Are the 4 parks' FP systems connected?

[Straitlover]

Hope this is clear enough. I am starting to worry that the parks may be busier this trip (5/22-29) than last, and I came up w/ this question. We're only doing 2 park days, so we want to waste as little time as possible.

Say you get a FP at MK and the time to get your next FP is at 1 PM. For one reason or another, you decide to leave MK and hop to Epcot at 12PM. Are the FP systems connected and you still won't be able to get a new FP until 1 PM, or are they independent of each other?

Thanks to anyone who can answer me!

 

[FWFamily4Life]

hey just got back from a 7 day trip and the fast passes are not linked. We went to epcot wednesday morning and got fastpasses for mission space at 9:30 am and they were for 525 to 625 pm with the next available pass being issued at 1135 am. Epcot was packed so we skipped out to MGM and arrived there at 955 and immediately got fast passes for ToT at 1015 am. We also were able to get additional passes for WWTBAM and AS rockin roll rollercoaster before our 2 hr window. HOpe this helps

 

[Straitlover]

Thanks! That's exactly what I was worried about. The days we will be at the park will be the same days as the DVC Homecoming events, and I'm afraid it will be crowded. I hope not!!!

 

[seashoreCM]

I am going to call this comment off-topic because it gets quite technical.

I have not tried it. I'll take the word of the above replies that the Fastpass systems in the different parks are not interconnected but here is something that may prove it:

Using the above example of getting a Mission Space (Epcot) Fastpass at 9:30 AM with a return time of 5:25 PM and a next Fastpass time of 11:35 AM (worst case)...

Quickly hop to a different park and try to get a Fastpass.

If you get either of the following, the systems ARE interconnected:

1. Your Fastpass attempt is rejected and the slip with the black spot and error message says that you can get your next Fastpass at exactly 11:35 AM.

2. You succeed in getting a Fastpass whose return time is well before 11:35 yet the next Fastpass time printed on it is 11:35 AM.

If you succeed in getting a Fastpass at the second park and the next Fastpass time is sooner than 11:35 AM then the systems are not interconnected. Based on my November 2003 experience the printed time you can get a third Fastpass is never earlier than the printed time you can get a second Fastpass, although you can sometimes get a Fastpass earlier than the printed time depending on the ride it is for and the overall crowding at the park.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/fastnext.htm

The above is not intended to increase your enjoyment of Walt Disney World other than for the joy of conducting experiments. Due to the time consumed in park hopping Disney does not have a practical or useful motive to interconnect the systems for the purpose of inhibiting people from getting Fastpasses in the fashion described although I haven't absolutely proven that there wasn't just one big system to begin with.