Anybody else troubled by this? It is one thing to chalk up a humungous wait to the fact of Opening Day. But if the ride cannot even handle all of the FP capacity, that spells trouble. That is not an Opening Day issue, as I suspect that they did not distribute any more FPs than they would have on a normal day. I suppose it might be the case that the extraordinay Standby line caused downward pressure that made the FP line back up. But fairly early in the afternoon, they eliminated the Standby option and the FP line was still 1-2 hours long. Will your Magic Band even allow you through if you are that late for your arrival? And what happens with your other FPs for the day? Can you talk your way past the CMs guarding the FP posts by telling them that you are two hours late for your Nemo FP because you had to wait 1.5 hours to use your FEA FP? And the problem can't be blamed solely on operational stoppages throughout the day, because those are daily (or almost daily) occurrences at WDW. It's not as if one can say: "Once FEA no longer has stoppages, this will all clear up." Rides at WDW are never free of stoppages. And the total time of stoppage can't account for a 1.5 to 2 hour backup of FP users, can it? It may very well be that the old Maelstrom ridethrough capacity (which always sucked), plus FP+ (which allows for far greater FP distribution), plus the extraordinary popularity of this ride, might have combined to create Disney's first "FP Only" attraction.
