Flights of Passage and Disney Officially Suck

Honestly -where is this thread going? Not much useful here to those seeking advice - except maybe how to complain effectively...
 
No I didn't mean that - I agree with you there. My point is they lost a half day and deserve two any time FP for any day they want. They spent a half day in lines and got nothing out of it after all.

The question is where do you draw the line? OP may have been on the line for hours but someone else may have been on line for forty minutes or just got there. How would any CM there or at guest services know who "deserves" an anytime FP+ if there is no way to prove how long they were waiting?
 

The question is where do you draw the line? OP may have been on the line for hours but someone else may have been on line for forty minutes or just got there. How would any CM there or at guest services know who "deserves" an anytime FP+ if there is no way to prove how long they were waiting?
They hand them out for a lot less.
 
Okay, I just got back from WDW, here's my take: If you're concerned about skipping Flight of Passage based on what you read here, I recommend that you reconsider. (If you're going to skip something, skip Na'vi River Journey... ugh what a boring ride. Not worth my 20 minute wait. But I digress. Forgive me, unlike most people, I hated the movie Avatar.)

This is no way intended to take away from the OP's valid experience and frustration. OP gets to have their gripe, but some of the posts on here are piling on out of control. I get it... reading these forums can make you even more jaded and think that the company is doing everything wrong, constantly. Instead, I was glad to discover that the majority of guest visits--including my own--have been trouble free, and many people are opting to go back and ride more than once even without a FP+. When speaking with my own group, when overhearing guests elsewhere, and when complete strangers chatted me up, the talk is about how the ride is amazing and in some cases, how it is "totally worth it" to get back in line for another 160 minute wait. You read the comments here and you'd think that all the CMs have become rude and the ride is a disaster.

My experience was the opposite. We rode the first time with a FP+. Then decided to go back again at the end of the night, an hour before closing when the queue said 160 minutes but the wait was more like 90. The attraction is amazing, and even the queue is amazing. It made us giddy and it ended the trip on such a high note. The fact is this ride is making many many people very happy with their visit.

All four theaters are usually operating quite well for a new attraction, and they are fully independent. Of course, a fire alarm is a different matter. If you look at the sheer capacity of the building, you'll realize why a quick and safe evacuation is the priority in a fire alarm.

Ultimately, I walked out of Pandora -- initially thinking that it was a desperate move to grab some IP to compete with Harry Potter -- to really thinking that Disney still keeps upping the bar for itself and its competitors. Game on.

This could have been written by me. We just got back as well. My kids and I rode it four times (once with FP+, once with Rider Swap before we realized that my pregnant wife shouldn't ride it (she rides Soarin' so we thought she'd be able to when we checked in for the swap ticket), and twice standby with waits posted (105 min, 150 min) that did not match what we actually waited (maybe an hour, maybe an 100 min)).

The ride is simply amazing. I was telling people in line that had not ridden it yet that this ride is the type where you have to clap at the end and you want to tell each CM on the way out how awesome it is. A '10 out of 10' ride...no doubt. My kids felt the same way - they didn't even question that it was worthy of waiting in the standby lines again. What I kind of also enjoyed was listening to others around me "oooh", "aaah", and scream in delight as the ride was going on - giving me a bit of verification that I wasn't overhyping the experience myself.

The movie is not that good, but it 'could' have been really good. I just wasn't fond of the actors or the character development - the premise is there, and I'm actually looking forward to the next round of Avatar movies to see if they address these areas.

Na'vi River ride is okay - in fact, it's probably pretty good. It's just that when it gets released right next to something like FoP, it's going to draw a lot of 'mehs' from crowds. It's not worth waiting an hour for by any means, but it's pretty good. It's not worth riding more than once per trip (we didn't) in my opinion.
 
The question is where do you draw the line? OP may have been on the line for hours but someone else may have been on line for forty minutes or just got there. How would any CM there or at guest services know who "deserves" an anytime FP+ if there is no way to prove how long they were waiting?
Anyone passionate enough or angry enough to wait over one hour in the heat at Guest Relations is not going to be trying to game the system.
 
this ride is the type where you have to clap at the end and you want to tell each CM on the way out how awesome it is...What I kind of also enjoyed was listening to others around me "oooh", "aaah", and scream in delight as the ride was going on - giving me a bit of verification that I wasn't overhyping the experience myself.

Please continue to do this! You never know who may be riding next to you - it may be an Imagineer ;).

Definitely makes them feel good about their 5-6 years of very, very hard work.
 













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