Using Max pass not impressed I can't stack the same ride?

[Love Tink]

I doubt that will happen because the problem with any given WDW park is that it has very few good rides, except MK.

I get that a lot of the DL posters have a little-brother type chip-on-the shoulder attitude toward WDW. (And for the record, I love both, go to WDW more because I live on the East Coast, but prefer DL.) I also get that some WDW are dismissive of DL, which is ridiculous.

But some of the things people say on here are just absurd. It can't be simply "I like MaxPass more than FP+." It's "FP+ has no value."

And it can't be "I like the way DL's rides are more concentrated." It's that WDW parks don't have good rides.

 

[Niltiac]

I believe it used to be possible before there was any sort of digital system. You could pull a paper FP for a ride, then use that paper to enter the FP line. The redemption time was no earlier than 45 minutes no matter how many FPs were given out. So you could get a new FP in 45 minutes, when the FP time hit, or in 2 hrs (whichever came first). The system didn't know when or who would actually redeem it, which is how you could just "gift" paper FPs to strangers if you ended up not planning to use them. I have vague memories of "stacking" those ones, since the system didn't know if you had used the first one or not. At the very least, when the window for the first FP opened, you'd be able to get another FP for that ride without having ridden it first. But I don't remember if, for example, you got a FP that wasn't active for 3 hrs. In 2 hours you can get another FP - I don't remember if the system would know your first window hadn't opened and wouldn't let you get another FP for it yet. Does that make sense?

The system didn't know whether or not you actually redeemed the FP, but it did know when the window was, so you had to wait for the window to open before you could get another one for the same ride. I remember being really confused when I got a rejection once (long before MP) because I knew I was eligible for FP, then I went back and read the fine print and realized that you can't stack the same ride. That's what I remember anyway. There may have been a time before that when the system allowed stacking the same ride.

 

[Lesley Wake]

The system didn't know whether or not you actually redeemed the FP, but it did know when the window was, so you had to wait for the window to open before you could get another one for the same ride. I remember being really confused when I got a rejection once (long before MP) because I knew I was eligible for FP, then I went back and read the fine print and realized that you can't stack the same ride. That's what I remember anyway. There may have been a time before that when the system allowed stacking the same ride.

Yeah, the whole system has changed a bunch over the years! I still remember the earlier days when you just had to have a separate ticket to get FPs. You could even use old tickets, so in high school me and my friends would always pass around tickets from previous visits to be able to collect plenty of FPs!

 

[alvernon90]

I get that a lot of the DL posters have a little-brother type chip-on-the shoulder attitude toward WDW. (And for the record, I love both, go to WDW more because I live on the East Coast, but prefer DL.) I also get that some WDW are dismissive of DL, which is ridiculous.

But some of the things people say on here are just absurd. It can't be simply "I like MaxPass more than FP+." It's "FP+ has no value."

And it can't be "I like the way DL's rides are more concentrated." It's that WDW parks don't have good rides.

I'm afraid you might not have read what I said carefully enough. If you check again you will see that I was saying WDW overall has plenty of good rides, but they are spread across four parks and unevenly at that. Thus you have one park (MK) with a lot of good rides (and thus no tiering) but the other three parks have so few rides that they need tiering in order to spread out the FPs to enough people. At DLR, all the rides are basically in one mega-park, so tiering will never be necessary. My profound apologies if I said this in a way that is very confusing to people eager to jump on the "defend WDW no matter what" train.

Also, as the oldest sibling in my family I am resentful of the idea that I could have "little brother chip on shoulder resentment" of any of my younger siblings, because one thing I am not is a little brother. I bet DL would feel the same way about your remark, if a business enterprise could have feelings.

 

[LilyJC]

I doubt that will happen because the problem with any given WDW park is that it has very few good rides, except MK. DLR is not spread too thin, it has the opposite problem -- with a parkhopper pass and a 45 second walk across the plaza the place becomes one gigantic park with as many good attractions as all four WDW parks. That's one reason I like DLR so much better than WDW!

Hopefully it won’t happen, but who knows how SWGE will continue to alter the system...