Stick your admission ticket in the machine, and the FP ticket you receive will tell you when you can return to ride and when you can get another ticket. That's all you need to know and all that matters.
That's one scenario, but there are infinitely many. Just do what the tickets say when you get them. You guys worry too much and make a simple system needlessly complicated by overthinking it.
When you get your fastpass it will have 3 times on it .
the Ride Window start and stop (on most rides this one doesn't matter you can go after the posted time)
Then on bottom it will have your next FP time ,This varies from ride to ride and times of day 1 might be 1 hr the next might be 2 hrs.but it will have a time on it.If you go back before this time and try it will just print a ticket telling you you are bad and come back later.
I will put my FastPass FAQ back online one of these days for those who want to know all the intricacies of the system. But for newcomers, I always recommend to just read the tickets - otherwise they often end up confused (I see it all the time). It's just difficult to explain all the exceptions to the rules to someone who hasn't used the system a few times.
By the way, I think the maximum number of valid FastPass I have ever held at one time was five, which included one from a non-networked terminal, one surprise FastPass, two regular FastPasses and another regular FastPass from another park I decided not to use, but which hadn't yet expired.
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