Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History

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   @UhOphelia

   January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

   Currently stuck in line in a theme park, was info dumping to my friend on how the lines work and had to come back to check the sacred texts

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   @JakevO8

   January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

   ay blud u cook w/ this 1 gng

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   @Erich21

   January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

   "67 minutes"
   67

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   @zeugenberg

   January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

   So… was in Phantasialand this week… will have to polish my knowledge about lines now.

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   @mikb5587

   January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

   End up reverting to a plain old queue

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   @samthehypotheticaldad

   January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

   I went to Disney World with my hs band not long after Rise of the Resistance opened and they were still using the boarding group system. In order to get a chance at riding we scheduled to leave at around 6:30 am or smth (before sunrise) for the park the one day we’d be in Hollywood Studios. Only a few of the hundred or so band kids that went got a boarding group at all, and even fewer got one that actually got to ride that day. I was one of the lucky few that did but there were so many bummed students and parent/teacher chaperones.

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   @narioreturns7603

   January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

   I thought I heard, how much do you know about lies? Well I don’t wanna brag but

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   @jeffthegrate5696

   January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

   I went to a damn lot of theme parks this summer and have a lot of disabled friends and relatives and I am an avid fast pass hater except for providing Disabled people with the virtual que style of fast pass. Some people cannot stand in line and some people have chronic pain and so on so like in a perfect world fast pass would be a free service for those with disabilities. Cause like. If your bones hurt all day every day forever I think you and your pals should get to skip lines just this once.
   My fave line solution is just making the line itself entertaining through props and environments. I’ve gone on rides (Spider-Man ride at disneyland) where I genuinely enjoyed the line more than the actual ride.

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   @benchaneer7636

   January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

   Take a shot every time the word 'pass' is mentioned.

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    @vector4606

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    Disneyland is the epitome of selfishness destroying what should be a good experience.

    Min-maxing rides and experiences so far in advance really harms the experience for normal guests.

    What if you can't stay at a qualifying hotel?
    What if you're international?
    What if you want to just be flexible?

    FastPass was an inherently unfair system. It never feels good when staff let ~100 FastPass users through at the end of the day and everyone else whose been waiting 3+ hours is told they've missed out.

    It should be an all or nothing system. You either allow everyone in the park to fairly virtually queue, or not at all, in my eyes.

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    @henrywilliams8918

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    Mac rolling in his grave

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    @moo.adriana3208

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    55:16

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    @ErbBetaPatched

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    I last went to Disney in 2006. We rode dozens of rides a day, some more than once. I can't imagine riding one ride and then going home sad.

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    @SurvivorMaster

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    1:25:45 what caused the huge dip in Disney attendance in late 1999?

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    @RichoRosai

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    1:14 09
    9,000 minutes equals 7.5 hours?

    Tsk tsk… Sloppy work like that discredits the whole video—nay, channel. I demand all my time back in negative wait minutes…

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    @missmoanypants

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    1:35:20 Is that Kevin Owens?!

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    @LuigiSmashMain

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    1:37:35 Disney is pulling a Nintendo.
    Increasing prices just because they can.

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    @Samossam

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    Never went to any Disney theme park, or pretty much any other theme park. But as a software engineer queues are pretty common data structures and that documentary covers so many interesting details about them when applied to real life situations!

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    @jennyjenny3531

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    The idea of going to Disneyland has always sounded awful to me.

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    @JedTarbo

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    Topic: YouTube comments are the worst.

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    @DuncanEvers

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    New year, new moment to once again rewatch this and LOG IT ON LETTERBOXD!!!!

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    @samanthaw.861

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    I like to think that if this video were played in a movie theater, the “This is Animal Kingdom” moment would be on par with Captain America grabbing the hammer.

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    @Department18Productions

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    i instantly knew dotson was disney dan

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    @bigmints4182

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    As someone who never had the money or opportunity to go to a Disneyland, I thought that you always had to pay for FastPass.

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    @cupcakes4girls

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    It’s interesting seeing the differences between a franchise amusement park vs a thrill park. I live in Cincinnati and we have Kings Island near us and if you choose to buy a fast pass, you get to join the fast pass lane for the top 6 rides and get a punch out of the ride you rode. It may have changed after COVID but most people visit are the adrenal chasers for the biggest baddest coasters. Additionally, ride operators would send a full train of fast pass holders and then a train of regular queue, or some ride operators would do a 50/50 split, all depended on the manager, park capacity, how the kid was trained 🤷‍♀️

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    @Ranka100

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    they ruined it. poor fast pass

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    @starchsoprano

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    this is the video that inadvertently inspired me to take industrial engineering in college. i graduate next year (hopefully!)

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    @IzzyAutomobilismanlisys

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    I found this channel earlier today and I'm absolutely addicted to it, the quality is so good in the newer and older videos

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    @toddmcknight9989

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    I literally rode flight of passage for the first time today, it’s soarin but avatar. It’s the same ride experience as soarin. I cannot imagine waiting 7 hours

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    @Dminuspictures

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    1:19:03 12,000 minute wait seems about right for a visit to animal kingdom/flight of passage circa 2019

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    @srvfan17

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    Tbh I'm still waiting for that deep dive on the Dillon family

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    @Rougnms

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    1:04:14 that can’t be a coincidence

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    @deanapplegate5750

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    I would love an update now that everyone hates lightning lanes

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    @casey1174

    January 9, 2026 at 6:08 pm

    i should be able to log this on letterboxd

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