FASTPASS

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Image:Disney FASTPASS.jpg FASTPASS is an innovation from The Walt Disney Company to allow guests to avoid long lines at its theme parks. At an attraction featuring FASTPASS, a guest can use his park admission pass to obtain a FASTPASS ticket (essentially a reservation) with a return time later that day (an hour-long window) printed on it. If the guest comes back to the attraction during the specified return times, the guest can wait in a shorter line and be on the attraction within ten minutes, or often much more quickly.

Image:FastPass wb.jpg FASTPASS tickets are dispensed by machines outside each attraction that uses them. A guest inserts his park pass, and then his pass is returned to him while a FASTPASS ticket is printed. At first, a guest could only hold a single FASTPASS at a time; if he tried to insert his park pass into another FASTPASS dispenser before the time shown on his previous FASTPASS, the dispenser would instead give him a ticket with a message printed on it telling him that he had to wait. Since the initial rollout of FASTPASS, the rules have been relaxed a bit, and now additional FASTPASSes can be had sooner after one another, but still only one per ride per park pass.

A bug in the first implementation of FASTPASS allowed guests to get a pass for anything with a magnetic stripe that they inserted into the dispenser, even credit cards or passes for other parks. This has been corrected. A ticket will come out stating "This card has not been scanned for admission to Disneyland" or whatever park you are in.

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

FASTPASS is used only on the most popular park attractions, such as Test Track and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror; therefore, which rides offer FASTPASS varies over time. Smaller attractions do not need FASTPASS.

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