Fastpases for shows - priority seating?

[Anonny]

Do Fastpases for shows give priority seating? No waiting in line? Preferred seats?

Fantasmic
Lights Motor Action
Beauty and the Beast
Festival of the Lion King
Finding Nemo

 

[Robo]

Do Fastpases for shows give

1. priority seating?
2. No waiting in line?
3. Preferred seats?

Lights Motor Action
1. No
2. No.
3. Sorta

Beauty and the Beast
1. Maybe.
2. Not much line-waiting, regardless.
3. Yes.

Festival of the Lion King
1. No.
2. No.
3. FP admitted before Standby. Guests can choose from lots of seats when entering.

Finding Nemo (the Musical)
1. Sorta.
2. Sorta.
3. FP admitted before Standby. Guests can choose any seats when entering.

Fantasmic
1. No
2. No
3. Sorta.

Guests don't really wait in line for the first (or only) F! performance of the evening.
The CMs open the theater an hour or more before show-time.
Guests at that time will simply walk slowly through the very long pathways to the theater and file in to find a seat.

What a FP+ for F! offers is more CHOICE in seating.

If you DO get a F! FP+, you can choose to sit in either the FP section (virtually the entire left half of the theater) or the Standby section (virtually the entire right half of the theater.)
So, whatever section has the better seating at the time you arrive, you can go there.
Without a FP, you can only choose a seat in the Standby section.

There is a very good chance that you can get a FP+ for F! as a 4th or 5th FP of the day because they issue SO MANY of them (enough to cover nearly the entire left half of the seating.) On many nights, it is possible that you can gat a FP+ for F! as you are walking to the theater.

As to when to arrive at the theater, I'd get to there 45-60 minutes before the show-time.
Even with a FP or Dining Pkg. reservation, don't wait too late.

On busy nights, the CMs can stop holding the reserved sections within 20-30 minutes before show-time, and turn over any available seats to waiting walk-in guests.

There is sometimes a "pre-show" (such as it is) that can help pass the last 30 minutes before show time.
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Map Below-
Arrows indicate the center of the seating.

Shaded areas:
(First or Only F! performance of the evening)
Cyan= Standby (walk-in) seating
Red= Dining Package Reserved
Blue= FP+ Reserved
Purple= Can be either FP+ or Dining Plan Reserved, depending on needs.

(Second or Third F! performance of the evening)
Cyan= Standby (walk-in) seating
Red, Purple, Blue= FP+ Reserved
(Although much of the outer Blue will likely be used for Standby.)

--------------------------------------

 

[Jon84]

There is sometimes a "pre-show" (such as it is) that can help pass the last 30 minutes before show time.

I'd assumed they'd stopped doing that, not seen the Pre-Show mess since 2013 now

 

[Robo]

I'd assumed they'd stopped doing that, not seen the Pre-Show mess since 2013 now

We saw it in Jan. of 2015 (one year ago,) on the multiple nights we saw F!

 

[Jon84]

We saw it in Jan. of 2015, on the multiple nights we saw F!

That's funny, it wasn't there in Dec'14, or May'15 for us. I wonder what the criteria is for not having it.

 

[Robo]

That's funny, it wasn't there in Dec'14, or May'15 for us. I wonder what the criteria is for not having it.

The "Morning Zoo" format DJ's between radio gigs?