expedition Everest, Soarin' and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror; therefore, the rides that offer Fastpass service vary over time. Smaller attractions would not benefit from Fastpass due to short or fast-moving lines.

On August 30, 2007, the Walt Disney Company filed a patent for using Short Messaging Service on mobile devices as a way to get and use FastPasses in the park. The patent additionally indicated that guests staying at Disney hotels would be allowed to make early reservations for attractions using their in-room television.

The World of Color show at Disney California Adventure uses Fastpass as the only method of getting tickets for entering the Paradise Park viewing area aside from obtaining reserved seating vouchers through a World of Color dining package at select Disney California Adventure table service dining locations or a World of Color picnic package.

FastPass+

Logo for Fastpass+

FastPass+ allows guests to reserve and plan a visit to a Disney Park in advance for select FastPass+ attractions, Character Greetings, entertainment, and viewing areas for parades and fireworks. The new system allows guests to make reservations up to 60 days in advance, and change at any time. FastPass+ is a reservation and scheduling system, unlike the old paper FASTPASS system, which was a virtual queuing concept. Additionally, guests are encouraged to reserve FastPass+ sections with their group and are allowed to change the group's FastPass+ reservation as an individual guest would. Currently guests staying at an onsite Disney resort can make reservations up to 60 days in advance while all other guests can schedule reservations up to 30 days in advance, assuming tickets are linked to their account. Annual Passholders can hold Fastpass+ reservations for up to 7 different days in the 30 day window. If a Passholder is staying at a Disney resort onsite, they have 60 days to make reservations for the entire length of the stay. Guests can make three reservations in advance for each day, and all three must be at the same theme park. Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios separate the attractions available for reservation into two tiers. Guests are restricted in the combination of attractions they are able to reserve in these parks to ensure better reservation availability for others at the parks' most popular attractions. Guests may make a further reservation via an in-park kiosk after they have used their initial three selections subject to further reservation slots being available. They may continue to do so after each reservation has been used until all reservation slots have been allocated for the day.

Walt Disney World in Florida is currently the only resort to have implemented FastPass+ to replace the paper ticket based system as part of its wider introduction of the MyMagic+ vacation planning, ticketing and reservation system. These changes may be implemented to other Disney resorts worldwide in the future, though no timescale for implementation has been released.

Attraktionen mit PastPass und FastPass+

Disneyland

• Indiana Jones Adventure
• Splash Mountain
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
• Fantasmic!
• Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin
• Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters
• Space Mountain
• Star Tours: The Adventures Continue

FastFass wird zeitweise angeboten:

• Haunted Mansion
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Meet Anna and Elsa from Frozen
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Storytelling at Royal Theatre

Disney’s California Adventure Park

• Radiator Springs Racers
• Grizzly River Run
• Soarin' Over California
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
• California Screamin'
• Goofy's Sky School
• World of Color

FastFass wird zeitweise angeboten:

• Anna & Elsa's Royal Welcome
• Disney's Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular
• For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration
• Mulholland Madness

Magic Kingdom

• Ariel's Grotto
• The Barnstormer
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
• Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin
• Dumbo the Flying Elephant
• Enchanted Tales with Belle
• Festival of Fantasy (afternoon parade)
• The Haunted Mansion
• it’s a small world
• Jungle Cruise
• Mad Tea Party
• The Magic Carpets of Aladdin
• Main Street Electrical Parade (evening parade)
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Mickey’s PhilharMagic
• Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor
• Peter Pan's Flight
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Princess Fairytale Hall: Meet Cinderella and Rapunzel
• Princess Fairytale Hall: Meet Anna and Elsa from Frozen
• Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
• Space Mountain
• Splash Mountain
• Tomorrowland Speedway
• Town Square Theater Mickey Mouse Meet and Greet
• Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid
• Wishes Nighttime Spectacular

Epcot

Gruppe A (1 Attraktion)

• IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth
• Soarin'
• Test Track
• Living with the Land

Gruppe B (2 Attraktionen)

• Disney/Pixar Short Film Festival
• Journey Into Imagination With Figment
• Mission: SPACE Green
• Mission: SPACE Orange
• Spaceship Earth
• The Seas with Nemo & Friends
• Turtle Talk with Crush
• Epcot Character Spot

Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Gruppe A (1 Attraktion)

• Beauty and the Beast - Live on Stage
• The Great Movie Ride
• Fantasmic!
• Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith
• Toy Story Midway Mania!

Gruppe B (2 Attraktionen)

• The Comedy Warehouse Holiday Special (seasonal)
• Disney Junior - Live on Stage!
• For the First Time in Forever - A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration
• Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!
• Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show
• Muppet*Vision 3D
• Star Tours 2: The Adventures Continue
• Star Wars Presentations (seasonal)
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
• Voyage of the Little Mermaid

Disney’s Animal Kingdom

• DINOSAUR
• Expedition Everest
• Festival of the Lion King
• Finding Nemo - The Musical
• Flights of Wonder
• It's Tough to Be a Bug!
• Kali River Rapids
• Kilimanjaro Safaris
• Meet Favorite Disney Pals at Adventurers Outpost
• Primeval Whirl