Reserve Rides from Home Coming Soon & Much More

[wickesy]

I'm with you Kevin. I wouldn't use it to plan out every single minute of every single day but, as an example, I love Toy Story Mania so rather than having to arrive at DHS an hour before park opening to get a Fastpass with a decent return time I would quite happily book a Fastpass or two from home so that I can roll up to the park at 10:00 and get straight on.

The whole aim of this system is to keep guests coming back not to alienate the ones they have (although I will admit Disney have been doing a pretty good job of doing that to DVC members lately). I found this part of the speech interesting:

While it may be chic to talk about innovation these days, it’s been a key
focus at Disney since Walt famously said, “It’s kind of fun to do the
impossible.” Trust me, if you spend time with our Imagineers, you’ll see
that the drive for innovation is still inherent in everything that we do.
And it’s inspiring because our opportunities to leverage technology and
innovation are greater now than they’ve ever been.

I think this is one of those things that the Imagineers are doing "because they can".

 

[Funky_dino]

This just seems like overkill.

we don't plan at all! we only decide the day before what parks we do.

I have enough of planning and scheduling at work, I don't wanna have to do it at Disney too.

 

[Stitchfan1977]

I think I'll wait and see on this one, a lot of people were unsure of Fastpass when it first came into operation and that's been a massive success.

 

[nemmie]

Seems a lot of extreme reactions to something we know pretty much nothing about yet

Reserving from home could be as little as 24 hours for example.

We also have no idea if this is going to tie in to FP - ie replace or just some FP's will be released early.

We have no idea whether this is going to be 100 per attraction per day or 1000.

We don't know if its something that will be an onsite perk, a concierge perk or even in fact, an additional paid for perk similar to what Universal do at their parks.

Bottom line is...we know absolutely nothing about this so it's a bit of a leap to say things like it's the end of your WDW vacations if it happens or that you'll need to book 180 days out.

Disney aren't perfect, but have they ever done anything so radically stupid to alienate 90% of their Guests - new and old? So why are so many people assuming now that they will do something so awful and terrible that we won't want to go when obviously the intent is to make things better? After all the years we've gone to WDW do you really think Disney are so out of touch with what we, the visitor, would like?

Lets just wait for more information before we declare the sky is falling - Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust and all that

 

[Julia Ann]

I don't like this idea and i'm an "extreme" planner...usually planning which park to visit on each day and the night before i write out a rough ride plan but sometimes we change them if the weather is different or we are suddenly in need of a rest day. I would much rather they have put the 1.5 billion into new rides/attractions which will spread out the visitors more and then reduce waiting lines. I think it's technology going mad and i really don't think it will make the parks more attractive to visit, in fact i would start to feel a bit more stressed that i haven't pre-booked my ride slot. Fastpass is enough I think. I wonder who they surveyed to find out what to spend the money on

 

[paulh]

would have thought the idea they floated about FP`s linked to the resort you were staying (values 1per day, mods 2 per day and deluxes 3 per day) had a better chance of working than this.
It never happened this new stuff might never happen
Then again you do get FP`s for a park of your choice if you go on a dvc tour
Paul

 

[2Tiggies]

would have thought the idea they floated about FP`s linked to the resort you were staying (values 1per day, mods 2 per day and deluxes 3 per day) had a better chance of working than this.
It never happened this new stuff might never happen
Then again you do get FP`s for a park of your choice if you go on a dvc tour
Paul

Good point. It wont be the first time they announced a proposal to see what kind of response they get. Disney is very creative with their approach to market reasearch ALthough personally I can quite see why they are not going ahead with the FPs linked to resort - I just see major issues with that one!